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‘It was a shark operation’: Q&A with Indonesian crew abused on Chinese shark-finning boat

Philip Jacobson and Basten Gokkon 2 Dec 2022
Waikas, Raraima, Brazil September 1st 2022 Robervaldo a young Yek'wana that used to work in a Garimpo. Photographed in his community Waikas near the venezuelian border. Photo © Victor Raison 2022, all rights reserved.

Indigenous youths lured by the illegal mines destroying their Amazon homeland

Victor Raison; Jean-Mathieu Albertini 30 Nov 2022

A new tool to peer into fishing networks: Q&A with Austin Brush of C4ADS

Melati Kaye 21 Nov 2022
Long-tailed macaques roam free across the Angkor Wat temple complex

Alleged macaque-smuggling ring exposed as U.S. indicts Cambodian officials

Gerald Flynn 18 Nov 2022

How Mitsubishi vacuumed up tuna from a rogue Chinese fishing fleet

Annelise Giseburt 10 Nov 2022
Laborers at a cobalt mine.

Element Africa: Keeping platinum in the ground, and minors out of mines

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2022

‘There are solutions to these abuses’: Q&A with Steve Trent on how China can rein in illegal fishing

Philip Jacobson 3 Nov 2022
A deckhand on the Long Xing 626 in DOF’s Atlantic fleet displays what experts who reviewed the image identified as a blue shark (Prionace glauca) in this photo posted to Facebook. The animal on the ground is a leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea).

Exclusive: Shark finning rampant across Chinese tuna firm’s fleet

Philip Jacobson and Basten Gokkon 1 Nov 2022
Okapis (Okapia johnstoni) are related to giraffes. Image in the public domain.

Element Africa: Mines take their toll on nature and communities

Mongabay.com 20 Oct 2022
Panama restricts information on sanctioned boats, evading transparency

Panama restricts information on sanctioned boats, evading transparency

Mary Triny Zea, Michelle Carrere 14 Oct 2022
Panama: A ‘flag of convenience’ for illegal fishing and lack of control at sea

Panama: A ‘flag of convenience’ for illegal fishing and lack of control at sea

Mary Triny Zea, Michelle Carrere 13 Oct 2022
A man in a boat in Bodo

Element Africa: Diamonds, oil, coltan, and more diamonds

Mongabay.com 4 Oct 2022

Indonesian lobster larvae bound for Singapore reveal role of smuggling network

Basten Gokkon, Yogi Eka Sahputra 29 Sep 2022

The Fixers: Top U.S. flooring retailers linked to Brazilian firm probed for corruption

Karla Mendes 29 Sep 2022
Two chimpanzees in the wild

Trafficked: Kidnapped chimps, jailed rhino horn traffickers, and seized donkey parts

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2022

Indonesia urged to update fisher training program to international standards

Basten Gokkon 13 Sep 2022
Indigenous demonstration in Brasília

Indigenous Brazilians demand justice as 4 killed in escalating violence

Karla Mendes 12 Sep 2022

Trial of palm oil tycoon Surya Darmadi begins in Jakarta

Mongabay Haze Beat 8 Sep 2022

Indonesia pursues agreements to protect its fishers on foreign vessels

Basten Gokkon 6 Sep 2022
Greenpeace called for FCF to commit to reform sustainable policy of fisheries

Illegal fishing, worker abuse claims leave a bad taste for Bumble Bee Seafood

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Sep 2022

In revising its criminal code, Indonesia risks unraveling environmental laws

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Sep 2022

Crimes against the Amazon reverberate across Brazil, analysis shows

Elizabeth Oliveira 31 Aug 2022
Yanomami Indigenous

Raids reveal how illegal gold from Indigenous lands gets laundered in Brazil

André Schröder 29 Aug 2022
A leopard in a tree

Snares: Low-tech, low-profile killers of rare wildlife the world over

Laurel Neme 18 Aug 2022
The Matis people made their first official contact with the outside world at the end of 1970.

Violence persists in Amazon region where Pereira and Phillips were killed

Sarah Brown 2 Aug 2022
Timber is sorted for transport in Uruará in the state of Pará.

Organized crime drives violence and deforestation in the Amazon, study shows

Sarah Brown 1 Aug 2022

No permit? No problem for palm oil company still clearing forest in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Aug 2022

Peru’s Amazon rainforest is threatened by an ecosystem of environment crime (commentary)

Carolina Andrade and Robert Muggah 4 Jul 2022
“Guardians of the Forest” Paulo Paulino Guajajara (left) and Laércio Guajajara (right)

Indigenous advocates sense a legal landmark as a guardian’s killing heads to trial

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2022
Erasmo and Natalha Theofilo

Amazon rainforest activist under threat in Brazil plans to flee his home

Shanna Hanbury 30 Jun 2022
A dead vaquita floats in the ocean. Image by Robbie Newby for Sea Shepherd.

Experts fear end of vaquitas after green light for export of captive-bred totoaba fish

Michelle Carrere 28 Jun 2022
A framed photo of Ari Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau

In Brazil, an Indigenous land defender’s unsolved killing is the deadly norm

Sarah Brown 27 Jun 2022

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