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A Halmahera woman peeling coconuts for copra.

Maluku coconut growers cry crisis as Indonesia land-grabs feed energy transition

Achmad Rizki Muazam 10 Sep 2025
A snow leopard in Nepal

Snow leopards frequently cross Nepal, India, China borders, study finds

Bibek Bhandari 12 Jun 2025
Legal counsel with the 27 residents who were arrested at the North Maluku Regional Police headquarters, May 19

Police in Indonesia’s Halmahera Island charge 11 farmers in latest nickel flashpoint

Rabul Sawal 3 Jun 2025

US funding shortfall halts Nepal’s rhino census, sparks debate over methods

Deepak Adhikari 29 May 2025

World Bank launches historic framework addressing harms from development projects

Victoria Schneider 9 May 2025
Artisans fix nets at Chikombe Beach ahead of their trip to Mbenje Island – . Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

Fish-tracking robot aims to make fishing more sustainable in developing nations

Charles Mpaka 20 Mar 2025
Coconut plantations on Gebe Island threatened by nickel mining.

Nickel miners dig up Indonesia’s Gebe Island despite Indigenous and legal opposition

Jaya Barends 11 Mar 2025
A fisherman at the Laa River, North Morowali, cleans clams before selling them.

‘Without us, no scrutiny’: Indonesia’s independent media count cost of US funding cuts

Jeff Hutton 6 Mar 2025
Farmers squeezing sago palms in South Hakmahera.

Farmers cleave to sago as mining industry digs deeper in Indonesia’s Maluku

Mahmud Ichi 26 Dec 2024
Sumean Gebe, 42 from the O'Hongana Manyawa tribe posing after hunting in a jungle at the East Halmahera, North Maluku, Indonesia, on August 19, 2024. Image by Garry Lotulung.

Photos: The lives and forests bound to Indonesia’s nickel dreams

Garry Lotulung 2 Dec 2024
Banner image of civil society groups protesting at the INC-5 meeting in Busan, South Korea. Image courtesy of Seunghyeok Choi/Break Free From Plastic.

No deal to curb plastic production as latest negotiations fizzle

Kristine Sabillo 2 Dec 2024
Banner image of civil society groups protesting at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Image courtesy of 350.org.

With COP29 letdown, climate activists pin their hopes on Brazil

Kristine Sabillo 26 Nov 2024
A fisherman casts his net at a beach in Chennai, India.

WTO negotiations flounder — again — over banning unsustainable fishing subsidies

Elizabeth Fitt 31 Jul 2024

Indonesia must integrate marine protection with fisheries subsidies, study says

Basten Gokkon 29 Jun 2024
Fisher working with net of trawling vessel.

Stalemate: WTO talks again fail to end overfishing subsidies

Elizabeth Fitt 5 Mar 2024
A photo of dead fish on the shores of lake Ambavarano.

Fish deaths near Rio Tinto mine in Madagascar dredge up community grievances

Malavika Vyawahare 16 May 2023
The QMM mine is on a peninsula near Fort-Dauphin in Madagascar. Image via Rio Tinto website.

Rio Tinto must repair the damage caused by their Madagascar mine (commentary)

Ketakandriana Rafitoson 28 Apr 2023
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
Fishers in Siompu, Southeast Sulawesi with their daily catch. September 2019. Photo credit: Rare.

WTO ban on ‘harmful’ subsidies won’t impact small-scale fishers, Indonesia says

Basten Gokkon 29 Jun 2022

WTO finally nets deal curbing fisheries subsidies, but tables key bits for later

Elizabeth Fitt 17 Jun 2022

In the DRC’s forests, a tug-of-war between oil and aid

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Jun 2022

Does citizen ownership of natural resources hold the key to realizing deforestation commitments? (commentary)

Han Overman 6 Jun 2022
Pedro Uc is a poet, campesino and defender of his territory. Photo taken from his Facebook page.

‘What’s lacking is respect for Mayan culture’: Q&A with Pedro Uc Be on Mexico’s Tren Maya

Thelma Gómez Durán 30 May 2022

Latest delay casts pall over WTO bid to end harmful fishing subsidies

Elizabeth Fitt 2 Dec 2021

Plantation giant Socfin accused of dodging taxes in Africa

Ashoka Mukpo 21 Oct 2021

China joins the foreign fleets quietly exploiting Madagascar’s waters

Edward Carver 16 Aug 2021

Billions in fishing subsidies finance social, ecological harm, report finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Jul 2021
Jade mining, Myanmar

Myanmar junta’s growing reliance on extractives for cash raises concerns

Carolyn Cowan 18 Jun 2021

As the rest of world tackles plastics disposal, the U.S. resists

Charles Pekow 17 May 2021

Pet trade relies on ‘disposable’ wild chameleons from Madagascar

Chris Scarffe 20 Jan 2021

Risking death and arrest, Madagascar fishers chase dwindling sea cucumbers

Chris Scarffe 15 Jul 2020

Mortgaging the future: Report details risks of resource-backed loans

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2020

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