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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

Madagascar: Is NGO-led conservation too conservative to conserve much?

Edward Carver 16 Dec 2019

Madagascar: Opaque foreign fisheries deals leave empty nets at home

Edward Carver 9 Oct 2019
Villagers from Farihitsara gather near the proposed dam site. Tozzi Green, the Italian company responsible for the hydroelectric project, marked some of the rocks when it did research at the site. Image by Edward Carver for Mongabay.

In Madagascar, villagers oppose plans for a dam that would inundate their land

Edward Carver 18 Jul 2019

Global warming is exacerbating global economic inequality: Study

Mongabay.com 10 May 2019
Just a few baobab trees remain standing in a part of the Menabe Antimena Protected Area near Kirindy village that was forested a few years ago. Image by Pierre Koval.

Illegal corn farming menaces a Madagascar protected area

Emilie Filou 21 Feb 2019

Wildlife rangers in DRC park report waning motivation, job satisfaction

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2019
A fishing boat in the town of Beheloke in southwestern Madagascar. Image by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Local fishers oppose $2.7 billion deal opening Madagascar to Chinese fishing

Edward Carver 5 Nov 2018
A pile of shrimp in Madagascar. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Top Madagascar shrimp co. moved millions among tax-haven shell companies

Edward Carver, Will Fitzgibbon 11 Oct 2018
Duong Le feeds shrimp on his intensive shrimp farm in Long An Province, Vietnam. Image by Zoe Osborne for Mongabay.

Pushing Vietnam’s shrimp industry toward sustainability

Zoe Osborne 17 Jul 2018
Cyprien Miandrimanana, a botanist now leading efforts to protect Bongolava, quit his job with the Missouri Botanical Garden and moved back home to the area in hopes of stopping the destruction he saw on trips to visit his parents. Photo by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Angry farmers set fire to offices of Madagascar eco group, gov’t agency

Rowan Moore Gerety 13 Jul 2018

‘Saving the rainforest 2.0:’ New report makes recommendations for improving forest protection

Mike Gaworecki 2 Jul 2018
Undifferentiated catch at a landing site in Karaikal, Tamil Nadu, India. Photo by Amanda Vincent/Project Seahorse.

‘Annihilation trawling’: Q&A with marine biologist Amanda Vincent

Rebecca Kessler 27 Mar 2018

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