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Indigenous leader assassinated in Colombia’s Caldas department

Aimee Gabay 24 Feb 2026

Biologist kidnapped in Mexico

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2026
Conservationists, environmental defenders, and scientists who died in 2025.

Environmental defenders & conservationists who died in 2025

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Dec 2025
Vicente Fernandes Vilhalva. Photo courtesy of Aty Guasu/Survival International

A killing with precedent: Kaiowá man’s murder fits a pattern in Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Nov 2025

‘Our zeal is unwavering’: 3 environmental defenders share trials, tribulations, hopes

David Akana 12 Nov 2025
Blackchin tilapia

Thai agri giant CPF sues activist over claims linking it to invasive fish outbreak

Carolyn Cowan 4 Nov 2025
Beatriz Matos (left) and Alessandra Sampaio (right), widows of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips,

Dom Phillips & Bruno Pereira ‘would be killed again,’ Indigenous leader says

Karla Mendes 24 Oct 2025
Lina Ruiz and Lita Rojas outside of the court in Ucayali after hearing the first ruling. Image by Hugo Alejos.

Report finds 226 Indigenous land defenders in Peru at risk of violence

Yvette Sierra Praeli 29 Sep 2025
A hunter in Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

146 environmental defenders were killed or disappeared last year

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Sep 2025
Vian Ruma from his Facebook page.

Vian Ruma, Indonesian activist, found dead. Aged 30.

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Sep 2025

Death of activist critical of geothermal project raises alarm in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Sep 2025
Dang Dinh Bach speaking.

Dang Dinh Bach: He fought for clean air. Now he breathes through bars.

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Aug 2025

Jailed Vietnamese civil society leader wins award, boosting calls for his release

Jenny Denton 1 Aug 2025
Butterfly on a man's hand in Madre de Dios

Peruvian rainforest defender shot dead in suspected targeted killing

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2025
Ly Chandaravuth, Mother Nature Cambodia activist. Image © Andy Ball.

The price of protecting what’s left in Cambodia

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Jul 2025
Young activists risk all to defend Cambodia’s environment

Young activists risk all to defend Cambodia’s environment

Andy Ball, Marta Kasztelan 2 Jul 2025
Dom Phillips interviewing Mariana Tobias, from the Macuxi people, at the Raposa Serra Do Sol Indigenous Territory, in northern Roraima state, in the Brazilian Amazon. © Nicoló Lanfranchi.

Dom Phillips’ posthumous book centers on collaborative work for saving the Amazon

Karla Mendes 30 May 2025
Cambodian journalist Ouk Mao has faced physical and legal threats for his continued reporting on environmental crimes in Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. Image by Nehru Pry / Mongabay.

Attacks on Cambodian environmental journalist continue to pile up

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 12 May 2025

Mother Nature Cambodia activists denied bail by Supreme Court

Gerald Flynn 2 May 2025
radiated tortoise

How tortoise conservationist Hery Razafimamonjiraibe manages risks to antipoaching teams

Carolyn Cowan 10 Jan 2025

Southeast Asia in review: 2024

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 30 Dec 2024

Narco airstrips beset Indigenous communities in Peruvian Amazon

Mongabay Latam 9 Dec 2024

15 illegal narco-trafficking airstrips found near Peru Indigenous communities

Mongabay Latam 4 Dec 2024

The illegal runways exposing the Kakataibo people to drug violence in Peru

Mongabay Latam 29 Nov 2024

Six activists arrested in Cambodia while investigating illegal logging

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 25 Nov 2024

Indigenous leaders killed as narco airstrips cut into their Amazon territories

Mongabay Latam 25 Nov 2024
Carlos’ fellow guardians carry his coffin

The underreported killing of Colombia’s Indigenous land guardian, ‘The Wolf’ (Photos)

Tony Kirby | Anna Abraham | Cesar Quiroz 7 Nov 2024

Community forest or corporate fortune? How public land became a mine in Cambodia

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Sep 2024
An Indigenous group in a boat in the Ucayali River.

Report links killings to environmental crimes in Peru’s Amazon

Aimee Gabay 12 Sep 2024
Having already picked Phnom Chum Rok Sat community forest clean of large, valuable trees, loggers working for Lin Vatey now appear to be clear-cutting what remains of the forest. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay

Mining company tied to Cambodian military officials grabs community forest

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 5 Sep 2024
Commercial coal shipping in Vietnam.

Vietnam sentences yet another energy expert over renewables research

Mongabay.com 2 Aug 2024
Phuon Keorasmey, 23, a prominent figure in Mother Nature Cambodia, is arrested on July 2, 2024. Image courtesy of Licadho.

Mother Nature Cambodia activists sentenced to prison — again

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 2 Jul 2024

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