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Goldman Prize-winning Cambodian activist arrested, released in Cambodia

Lauren Crothers 24 Mar 2020

Iran upholds heavy sentences for conservationists convicted of spying

Kayleigh Long 21 Feb 2020

Two deaths trigger alarm at Mexico’s Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve

Agustín del Castillo 17 Feb 2020

For Ecuador’s eco agenda, 2019 was a year of setbacks and pushbacks

Antonio José Paz Cardona 31 Jan 2020

For Colombia, 2019 was a year of environmental discontent

Antonio José Paz Cardona 28 Jan 2020
Philip Jacobson.

Mongabay editor arrested in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2020

Conservationists in peril: Scientists, campaigners risk their lives for their work

James Fair 13 Jan 2020
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett A. Butler 27 Dec 2019

Fighting to save an endangered ape, Indonesian activists fear for their lives

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Dec 2019
Sunrise in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tropical forests’ lost decade: the 2010s

Rhett A. Butler 17 Dec 2019

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

Edward Carver 16 Dec 2019

Murders of indigenous leaders in Brazilian Amazon hits highest level in two decades

Shanna Hanbury 14 Dec 2019

Killings of environmental defenders on the rise in the Philippines

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2019

Activists fighting for their lands swept up in Philippines crackdown

Mongabay.com 19 Nov 2019

Philippine officials not spared as attacks on environmental defenders persist

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2019

‘Guardian of the Forest’ ambushed and murdered in Brazilian Amazon

Karla Mendes 2 Nov 2019

Toxic river: Mining, mercury and murder continue to plague Colombia’s Atrato

Frederick Gillingham, Melisa Valenzuela 10 Oct 2019

Martial law in Mindanao takes deadly toll on land, environmental defenders

Bong S. Sarmiento 1 Oct 2019

Oil palm, cattle and coca take a toll on Colombia’s indigenous Jiw

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 24 Sep 2019

Report highlights business, political players behind Philippine environment defender deaths

Imelda Abano, Leilani Chavez 24 Sep 2019

‘Pray & continue’: Death of Philippine ranger is latest in legacy of violence

Leilani Chavez 11 Sep 2019

Latin America saw most murdered environmental defenders in 2018

Yvette Sierra Praeli 29 Aug 2019

On Peru’s border, the Tikuna tribe takes on illegal coca growers

Alexa Vélez, Vanessa Romo 20 Aug 2019

Peru: Invaders claim their first victim at the Macuya Forest Investigation Center

Yvette Sierra Praeli 9 Aug 2019

Peru: Madre de Dios land defenders face trouble whether they report crimes or not

Vanessa Romo 5 Jul 2019
2018 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Francia Márquez. Image courtesy Goldman Environmental Prize.

Goldman Prize winner survives armed attack on Afro-Colombian social leaders

Taran Volckhausen 9 May 2019
Indigenous Waorani march through the streets of Puyo after their legal victory against the government, during a strong downpour. Photo by Mitch Anderson/Amazon Frontlines.

Historic win by Ecuador’s Waorani could re-shape extraction activities

Kimberley Brown 7 May 2019

Indigenous leaders decry Colombia’s deadly crackdown on land protesters

Taran Volckhausen 4 Apr 2019
A Wounaan bird-watching group from the community of Puerto Lara during a hike in the local forest. Image by Alexander Arosemena for Mongabay.

Panamanian indigenous people act to protect the forest from invading loggers

Guido Bilbao 2 Apr 2019
Julio Cusurichi. Image courtesy of FENAMAD.

Defending the Amazon’s uncontacted peoples: Q&A with Julio Cusurichi

Dan Collyns 13 Mar 2019

Iran’s endangered cheetahs and imperiled conservationists (commentary)

Luke Hunter | Christine Breitenmoser | Urs Breitenmoser | Sarah Durant | Laurie Marker | Stephane Ostrowski | Christian Walzer 8 Mar 2019

Journalists reporting on the environment faced increased dangers in 2018

Kaamil Ahmed 4 Jan 2019

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