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For embattled environmental defenders, a reprieve of sorts in 2018

Taran Volckhausen 24 Dec 2018

Indonesian court throws out lawsuit against green expert’s testimony

Basten Gokkon 13 Dec 2018

Five wildlife conservationists held by Iran could face the death penalty

Mongabay.com 27 Nov 2018
A spectacled bear in the rehabilitation and reintroduction program at Chaparrí. Photo by Matthew Weaver.

Peru cracks down after environmental defenders’ murders

Matthew Weaver, Rajmonda Rexhi 9 Nov 2018
A flower in Vietnam. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Vietnamese environmental blogger ‘Mother Mushroom’ suddenly released from prison

Michael Tatarski 18 Oct 2018

Latam Eco Review: Millennial trees and Pacific coral larvae

Mongabay.com 12 Oct 2018

Kenya: Indigenous Ogiek face eviction from their ancestral forest… again

Nathan Siegel 8 Oct 2018

Amid ongoing evictions, Kenya’s Sengwer make plans to save their ancestral forest

Anthony Langat 24 Sep 2018

Criminalization and violence increasingly used to silence indigenous protest, according to UN report

Mike Gaworecki 11 Sep 2018

Murder of activist in India highlights growing risk to environmental defenders

Karthikeyan Hemalatha 23 Aug 2018

Number of murdered environmental activists rose once again in 2017

Mongabay.com 25 Jul 2018

Latam Eco Review: Five newly described snakes named by auction in Ecuador

Mongabay.com 6 Jul 2018

Latam Eco Review: Ports imperil Colombian crocodiles

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2018

Indonesia to investigate death of journalist being held for defaming palm oil company

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Jun 2018
Pardalis chameleon (Furcifer pardalis), a resident of the Masoala Peninsula in northeastern Madagascar, where illegal rosewood logging has taken a heavy toll on forests. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Madagascar: Yet another anti-trafficking activist convicted

Edward Carver 19 Jun 2018

In Peru, coca puts one of the world’s best coffee crops at risk

Vanessa Romo 18 Jun 2018
Banner image: A blue coua (Coua caerulea) in Ranomafana National Park, about 30 miles west of Vohilava. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Madagascar court upholds sentence for environmental activist

Edward Carver 31 May 2018

Latam Eco Review: Peru’s first environmental court

Mongabay.com 25 May 2018

Rangers face a ‘toxic mix’ of mental strain and lack of support

Jim Tan 24 May 2018

Latam Eco review: Coca threatens world’s best organic coffees

Mongabay.com 18 May 2018

Latam Eco review: An Andean condor chooses her own protected area in Ecuador

Mongabay.com 4 May 2018
Héctor Choc Cuz, right, poses with his brother. Choc Cuz, 18, was beaten to death on the edge of El Estor and died on March 31, 2018. Image courtesy of Angélica Choc.

Nephew of Maya land and rights activist beaten to death in Guatemala

Heather Gies 27 Apr 2018

Indigenous environmental activist killed in Myanmar

Mongabay.com 12 Apr 2018
Waterfall in Laos. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Calls for change in handling abuse allegations at top conservation group

Genevieve Belmaker 2 Apr 2018
The vice president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE), Zoila Castillo confronts a policeman demanding that she be let into the government palace of Carondelet to personally deliver to the president the order they prepared on March 12, 2018. Photo by Jonatan Rosas.

Indigenous Amazonian women demand end to extraction

Kimberley Brown 22 Mar 2018

UN’s Tauli-Corpuz, accused of terrorism in her native Philippines, plans to keep investigating ‘atrocities’ against indigenous peoples at home

Philip Jacobson 20 Mar 2018

Ecuador: Sarayaku leader Patricia Gualinga defends territory despite threats

Isabel Riofrio 19 Mar 2018
Zapara indigenous women march in Puyo, Ecuador on March 8, 2018. Photo by Kimberley Brown/Mongabay.

Indigenous women march in Ecuador, vow to ‘defend our territory’

Kimberley Brown 9 Mar 2018
María Chaverra, a social leader in the Curvaradó river basin, at home last month. Photo by Pablo Cuellar/Mongabay.

Colombian land defenders: ‘They’re killing us one by one’

Taran Volckhausen 9 Mar 2018

Honduras arrests alleged mastermind of Berta Cáceres’s murder

Mongabay 7 Mar 2018

Peru: Law prioritizes highway construction that could threaten indigenous communities

Yvette Sierra Praeli 27 Feb 2018
Protesters in Ecuador. Photo by Kimberley Brown/Mongabay.

Environmental defenders increasingly targeted, data shows

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2018

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