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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
Argemiros Capela stands on his lot in front a small patch of forest that has started to grow back after years of desertification, Montes de Maria. Photo by Ana Cristina Vallejo/Mongabay.

Scorched earth: Colombia’s ‘refugee farmers’ returning to land

Maximo Anderson 9 Feb 2018

Robbery or retribution? Police investigate death of prominent conservationist in Kenya

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2018

Top Argentine glacier scientist charged over cyanide mine spill

Max Nathanson 14 Dec 2017
A white spotted reed frog (Heterixalus alboguttatus) in Ranomafana National Park, about 30 miles west of Vohilava. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Madagascar environmental activist convicted, sentenced — and paroled

Edward Carver 2 Nov 2017

Another Madagascar environmental activist imprisoned

Edward Carver 20 Oct 2017

‘If it’s going to kill us, OK, we’ll die’: Villagers stand firm as Cambodian dam begins to fill

Jenny Denton 18 Oct 2017
Manolo Miranda, an indigenous leader recently acquitted of charges in a suit brought by the Barro Blanco dam's construction company, at a protest over the dam in August, 2016. Photo by Camilo Mejia Geraldo for Mongabay.

Indigenous group scores legal victory as dam floods their lands

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 12 Oct 2017

Three years after the tragedy of Saweto, where is the justice and security? (commentary)

David S. Salisbury 8 Sep 2017

Leading ivory trade investigator slain in Tanzania

Dan Ashby, Lucy Taylor 18 Aug 2017
A mushroom in China. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Harsh sentence for blogger may haunt Vietnam’s environmental movement

Michael Tatarski 3 Aug 2017

Global megadam activism and the sounds of nature in Taiwan

Mike Gaworecki 25 Jul 2017

Lawyer opposing U.S. resort developer in Baja Mexico jailed 62 days

Rodrigo Soberanes 20 Jul 2017

2016 was even deadlier for environmental and indigenous activists than 2015

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jul 2017

Wildlife ecologist killed in Rwandan national park by recently translocated rhino

Mike Gaworecki 16 Jun 2017

The Philippines, a nation rich in precious metals, encounters powerful opposition to mining

Keith Schneider 8 Jun 2017
Giraffes roam in Garamba National Park in DRC. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

DRC’s Garamba National Park: The last giraffes of the Congo

Thomas Nicolon 9 May 2017
Ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Anti-trafficking activist held without trial in Madagascar

Fabienne Rafidiharinirina 8 May 2017

“We don’t believe in words anymore”: Indians stand against Temer govt.

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 3 May 2017

A deep dive into the study of marine wildlife through bioacoustics

Mike Gaworecki 3 May 2017

Indigenous communities resisting dams in Indonesia claim they face repression, rights abuses

Eko Rusdianto 27 Apr 2017

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