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Illegal sea fence displaces fishers and sparks land scandal near Jakarta

Irfan Maulana, M Ambari 3 Mar 2025

Illegal seabed dredging surges as Indonesia resumes sand exports

M Ambari, Yogi Eka Sahputra 20 Feb 2025

Environmental & rights activists flee and hide as M23 captures DRC’s cities

Elodie Toto 18 Feb 2025
Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

CITES rejects proposed suspension of Cambodian monkey exports

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2025
Military officials on patrol near one of the railway lines of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

Oaxaca Indigenous leader’s killing leaves land defenders’ safety in doubt

Aimee Gabay 6 Feb 2025
An African pygmy goose.

Seeking the ‘humanity–wetland’ balance: Interview with Zimbabwean activist Jimmy Mahachi

Aimee Gabay 2 Feb 2025

On a São Paulo eco-farm, Brazil’s landless movement makes its case for occupation

Peter Speetjens 30 Jan 2025

Birdwatchers rally behind endemic hummingbird, spurring conservation movement in Mexico

Tamara Blazquez Haik 23 Jan 2025
Thai activists

Thai farmers demand action to restore ecosystems, compensate for invasive fish

Carolyn Cowan 16 Jan 2025
Eagle Route Approach Condor. Image by Natasha Pentin.

Indigenous runners complete seven-month journey for Mother Earth and solidarity

Natasha Pentin 30 Dec 2024

Southeast Asia in review: 2024

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 30 Dec 2024
Deforestation in Vinh Kien, northern Vietnam.

Internet crackdown shrinks already constrained room for activism in Vietnam

Hướng Thiện 24 Dec 2024

In Brazil’s ‘water tank’, communities resist mining to preserve their water and livelihoods

Beatriz Miranda, Íria Borges 30 Nov 2024

‘Five years and no justice’ as trial over Indigenous forest guardian’s killing faces delays

Karla Mendes 13 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
Gustina Salim Rambe with a lawyer.

Indonesian mother imprisoned for protesting palm oil factory next to school

Sri Wahyuni 5 Nov 2024

Salmon is ‘everything’ for Lummi Nation highlighted in new PBS documentary

Liz Kimbrough 1 Nov 2024
Student advocate Christina Rumalatu.

Indonesia civil society rallies behind student investigated over nickel protest

Christ Belseran | Irfan Maulana | Asad Asnawi 15 Oct 2024
In June 2024, stacks of timber were seen piled outside Angkor Plywood's facility in Kandal province. Much of it is believed to be sourced from Cambodia's protected areas. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Angkor Plywood, the ‘timber cartel’ shipping Cambodian forests internationally

Gerald Flynn 14 Oct 2024

Javan fisherwomen lead fight against marine dredging amid fears of damage

Basten Gokkon 10 Oct 2024

‘Thugs’ disrupt Jakarta climate march as attacks on civil liberties increase

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Oct 2024
Ouk Mao showed reporters timber cut from the Phnom Chum Rok Sat community forest by loggers working for Lin Vatey. Image by Nehru Pry / Mongabay

Reporter who revealed deforestation in Cambodia now charged with deforestation

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 27 Sep 2024
Vietnamese environmental activists protesting coal-fired power plants in 2017. Second from left is Hoàng Thị Minh Hồng.

Influential Vietnamese environmentalist released from prison two years early

Mongabay.com 25 Sep 2024

Philippine coal mine roars into production amid waves of complaints

Bong S. Sarmiento 17 Sep 2024
Before and after of a restoration project in Spain. Image courtesy of AlVelAl.

Why I quit the film industry to work on ecological restoration (commentary)

John D. Liu 12 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

In Nepal, conservation battles head to Supreme Court amid civil society silence

Abhaya Raj Joshi 11 Sep 2024
Wreathed hornbill at nest

Successful Thai community-based hornbill conservation faces uncertain future

Carolyn Cowan 10 Sep 2024
A Nicobar pigeon, found in Vietnam.

In Vietnam, environmental defense is increasingly a crime

Hướng Thiện 3 Sep 2024

In Nicaragua, activists challenge the value of international ‘green’ financing

Maxwell Radwin 30 Aug 2024
Action by Muhammadiyah cadres in Jogja protesting the second largest Islamic religious organization in Indonesia receiving mining permits from the government.

Indonesian Islamic behemoth’s entry into coal mining sparks youth wing revolt

Asad Asnawi 21 Aug 2024

Petroperú’s financial troubles could mean no oil spill remediation, communities fear

Aimee Gabay 15 Aug 2024

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