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Poachers blamed in second Sumatran elephant death this year

Junaidi Hanafiah 11 Jun 2018

Bust of shark smugglers in Galápagos waters leads to breakthrough in global transshipment data

Nadine Freischlad 8 Jun 2018

New technology leads to the arrest of eight people suspected of trafficking wildlife parts

Mongabay.com 7 Jun 2018

How corrupt elections fuel the sell-off of Indonesia’s natural resources

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 7 Jun 2018

When palm oil meets politics, Indonesian farmers pay the price

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Jun 2018

$29 million deforestation fines: game changer for Brazilian soy trade?

Alicia Prager 1 Jun 2018

Raid fails to stop gold mining, death threats on Amazon’s Tropas River

Rosamaria Loures, Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 31 May 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

Illegal loggers ‘cook the books’ to harvest Amazon’s most valuable tree

Jenny Gonzales 24 May 2018

Brazilian Amazon oil palm deforestation under control, for now

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 17 May 2018
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

The destruction of nature in S. Sumatra has given rise to a criminal generation (commentary)

Taufik Wijaya 16 May 2018

Attack of the turtles: ruralists assault environmental laws, Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 May 2018

Typo derails landmark ruling against Indonesian palm oil firm guilty of burning peatland

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 May 2018

Damming the Amazon unfettered after Brazilian purge (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 14 May 2018

A forgotten people: traditional Amazon hamlet fights for its territory

Natalia Guerrero and Maurício Torres 9 May 2018

New film shines light on cattle industry link to Amazon deforestation

Anna Sophie Gross 1 May 2018

3,000 indigenous people gather in Brasilia to protest ruralist agenda

Sue Branford 30 Apr 2018

Environmental defenders fear backlash as defendant sues expert over testimony

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Apr 2018

Half a ton of pangolin scales seized on the way to Asia from Benin

John Cannon 19 Apr 2018

Coal company fined 2 billion rupiah for illegal waste dumping in Borneo

Tommy Apriando 12 Apr 2018

Activists fear for environmental protection under Indonesia’s revised Criminal Code

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Apr 2018

How the farmers of Seruyan rose up a against a palm oil fiefdom

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 5 Apr 2018

Deadly oil spill in eastern Borneo spreads to the open sea

Basten Gokkon 5 Apr 2018

NGOs denounce Tapajós basin intimidation, violence, Brazil inaction

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 4 Apr 2018

Indonesia investigates deadly oil spill in eastern Borneo

Basten Gokkon 3 Apr 2018

Special judiciary on environmental crimes established in Peru

Yvette Sierra Praeli 2 Apr 2018

Cerrado: U.S. investment spurs land theft, deforestation in Brazil, say experts

Alicia Prager, Flávia Milhorance 28 Mar 2018

How a series of shady deals turned a chunk of Borneo into a sea of oil palm

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 27 Mar 2018

Indonesian graftbusters put a price tag on environmental crime

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Mar 2018

How Indonesia’s Seruyan district became an epicenter of fires and haze

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 26 Mar 2018

Brazil ignored U.N. letters warning of land defender threats, record killings

Jenny Gonzales 23 Mar 2018

Cerrado: Traditional communities accuse agribusiness of ‘green land grabbing’

Alicia Prager, Flávia Milhorance 22 Mar 2018

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