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A logger carries his chainsaw through the forest of the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia. He will sell the timber to garment factories.

Shrinking civil space and persistent logging: 2023 in review in Southeast Asia

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 28 Dec 2023
Man in the forest near village of Ngon, Ebolowa District, Cameroon. Ollivier Girard via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Incentivizing conservation shows success against wildlife hunting in Cameroon

Sean Mowbray 19 Dec 2023
A school of hammerhead sharks.

‘Shark dust’ helps researchers ID threatened species in Indonesia fish trade

Cassie Freund 19 Dec 2023

‘The police are watching’: In Mekong countries, eco defenders face rising risks

Hướng Thiện 18 Dec 2023
Portrait of Quinto Inuma. Image courtesy of Quinto Inuma.

Safety of Peru’s land defenders in question after killing of Indigenous leader in the Amazon

Geraldine Santos, Gloria Alvitres 7 Dec 2023

Investigation shows ‘shadow companies’ linked to Indonesia palm oil giant First Resources

Mongabay.com 23 Nov 2023
Indigenous forest guardians Laércio Guajajara and Paulo Paulino Guajajara.

End of impunity for Indigenous killings in sight for Brazil’s Guajajara

Karla Mendes 20 Nov 2023
A lobster larva. Image by Fathul Rakhman/Mongabay-Indonesia.

Indonesia welcomes new Singapore regulation to help curb lobster smuggling

Basten Gokkon 18 Nov 2023

Remediation overdue: South American countries fail to enforce oil cleanup laws

Yvette Sierra Praeli 16 Nov 2023

Crime analysis sheds light on tiger poaching in Malaysia

Sean Mowbray 14 Nov 2023

Can blockchain clean up the gold industry in Brazil and across the globe?

Charlie Espinosa and Charles Lyons 14 Nov 2023

How the U.S. financial system props up illegal logging and mining

Maxwell Radwin 14 Nov 2023
Brazilian environment ministry's IBAMA carryinh out an operation to combat the illegal use of pesticides in western Bahia's Cerrado in 2018.

Study links pesticides to child cancer deaths in Brazilian Amazon & Cerrado

Shi En Kim 10 Nov 2023

Abandoned oil mess still plagues communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Diego Cazar Baquero 6 Nov 2023
mine peru

Poisoned for decades by a Peruvian mine, communities say they feel forgotten

Dan Collyns 2 Nov 2023
A dismembered tree in Chhaeb-Preah Roka Wildlife Sanctuary documented in April 2023. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Communities track a path of destruction through a Cambodian wildlife sanctuary

Gerald Flynn | Andy Ball | Meng Kroypunlok 9 Oct 2023

Cambodia bars green activists from traveling to accept international award

Gerald Flynn 6 Oct 2023
An aerial view of a new road that leads from Think Biotech’s concession into the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary where illegal logging is taking place. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Logging route cut into Cambodia’s Prey Lang from Think Biotech’s concession

Gerald Flynn | Andy Ball | Meng Kroypunlok 5 Oct 2023
Right Livelihood's activists.

Mother Nature Cambodia’s ‘relentless’ activism earns Right Livelihood Award

Gerald Flynn 28 Sep 2023
An uncontacted Indigenous community in Acre, Brazil.

New online map tracks threats to uncontacted Indigenous peoples in Brazil’s Amazon

Sarah Brown 27 Sep 2023

Experts slam massive ‘discount’ in fines for Indonesian palm oil billionaire

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Sep 2023

In Indonesia, ‘opportunistic’ whale shark fishery shows gap in species protection

Basten Gokkon 13 Sep 2023
A deer catptured for bushmeat in the DRC.

Study: Wild meat trade from Africa into Belgium a health and conservation risk

Sean Mowbray 12 Sep 2023
Orphanage manager Claudia Andrione with older rhino orphans at the orphanage.

African Parks to rewild 2,000 rhinos from controversial breeding program

Jim Tan 11 Sep 2023
Fishing boats in the Sundarbans.

Court order fails to stop poison fishing in Bangladesh Sundarbans

Farhana Parvin 1 Sep 2023
A Luzon tarictic hornbill.

Online trade in Philippine hornbills threatens birds and forests

Jhesset O. Enano 29 Aug 2023

Oil and gas exploration threatens Bolivian Chaco water supply

Iván Paredes Tamayo, Nelfi Fernández Reyes 24 Aug 2023
Timber extraction in Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Journalism’s role in the Nature Crime Alliance (commentary)

Rhett A. Butler 23 Aug 2023

Indonesia, Singapore to work more closely against lobster larvae smugglers

Yogi Eka Sahputra 23 Aug 2023
A red-breasted parakeet.

When it rains, it pours: Bangladesh wildlife trade booms during monsoon

Mahadi Al Hasnat 21 Aug 2023
An oil-contaminated jagüeye in the El Jordán property.

Energy company evades oil clean up as spills continue to contaminate Colombian town

Catalina Sanabria Devia 17 Aug 2023
A local community member who works at an oil palm plantation in Liberia pushing a cart of the harvest.

Investigation confirms most allegations against plantation operator Socfin

Victoria Schneider 11 Aug 2023

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