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Environmental official murdered in Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford 17 Oct 2016

More than 20 labor law violations by Indofood alleged in Indonesia

Alice Cuddy 14 Oct 2016

International trade in African grey parrots banned

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Oct 2016

No decline in tiger trafficking: new report

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Sep 2016

Fires driving deforestation in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Mongabay.com 29 Sep 2016

International trade in Barbary macaques banned

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Sep 2016

Slave-linked fishing firm thought to have resumed operations in Indonesia

M Ambari 29 Sep 2016

Missing data puts thousands of illegally traded wild animals at risk

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Sep 2016

Madagascar’s largest tortoise could become extinct in 2 years

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Sep 2016

Lao PDR commits to shut its commercial tiger farms

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Sep 2016

Lao PDR failing to curb pangolin and hornbill trafficking: new reports

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Sep 2016

Land grabbing and environmental destruction could now be prosecuted under international law

Mike Gaworecki 22 Sep 2016

Indian rhino horns being smuggled to China via Myanmar

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Sep 2016
Young boys labor outside a saw mill in the town of Njoro in Kenya’s Rift Valley. Photo by David Njagi

Youth, women, indigenous group pay the price of logging in Kenya

David Njagi 16 Sep 2016

Pulp and paper supplier denies draining peat on island near Singapore

Mongabay Haze Beat 13 Sep 2016
Rangers at Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve. Photo by Ninara via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Poaching in Africa becomes increasingly militarized

William H. Funk 12 Sep 2016

Countries at IUCN Congress vote to ban domestic ivory markets

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Sep 2016

Malaysia is a major transit point for ivory smugglers

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Sep 2016

IUCN motions to ban the pangolin trade

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 6 Sep 2016

Guest Commentary: Are grassroots organizations our best hope for combating the illegal wildlife trade?

Natalie Kyriacou 6 Sep 2016

No fire, no food: tribe clings to slash-and-burn amid haze crackdown

Cory Rogers 1 Sep 2016

657 pangolins found wrapped in plastic, hidden in freezers

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Sep 2016

Korean palm oil firm burned large tracts of forestland in Indonesia, NGOs allege

Alice Cuddy 1 Sep 2016

Detector Dogs sniff out illegal ivory, help nab poacher in Tanzania

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Aug 2016

Indonesia must do more to protect whale sharks, conservationists say

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 23 Aug 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian parliament to investigate fire-linked firms in Riau

Mongabay Haze Beat 20 Aug 2016
Lar National Park in northern Iran, about 100 kilometers from Tehran. Photo by Mahdi Kalhor via Panoramio

Three murders highlight troubles of Iran’s park rangers

Jennifer Huizen 18 Aug 2016

China jails 7 people, including airport employee, for smuggling rare tortoises

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Aug 2016

Indonesia mulls revision of orangutan conservation plan

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 11 Aug 2016

Indochinese leopard has disappeared from 94% of its historical range

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Aug 2016

Borneo conservationists and top oil palm firm work to help orangutans

Deirdre Leowinata 9 Aug 2016

Two businessmen arrested for ivory trafficking

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Aug 2016

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