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Approximately 90 percent of the workforce in this back-breaking trade of carrying fuelwood this way is women. Photo by Christopher Lett/Mongabay.

The reporter-editor bond (insider)

Genevieve Belmaker 12 Feb 2020
Attorney Parlin Hutabarat and Philip Jacobson at Palangkaraya's Tjilik Riwut Airport on January 31, 2019.

American journalist Philip Jacobson freed after prolonged detention in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2020

Mongabay editor has now been detained 6 weeks in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 28 Jan 2020
Philip Jacobson shortly after his release from the Palangkaraya Class II detention center on January 24, 2020

Mongabay staffer Philip Jacobson released from jail, transferred to ‘city detention’

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2020

Covering environmental defenders can put journalists in dangerous situations (insider)

Sarah Sax 24 Jan 2020
Philip Jacobson.

Mongabay editor arrested in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2020

10 noteworthy books on conservation and the environment from 2019

John Cannon 23 Dec 2019
Baobab tree amid rice paddies outside Morondava. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Mongabay at 20: Two decades of news and inspiration from nature’s frontline (commentary)

Rhett A. Butler 14 Nov 2019

Going the extra mile (Insider)

James Fair 16 Sep 2019

From science to reporting (Insider)

Ignacio Amigo 14 Aug 2019
Google Earth image showing deforestation around Arara in the state of Para, in the Brazilian Amazon.

As Amazon deforestation rises, sensational headlines play into Bolsonaro’s agenda (commentary)

Rhett A. Butler 8 Jul 2019
A turtle at Shell Beach in Region 1 of Guyana. Photo courtesy of Guyana Marine Conservation Society.

My journey toward ‘green reporting’ (insider)

Akola Thompson 6 Jun 2019

Laurel Chor on photojournalism and Hong Kong’s ‘incredible biodiversity’

Erik Hoffner 22 May 2019

Fighting corruption in Liberia through on-the-ground reporting (insider)

Ashoka Mukpo 7 May 2019
A Wounaan bird-watching group from the community of Puerto Lara during a hike in the local forest. Image by Alexander Arosemena for Mongabay.

Panamanian indigenous people act to protect the forest from invading loggers

Guido Bilbao 2 Apr 2019
Hiking through the tiny village of Doong in central Vietnam's Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Vietnam a challenging yet rewarding country for environmental reporting (insider)

Michael Tatarski 17 Mar 2019
A journalist in a borrowed flak jacket and helmet works in Ni'lin, West Bank in June 2016. Photo by Genevieve Belmaker/Mongabay.

Have a good cry, but don’t miss deadline (insider)

Genevieve Belmaker 9 Jan 2019

Journalists reporting on the environment faced increased dangers in 2018

Kaamil Ahmed 4 Jan 2019

How Mongabay grew from a guy in his pajamas to a multinational media organization (insider)

Rhett A. Butler 1 Jan 2019

Indonesia to investigate death of journalist being held for defaming palm oil company

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Jun 2018

Meet the winners of Mongabay’s best intern articles awards

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2018
A farmer feeds elephant grass to his horses in Cao Bang Province, planted so farmers don't send their livestock to graze inside a nearby protected forest. Photo by Michael Tatarski/Mongabay.

Environmental reporting in Vietnam often a comedy of errors

Michael Tatarski 30 Jan 2018

The media megaphone: does it help curb bad infrastructure projects?

Daniel Pye and Alice Cuddy 7 Dec 2016
Elephant in South Africa. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

The results are in: Winners of the Mongabay internship awards

Brittany Stewart 25 May 2016

Amazon journalist endures, despite decades of threats and harassment

Cláudio Rabin 31 Mar 2016

Journalism prizes explore community forestry, commodity supply chains, China’s seafood consumption

Mongabay.org 1 Dec 2013

Shifting to a non-profit model for environmental news reporting

Rhett A. Butler 29 Oct 2013

New $20,000 reporting grant: The state of marine fisheries in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2013

$20,000 grant for reporting on the next big idea for forest conservation

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2013

Influential British editor banned from Sarawak

Jeremy Hance 3 Jul 2013

Chinese forest activist arrested for self-publishing books

Jeremy Hance 15 Oct 2012

Another journalist attacked in Cambodia for covering illegal logging

Jeremy Hance 27 Sep 2012

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