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Activists fighting to save orangutan habitat from dam unfazed by legal setback

James Fair 5 Mar 2019

Indigenous group sues Ecuador for earmarking its land for oil drilling

Kimberley Brown 5 Mar 2019

Brazil’s Sinop Dam flouts environmental legislation (Commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 1 Mar 2019

Vaquita still doomed without further disruption of totoaba cartels (commentary)

Andrea Crosta 28 Feb 2019
Elephant in Namibia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

It pays, but does it stay? Hunting in Namibia’s community conservation system

John Grobler 26 Feb 2019

Allegation of forged signature casts shadow over China-backed dam in Sumatra

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Feb 2019

Indonesian minister blasted over palm permit for graft-tainted concession

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Feb 2019

What the Congo Basin can learn from Filipino community forestry laws (commentary)

Tanja Venisnik 21 Feb 2019

UN passes first ever declaration for peasant rights

Kimberley Brown 20 Feb 2019

Brazil sees growing wave of anti-indigenous threats, reserve invasions

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 19 Feb 2019

Nepal court blocks road construction in rhino stronghold of Chitwan Park

Abhaya Raj Joshi 15 Feb 2019

‘Beautiful legislation’ fails to protect PNG’s environment, landowners

Lucy EJ Woods 14 Feb 2019

Massive pangolin seizure in Borneo smuggling operation bust

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2019

Dam déjà vu: 2 Brazil mining waste disasters in 3 years raise alarms

Zoe Sullivan and Caio de Freitas Paes 11 Feb 2019
Indigenous women march in Puyo, Ecuador on March 8, 2018. Photo by Kimberley Brown/Mongabay.

To fight deforestation first tackle inequality, study says

Kimberley Brown 8 Feb 2019

Indonesia’s anti-graft agency arrests Borneo politician over mining permits

Indra Nugraha 4 Feb 2019
The mudslide near Brumadinho via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Dam holding mining waste collapses in Brazil

Mongabay.com 28 Jan 2019
Rainbow over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Time to shift focus to existing environmental laws, says new UN report

Kimberley Brown 25 Jan 2019

Bans on the bird trade in South America yield mixed results

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2019

As Brazilian agribusiness booms, family farms feed the nation

Anna Sophie Gross 17 Jan 2019

China busts major ivory trafficking gang following EIA investigation

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Jan 2019

With its $3.85b mine takeover, Indonesia inherits a $13b pollution problem

Basten Gokkon 14 Jan 2019

In Malta, legal loopholes give poachers cover to hunt migratory birds

Jason J. Gregg 11 Jan 2019

Once bitten, Indonesia’s indigenous alliance won’t endorse 2019 candidates

Basten Gokkon 2 Jan 2019

Is captive breeding the answer to Indonesia’s songbird crisis?

Nadine Freischlad 25 Dec 2018

A development project in a Bali mangrove bay gets a new lease on life

Basten Gokkon 25 Dec 2018

For embattled environmental defenders, a reprieve of sorts in 2018

Taran Volckhausen 24 Dec 2018

Amazon soy boom poses urgent existential threat to landless movement

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 20 Dec 2018

COP24: Summit a step forward, but fails to address climate urgency

Justin Catanoso 17 Dec 2018

COP24: Will they stay or will they go? Brazil’s threat to leave Paris

Justin Catanoso 14 Dec 2018

Indonesian court throws out lawsuit against green expert’s testimony

Basten Gokkon 13 Dec 2018

COP24: Nations complicit in ignoring bioenergy climate bomb, experts say

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2018

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