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‘Turning fear into strength’: One woman’s struggle for justice and land rights in Sulawesi

Febriana Firdaus 1 Dec 2020

Ecuador’s palm oil law a boon for producers, but not people and planet, groups say

Sol Borja 1 Dec 2020

Lobster export policy that landed Indonesian minister in jail could resume

Basten Gokkon 30 Nov 2020

Indonesian fisheries minister arrested over graft in lobster policy

Basten Gokkon 25 Nov 2020

Paraguay whistleblowers allege illegal deforestation cover up

Jack Davies 20 Nov 2020

Deadly anniversary: Rio Doce, Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, 5 years on

Ana Ionova 17 Nov 2020

More Indonesian sailors repatriated from deadly Chinese fishing fleet

Basten Gokkon 16 Nov 2020

Brazil sees record number of bids to mine illegally on Indigenous lands

Eduardo Goulart de Andrade, Hyury Potter, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 13 Nov 2020

Philippine resort owner hit with environmental charges as Boracay cleans up

Jun N. Aguirre 10 Nov 2020

Conservationists replant legal palm oil plantation with forest in Borneo

Jeremy Hance 9 Nov 2020

Indonesia’s omnibus law a ‘major problem’ for environmental protection

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Nov 2020

Peruvian Indigenous groups thwart oil drilling in their territory — for now

John Cannon 30 Oct 2020

Breaking: Deaths of 2 more Indonesian crew uncovered on board Chinese tuna fleet

Basten Gokkon, Philip Jacobson 29 Oct 2020

Indonesia balances war on illegal fishing with international obligations (commentary)

Aristyo Rizka Darmawan 28 Oct 2020

Indonesian officials linked to mining and ‘dirty energy’ firms benefiting from deregulation law

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Oct 2020

Atlantic trends can predict Amazon drought 18 months away, study finds

Jennifer Ann Thomas 23 Oct 2020

Does trophy hunting hurt giraffe populations? A planned lawsuit says it does

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Oct 2020

Indonesia’s new deregulation law to hurt small fishers, coastal communities

Basten Gokkon 14 Oct 2020

Which version? Confusion over environmental fallout of Indonesia deregulation law

Hans Nicholas Jong, Philip Jacobson 13 Oct 2020

In Bali, the pandemic unravels a hard-won campaign to save Benoa Bay

Alaine Johnson 12 Oct 2020
Apay Janggut, also known as 'Bandi', and Kudi in the rumah betang or longhouse at Sungai Utik. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

New Indonesian law may make it harder to punish firms for haze-causing fires

Philip Jacobson 9 Oct 2020

Mining covers more than 20% of Indigenous territory in the Amazon

John Cannon 9 Oct 2020

Vietnam conservation regulations improving, but much work remains

Michael Tatarski 7 Oct 2020

Land grab, logging, mining threaten biodiversity haven of Woodlark Island

Gianluca Cerullo 1 Oct 2020

Indonesia’s new intelligence hub wields data in the war on illegal fishing

Julia John 29 Sep 2020
Rainforest rainbow in Sabah. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

World leaders endorse ‘Pledge for Nature’ to address planetary emergency

Liz Kimbrough 29 Sep 2020

TIME’s list of 100 most influential people in 2020 includes Indigenous Waorani leader

Kimberley Brown 24 Sep 2020

Two deaths, zero accountability: Indonesia’s mining pits claim more lives

Hans Nicholas Jong, Yovanda 21 Sep 2020

Solomon Islands environmental defender faces life sentence for arson charge

Louise Hunt 18 Sep 2020
A lobster larva. Image by Fathul Rakhman/Mongabay-Indonesia.

Indonesian lobster exporters, advised by a smuggler, flout domestic requirements

Fathul Rakhman 16 Sep 2020
Lightning over the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Manument. Photo by Adam Haggerty / BLM

Can public lands unify divided Americans? An interview with John Leshy

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Sep 2020

Manila’s new white sand coast is a threat to marine life, groups say

Leilani Chavez 14 Sep 2020

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