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Nyonié savannaah, Gabon. Image by Christian Vigna via Wikicommons (CC BY-NC-4.0)

Eco-tourism isn’t enough to develop a country: Q&A with Gabon’s environment minister, Lee White

Matthew Hattingh 10 Feb 2020

Mika Ganobal, the civil servant who risked his job to save his homeland

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 7 Feb 2020

Illegal industrial fishing hampers small-scale African fisheries

John Cannon 3 Feb 2020
A bucket of fish at a market in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

‘Just like terrorists’: Indonesia boosts vigilance for blast fishers

Basten Gokkon 30 Jan 2020

Borneo locals win a court battle to bar a coal miner from their land

Lusia Arumingtyas 30 Jan 2020

Brazil’s Bolsonaro creates Amazon Council and Environmental Police force

Jan Rocha 24 Jan 2020
Experts fear that international markets will close their doors to Peru due to illegal timber. Photo courtesy of the Environmental Research Agency (EIA).

U.S. lumber company found importing high-risk Peruvian timber

Michael Tatarski 23 Jan 2020

Deadly conditions for Indonesian migrant crews tied to illegal fishing

Basten Gokkon 6 Jan 2020

Concerns about radioactive contamination dog Rio Tinto’s Madagascar mine

Malavika Vyawahare 31 Dec 2019

‘Tainted timber’ from Myanmar widely used in yachts seized in the Netherlands

Malavika Vyawahare 25 Dec 2019

Plans for a new Indonesian capital put Borneo’s abandoned mines in the spotlight

Yovanda 20 Dec 2019

Deforestation for potential rubber plantation raises concerns in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 19 Dec 2019

As pesticide approvals soar, Brazil’s tapirs, bees, other wildlife suffer

Jenny Gonzales 18 Dec 2019

COP25: Self-serving G20 spites youth, humanity, world at climate talks

Justin Catanoso 17 Dec 2019

COP25: EU officials say biomass burning policy to come under critical review

Justin Catanoso 16 Dec 2019

COP25: Wood pellet CEO claims biomass carbon neutrality, despite science

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2019

Analysis: The Tanah Merah project is a bellwether for Jokowi’s permit review

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 11 Dec 2019

COP25: Laura Vargas inspires with power of faith in defense of forests

Justin Catanoso 10 Dec 2019

Revealed: Government officials say permits for mega-plantation in Papua were falsified

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 10 Dec 2019

Hopes dim as COP25 delegates dicker over Article 6 and world burns: critics

Justin Catanoso 9 Dec 2019

In Indonesia, a tourism village holds off a nickel mine — for now

Ian Morse 8 Dec 2019
Rainforest, reef, and ocean on Maratua Island, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesia zoning plan hurts fishers, favors coal and oil, activists say

Basten Gokkon 4 Dec 2019

Indonesian officials charged in $1.6m bribes-for-permits scheme

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Dec 2019

COP25 may put climate at greater risk by failing to address forests

Justin Catanoso 2 Dec 2019

Indonesia’s new fisheries minister may go easy on trawl nets, poachers’ boats

M Ambari 27 Nov 2019

Coal spill bedevils Indonesian beach more than a year later

Junaidi Hanafiah 22 Nov 2019

In surprise move, Brazil has removed restrictions on Amazon sugarcane production

Naira Hofmeister 13 Nov 2019

Their lawsuit against a coal firm in limbo, Bornean villagers take their fight online

Ian Morse 5 Nov 2019

Research points to low forensic capacity to tackle timber fraud in U.S.

John Cannon 4 Nov 2019

Indonesia protests: Land bill at center of unrest

Basten Gokkon, Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Nov 2019

10 takeaways from Indonesia’s grassroots #SaveAru success

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 28 Oct 2019
Peat fire in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesian court fines palm oil firm $18.5m over forest fires in 2015

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Oct 2019

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