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EU sued to stop burning trees for energy; it’s not carbon neutral: plaintiffs

Justin Catanoso 6 Mar 2019

Philippines customs find more than 1,500 live turtles in suitcases

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2019
Natural Burmese teak on a deck at the London Boat Show. Photo by Sophie Cohen/Mongabay.

Late timber kingpin who plundered Myanmar’s forests unmasked

Lauren Crothers 5 Mar 2019

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, Mauricio Torres 19 Feb 2019

Nepal court blocks road construction in rhino stronghold of Chitwan Park

Abhaya Raj Joshi 15 Feb 2019

Peru: Report reveals high rates of illegality in timber extraction

Yvette Sierra Praeli 14 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, 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

Marine mammal and sea turtle populations benefitting from Endangered Species Act listing

Mongabay.com 25 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

Guyana signs on to forest management agreement with the EU

Carinya Sharples 16 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

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