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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

In eastern Indonesia, a bird-trafficking hotspot flies under the radar

Ian Morse 11 Dec 2018

Culls push endangered fruit bat closer to extinction in Mauritius

Mongabay.com 5 Dec 2018

A carbon bomb in Papua: 7 takeaways from our investigation

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 4 Dec 2018

The secret deal to destroy paradise

Malaysiakini, Mongabay, Tempo, The Gecko Project 28 Nov 2018

Women in small-island states exposed to high levels of mercury: study

Basten Gokkon 27 Nov 2018

Panama, Namibia plan to reveal fishing fleet data via online map

Basten Gokkon 19 Nov 2018

Indonesia leans on businesses to do more about plastic waste

Basten Gokkon 12 Nov 2018

In West Papua’s Arfak Mountains, local leaders plot ecotourism boom

Christopel Paino 9 Nov 2018

In funding palm oil giants, banks may share in ‘sins of the companies’

Tessa Toumbourou 7 Nov 2018

Protection flip-flop leaves rare Indonesian shrikethrush in harm’s way

Petrus Riski, Rahmadi Rahmad, Themmy Doaly 7 Nov 2018

Ongoing rise in sea levels will increase threats to World Heritage Sites

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2018

Latam Eco Review: Killing jaguars for arthritis creams and wine

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2018

Amid lack of enforcement, fishermen take the fight to blast fishing

Ian Morse 29 Oct 2018

Indonesia’s anti-graft agency ‘eager to intervene’ in palm oil sector

Mongabay.com 25 Oct 2018
Ankarana sportive lemur (Lepilemur ankaranensis), an endangered species whose habitat is threatened by rosewood logging. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

CITES rejects another Madagascar plan to sell illegal rosewood stockpiles

Edward Carver 24 Oct 2018

5 bird species lose protections, more at risk in new Indonesia decree

Basten Gokkon 17 Oct 2018

Can we buy our way out of the sixth extinction?

Nora Ward 15 Oct 2018
The coast of Freedom Island in Metro Manila teems with trash in this photo taken in 2017. Image courtesy of Greenpeace.

Plastic trash from the ‘sachet economy’ chokes the Philippines’ seas

Bong S. Sarmiento 9 Oct 2018

Brazil scraps 11 new Amazon protected areas covering 2,316 square miles

Sue Branford 8 Oct 2018

Scientists urge greater protection of Brazil’s secondary forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 Oct 2018

Indonesian fish farmers get early-warning system for lake pollution

M Ambari 25 Sep 2018

Activists say Indonesia dragging its heels on indigenous rights

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Sep 2018

Indonesian president signs 3-year freeze on new oil palm licenses

Mongabay.com 20 Sep 2018
Planet satellite image of the open pit copper-gold mine on Sumbawa.

Indonesian province calls time-out on mining

Ebed de Rosary 19 Sep 2018
Newmont Mining Corporation's open pit copper-gold mine in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Indonesian mine watchdog sues government for concession maps

Indra Nugraha 13 Sep 2018

Indonesia gives in to bird traders, rescinds protection for 3 species

Basten Gokkon 7 Sep 2018

Indonesia, a top plastic polluter, mobilizes 20,000 citizens to clean up the mess

Mongabay Indonesia 4 Sep 2018

Monitoring the ambitious land restoration commitments in Africa

Sophie Mbugua 3 Sep 2018

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