Ethics News

RSS
423 stories

Indonesia calls on palm oil industry, obscured by secrecy, to remain opaque

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 May 2019
A bucket of fish at a market in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

Monitoring hack shines a light on fishing boats operating under cover of dark

Basten Gokkon 17 May 2019

Wariness over Indonesian president’s vow to get tough on land disputes

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 May 2019

What we learned from two years of investigating corrupt land deals in Indonesia

Mongabay, The Gecko Project 8 May 2019

How land grabbers co-opt indigenous ritual traditions in Papua: Q&A with anthropologist Sophie Chao

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 28 Mar 2019

In Indonesia, a company intimidates, evicts and plants oil palm without permits

Ian Morse 26 Mar 2019

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

Justin Catanoso 6 Mar 2019

Indonesia rescues captive orangutans, but leaves their owners untouched

Ayat S. Karokaro, Junaidi Hanafiah 8 Feb 2019

Asiatic black bear cubs rescued from illegal wildlife trade in Vietnam

Mongabay.com 15 Jan 2019

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

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

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2018

Graphic video reveals brutality of pangolin poaching in northeast India

Mongabay.com 7 Dec 2018

Vast palm oil project in Papua must be investigated by government, watchdogs say

Mongabay.com 6 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

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

Basten Gokkon 19 Nov 2018

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

Mongabay.com 25 Oct 2018

Deforestation-linked palm oil still finding its way into top consumer brands: report

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Sep 2018

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

Mongabay.com 20 Sep 2018

Slave labor found at Starbucks-certified Brazil coffee plantation

Daniela Penha contributor for Repórter Brasil 18 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

Is Indonesia’s celebrated antigraft agency missing the corruption for the trees?

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 22 Aug 2018
A bucket of fish at a market in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

Technological breakthroughs are changing how researchers observe the world’s fishing fleet

Nadine Freischlad 14 Aug 2018
The once threatened black caiman (Melanosuchus niger) is recovering and now listed as ‘conservation dependent’ on the IUCN Red List. Photo courtesy Jason Houston/Upper Amazon Conservancy.

In Peru, a new president is faced with old conservation challenges

Justin Catanoso 2 Aug 2018

Meet the Bornean village chief dealing with the fallout from a corrupt plantation deal

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 1 Aug 2018

How a better understanding of psychopathology in captive primates can aid in conservation efforts

Mike Gaworecki 18 Jul 2018

Revealed: Paper giant’s ex-staff say it used their names for secret company in Borneo

Philip Jacobson 10 Jul 2018

Palm oil firms using ‘shadow companies’ to hide their links to deforestation: report

Daniel Pye 9 Jul 2018

Orangutan found shot, hacked at palm plantation with history of deaths

Budi Baskoro 5 Jul 2018

Two suspected poachers arrested for killing of Sumatran elephant

Mongabay.com 5 Jul 2018

Abdon Nababan: ‘North Sumatran land mafia offered me $21m to win election — and then hand over control of government’

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 21 Jun 2018

you're currently offline