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The eye of a jumbo flying squid (Dosidicus gigas), photographed off Calfornia, U.S. Image by joescience1 via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Modest controls put on freewheeling squid fleet at South Pacific fisheries meeting

Francesco De Augustinis 12 Mar 2026

China’s Pacific squid fishery rife with labor, fishing abuses: Report

Francesco De Augustinis 3 Mar 2026

Migrant fishers’ deaths at sea tied to unchecked captain power, study shows

Basten Gokkon 20 Feb 2026
Banner image of a cup of coffee by shixugang via Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).

A better brew: How regenerative coffee could root out exploitation

Mongabay.com 16 Jul 2025
A cup of coffee with beans and a teaspoon on a stump tabletop. Image by Anja (cocoparisiene) from Pixabay (Pixabay Content License).

Soaring coffee prices are fueled by deforestation, but solutions exist

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Jun 2025
A worker carries a yellowfin tuna on his shoulders at Dong Gang wholesale fish market, Taiwan.

Bumble Bee asks court to dismiss lawsuit alleging forced labor in tuna supply chain

Basten Gokkon 6 Jun 2025

Mongabay reports fuel petition to block US import of coffee tied to slave labor

Bobby Bascomb 30 Apr 2025
An artisanal fishing boat on a Mozambique beach.

Report: Illegal fishing and labor abuse rampant in China’s Indian Ocean fleet

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Jun 2024
Fish catch, Thailand

Thai plan to relax fishing law stokes fear of return to illegal catches, worker abuse

Carolyn Cowan 31 May 2024

Indonesia and Spain sign agreement to protect migrant fishing workers

Basten Gokkon 5 Feb 2024
Commercial fishing vessels in Thailand. Image via pxhere.com (public domain).

90 NGOs question Thailand Prime Minister on fisheries deregulation plan (commentary)

Steve Trent 23 Nov 2023

Report shines partial light on worst labor offenders in opaque fishing industry

Edward Carver 21 Nov 2023
A worker in an oil palm plantation.

Alleged torturers roam free as Indonesia struggles to bring charges in palm oil slavery case

Mongabay.com 21 Jun 2023
Yellowfin tuna. Image by Ellen Cuylaerts / Ocean Image Bank.

Fishing industry transparency is key for a thriving ocean (commentary)

Steve Trent 3 Mar 2023
Frozen albacore tuna on a fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean.

U.S. grocery chains flunk sustainability, human rights tests for tuna sourcing

Monica Evans 21 Feb 2023

Indonesia urged to update fisher training program to international standards

Basten Gokkon 13 Sep 2022
Migrant fishers haul a shark aboard DOF’s Long Xing 621 vessel in the mid-Atlantic in September 2021. Image by Tommy Trenchard for Greenpeace.

Indonesia pursues agreements to protect its fishers on foreign vessels

Basten Gokkon 6 Sep 2022
Greenpeace called for FCF to commit to reform sustainable policy of fisheries

Illegal fishing, worker abuse claims leave a bad taste for Bumble Bee Seafood

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Sep 2022
Chocolate bar

Consumed: What is the environmental impact of chocolate?

Sandy Watt 22 Aug 2022
A handful of peanuts.

Book Review: ‘Slaves for Peanuts’ gets to the troubling roots of a beloved snack

Malavika Vyawahare 23 Jun 2022

Indonesia issues long-delayed rules to protect migrant fishing workers

Basten Gokkon 14 Jun 2022
A migrant fisherman in Thailand.

Wage-related abuses in fishing industry exacerbated by pandemic response

Annelise Giseburt 12 May 2022
Artisanal miners in Rubaya area, DRC.

Scheme to stop ‘conflict minerals’ fails to end child labor in DRC, report says

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 10 May 2022

Raid against Sumatran official uncovers use of slave labor on oil palm farm

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Jan 2022

Mongabay’s 10 hardest-hitting investigations of 2021

Maxwell Radwin 29 Dec 2021

Labor rights violations at Brazil coffee farm linked to Starbucks, Nespresso

Daniel Camargos 30 Sep 2021

Worked to death: How a Chinese tuna juggernaut crushed its Indonesian workers

Philip Jacobson, Basten Gokkon, Taufik Wijaya, Seulki Lee, Makoto Watanabe, Annelise Giseburt 13 Sep 2021
Deforestation in Côte d’Ivoire. Image credit: Mighty Earth

It’s Juneteenth, but these American companies are still profiting from slavery (commentary)

Samuel Mawutor 18 Jun 2021

Report finds litany of labor abuses on RSPO-certified oil palm plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Dec 2020

Arrests in Indonesian probe into latest case of labor abuses on Chinese fishing boats

Basten Gokkon 28 Jul 2020

Indonesia presses China for witness in deaths of fishing boat crews

Basten Gokkon 21 Jul 2020

Indonesia may bar citizens from working on foreign fishing boats after spate of deaths

Basten Gokkon 20 May 2020

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