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An aerial view of illegally logged timber in Chhaeb-Preah Roka Wildlife Sanctuary that was documented on a patrol in April 2023 by members of the Prey Preah Roka Community Network – a grassroots activism group made up of communities around the wildlife sanctuary. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

World’s top timber companies are dropping the ball on ESG reporting: Analysis

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Aug 2024

Allegations widen against Indonesian palm oil giant Astra Agro Lestari

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jul 2024
This land once belonged to the Guarani-Kaiowá Indigenous people, who depended on the dense forest to hunt and fish.

International hesitancy to adopt environmental regulations threatens Indigenous rights

Aimee Gabay 17 Apr 2024
Ofelia Samboni an Indigenous Yanacona member and landowner in Monclart, holds a stone containing copper. The stone was found in the river close to the mining area. Image by Antonio Cascio for Mongabay.

New FPIC guide designed to help protect Indigenous rights as mineral mining booms

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 Apr 2024
A car charging.

This year’s ranking of EV carmakers from most to least ‘clean’: Report

Ian Morse 28 Mar 2024

Rechargeable battery industry needs better mining regulations, report says

Maxwell Radwin 29 Sep 2023
An oil palm plantation and natural forest in Jambi, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Conservationists decry palm oil giants’ exit from HCSA forest protection group

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Mar 2023

U.N., rights groups flag potential violations in $3b Indonesian tourism project

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 May 2022

FSC-certified Moorim Paper linked to massive forest clearing in Indonesia’s Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Mar 2022
primary forest in Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, by John C. Cannon/Mongabay

Is colonial history repeating itself with Sabah forest carbon deal? (commentary)

Cynthia Clare Ong Gaik Suan 1 Dec 2021

Details emerge around closed-door carbon deal in Malaysian Borneo

John Cannon 24 Nov 2021
The border region between Bears Ears and Navajo Nation. Photo credit: NASA Landsat

Conservation would be more effective with more Indigenous leadership, says Patrick Gonzales-Rogers

Rhett A. Butler 4 Mar 2021
Young girl in the Kayapó-Mẽbêngôkre village of Aukre in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo credit: Cristina Mittermeier

“Securing Indigenous guardianship of vital ecosystems”: Q&A with Nia Tero CEO Peter Seligmann

Rhett A. Butler 23 Feb 2021

Peruvian Indigenous groups thwart oil drilling in their territory — for now

John Cannon 30 Oct 2020

Land grab, logging, mining threaten biodiversity haven of Woodlark Island

Gianluca Cerullo 1 Oct 2020

Solomon Islands environmental defender faces life sentence for arson charge

Louise Hunt 18 Sep 2020

Logging, mining companies lock eyes on a biodiverse island like no other

Gianluca Cerullo 31 Jul 2019

Solomon Islanders imprisoned for trying to stop the logging of their forests

Louise Hunt 17 May 2019

A new election brings little hope for Solomon Islands’ vanishing forests

Louise Hunt 17 May 2019

Liberia’s new land rights law hailed as victory, but critics say it’s not enough

Jennifer O’Mahony 22 Mar 2019

Bridgestone aims for full sustainability by 2050

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2018

FSC mulls rule change to allow certification for recent deforesters

John Cannon 24 Oct 2017

US retailers halt sales of hardwood flooring linked to illegal logging in PNG

Mike Gaworecki 1 Aug 2017
Processed palm oil in Liberia. Photo by Antoshananarivo via Wikimedia Commons.

In Liberia, a battered palm oil industry adjusts to new rules

Ashoka Mukpo 10 May 2017

Indigenous leaders at COP21: 20 percent of tropical forest carbon is sitting on Indigenous land

Mike Gaworecki 2 Dec 2015
Young orangutan orphaned by the palm oil industry when its mother was killed in a plantation in Central Kalimantan. This orangutan was one of the lucky ones -- it ended up in a rehabilitation center rather than dying of starvation or being sold into the pet trade.

Greenwashing? RSPO audits rife with ‘mistakes and fraud,’ report finds

Jonathan Vit 16 Nov 2015

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