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BR-319’s “midsection” has remained unpaved since the highway’s inauguration in 1976. Now, the road’s rebuilding is the subject of one of Brazil’s fiercest environmental debates in recent times. Image courtesy of DNIT.

Brazil taps legal loophole to issue bids for Amazon ‘tipping point’ road

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Apr 2026
Bags of cobalt powder ready for export from Chemaf’s mines in the DRC. Image by Didier Makal/Mongabay.

Virtus Minerals signs first major deal under US-DRC critical minerals partnership

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Apr 2026

In Brazil, unfinished water project leaves Indigenous villages without safe water

Felipe Medeiros, Adriana Amâncio 14 Apr 2026

Council recommends opening US Pacific marine monuments to commercial fishing

Bobby Bascomb 13 Apr 2026

Venezuela’s new mining law could spell disaster for the Amazon, critics warn

Maxwell Radwin 10 Apr 2026
In 2023, women working at the Salala plantation told Mongabay their managers often tried to pressure them into sex. Ashoka Mukpo/Mongabay.

Second progress report shows little action on World Bank redress plan at Liberian plantation

Victoria Schneider 9 Apr 2026
Emergent rainforest tree in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler for Mongabay.

Indigenous & community leaders say, ‘secure forest financing with us, not for us’ (commentary)

Inés Morales Lastra, José Ivanildo, Levi Sucre 7 Apr 2026

In Brazil’s capital, Indigenous leaders rally as land disputes and mining pressures grow

Associated Press 7 Apr 2026

A human rights center opens a path to justice for Indigenous Peoples in the Central African Republic

David Akana 7 Apr 2026

Railroad & tariff war boost soy in Brazil’s Cerrado, endangering Indigenous lands

Kevin Damasio 2 Apr 2026

American Samoa said ‘no’ to deep sea mining, Washington heard ‘faster’ (commentary)

Jackie Dragon 1 Apr 2026
Juma Xipaia, an Indigenous chief from the Brazilian Amazon. Image © Malaika Pictures.

Behind the scenes of the Amazon’s gold rush: Director Richard Ladkani on the making of ‘Yanuni’

Aimee Gabay 25 Mar 2026
Occupation of Funai’s Altamira branch. Image courtesy of the Medio Xingu Indigenous Women’s Movement.

Indigenous groups demand halt to Belo Sun Amazon gold mine

Shanna Hanbury 23 Mar 2026
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Many Indigenous peoples in Asia feel excluded from nat’l biodiversity planning: Report

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 20 Mar 2026
Dry canals in the Xingu River basin prevent boat traffic and make it difficult for local families to get around. Image courtesy of MATI/ISA.

Contested Amazon dam called to review water flow as river ecosystem fails

André Schröder 19 Mar 2026
A woman with her goats in the buffer area. Image by Tulsi Rauniyar for Mongabay.

Nepal’s rural women at increasing risk of human-wildlife conflict

Tulsi Rauniyar 18 Mar 2026
Indigenous protesters and self-proclaimed river defenders demonstrate against Brazilian dams. Image courtesy of Amazon Watch.

A decade after the death of Berta Cáceres, we can no longer tolerate threats to environmental activists (commentary)

Michael Sutton 17 Mar 2026

Cambodia’s Supreme Court denies release of five imprisoned environmental activists

John Cannon 16 Mar 2026
Lions. Image courtesy of Kasaine Sankan-Mara Predator Conservation Program.

Study finds livestock pushing lions away from shared rangeland in Kenya

Charles Mpaka 12 Mar 2026

Rights violations prompt world’s largest sovereign wealth fund to divest from Bolloré

Victoria Schneider 11 Mar 2026
A meeting in the Cinta Larga territory in 2017. Image for representation purpose only. Image by Amazônia Real via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Brazil Supreme Court opens path to mining in Indigenous land for first time

Aimee Gabay 11 Mar 2026

US development bank left without oversight after watchdog let go

Ashoka Mukpo 10 Mar 2026

Human rights commission calls on Peru to protect isolated Kakataibo people

Aimee Gabay 10 Mar 2026

Cameroon’s decade of conflict leaves apes and conservationists in peril

Orji Sunday 3 Mar 2026
A fisherman is silhouetted as he casts his net into the Tapajos River in Santarem, Para state, 2020.

Concern among Indigenous leaders, relief for a few, as Amazon Soy Moratorium falters

Rubens Valente 3 Mar 2026

Deadly landfill collapse exposes risks faced by Philippines’ waste pickers

Michael Beltran 2 Mar 2026
A Yanomami infant intubated at the Santo Antônio children’s hospital in Boa Vista, Roraima. Image courtesy of Emmily Melo/Hutukara Associação Yanomami.

Five Yanomami infants in Brazil die amid whooping cough outbreak

Shanna Hanbury 27 Feb 2026
A shoal of batfish in Raja Ampat, Indonesia.

Ocean Equity Index aims to measure justice at sea

Edward Carver 26 Feb 2026
Demonstrators in Santarém, Pará state, Brazil. Image courtesy of Amazon Watch.

Brazil revokes decree privatizing three Amazonian rivers after Indigenous protests

Shanna Hanbury 26 Feb 2026

Indigenous communities oppose Papua forest rezoning for palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Feb 2026
Fisherfolk at Lourenção Rocks on the Amazon’s Tocantins River.

Amazon riverfolk warn blasting rocks for shipping route will kill fisheries

Tiffany Higgins 25 Feb 2026

Bringing Mongabay’s Amazon narco airstrip exposé to the stage

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Feb 2026

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