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Tuna and bycatch on a purse seiner in East Pacific Ocean.

Report: Half of MSC-certified ‘sustainable’ tuna caught with controversial gear

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Oct 2023

Lula partially blocks anti-Indigenous land rights bill, but trouble isn’t over

Sarah Brown 24 Oct 2023

New satellite readings show full extent of mining in the Amazon Rainforest

Maxwell Radwin 24 Oct 2023
Adélard Makonga at the Gécamines mining site.

Mine in ‘world cobalt capital’ displaces locals and monks under questionable circumstances

Didier Makal, Eric Cibamba 23 Oct 2023

Sumatran Indigenous seafarers run aground by overfishing and mangrove loss

Suryadi, Tonggo Simangunsong 23 Oct 2023
Moreangels Mbizah, founder of Wildlife Conservation Action, speaking during Fellows Session at TED Talks 2019: Bigger Than Us in Canada.

African NGOs seek more funds, trust, and autonomy in global partnerships

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Oct 2023
An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

Deforestation surges in hotspot of critically endangered Bornean orangutans

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Oct 2023
Yanomami Indigenous

Study: Despite armed conflicts, Indigenous lands have better environment quality

Spoorthy Raman 19 Oct 2023
Women harvest lemongrass in the Chisapani Community Forest, Nepal.

Nepal’s constitutional bench halts ‘triple taxation’ on community forests

Abhaya Raj Joshi 18 Oct 2023
Nnimmo Bassey and the team at the spill site at Eteo community in Ogoni, Rivers State.

Stop playing politics with climate change: Q&A with Nigeria’s Nnimmo Bassey

Abdulkareem Mojeed 17 Oct 2023
People select fish on Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya.

Kenya’s Lake Victoria floods leave orphaned children to run their households

Mactilda Mbenywe 12 Oct 2023
Rainbow over rainforest in Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia opens carbon trading market to both skepticism and hope

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Oct 2023
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz speaks at the Equator Prize 2015 Award Ceremony at Theatre Mogador on December 7, 2015 in Paris, France. Image courtesy of Victoria Tauli-Corpuz.

Indigenous environmental defenders among favorites for Nobel Peace Prize

Dimitri Selibas 11 Oct 2023

Brazil strikes intruders of Amazon’s most deforested Indigenous land

Sarah Brown 11 Oct 2023

Indonesian police slammed after protester demanding rightful land is shot dead

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Oct 2023

Plan to bring Mennonite farmers to Suriname sparks deforestation fears

Maxwell Radwin 9 Oct 2023

World Bank accused of supporting evictions, rights abuses at Tanzanian park

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Oct 2023
Gumbaynggirr custodian Sandy Greenwood

What does land mean to Australia’s Indigenous groups fighting logging?

Tessa Fox 5 Oct 2023

Brazil’s Indigenous women march again for the rights of their people and lives

Inaê Guion 5 Oct 2023
Community members celebrating the withdrawal of the lawsuit against SAVE Rivers.

Small wins for Indigenous Malaysian activists in dispute with timber giant

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 4 Oct 2023

Indonesia’s Mandalika project a litany of violations for Indigenous Sasak

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Oct 2023

Amazon drought cuts river traffic, leaves communities without water and supplies

André Schröder 3 Oct 2023

Ken Burns discusses heartbreak & hope of ‘The American Buffalo,’ his new documentary

Liz Kimbrough 3 Oct 2023
Leschenault's rousette (Rousettus leschenaultii) from a temple in Madurai, Tamil Nadu.

Mongabay’s What-to-Watch list for October 2023

Mongabay.com 3 Oct 2023

Rechargeable battery industry needs better mining regulations, report says

Maxwell Radwin 29 Sep 2023
Members of Synaparcam, an association of communities affected by Socapalm holding a banner reading "YES to the respect of community rights" in French. Image courtesy Thierry Didier Kuicheu

Bolloré blacklisted over alleged rights violations on plantations in Africa and Asia

Victoria Schneider 29 Sep 2023
Commercial coal shipping in Vietnam.

Vietnamese environmentalist sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion

Mongabay.com 28 Sep 2023
A child in Jakarta working in the fishing sector.

On Jakarta’s vanishing shoreline, climate change seen abetting child marriages

Maulia Inka Vira Fadilla 28 Sep 2023
An uncontacted Indigenous community in Acre, Brazil.

New online map tracks threats to uncontacted Indigenous peoples in Brazil’s Amazon

Sarah Brown 27 Sep 2023

From Orinoco to Amazon, Indigenous Warao struggle in search of refuge

João Paulo Guimarães 27 Sep 2023
Ubre Tiblak taps a tree for resin.

Indigenous community fighting a mine in Palawan wins a milestone legal verdict

Keith Anthony Fabro 25 Sep 2023
Tractor and trailer with oil palm seedlings on a Wilmar plantation in Cross River state, Nigeria. Image by Rettet van Regenwald via Flickr (CC BY--NC-ND 2.0)

10 years after land grab, local Nigerian farmers continue fight against palm oil producer

Orji Sunday 22 Sep 2023

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