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Indigenous forest guardians Laércio Guajajara and Paulo Paulino Guajajara.

End of impunity for Indigenous killings in sight for Brazil’s Guajajara

Karla Mendes 20 Nov 2023
An anonymous pipeline-affected person in Tanzania, January 2022.

Disturbing graves is latest violation attributed to East African oil pipeline

Justin Catanoso 14 Nov 2023
Juliette Naipanoi Lekiale, of the Samburu community of Kenya. Image courtesy of Rights and Resources Initiative.

Namibia hosted Africa’s 1st community-led conservation congress. Where will it lead?

Victoria Schneider 1 Nov 2023
Small children from Rira village stand by the roadside near their humble home.

World Heritage Site listing for Ethiopian park leads to eviction of farming community

Solomon Yimer 30 Oct 2023
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
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
Yanomami Indigenous

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

Spoorthy Raman 19 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
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

Indonesian police slammed after protester demanding rightful land is shot dead

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Oct 2023

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

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Oct 2023

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Oct 2023

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

Liz Kimbrough 3 Oct 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
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

Investors over islanders as Indonesia uses force to push development project

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Sep 2023

São Paulo Indigenous community pins its territorial hopes on a new village

Sam Cowie 20 Sep 2023

Latin America most dangerous place for environmental defenders, report says

Maxwell Radwin 14 Sep 2023
Maria Bernadete Pacífico was the leader of Pitanga of Palmares quilombo, located in Bahia state. Image courtesy of CONAQ.

Son of slain Quilombola leader will still strive for community’s rights

Jenny Gonzales 5 Sep 2023
Christian Adams and Anthony Stofberg with their crew in a fishing boat.

For South Africa’s small fishers, co-ops prove a necessary, but bumpy, step up

Victoria Schneider 31 Aug 2023
Activist Duduzile Dludla of Makhasaneni, standing in front of her home and an umbombe or forest strangler-fig (Ficus natalensis)

South Africa community members decry traditional leaders’ power amid mine plans

Dimitri Selibas 28 Aug 2023
Squirrel monkeys are one of many creatures of Yasuni National Park. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Ecuador referendum halts oil extraction in Yasuní National Park

Maxwell Radwin 21 Aug 2023

Zimbabwe sees recycling boom as waste picking becomes lucrative business

Tatenda Chitagu 21 Aug 2023
A local community member who works at an oil palm plantation in Liberia pushing a cart of the harvest.

Investigation confirms most allegations against plantation operator Socfin

Victoria Schneider 11 Aug 2023
A channel-billed toucan in Yasuní National Park.

Can upcoming referendum in Ecuador stop oil drilling in Yasuní National Park?

Kimberley Brown 11 Aug 2023
A small-scale fisher from Madagascar.

Madagascar signs new ‘sustainable’ tuna deal with the EU

Edward Carver 7 Aug 2023
A landfill with mixed waste.

Takin’ out the trash: How do transnational waste traffickers operate?

Guia Baggi, Laura Carrer, Rahma Behi, Virginia Kirst 3 Aug 2023
A snow leopard captured on a camera trap.

When wildlife surveillance tech ‘watches’ people

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jul 2023

In Indonesia’s Aceh, Indigenous communities seek recognition of their forest rights

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Jul 2023
A worker in an oil palm plantation.

Most Indonesian palm oil firms not sharing land with small farmers as required: audit

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jul 2023

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