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Limbu locals stage protest against the project. Image courtesy of Mukkumlung Protection and Struggle Committee.

Cable car project in Nepal under fire for flawed environmental review

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 5 May 2025
A young river dweller docks on the bank of the Madeira River in the late afternoon, near the town of Borba, Amazonas. Image by Bruno Kelly.

Amazon people brace for a drier future along the endangered Madeira River

Kevin Damasio 5 May 2025
op row from left to right: Averi Doxtator, Liudmyla Korotkykh, Toni Chiran, Aviaaija Baadsgaard. Second row from left to right: Cindy Sisa Andy Aguinda, Joshua Amponsem, Janell Dymus-Kurei. Image by Grist.

Indigenous youth at the U.N. share environmental setbacks and solutions

Taylar Dawn Stagner 3 May 2025
An Inga leader from the Yunguillo reserve, José Homero Mutumbajoy is the human rights and peace coordinator for OPIAC. Image courtesy of José Homero Mutumbajoy.

‘Colombia’s Amazon peoples provide solutions’: Interview with José Homero Mutumbajoy

Latoya Abulu 1 May 2025
A Shipibo leader from Madre de Dios, Cusurichi Palacios serves on the national board of AIDESEP, a large organization representing more than 2,400 Indigenous communities in Peru.

The latest issues in Peru’s Amazon: Interview with Indigenous leader Julio Cusurichi

Latoya Abulu 1 May 2025
A tiger-legged monkey tree frog in Peruvian Amazon.

New report reinforces critical role of Amazonian protected areas in climate fight

Abhishyant Kidangoor 1 May 2025
Located in the Amapá state, the second-largest red angelim ever found is 85.4 meters (280 feet) tall and has a circumference of 9.8 meters (32 feet). Image courtesy of João de Matos Filho / Prodemac.

Gold rush moves closer to Amazon’s second-tallest tree

Mongabay.com 1 May 2025
Woman farming seaweed at Pemba Island, Tanzania

Building a future from seaweed in coastal Tanzania

Lucia Torres 1 May 2025
An indri lemur (Indri indri). Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Indigenous stewardship plays a key role in protecting imperiled primates

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Apr 2025
Lotus plants grow in abundance in the wetlands of Bangladesh.

Bangladesh starts a sustainable luxury fashion journey with lotus ‘silk’

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 30 Apr 2025

Military-backed plantation project in Indonesian Papua triggers rights concerns

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Apr 2025
eucalyptus forest

Eucalyptus for Brazil’s steelmaking dries out communities in Minas Gerais

Daniel Camargos, Emmanuelle Picaud, Simone Fant 29 Apr 2025
Pará Governor Helder Barbalho celebrates after signing the deal with the LEAF Coalition of corporations at New York Climate Week in September 2024. Image courtesy of SEMAS.

Brazil prosecutors dispute $175m Amazon Rainforest carbon credit deal

Shanna Hanbury 29 Apr 2025
Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae).

‘We belong to one ocean’: Indigenous leaders push for seat at the table of high seas biodiversity treaty

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 29 Apr 2025
A fisher at sea.

Oil companies have downplayed extent of spills in Gulf of Mexico, investigation finds

Gibran Mena Aguilar, Michelle Carrere 28 Apr 2025
An aerial view of mining operations run by KP Cement, Vantage Mining and others inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary in October 2023. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Cement factory approved inside Cambodia’s Prey Lang sanctuary despite mining ban

Gerald Flynn 28 Apr 2025
Voluntarily isolated people in the Javari Valley in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo credit: FUNAI.

Indigenous delegates at the U.N. raise alarm on isolated peoples in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 25 Apr 2025

Indigenous nations fought for a new national monument. Will it survive Trump?

Maya L. Kapoor 24 Apr 2025
Pope Francis, 1936-2025.

Pope Francis’ uncompromising defense of nature may be his greatest legacy

Justin Catanoso 24 Apr 2025
A Dayak Ngaju tribe man tries to extinguish fire on burning peatland in Mantangai, Central Kalimantan.

In Borneo village, Indigenous Dayaks leave farming amid stricter fire rules

Rendy Tisna 24 Apr 2025

Building environmental laws across Amazon countries

Timothy J. Killeen 23 Apr 2025

Indigenous women in Peru lead wildcat conservation initiative

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Apr 2025
Federal forces have been expelling illegal gold miners from protected areas like the Munduruku Indigenous Territory in Pará state. Image courtesy of the Federal Police. 

Amazon illegal miners bypass enforcement by smuggling gold into Venezuela

Fernanda Wenzel 22 Apr 2025
Collage of UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues attendees and snippet of visa paperwork. Image by Grist / Ines Belchior / Ronja Porho / UN DESA DISD; Angela Weiss / AFP / Getty Images.

The 2025 U.N. Forum on Indigenous Issues starts today with hopes and concerns on the agenda

Anita Hofschneider 21 Apr 2025

15 years after the BP oil spill disaster, how is the Gulf of Mexico faring?

Liz Kimbrough 21 Apr 2025
Illegal logging observed in Gunung Palung National Park, Indonesian Borneo

Indonesia strengthens forest monitoring with new tool to meet EU deforestation law

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Apr 2025

Ecuador communities resist Canada-backed gold mine in sacred highlands

Aimee Gabay, Sonam Lama Hyolmo 17 Apr 2025
A flamingo in Salar de Uyuni, southwestern Bolivia.

Bolivian communities push back against foreign-backed lithium projects

Carla Ruas 17 Apr 2025
Amapá state is home to six of the Amazon's tallest known trees, including an 85-meter (279-foot) red angelim threatened by illegal gold mining. Image courtesy of Havita Rigamonti/Imazon/Ideflor-Bi.

Illegal gold mining creeps within a kilometer of Amazon’s second-tallest tree

Fernanda Wenzel 14 Apr 2025
Maroon leaf monkeys (Presbytis rubicunda), a vulnerable species found in Borneo's forests.

‘Heart of Borneo’ dams raze Indigenous forests for Indonesia green energy drive

Abdallah Naem 14 Apr 2025
Paulo’s killing has become the symbol of the guardians’ fight to protect Arariboia.

Mongabay investigation spurs Brazil crackdown on illegal cattle in Amazon’s Arariboia territory

Karla Mendes 11 Apr 2025

Nature protection is part of fundamental law in Amazon countries

Timothy J. Killeen 11 Apr 2025

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