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Plantation workers on the SAC plantation in Sierra Leone's Sahn Malen chiefdom. Image by Maja Hitij for Mongabay.

Communities accuse Socfin and Earthworm Foundation of greenwash in West Africa

Victoria Schneider 21 Jun 2023
Amanita muscaria is a mushroom that is both hallucinogenic and poisonous. Image posted by creator 942784 to the Creative Commons via Pixabay.

‘A psychedelic renaissance’: How hallucinogens can aid conservation

Mike DiGirolamo 20 Jun 2023
Women from the Maju Bersama KPPL plant ginger flowers

Indigenous and local communities see big gains in land rights, study shows

Dimitri Selibas 19 Jun 2023
At an assembly, the president of the Shuar Arutam People shows banners saying “No to mining.”

Over a third of conflicts over development projects affect Indigenous people: Study

Sandra Cuffe 19 Jun 2023
A park blooming with more blue camas.

Volunteers, First Nations work to bring back a disappearing oak prairie

Spoorthy Raman 19 Jun 2023
Mopane worms on mopane leaves.

Southern African caterpillar that feeds millions may be next climate casualty

Ryan Truscott 15 Jun 2023

A powerful U.S. political family is behind a copper mine in the Colombian rainforest

Andrés Bermúdez Liévano 14 Jun 2023

Indonesia’s Mandalika megaproject still trampling on Indigenous community’s rights: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jun 2023

Venezuela’s environmental crisis is getting worse. Here are seven things to know.

Maxwell Radwin 13 Jun 2023
Farmers in the Lower Omo Valley.

Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area brings Indigenous communities into the fold

Kaleab Girma 13 Jun 2023
A black-shanked douc langur in a tree.

Can community payments with no strings attached benefit biodiversity?

John Cannon 13 Jun 2023

Q&A with Sydney Possuelo, the most prominent specialist in isolated indigenous peoples in Brazil

Carolina Conti 13 Jun 2023

In Indonesia, companies defy government’s decision to revoke their permits

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jun 2023
More than 5,000 Indigenous peoples participated in the 2023 Acampamento Terra Livre (ATL) march in Brasilia on April 26, demanding the demarcation of Indigenous territories and the end of violence against Indigenous peoples. Image by Maiara Dourado / CIMI.

Indigenous groups turn to Brazil’s highest court to stop police violence

Aimee Gabay 9 Jun 2023

Mechanized destruction of Brazil’s Amazon is rising, but not inevitable

Dimitri Selibas 7 Jun 2023
A giant anteater.

Can the EU’s deforestation law save Argentina’s Gran Chaco from soy?

Kimberley Brown 6 Jun 2023

Militarized conservation: Insecurity for some, security for others? (commentary)

Fergus O’Leary Simpson, Lorenzo Pellegrini 6 Jun 2023
Batin Irasan, the village’s ketua adat, or spiritual leader.

Sumatra Indigenous community displaced by Samsung palm oil unit await justice

Suryadi 6 Jun 2023
Brazilian President Lula met U.S. President Joe Biden in February.

Boosted with fresh donations, Amazon Fund reboots stalled projects

André Schröder 5 Jun 2023
Aerial view of Congo forest at Lokolama/Penzele around Mbandaka, Équateur province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Image courtesy of Daniel Beltrá / Greenpeace.

Tap African knowledge and culture for Congo Basin forest conservation (commentary)

Sylvie Djacbou Deugoue 5 Jun 2023
Yanomami Indigenous

Majority of Brazil’s Congress votes to restrict Indigenous land advances

Jenny Gonzales 2 Jun 2023
A boy with a fishing net stands on the crude oil-stained bank of a rift in the creek area in Niger Delta.

Spotlighting oil majors’ ‘ecocide’ of Niger Delta: Q&A with Michael J. Watts

Ashoka Mukpo 2 Jun 2023
The endangered pig-nosed turtle, also known as the Fly River turtle, lives in northern Australian and southern New Guinea, including in the area Medco is operating in. Image by Jin Kemoole/Flickr.

Report: Forest-razing biomass plant in Indonesia got millions in green funds

Philip Jacobson 2 Jun 2023

The counterstrike: Brazilian Congress moves to block Lula’s environmental agenda

André Schröder 1 Jun 2023
Leader Vanda Ortega, of the indigenous Witoto people

Indigenous land rights key to curbing deforestation and restoring lands: Study

Roxanne Hoorn 1 Jun 2023
Sloth bears are attracted to the garbage dumps

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

Mongabay.com 1 Jun 2023

In Nepal, Chepang take up the challenge to revive their cultural keystone tree

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 May 2023

Shipibo communities create Indigenous guard to protect Peruvian Amazon from deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 30 May 2023

Survival and economics complicate the DRC’s bushmeat and wild animal trade

John Cannon, Didier Makal 30 May 2023

Agro giants buy grains from farmers fined for using Indigenous land in Brazil

André Campos - Repórter Brasil, Naira Hofmeister, João Peres, Leonardo Fuhrmann 29 May 2023
The Palmer mine site, which has been proposed near Glacier Creek, just below the Saksaia glacier.

Residents of southeast Alaskan town debate mine that’s bound to change region

Evan Bourtis 26 May 2023

Forest conservation efforts in Peru are failing across the board, study says

Kimberley Brown 25 May 2023

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