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Dam in Ethiopia has wiped out indigenous livelihoods, report finds

John Cannon 11 Jun 2019
Peat forest clearing in Indonesian Borneo in June 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian ban on clearing new swaths of forest to be made permanent

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jun 2019
A turtle at Shell Beach in Region 1 of Guyana. Photo courtesy of Guyana Marine Conservation Society.

My journey toward ‘green reporting’ (insider)

Akola Thompson 6 Jun 2019

Brazil’s Congress reverses Bolsonaro, restores Funai’s land demarcation powers

Karla Mendes 5 Jun 2019

The Sateré-Mawé move to reclaim Amazon ancestral lands from invaders

Thais Borges; Mauricio Torres; and Sue Branford 4 Jun 2019
image by Cristóbal von Rothkirch from the book Cariba Malo.

Gold, wood, religion: Threats to Colombia’s isolated indigenous peoples

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 3 Jun 2019

Land grabbing, cattle ranching ravage Colombian Amazon after FARC demobilization

Taran Volckhausen 30 May 2019

What is magic without ape parts? Inside the illicit trade devastating Nigeria’s apes

Orji Sunday 29 May 2019

Altered forests threaten sustainability of subsistence hunting

Mongabay.com 29 May 2019

Altered forests threaten sustainability of subsistence hunting

Mongabay.com 29 May 2019

A forest beset by oil palms, logging, now contends with a coal-trucking road

Elviza Diana 28 May 2019

Ecuador’s isolated indigenous tribes: Stuck between oil and state neglect

Isabela Ponce 24 May 2019

Ñembi Guasu: Huge new conservation area in Bolivia’s Gran Chaco

Yvette Sierra Praeli 23 May 2019

Former Brazilian enviro ministers blast Bolsonaro environmental assaults

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 23 May 2019

How climate change could throw Māori culture off-balance

Ashley Stumvoll 23 May 2019

For India’s imperiled apes, thinking locally matters

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 23 May 2019

Interest in protecting environment up since Pope’s 2015 encyclical

John Cannon 21 May 2019

Bolivia: Nature rights tribunal condemns TIPNIS project

Mongabay.com 20 May 2019

‘Resisting to exist’: Indigenous women unite against Brazil’s far-right president

Karla Mendes 20 May 2019

Solomon Islanders imprisoned for trying to stop the logging of their forests

Louise Hunt 17 May 2019

A new election brings little hope for Solomon Islands’ vanishing forests

Louise Hunt 17 May 2019

In Indonesia, a flawed certification scheme lets illegal loggers raze away

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 May 2019

As Indonesia mulls moving the capital, indigenous groups fear another land grab

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 16 May 2019

Public education could curb bushmeat demand in Laos, study finds

Mongabay.com 15 May 2019

Wariness over Indonesian president’s vow to get tough on land disputes

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 May 2019

Pressure mounts on EU to curb Brazilian deforestation, human rights abuses

Sarah Sax 9 May 2019

Mercury poisoning chief among health problems facing Peru’s uncontacted tribes

Ramiro Escobar 9 May 2019

‘To save a forest you have to destroy a nicer one’: U.S. Marines target forest in Guam

Nina Finley 8 May 2019
Indigenous Waorani march through the streets of Puyo after their legal victory against the government, during a strong downpour. Photo by Mitch Anderson/Amazon Frontlines.

Historic win by Ecuador’s Waorani could re-shape extraction activities

Kimberley Brown 7 May 2019

’Unprecedented’ loss of biodiversity threatens humanity, report finds

Mongabay.com 7 May 2019

Most communities not seeing promised oil palm payoff in Borneo, study finds

Loren Bell 6 May 2019

Illegal logging poised to wipe Cambodian wildlife sanctuary off the map

Kit Humphrey 2 May 2019

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