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For Indonesia’s Kendari Bay, silting is a death sentence

Ian Morse 28 Aug 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway on a collision course with elephants

John Cannon 28 Aug 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway could divide threatened wildlife populations

John Cannon 26 Aug 2019

Sumatran elephant sanctuary under threat from bridge, port projects

Taufik Wijaya 26 Aug 2019

Aimed at linking communities, Malaysian highway may damage forests

John Cannon 23 Aug 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway brings wildlife threats to nat’l park doorstep

John Cannon 21 Aug 2019

Connecting an island: Traveling the Pan Borneo Highway

John Cannon 19 Aug 2019

Ekuri Initiative: Inside a Nigerian community’s battle to keep its forest

Linus Unah 15 Aug 2019

India pushes for its largest ever hydropower project despite concerns

Mayank Aggarwal 29 Jul 2019

New roads in Papua New Guinea may cause ‘quantum leap’ in forest loss

John Cannon 24 Jul 2019

Indonesia, facing a waste crisis, plans to burn it for electricity

Basten Gokkon 22 Jul 2019

Fears over Indonesian president’s demand for unfettered investment

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Jul 2019

Corrupt police caught in bust of Peruvian Amazon drug gang

Bethan John 19 Jul 2019

Colombian investors push Pacific port project, threatening biodiversity hotspot

Taran Volckhausen 18 Jul 2019
Villagers from Farihitsara gather near the proposed dam site. Tozzi Green, the Italian company responsible for the hydroelectric project, marked some of the rocks when it did research at the site. Image by Edward Carver for Mongabay.

In Madagascar, villagers oppose plans for a dam that would inundate their land

Edward Carver 18 Jul 2019

Indonesian governor latest official busted for bribes in environmental case

Indra Nugraha 12 Jul 2019
Camera trap photo of a chimpanzee with mangoes.

Chimps in Sierra Leone adapt to human-impacted habitats, but threats remain

Ini Ekott 10 Jul 2019
Bulldozers parked in a muddy clearing near near Okuni, Cross River State, Nigeria

In Nigeria, a highway threatens community and conservation interests

Linus Unah 9 Jul 2019

Zambia halts plans to dam the Luangwa River

Mongabay.com 3 Jul 2019

As opposition wanes, a Malaysian land reclamation project pushes ahead

Keith Schneider 2 Jul 2019
Not for republication. Image by Rod Harbinson/Rodharbinson.com

An Indonesian forest community grapples with the arrival of the outside world

Rod Harbinson 1 Jul 2019

Rivers are the world’s heritage. Time to treat them as such (commentary)

Josh Klemm 1 Jul 2019
Small-scale deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Colombia gasoline fueling cocaine production

Taran Volckhausen 28 Jun 2019
Indigenous protesters and self-proclaimed river defenders demonstrate against Brazilian dams. Image courtesy of Amazon Watch.

Amazon infrastructure puts 68% of indigenous lands / protected areas at risk: report

Jenny Gonzales 28 Jun 2019

Despite fiery campaign rhetoric, Chinese-backed projects in Malaysia steam ahead

Keith Schneider 28 Jun 2019

No environmental permit for Bali bay reclamation plan amid opposition

Basten Gokkon 25 Jun 2019

Logging road construction has surged in the Congo Basin since 2003

John Cannon 24 Jun 2019

From flaming to free-flowing: The full lesson of the recovery of the Cuyahoga River (commentary)

Jeff Opperman 21 Jun 2019

Dam in Ethiopia has wiped out indigenous livelihoods, report finds

John Cannon 11 Jun 2019

Bumpy ride for conservation in PNG as lack of roads hinders activities

Lucy EJ Woods 10 Jun 2019

No need to dam free-flowing rivers to meet world’s climate and energy targets

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2019

Altered forests threaten sustainability of subsistence hunting

Mongabay.com 29 May 2019

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