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Logging persists in Cameroon’s wildlife-rich Ebo Forest despite warnings

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 25 Nov 2024
Juvenile one-horned rhinos at a rescue center in Chitwan. Image by Abhaya Raj Joshi

Nepal’s top court to rule next month on law allowing development in protected areas

Abhaya Raj Joshi 25 Nov 2024

The effects of mass migration in Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Nov 2024

Communities band together to save besieged reserve in Bolivia

Iván Paredes Tamayo 20 Nov 2024
Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology’s Lappeenranta campus.

As nations develop circular economy plans, Finland’s top expert shares how they lead the way

Mike DiGirolamo 19 Nov 2024
Indigenous women look at their living space disappear to become Lambo Dam.

Dam displaces farmers as drought parches Indonesia’s Flores Island

Moh. Tamimi 19 Nov 2024
A firefighter wears a breathing mask after the Maui fire to protect himself from toxic vapors.

As global fire risk rises, modern homes become toxic plastic traps

Alden Wicker 14 Nov 2024

Satellite data detect appearance of new roads in primary forests in Borneo

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Nov 2024

Court throws out permits for controversial Baja California hotel project

Maxwell Radwin 8 Nov 2024
Clouded leopard.

Study shows, via clouded leopards, how to better protect forests

Carolyn Cowan 8 Nov 2024
Boats of Tangerang's fishermen, who are starting to have difficulty going to sea.

An ‘ocean grab’ for a property megaproject leaves Jakarta fishers grounded

Irfan Maulana 8 Nov 2024
Banner image of logging truck near Think Biotech’s concession in 2020. Image by Ma Chettra.

Illegally logged wood from Cambodia likely ending up in U.S. homes

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2024

Dam terrorism: How mining companies in Brazil scare residents into relocating

Evanildo da Silveira 24 Oct 2024

In Costa Rica, sustainable tourism is no longer enough for conservation

Michele Bertelli 21 Oct 2024

Largest dam removal ever, driven by Tribes, kicks off Klamath River recovery

Liz Kimbrough 17 Oct 2024
Lioness in Tanzania. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

NGOs urge banks and China to refuse support for Ugandan oil projects

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Oct 2024

Hotel built without permits on disputed land riles neighboring Paracas reserve in Peru

Mongabay Latam 11 Oct 2024
Behind Mario Luna Romero, a Yaqui spokesperson and water defender is the Plutarco Elías Calles (El Novillo) on the left and the Independencia Aqueduct on the right. Image by Abimael Ochoa Hernández.

Despite court ruling, Yaqui water rights abuses ignored

Aimee Gabay 10 Oct 2024

Javan fisherwomen lead fight against marine dredging amid fears of damage

Basten Gokkon 10 Oct 2024

A nesting haven for sea turtles in Suriname is fading away

Stefanie Lauchman 7 Oct 2024
In July 2024, forest activists uncovered a timber depot and sawmills at the site of the Stung Meteuk hydropower project. Image supplied by Tat Oudom.

Cambodian environment minister bans logging at tycoon’s Cardamoms hydropower project

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 30 Sep 2024
Greenpeace Brazil conducted an aerial survey in southern Amazonas and northern Rondônia to monitor deforestation and fires in July 2024. Photo © Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace.

Brazil’s race to approve the end of the Amazon: The BR-319 highway needs a new environmental impact assessment (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 28 Sep 2024

As MotoGP heads to Indonesia, Indigenous Sasak brace for another weekend of repression

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Sep 2024
wind farm

SE Asia renewables firms fall short on policies to protect environmental defenders

Carolyn Cowan 25 Sep 2024
Flooding in Thailand

Record-breaking floods in northern Thailand intensify scrutiny of Mekong dam project

Carolyn Cowan 24 Sep 2024
NASA satellite image of BR-230 highway.

Brazil’s BR-319 highway disaster: Yet another maneuver (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 20 Sep 2024
A steel production site in China.

Aluminum and steel vital to energy transition, but need circular solutions

Sean Mowbray 18 Sep 2024

Philippines hydro boom rips Indigenous communities

Michael Beltran 18 Sep 2024
The Los Pelambres mine.

In Chile, a copper mining project tainted by environmental damage sues 32 locals

Michael Lieberherr Pacheco 16 Sep 2024

Ugandan oil project linked with massive human rights abuses: Report

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Sep 2024

Malaysian court shuts down hydroelectric dam project on Indigenous land

Ashley Yeong 12 Sep 2024
Banner image: Photos of human rights lawyer Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca, who disappeared last year in Mexico. Photo by Luis Rojas via Global Witness.

Why is violence against environmental defenders getting worse? Five things to know

Maxwell Radwin 11 Sep 2024

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