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Gates Foundation among investors backing troubled DRC palm plantation

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Feb 2022

Polluting with impunity: Palm oil companies flout regulations in Ecuador

Alianza periodística tras las huellas de la palma 4 Feb 2022

Community in Ecuador punished for trying to stop alleged palm oil pollution

Alianza periodística tras las huellas de la palma 4 Feb 2022
Netty Joyce Mukanganise tends her tobacco-curing barn. Image by Tonderayi Mukeredzi for Mongabay.

Zimbabwe’s forests go up in smoke to feed its tobacco habit

Tonderayi Mukeredzi 3 Feb 2022

Full steam ahead for Tren Maya project as lawsuits hit judicial hurdles

Maxwell Radwin 28 Jan 2022
Park rangers

What went wrong with conservation at Kahuzi-Biega National Park and how to transform it (commentary)

Deborah S. Rogers 27 Jan 2022
Solitary figure in a partly cultivated field, Nimba mountain range in the background. Image by Maarten van der Bent via Flickr CC BY-SA-2.0

Liberian villagers threaten to leave mining agreement, citing broken promises

Varney Kamara 27 Jan 2022
Indigenous salmon fishers

Alaskan Indigenous leaders fear impacts on salmon streams by mining project

Laurel Sutherland 26 Jan 2022

Mau Forest rehabilitation still overshadowed by forced evictions

Keit Silale 25 Jan 2022

Spurred by investor-friendly law, palm oil firms sue to get licenses back

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Jan 2022

Attack on environmental lawyer’s home alarms DRC rights defenders

Soraya Kishtwari 25 Jan 2022

Déjà vu for Indigenous villagers in Brazil as floods leave them homeless again

Sarah Brown 21 Jan 2022
Protestors with signs protesting EACOP, ReconAfrica projects. Image courtesy 350.org

Total’s oil pipeline gets go-ahead from Ugandan MPs despite secret terms

Thomas Lewton 14 Jan 2022

Indonesian research center for medicinal plants displaces incense harvesters

Barita News Lumbanbatu 13 Jan 2022

Philippine groups slam ‘cruel Christmas gift’ as open-pit mining ban is lifted

Bong S. Sarmiento 11 Jan 2022

Josefina Tunki: ‘If we have to die in defense of the land, we have to die’

Ana Cristina Basantes 5 Jan 2022

Getting African grasslands right, for people and wildlife alike: Q&A with Susanne Vetter

Kang-Chun Cheng 31 Dec 2021
Rising water levels Kenya

Sinkholes emerge in rural Kenya after series of floods, droughts

Kang-Chun Cheng 30 Dec 2021
Fire line moves through a degraded forest area in an undesignated public forest area in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2021

‘Land mafia’ makes its mark in a Sumatran village’s fight against oil palm firm

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Dec 2021

Indonesia’s three most consequential forestry stories of 2021

Philip Jacobson 24 Dec 2021
Small-scale gold mining

Secrecy shrouds new gold mining deal in Guyana’s Marudi mountains

Laurel Sutherland 22 Dec 2021
Kahuzi-Biega National Park rangers stand in formation at the park in October, 2016. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Deadly raids are latest case of abuse against Indigenous Batwa in DRC park, groups say

Laurel Sutherland 21 Dec 2021

Illegal roads pierce Indigenous reserve, national parks in Colombian Amazon

Santiago Luque Pérez 20 Dec 2021
Winter reindeer

In the Arctic, Indigenous Sámi keep life centered on reindeer herding

Liz Kimbrough 20 Dec 2021

Indonesians protesting against mines run growing risk of ‘criminalization’

Agus Mawan, Nuswantoro 17 Dec 2021
Embera woman within the forest

Conservation projects in Mesoamerica make the case for Indigenous climate funding

Dimitri Selibas 16 Dec 2021

Oil highway bears down on uncontacted Indigenous groups in Ecuador’s Yasuní

Kimberley Brown 15 Dec 2021

In Colombia, threatened women of the Wayuú community continue to fight rampant mining

Carol Sánchez 13 Dec 2021

Indigenous groups unveil plan to protect 80% of the Amazon in Peru and Ecuador

Latoya Abulu, Laurel Sutherland 3 Dec 2021

Amazon mining threatens dozens of uncontacted Indigenous groups, study shows

Shanna Hanbury 1 Dec 2021
A pastoralist’s cattle herd. Image courtesy of the Oakland Institute.

Allegations of displacement, violence beleaguer Kenyan conservancy NGO

John Cannon 30 Nov 2021

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