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As illegal logging route in Peru nears Brazil, Indigenous groups warn of calamity

Ana Ionova 9 Sep 2021

Rich countries may be buying illegal gold that’s driving Amazon destruction

Juliana Ennes 3 Sep 2021

Vale told Brazil communities they were in danger. They say Vale wants their land

Isis Medeiros 3 Sep 2021

North American paper industry merger sets off environmental alarms

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Sep 2021

With their land on the line, Indigenous Brazilians gather for landmark ruling

Ana Ionova 27 Aug 2021
Wildlife rangers in Cambodia, Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

As COP15 approaches, ’30 by 30’ becomes a conservation battleground

Ashoka Mukpo 26 Aug 2021

‘Carving up my country’: Land clearing reignites fracking debate in Western Australia

Nick Rodway 25 Aug 2021

Indonesian pulpwood firms told to protect peat are doing the opposite: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Aug 2021

They safeguarded nature, but now Malaysia’s Mah Meri face eviction for an eco-resort

Rachel Donald 20 Aug 2021

Malaysian timber giant Samling takes conflict over logging activity to court

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 19 Aug 2021

An Ecuadoran town that survived illegal miners now faces a licensed operator

Antonio José Paz Cardona 18 Aug 2021

Scientists, communities battle against Philippine land reclamation project

Aprille Roselle Vince Juanillo 17 Aug 2021

Indonesian farmers refuse to budge for train line through karst landscape

Eko Rusdianto 16 Aug 2021

The Kichwa woman fighting drug traffickers and loggers in the Peruvian Amazon

Gloria Alvitres 13 Aug 2021

In Peru, a corrupt land-titling scheme sees forests sold off as farms

Yvette Sierra Praeli 12 Aug 2021

Indigenous Brazilians fear surge in violence as ‘land-grab bill’ nears passage

Ana Ionova 11 Aug 2021

On the Colombian plains, a leader stands up for her people against land theft

Ginna Santisteban, Óscar Parra, Pilar Puentes 11 Aug 2021

Protecting undesignated forests seen as key to slowing Amazon deforestation

Sibélia Zanon 9 Aug 2021

Mennonites said to deforest ancestral Indigenous land in Colombia

La Liga Contra el Silencio, Mongabay Latam, Rutas del Conflicto 4 Aug 2021
A man taps into a frankincense tree to extract the yellowish resin out of it in the customary forest of the Pandumaan-Sipituhuta Indigenous community in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Image by Barita News Lumbanbatu/Mongabay Indonesia.

For an Indigenous group in Sumatra, a forest regained is being lost once more

Barita News Lumbanbatu 27 Jul 2021

FSC dumps palm oil giant Korindo amid rights, environmental issues in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jul 2021

Killings, invasions escalate in fight for land in Brazil’s Maranhão state

Juliana Ennes 15 Jul 2021

A road project in Indonesia’s Gorontalo carves a path of graft and grief

Sarjan Lahay 14 Jul 2021

Global demand for manganese puts Kayapó Indigenous land under pressure

Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 14 Jul 2021

Top brands failing to spot rights abuses on Indonesian oil palm plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Jul 2021

In Colombia, end of war meant start of runaway deforestation, study finds

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 25 Jun 2021
Tourists in South Africa's Kruger National Park photograph wildlife. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

Private investors look to high-end tourism to fund conservation in Mozambique

Marlowe Starling 24 Jun 2021

Under assault at home, Indigenous leaders get a violent welcome in Brasília

Fernanda Wenzel 24 Jun 2021

With Indigenous rights at stake in Brasília, a territory is attacked in Paraty

Ana Ionova 18 Jun 2021

Land dispute turns violent as Sumatran Indigenous groups clash with pulpwood firm

Ayat S. Karokaro 17 Jun 2021

Tin mines close in on an Indonesian hamlet still clinging to nature

Taufik Wijaya 16 Jun 2021

Calls for independent probe after anti-mine Indonesian official dies

Basten Gokkon, Della Syahni 15 Jun 2021

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