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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

Illegal miners block Indigenous leaders headed to protests in Brazil’s capital

Ana Ionova 14 Jun 2021

Paid in Blood: Standing up to private interests often turns deadly in Brazil

Yessenia Funes 14 Jun 2021

Final court ruling orders Indonesian government to publish plantation data

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jun 2021
Jaguars still roam the Chaco, but they require large tracts of contiguous forest to survive and reproduce. As forest is destroyed, fewer of these intact landscapes exist. Photo by Eduardo Merille via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

New areas of primary forest cleared in Brazil’s ‘lawless’ Lábrea

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jun 2021

Brazil ‘Adopt-a-Park’ program may negatively impact traditional peoples

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 8 Jun 2021

West Papua revokes quarter of a million hectares of land from palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Jun 2021

Land conflicts in Brazil break record under Bolsonaro

Juliana Ennes 2 Jun 2021

Illegal miners fire shots, burn homes in Munduruku Indigenous Reserve

Ana Ionova 28 May 2021

Drugs, fire, settlers poised to wipe out one of Paraguay’s most biodiverse forests

Aldo Benítez 27 May 2021

Brazil’s Xingu River Basin feels the heat from Bolsonaro’s fiery rhetoric

Sam Cowie 27 May 2021

New clearing of forest in protected area in Brazil linked to mining

Liz Kimbrough 27 May 2021

Brazil court orders illegal miners booted from Yanomami Indigenous Reserve

Shanna Hanbury 21 May 2021
Banner image of the Marauiá mountain range in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory, in the state of Amazonas. Image by Sebastião Salgado

‘Amazônia must live on’: Photographer Sebastião Salgado returns home with his new book

Peter Speetjens 20 May 2021

Amazon palm oil has not lived up to its promise of sustainability (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 May 2021

Settlers invading, deforesting Colombian national parks ‘at an unstoppable speed’

Antonio José Paz Cardona 19 May 2021

After gold miners shoot Yanomani people, Brazil cuts environmental regulation further

Mongabay.com 13 May 2021

Behind the scenes video unveils water contamination by ‘sustainable’ Amazon palm oil

Mongabay.com 12 May 2021

‘Throw them overboard’: Brazil mine disaster victims bullied over compensation

Alice Maciel 6 May 2021

Karipuna people sue Brazil government for alleged complicity in land grabs

Shanna Hanbury 6 May 2021

Relocating mangroves for Indonesian highway ‘not that easy,’ expert warns

L. Darmawan 4 May 2021

Indigenous Dayak man jailed after Indonesian palm oil firm alleges theft

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Apr 2021
Keo Seima forest. Image by user Pygathrix nigripes via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Deforestation ramps up in Cambodia’s Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Apr 2021
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Gas fields and jihad: Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado becomes a resource-rich war zone

Ashoka Mukpo 26 Apr 2021

Bills before Brazil Congress slammed for rewarding Amazon land grabbers

Fernanda Wenzel 15 Apr 2021

Brazil prosecutors cite Mongabay probe in new legal battle against palm oil firms

Karla Mendes 26 Mar 2021

Chinese ‘fishing fleet’ anchored on Philippine reef raises tensions

Leilani Chavez 26 Mar 2021

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