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Brazil’s big push for tropical forest funding gets support for 2025 debut

Jenny Gonzales 23 Dec 2024

Brazil’s illegal gold miners carve out new Amazon hotspots in conservation units

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Dec 2024
A little girl looks out between the barbwire of the refugee compound in 2015.

In the Philippines, persecuted Lumads push for Indigenous schools to be reopened

Michael Beltran 18 Dec 2024
Timber illegally extracted from the Amazon by Ricardo Stoppe's group was sold to the USA and Europe.

Illegal timber from Amazon carbon credit projects reached Europe, U.S.

Fernanda Wenzel 16 Dec 2024

Recycling gold can tackle illegal mining in the Amazon, but is no silver bullet

Sarah Brown 13 Dec 2024

Loggers and carbon projects forge odd partnerships in the Brazilian Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Dec 2024

Brazil plans new reserves to curb deforestation near contested Amazon roads

Fernanda Wenzel 28 Nov 2024

Researchers find high levels of mercury in Amazon’s Madeira River water & fish

Kevin Damasio 27 Nov 2024
Blackwater oxbow lake in the Peruvian Amazon.

Prosecutors urge suspension of Amazon carbon projects, citing Mongabay investigation

Fernanda Wenzel 22 Nov 2024

Communities band together to save besieged reserve in Bolivia

Iván Paredes Tamayo 20 Nov 2024

Hopes and fears for the Amazon: Interview with botanist Hans ter Steege

Peter Speetjens 19 Nov 2024

‘Five years and no justice’ as trial over Indigenous forest guardian’s killing faces delays

Karla Mendes 13 Nov 2024

Brazil calls for ambition at COP but struggles over its own climate policy

Fernanda Wenzel 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

New Canadian-backed potash mine under fire from Amazon Indigenous groups

Aimee Gabay 7 Nov 2024
A fallen tree in the Amazon.

Brazil researchers boost timber traceability with new chemical analysis

Fernanda Wenzel 4 Nov 2024
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JBS broke its own rules while buying cattle from deforested areas in Pantanal

Naira Hofmeister and Fernanda Wenzel 31 Oct 2024

Deforestation plunges but environmental threats remain as Colombia hosts COP16

Lucas Berti 21 Oct 2024

Revealed: Biomass firm poised to clear Bornean rainforest for dubious ‘green’ energy

Hans Nicholas Jong, Philip Jacobson 21 Oct 2024

Extreme drought wrecks rivers and daily life in Amazon’s most burnt Indigenous land

João Paulo Guimarães 18 Oct 2024

Amazon voters elect environmental offenders and climate denialists in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 17 Oct 2024
Student advocate Christina Rumalatu.

Indonesia civil society rallies behind student investigated over nickel protest

Christ Belseran | Irfan Maulana | Asad Asnawi 15 Oct 2024

‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal in the Amazon faces bumpy road ahead

Carla Ruas 9 Oct 2024

New conservation model calls for protecting Amazon for its archaeological riches

Peter Speetjens 4 Oct 2024
Ouk Mao showed reporters timber cut from the Phnom Chum Rok Sat community forest by loggers working for Lin Vatey. Image by Nehru Pry / Mongabay

Reporter who revealed deforestation in Cambodia now charged with deforestation

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 27 Sep 2024

‘We need white men on our side to save the Amazon from destruction,’ 92-year-old Indigenous Chief Raoni says

Carla Ruas 26 Sep 2024

Police murder Guarani man as Brazil struggles with Indigenous land demarcation

Maxwell Radwin 26 Sep 2024

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Sep 2024
Endorois and Ogiek Peoples of Kenya in a peaceful procession to demand for their land rights in Feb., 2024.

Indigenous peoples won in court — but in practice, they face a different reality

Aimee Gabay 20 Sep 2024

Why the EU must stand firm on its plan to help protect the world’s forests (commentary)

Sam Lawson 19 Sep 2024

Report exposes meatpackers’ role in recent chemical deforestation in Brazil

Sarah Brown 17 Sep 2024

How the Brazilian military sabotaged protection of Indigenous people in the Amazon

André Schröder 16 Sep 2024

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