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Indonesia prosecutors decry ‘lenient’ sentences in palm oil corruption case

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jan 2023

Mexico dismantles illegal fishing cartels killing off rare vaquita porpoise

Maxwell Radwin 5 Jan 2023

For Indonesian smallholders, EU deforestation rule is a threat — and an opportunity

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Jan 2023

Indonesia’s ‘essential’ mangroves, seagrass and corals remain unprotected

Basten Gokkon 30 Dec 2022

Brazilian archbishop is threatened for defending Indigenous peoples — even during Mass

Elizabeth Oliveira 28 Dec 2022
Researcher Elielson Pereira da Silva and Quilombola people sit waiting for a canoe.

In Brazil’s Amazon, Quilombolas fight major palm oil firm for access to cemeteries

Karla Mendes 28 Dec 2022

Fighting wildlife trafficking in Peru: Q&A with prosecutor Alberto Caraza

Maxwell Radwin 26 Dec 2022
Members of the Quilombolas community make their way across.

Video: Stolen Quilombola cemeteries in the Amazon, and the probe that revealed it all

Karla Mendes 20 Dec 2022
Raimundo Serrão lights candles for their departed family members.

Major Brazil palm oil exporter accused of fraud, land-grabbing over Quilombola cemeteries

Karla Mendes 15 Dec 2022
Heng Saphen and her daughter, Chan Lay Phiek

No justice for Indigenous community taking on a Cambodian rubber baron

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 7 Dec 2022
Fire fighters putting out forest fire in Riau, Indonesia.

New criminal code rings alarms for environmental protection in Indonesia

Basten Gokkon 6 Dec 2022
Oceanic white tip shark. Image courtesy of Mark Royer, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology.

How reporters uncovered a massive illegal shark finning operation

Mike Gaworecki 1 Dec 2022
Image via ‘Young female fighters in African wars: conflict and its consequences’ by Chris Coulter, Mariam Persson and Mats Utas / Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2008 via Matchnox Media Collection (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Environmental peacebuilding must pay more attention to armed groups (commentary)

Judith Verweijen 29 Nov 2022
Wide shot of scattered buildings on green hills, a mountain on the horizon. Image by Victoria Schneider for Mongabay.

In South Africa, a community says no after a coal miner said go

Victoria Schneider 28 Nov 2022
A boy playing near Tendele's washing plant: the coal mine has impacted life in the community. Image by Rob Symon via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

‘I have anger every day’: South African villagers on the mine in their midst

Anna Weekes 28 Nov 2022

Indonesia’s Supreme Court rules President Widodo not liable in 2015 fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Nov 2022
Wader chick

Probe finds Vietnam faltering in bid to curb wildlife trade, animal suffering

Carolyn Cowan 23 Nov 2022

Illegal bottom trawling widespread inside Mediterranean marine protected areas

Edward Carver 22 Nov 2022
Long-tailed macaques roam free across the Angkor Wat temple complex

Alleged macaque-smuggling ring exposed as U.S. indicts Cambodian officials

Gerald Flynn 18 Nov 2022
Illustration of deforestation.

Following the impacts of palm oil alliance: Violated regulations and penalty proceedings

Tras las huellas de la palma alliance 17 Nov 2022
Neddy Mulimo. Image courtesy of Sarah Marshall.

Support rangers to protect wildlife & habitats for the future (commentary)

Neddy Mulimo 14 Nov 2022

EU ‘moving the goal posts’ with new timber requirement, Indonesia says

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Nov 2022

Dog shooting highlights Sri Lanka’s need for stricter animal cruelty laws

Hassaan Shazuli 14 Oct 2022
Close up of men chanting at a protest in Cayar, Senegal. Image © Greenpeace / Annika Hammerschlag.

Fished out at sea and smoked out on land, Senegal fishers take on a fishmeal factory

Lawon Olalekan 6 Oct 2022

Labor groups seek to build on Indonesian palm oil court win in new cases

Grace Dungey 3 Oct 2022

Indonesian lobster larvae bound for Singapore reveal role of smuggling network

Basten Gokkon, Yogi Eka Sahputra 29 Sep 2022

Big data monitoring tool aims to catch up to Indonesia’s booming online bird trade

Basten Gokkon 16 Sep 2022
Independent oil palm farmers from Talang Durian Cacar.

Indonesia amnesties 75 companies operating illegally inside forest areas

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Sep 2022
Nguy Thi Khanh

Vietnam’s Human Rights Council bid under fire after environmentalists jailed

Mongabay.com 14 Sep 2022

Indonesia urged to update fisher training program to international standards

Basten Gokkon 13 Sep 2022
Drying fish on raised racks instead of the sand reduced the fish waste, a success of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). Photo by Robert Bociaga for Mongabay.

Human pressures strain Lake Tanganyika’s biodiversity and water quality

Robert Bociaga 9 Sep 2022

Trial of palm oil tycoon Surya Darmadi begins in Jakarta

Mongabay Haze Beat 8 Sep 2022

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