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South-central black rhino standing in tawny grass. Image by Yoky via Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Malawi court sentences Chinese wildlife trafficking kingpin to 14 years in jail

Charles Mpaka 30 Sep 2021
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Malaysian hornbill bust reveals live trafficking trend in Southeast Asia

Carolyn Cowan 29 Sep 2021

As tigers dwindle, Indonesia takes aim at poaching ring

Junaidi Hanafiah 27 Sep 2021

In Colombia, legal mining proves a win-win for environment, traditional communities

Dimitri Selibas 25 Sep 2021

An environmental ‘catastrophe’ in Southern Africa lingers with few answers

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Sep 2021

Worked to death: How a Chinese tuna juggernaut crushed its Indonesian workers

Mongabay and Tansa and The Environmental Reporting Collective 13 Sep 2021

Nigeria seeks transnational help to disrupt a still-brisk pangolin trade

Ini Ekott 2 Sep 2021
Pirogues on the Kasai River with forests on the far bank. Image by Terese Hart via Flickr.

Toxic spill at Angola diamond mine pollutes Congo River tributary in DRC

Sylvain-Gauthier Kabemba 1 Sep 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
Pangolins in a market in West Africa. This image was provided anonymously to Mongabay.

Nigeria seizes scales from 15,000 dead pangolins

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2021

Acquittal of Indonesian villagers protesting pollution marks rare win against SLAPP

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Aug 2021

Indonesia reimposes ban on destructive seine and trawl nets in its waters

Basten Gokkon 28 Jul 2021

Indonesia’s Gorontalo road runs into forest, swerves environmental checks

Sarjan Lahay 26 Jul 2021

Philippines banks on new fisheries management system, but rollout is rocky

Keith Anthony Fabro 21 Jul 2021

Indonesian former fisheries minister jailed for bribery in lobster exports

Basten Gokkon 18 Jul 2021
Haze rising from an oil palm plantation and forest in Riau. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler.

‘Technical problems’ holding up enforcement of rulings in Indonesian fire and haze cases, official says

Yoga Eki Saputra 8 Jul 2021

Study warns of impacts of unregulated trade in Indonesian porcupines

Basten Gokkon 30 Jun 2021

In Brazil’s most Indigenous city, prejudice and diversity go hand in hand

Ana Amelia Hamdan 22 Jun 2021
An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

‘Conservation litigation’ tries to put a true price on wildlife crime

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Jun 2021

As U.K. eyes new environmental rules, some firms want to pump the brakes

Ashoka Mukpo 9 Jun 2021

CSI, but for parrots: Study applies criminological tool CRAAVED to wildlife trade

Grace Dungey, Nick Rodway 7 Jun 2021

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Jun 2021

Wildlife trafficking, like everything else, has gone online during COVID-19

Imelda Abano, Leilani Chavez 1 Jun 2021

New bill seeks to end Hong Kong’s days as an illegal wildlife trade hub

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 26 May 2021

Indigenous in Salvador: A struggle for identity in Brazil’s first capital

Alexandre Lyrio 11 May 2021

Indonesian law enforcers call for financial approach to fight illegal logging

Lusia Arumingtyas 6 May 2021
Road in Indonesian Borneo. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

‘I never give up’: Q&A with Chinese environmental lawyer Jingjing Zhang

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 May 2021

A fatal stabbing sends a Gambian fishing village into turmoil over fishmeal

Louise Hunt 29 Apr 2021

Indigenous in São Paulo: Erased by a colonial education curriculum

Jennifer Ann Thomas 28 Apr 2021

‘We are made invisible’: Brazil’s Indigenous on prejudice in the city

Karla Mendes 12 Apr 2021

Frustration over light penalties for coal mine that polluted Indonesian river

Della Syahni 5 Apr 2021

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