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An Iranian cheetah.

Final cheetah conservationists freed in Iran, but the big cat’s outlook remains grim

Kayleigh Long 13 May 2024

Indonesia resumes lobster larvae exports despite sustainability, trade concerns

Basten Gokkon 7 May 2024

No answers for Ghanaian fishery observer’s family months after suspected death

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 2 May 2024
Squared-off blocks of timber, stacked on a flatbed truck fitted with a mechanic loader arm at the Klay Checkpoint, Bomi, Liberia. Image courtesy James Harding Giahyue/The Daylight.

New illegal logging threatens Liberia’s forests amid vague ban

James Giahyue 2 May 2024
A stone quarry in Bangladesh's Sylhet District.

Forest officer’s killing highlights Bangladesh authorities’ waning power

Rafiqul Islam 24 Apr 2024
An uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the Brazilian state of Acre.

Cross-border Indigenous efforts in Peru & Brazil aim to protect isolated groups

Aimee Gabay 18 Apr 2024

As fires ravaged Indonesia in 2023, some positive trends emerged, data show

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Apr 2024
Satellite image of dredging in South China Sea

Island-building and overfishing wreak destruction of South China Sea reefs

Carolyn Cowan 8 Apr 2024

Indonesian court jails environmentalist for flagging illegal farms in marine park

Basten Gokkon 4 Apr 2024
Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

Cambodian official acquitted in trial that exposed monkey-laundering scheme

Gerald Flynn 29 Mar 2024

Indonesian activists face jail over FB posts flagging damage to marine park

Basten Gokkon 25 Mar 2024
A camp in Banamwesi forest for the community monitoring team. Image courtesy of a local source.

Under the shadow of war in the DRC, a mining company acts with impunity

Didier Makal, Latoya Abulu 25 Mar 2024

Madagascar takes key step toward improving transparency of its fisheries

Rivonala Razafison 7 Mar 2024
A juvenile northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina) held in a cage outside a gas station in Cambodia. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Impunity for Cambodia’s exotic pet owners as trade outpaces legislation

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 7 Mar 2024

Indonesia unveils plan to launch a satellite network for maritime monitoring

Basten Gokkon 6 Mar 2024

With drop in illegal fishing comes rise in piracy, study in Indonesia finds

Basten Gokkon 22 Feb 2024

No sea change on marine policy from candidates as Indonesia heads to polls

Basten Gokkon 13 Feb 2024

Report shows Peru failed to stop Amazon deforestation for palm oil and cacao

Dimitri Selibas 8 Feb 2024
Véronique Sekuka, a Baka woman who was evicted from what is now Odzala-Kokoua National Park.

African Parks vows to investigate allegations of abuse at Congolese park

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Feb 2024

Indonesia and Spain sign agreement to protect migrant fishing workers

Basten Gokkon 5 Feb 2024

Indonesian palm oil firm fined for fires sues expert a second time over testimony

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Jan 2024
A lobster larva. Image by Fathul Rakhman/Mongabay-Indonesia.

Indonesia offers lobster larvae exports to Vietnam in exchange for investment

Basten Gokkon 13 Jan 2024
Bottom trawler Ivan Nores

Spain sanctions fishing vessels for illegally ‘going dark’ near Argentine waters

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Jan 2024
Army officers try to extinguish fires in peatland areas in Central Kalimantan.

2023 fires increase fivefold in Indonesia amid El Niño

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2024

Forest restoration planned for Colombia’s Farallones de Cali National Park

Maxwell Radwin 9 Jan 2024
Unregulated gold mining on a river in, Nowshera, Pakistan. Image courtesy of Sabir Hussain.

Illegal gold mining threatens Indus River water and biodiversity in Pakistan (commentary)

Sabir Hussain 9 Jan 2024
A school of hammerhead sharks.

‘Shark dust’ helps researchers ID threatened species in Indonesia fish trade

Cassie Freund 19 Dec 2023

Ecuador court ruling leaves a legal gray area in environmental consultation

Kimberley Brown 18 Dec 2023

Traditional small farmers burned by Indonesia’s war on wildfires

Philip Jacobson | Aseanty Pahlevi | Hans Nicholas Jong | Yusie Marie | M Rahim Arza 14 Dec 2023
Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Peru’s crackdown on illegal gold mining a success, but only briefly, study shows

Dan Collyns 5 Dec 2023

Report shines partial light on worst labor offenders in opaque fishing industry

Edward Carver 21 Nov 2023
A lobster larva. Image by Fathul Rakhman/Mongabay-Indonesia.

Indonesia welcomes new Singapore regulation to help curb lobster smuggling

Basten Gokkon 18 Nov 2023

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