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Fate of Indonesian rainforest the size of Belgium hangs in the balance (commentary)

Sam Lawson 17 Mar 2022

Brazil Congress fast-tracks ‘death package’ bill to mine on Indigenous lands

Sarah Brown 15 Mar 2022

Civil conflict in Cameroon puts endangered chimpanzees in the crosshairs

Aminateh Nkemngu 15 Mar 2022

Indonesian ex-minister gets sentence cut for ‘good work’ fueled by corruption

Basten Gokkon 10 Mar 2022

Indonesian fishing boat found with banned trawl net highlights enforcement challenges

Yogi Eka Sahputra 9 Mar 2022

Campaigners against dog meat trade take on one Indonesian city at a time

Eko Widianto 7 Mar 2022

Cold case: Half-hearted prosecution lets ivory traffickers escape in Uganda

Mongabay 4 Mar 2022
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Thai authorities demolish resorts in parks, but struggle to prosecute encroachers

Kannikar Petchkaew 3 Mar 2022

In a biodiversity haven, mining drives highest ever recorded levels of mercury

John Cannon 28 Feb 2022

Latest Nigeria oil spill highlights ‘wretched’ state of the industry

Mongabay 24 Feb 2022

Palm oil firm hit by mass permit revocation still clearing forest in Indonesia

Asrida Elisabeth, Philip Jacobson 22 Feb 2022

When Indonesia retook land from developers, it gave them a solid case to sue

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Feb 2022

ReconAfrica pushes ahead with Namibia oil exploration amid claims of violations

Victoria Schneider 17 Feb 2022

A mayor in the Philippines took on a mine, and lost her job over it

Keith Anthony Fabro 11 Feb 2022

In Indonesia, a ‘devious’ policy silences opposition to mining, activists say

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Feb 2022
Netty Joyce Mukanganise tends her tobacco-curing barn. Image by Tonderayi Mukeredzi for Mongabay.

Zimbabwe’s forests go up in smoke to feed its tobacco habit

Tonderayi Mukeredzi 3 Feb 2022

Vietnam’s timber legality program not making a dent in risky wood imports

Carolyn Cowan 2 Feb 2022

Links between terrorism and the ivory trade overblown, study says

Ashoka Mukpo 1 Feb 2022

Indonesia, Malaysia to hold joint patrols against illegal fishing

M Ambari 1 Feb 2022

Raid against Sumatran official uncovers use of slave labor on oil palm farm

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Jan 2022

Spurred by investor-friendly law, palm oil firms sue to get licenses back

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Jan 2022

Philippine groups slam ‘cruel Christmas gift’ as open-pit mining ban is lifted

Bong S. Sarmiento 11 Jan 2022

More trees means healthier bees, new study on air pollution shows

Luís Patriani 3 Jan 2022

Changes to Madagascar’s trawling sector raise questions and hopes

Edward Carver 29 Dec 2021

Madagascar’s small fishers cheer new trawl-free zone, but do trawlers obey it?

Edward Carver 28 Dec 2021

To end illegal deforestation, Brazil may legalize it entirely, experts warn

Meghie Rodrigues 20 Dec 2021

Want a wild bird on the hush-hush in Singapore? There’s a Facebook group for that

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 20 Dec 2021

Madagascar gemstone rush puts a wetland and its community under pressure

Rivonala Razafison 14 Dec 2021

For Mekong officials fighting timber traffickers, a chance to level up

John Cannon 13 Dec 2021

Papua court ruling a win for local government, Indigenous groups against palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Dec 2021

Criminal indictment obscures the reality of extractives contamination (commentary)

Suzana Sawyer and Lindsay Ofrias 6 Dec 2021
Seized sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita eleonora) in East Java, Indonesia.

Indonesia ranks high on legal wildlife trade, but experts warn it masks illegal trade

Basten Gokkon 3 Dec 2021

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