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Fishing vessel. Image courtesy of Nicolas Job / Ocean Image Bank.

Panama conducts large illegal fishing bust in protected Pacific waters

Edward Carver 28 Mar 2025
Cattle grazing in the Amazon.

Probe details the playbook of one of Amazon’s top land grabbers

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Jan 2025

High-flying concessions: Clandestine airstrips, coca crops invade Ucayali’s forests

Mongabay Latam 16 Dec 2024

Narco airstrips beset Indigenous communities in Peruvian Amazon

Mongabay Latam 9 Dec 2024

15 illegal narco-trafficking airstrips found near Peru Indigenous communities

Mongabay Latam 4 Dec 2024
A Maasai looking over Ololosokwan. Image by Benjamin Hindrichs.

How German government funds are used to dispossess Tanzania’s Maasai in Serengeti land grab

Benjamin Hindrichs 29 Nov 2024

The illegal runways exposing the Kakataibo people to drug violence in Peru

Mongabay Latam 29 Nov 2024

More alarms over Indonesia rhino poaching after latest trafficking bust

Donny Iqbal, Nopri Ismi 5 Sep 2024

Luxury hunting firm linked to decades of poaching in Tanzania, whistleblowers say

Mongabay.com 22 Aug 2024

Javan rhino poaching saga reveals serious security lapse

Mongabay-indonesia 2 Aug 2024
Some of the artists with the art installation

Mongabay investigation is turned into art for World Press Freedom Day event

Karla Mendes 27 May 2024

Impunity and pollution abound in DRC mining along the road to the energy transition

Didier Makal 14 May 2024
A cattle ranch in a deforeated area.

A web of front people conceals environmental offenders in the Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 22 Apr 2024

Snack giant PepsiCo sourced palm oil from razed Indigenous land – investigation

Andrew Wasley, Aramís Castro, Elisângela Mendonça 18 Apr 2024

False claims of U.N. backing see Indigenous groups cede forest rights for sketchy finance

Gloria Pallares 4 Jan 2024

In Brazil’s Amazon, a clandestine road threatens a pristine reserve

Ana Ionova 24 Nov 2023

The oil debt: More than 6,000 polluted sites fester across Amazonian countries

Alexa Vélez, Vanessa Romo, Yvette Sierra Praeli 11 Aug 2023

Indonesian illegal shark and ray exports remain rampant amid poor monitoring

Asad Asnawi 8 Aug 2023
A man drives a koy-yun loaded with logs through Choam village in Kampong Speu province, Cambodia. Credit: Andy Ball/Mongabay.

Forests in the furnace: Cambodians risking life and liberty to fuel garment factories

Gerald Flynn & Andy Ball 13 Jul 2023
An aerial view of the 2.25 hectare timber depot at Goldfame Star Enterprises' garment factory in Kandal province, Cambodia. Credit: Andy Ball/Mongabay.

Forests in the furnace: Can fashion brands tackle illegal logging in their Cambodian supply chains?

Gerald Flynn & Andy Ball 12 Jul 2023
A Cambodian man rides a minivan loaded with timber destined for a garment factory.

Forests in the furnace: Cambodia’s garment sector is fueled by illegal logging

Gerald Flynn & Andy Ball 11 Jul 2023
The creeks that loggers reportedly use to access the deeper sections of forest on Koh Kong Krao, Cambodia's largest island.

License to Log: Cambodian military facilitates logging on Koh Kong Krao and across the Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn 6 Jun 2023
Huge logs are delivered daily to the Koh Kong provincial prison in Cambodia

Forest behind bars: Logging network operating out of Cambodian prison in the Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn 26 May 2023
A Quilombolas man lights candles in the cemetery.

RSPO suspension of Brazil palm oil exporter tied to Mongabay land-grabbing report

Karla Mendes 29 Mar 2023
Cows in Terra do Meio Ecological Station.

In Brazil, criminals dismantle one of the best-preserved swaths of the Amazon

Ana Ionova 23 Feb 2023
Researcher Elielson Pereira da Silva and Quilombola people sit waiting for a canoe.

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

Karla Mendes 28 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
The Long Xing 621, one of DOF’s boats, hauls up a shark.

Dalian Ocean Fishing, subject of Mongabay probe, now sanctioned by U.S.

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Dec 2022
A member of an indigenous community in Putumayo watches over his community’s territory. Photo courtesy of Michelle Carrere.

As gangs battle over Peru’s drug trafficking routes, communities and forest are at risk

Michelle Carrere 8 Nov 2022
A deckhand on the Long Xing 626 in DOF’s Atlantic fleet displays what experts who reviewed the image identified as a blue shark (Prionace glauca) in this photo posted to Facebook. The animal on the ground is a leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea).

Exclusive: Shark finning rampant across Chinese tuna firm’s fleet

Philip Jacobson and Basten Gokkon 1 Nov 2022
Panama restricts information on sanctioned boats, evading transparency

Panama restricts information on sanctioned boats, evading transparency

Mary Triny Zea, Michelle Carrere 14 Oct 2022

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