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Chun Seiha demonstrates the forest loss across Chi Ouk Boeung Prey, where almost all the large, valuable trees have been logged by Santana Agro. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Cambodian companies tied to abuses promoted by UN program, rights group alleges

Gerald Flynn 5 Jun 2024
Farmers burning cleared forest land after harvesting. Photo courtesy of Buu Nguyen.

Can Vietnam’s forests survive the spread of acacia and eucalyptus plantations? (commentary)

Buu Nguyen 4 Jun 2024

Indonesian palm oil firm clashes with villagers it allegedly shortchanged

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Jun 2024
Keo Vannob returns from fishing to his home in Botum Sakor National Park. Screenshot from ‘Illegal fishing and land grabs push Cambodian coastal communities to the brink’ by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Fishers left with no land, no fish, in fire sale of Cambodian coast

Andy Ball, Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 4 Jun 2024
20/20 Catalysts, an intensive Indigenous clean energy capacity-building program, at the Nanticoke Solar Project in Six Nations of the Grand River in the summer of 2022.

Indigenous communities make clean energy drive work for, not against, them

Sarah Sax 3 Jun 2024
Giant kapok tree in Panama. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

How real action on environmental justice comes from Latin America’s community alliances (commentary)

Eliana Lafone 2 Jun 2024
Tigers in Nepal. Photo credit: DNPWC/NTNC/Panthera/WWF/ZSL

Fear and hardship for the last community inside Chitwan, Nepal’s tiger central  

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Jun 2024

Narco activity takes heavy toll on Colombia’s protected forests, satellite data show

Morgan Erickson-Davis 31 May 2024

To wipe or to wash? That is the question

Abhishyant Kidangoor, Sandy Watt 31 May 2024
Fish catch, Thailand

Thai plan to relax fishing law stokes fear of return to illegal catches, worker abuse

Carolyn Cowan 31 May 2024

Scientists and farmers restore Aztec-era floating farms that house axolotls

Aminetth Sánchez 31 May 2024
A middle-aged man in a dark gray shirt lifts an armload of water hyacinth. Image by Abd Almajed Alkarh for Mongabay.

From Egypt to Syria, ‘water cancer’ chokes waterways

Abd Almajed Alkarh, Lyse Mauvais 30 May 2024

An ancestral solution ensures water for Peruvian alpaca farmers, but is it enough?

Elizabeth Salazar Vega 30 May 2024

Nepal court rules protected areas and forests off-limits for land distribution

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 May 2024
Sumatran elephants in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler

Analysis: Michelin’s no-deforestation claims in Indonesia rubber plantation a stretch

Stefano Valentino 30 May 2024
Fire fighters cooling burnt peatlands.

Floods set to worsen on Sumatra peat as landscape gives way

Suryadi 30 May 2024

In a village divided, farmers stall massive copper mine in Colombian Andes

Austin Landis 29 May 2024
Extensive cattle ranch Estância Bahia, in Água Boa, Mato Grosso state.

New bill to expand farmlands in the Amazon may derail Brazil’s green efforts

Fernanda Wenzel 29 May 2024

Sustainability in the extractive industries is a paradox

Timothy J. Killeen 29 May 2024

Yucatán Peninsula’s hidden underground life tracks changes at the surface

Astrid Arellano 29 May 2024
On May 29, 2024, five Mother Nature Cambodia activists stood trial on charges of plotting and insulting the king. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Trial begins for Mother Nature Cambodia activists on conspiracy charge

Gerald Flynn 29 May 2024

Honduran environmental defenders hit hard by human rights crisis, report says

Maxwell Radwin 28 May 2024

Pressure grows on banks to end business with Indonesian coal giant Adaro

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 May 2024

Ecuador’s Los Lobos narcotrafficking gang muscles in on illegal gold mining

Arturo Torres, Dan Collyns 28 May 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

What’s at stake for the environment in Mexico’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 27 May 2024
Baby bonga shad (Ethmalosa fimbriata).

As catches fall, Sierra Leone’s artisanal fishers turn to destructive practices

Josef Skrdlik 27 May 2024
Tropical forest in Panama. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Cutting forests for solar energy ‘misses the plot’ on climate action (commentary)

Judith D. Schwartz 24 May 2024
Aerial view of unpaved roads dividing a soy monoculture from the native Cerrado, in the region of Ribeiro Gonçalves, Piauí, Brazil. Image courtesy of Adriano Gambarini/WWF-Brazil.

In Brazil’s Cerrado, aquifers are losing more water than they can replace

Kevin Damasio 24 May 2024

Collective effort monitors Amazon wildlife in heavily logged Brazil state

Beatriz Santomauro 24 May 2024
The James's flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi)

Green credentials of electric vehicles come under fire

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 23 May 2024
A yellowfin tuna.

No mercy for overfished yellowfin tuna at Indian Ocean fisheries meeting

Francesco De Augustinis 23 May 2024

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