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For sustainable global fisheries, watchdogs focus on onshore beneficial owners

Lockdowns didn’t stop 2020 being deadliest year yet for earth defenders

Unregulated by U.S. at home, Facebook boosts wildlife trafficking abroad

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

In the Honduran Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, an illegal road for cattle and drugs

Indonesian omnibus law’s ‘whitewash’ of illegal palm oil shocks its architects

Exposing organized crime in the Amazon: Q&A with Robert Muggah of the Igarapé Institute

Legal failings leave illegal loggers unpunished and certified in Indonesia

Video: Romania’s deadly fight against illegal logging

Colombian environmental official assassinated in southern Meta department

New paper highlights spread of organized crime from global fisheries

Understaffed and under threat: Paraguay’s park rangers pay the ultimate price

Forest crimes persist in Peru following Indigenous leader’s murder

No choice: Why communities in Paraguay are cutting down forests to survive

Marijuana farms expand in Paraguay reserve despite gov’t crackdowns

Protected areas in Paraguay hit hard by illegal marijuana farming

Drug trafficking could be putting ‘fragile fisheries’ at risk, study says

Former U.S. envoy under scrutiny for links to sanctioned Moldovan oligarch, land baron

Peru uncovers organized crime network laundering illegally mined gold

Fields of Gold: Commodities kingpin leaves a troubling legacy in Moldova

Rhino poaching in South Africa declines for fifth straight year

Mozambique’s newly empowered rangers, courts catch up with poachers, loggers

Finally, Latin America is tackling wildlife trafficking (commentary)

Indonesian officials foil attempt to smuggle hornbill casques to Hong Kong

Goldman Prize winner survives armed attack on Afro-Colombian social leaders

Indonesia arrests 7 for allegedly selling Komodo dragons over Facebook

‘Everything’s moving’: Indonesia seeks global pushback on illegal fishing

CITES rejects another Madagascar plan to sell illegal rosewood stockpiles

Madagascar proposes paying illegal loggers to audit or buy their rosewood

Abdon Nababan: ‘North Sumatran land mafia offered me $21m to win election — and then hand over control of government’

Madagascar: Yet another anti-trafficking activist convicted

Activists fear for environmental protection under Indonesia’s revised Criminal Code

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