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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Jul 2020
Vladimir Plahotniuc and Asif Chaudhry shake hands at a meeting with the Atlantic Council in 2018.

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

Jack Davies 14 Apr 2020

Peru uncovers organized crime network laundering illegally mined gold

Yvette Sierra Praeli 23 Mar 2020

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

Jack Davies, Liuba Sevciuk 4 Mar 2020

Rhino poaching in South Africa declines for fifth straight year

Mongabay.com 7 Feb 2020
Inspecting a confiscated truck belonging to illegal loggers. Image courtesy Peace Parks Foundation.

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

Fred Kockott 19 Nov 2019

Finally, Latin America is tackling wildlife trafficking (commentary)

Susan Lieberman 2 Oct 2019

Indonesian officials foil attempt to smuggle hornbill casques to Hong Kong

Basten Gokkon 18 Jul 2019
2018 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Francia Márquez. Image courtesy Goldman Environmental Prize.

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

Taran Volckhausen 9 May 2019

Indonesia arrests 7 for allegedly selling Komodo dragons over Facebook

Basten Gokkon 5 Apr 2019

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

Basten Gokkon 6 Jan 2019
Ankarana sportive lemur (Lepilemur ankaranensis), an endangered species whose habitat is threatened by rosewood logging. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

CITES rejects another Madagascar plan to sell illegal rosewood stockpiles

Edward Carver 24 Oct 2018
Pardalis chameleon (Furcifer pardalis), a resident of the Masoala Peninsula in northeastern Madagascar, where illegal rosewood logging has taken a heavy toll on forests. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Madagascar proposes paying illegal loggers to audit or buy their rosewood

Rowan Moore Gerety 8 Aug 2018

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

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 21 Jun 2018
Pardalis chameleon (Furcifer pardalis), a resident of the Masoala Peninsula in northeastern Madagascar, where illegal rosewood logging has taken a heavy toll on forests. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Madagascar: Yet another anti-trafficking activist convicted

Edward Carver 19 Jun 2018

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Apr 2018

Cerrado: Agribusiness boomtown; profits for a few, hardships for many

Alicia Prager and Flávia Milhorance 26 Mar 2018

Rhino poaching in South Africa dipped slightly last year, but ‘crisis continues unabated,’ conservationists say

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2018

Indonesia seeks to slap money-laundering label on illegal fishing

Mongabay.com 20 Dec 2017
Red ruffed lemur (Varecia rubra), a species that lives in northeastern Madagascar, where rosewood logging has been severe. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

CITES rejects Madagascar’s bid to sell rosewood and ebony stockpiles

Edward Carver 12 Dec 2017

Indonesia to kick off 10-year plan to save critically endangered helmeted hornbill

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Nov 2017
Franco Rajaonarison, a guide, shows a rosewood stump in Marojejy National Park. Photo by Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor for Mongabay.

Madagascar petitions CITES to sell millions in stolen rosewood

Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor 13 Nov 2017
A fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox), a species that lives in Marojejy National Park, which was ground zero for Madagascar’s rosewood logging crisis in 2009. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Logjam: Inside Madagascar’s illegal-rosewood stockpiles

Rowan Moore Gerety 8 Nov 2017

Another Madagascar environmental activist imprisoned

Edward Carver 20 Oct 2017

‘Then they shot me’: Land conflict and murder in Ucayali, Peru

Yvette Sierra Praeli 12 Oct 2017
Ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Anti-trafficking activist held without trial in Madagascar

Fabienne Rafidiharinirina 8 May 2017

Illegal logging shows little sign of slowing

Morgan Erickson-Davis 30 Dec 2016
La Danta pyramid in the Mayan city of Mirador, as seen from a distance. Photo by Ronyrocael/Wikimedia Commons.

Controversial park plans in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve

Sandra Cuffe 17 Jun 2016
Marta Álvarez inspects xate palm fronds harvested in the Uaxactún community forest concession. Photo by Sandra Cuffe.

Communities lead the way in rainforest conservation in Guatemala

Sandra Cuffe 9 Jun 2016

Environmental crime reaches new record of $258b, report finds

Daniel Pye 8 Jun 2016

Successes and many challenges in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve

Sandra Cuffe 2 Jun 2016

Battling India’s Sand Barons

Sibi Arasu 11 May 2016

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