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In Sumatra, an indigenous plea to stop a coal road carving up a forest

Elviza Diana 8 Apr 2020

Tax exemptions on pesticides in Brazil add up to US$ 2.2 billion per year

Mariana Della Barba, Diego Junqueira, Pedro Grigori - Agência Pública / Repórter Brasil 1 Apr 2020

‘Unbridled exploitation’: Mining amendments a boon for Indonesia’s coal industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Mar 2020
Artisanal Indonesian fishermen are expected to benefit from the fisheries bill proposed by the ministry. Image courtesy of Ministry of Marine and Fisheries.

Deregulation bill hurts Indonesia’s fishers, coastal communities, experts say

Basten Gokkon 2 Mar 2020

Rangers in Indonesia’s Aceh to get guns as officials flex on violators

Basten Gokkon 16 Jan 2020

Indonesian officials wield sharia law in defense of Sumatran rhinos

Junaidi Hanafiah, Rahmadi Rahmad 10 Jan 2020

As pesticide approvals soar, Brazil’s tapirs, bees, other wildlife suffer

Jenny Gonzales 18 Dec 2019

New regulations to expand protections for seafloor habitats, reopen fishing grounds off US West Coast

Mongabay.com 4 Dec 2019

Indonesia’s new fisheries minister may go easy on trawl nets, poachers’ boats

M Ambari 27 Nov 2019

Tanker identified as possible Brazil oil spill perpetrator

Zoe Sullivan 22 Nov 2019

Madagascar regulator under scrutiny in breach at Rio Tinto-controlled mine

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Nov 2019

Nearly three months after Brazil oil spill, origins remain uncertain

Zoe Sullivan 18 Nov 2019

Ban on destructive fishing practice helps species recovery in Indonesian park

Basten Gokkon 4 Nov 2019

A Sumatran forest community braces for battle against a planned coal mine

Suryadi 29 Oct 2019

Half a billion bees dead as Brazil approves hundreds more pesticides

Pedro Grigori - Agência Pública / Repórter Brasil 23 Aug 2019
Fishers roll out a red purse-seine net in Mangalore, a major fishing harbor in southwest India. Some of the country’s coastal states are beginning to regulate purse seine fishing boats, especially the size of the net mesh to ensure juvenile fish don’t get caught. Image by Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar.

Rattled by sardine stock crash, India begins regulating its fisheries

Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar 11 Jul 2019
Fishermen arrange their gear in Tombo. Many local artisanal fishermen supported the recent one-month closure of Sierra Leone’s waters to fishing by industrial vessels. Image by Uzman Unis Bah for Mongabay.

Was Sierra Leone’s one-month fishing ban enough to replenish fish stocks?

Uzman Unis Bah 3 Jul 2019

Lost in translation: Green regulations backfire without local context

Mongabay.com 3 Jul 2019

A forest beset by oil palms, logging, now contends with a coal-trucking road

Elviza Diana 28 May 2019

Slave labor found at second Starbucks-certified Brazilian coffee farm

Daniel Camargos, from Repórter Brasil 3 May 2019
Artisanal Indonesian fishermen are expected to benefit from the fisheries bill proposed by the ministry. Image courtesy of Ministry of Marine and Fisheries.

For fisheries activists, Indonesian candidates offer little to work with

Basten Gokkon, Jay Fajar, M Ambari 13 Mar 2019

Brazil sees growing wave of anti-indigenous threats, reserve invasions

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 19 Feb 2019

Dam déjà vu: 2 Brazil mining waste disasters in 3 years raise alarms

Zoe Sullivan and Caio de Freitas Paes 11 Feb 2019

EU action plan on tropical deforestation must be beefed up, or it will fail (commentary)

Sam Lawson 8 Feb 2019
The mudslide near Brumadinho via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Dam holding mining waste collapses in Brazil

Mongabay.com 28 Jan 2019

As Brazilian agribusiness booms, family farms feed the nation

Anna Sophie Gross 17 Jan 2019

‘Death by a thousand holes’: Scientists race to avert a salamander crisis

Benji Jones 19 Dec 2018

Cerrado farm community fights for life against dam and eucalyptus growers

Anna Sophie Gross 7 Nov 2018

Protection flip-flop leaves rare Indonesian shrikethrush in harm’s way

Petrus Riski, Rahmadi Rahmad, Themmy Doaly 7 Nov 2018

5 bird species lose protections, more at risk in new Indonesia decree

Basten Gokkon 17 Oct 2018
Planet satellite image of the open pit copper-gold mine on Sumbawa.

Indonesian province calls time-out on mining

Ebed de Rosary 19 Sep 2018
Newmont Mining Corporation's open pit copper-gold mine in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Indonesian mine watchdog sues government for concession maps

Indra Nugraha 13 Sep 2018

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