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Tuna and bycatch on a purse seiner in East Pacific Ocean.

Report: Half of MSC-certified ‘sustainable’ tuna caught with controversial gear

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Oct 2023

Lula partially blocks anti-Indigenous land rights bill, but trouble isn’t over

Sarah Brown 24 Oct 2023
Adélard Makonga at the Gécamines mining site.

Mine in ‘world cobalt capital’ displaces locals and monks under questionable circumstances

Didier Makal, Eric Cibamba 23 Oct 2023
Moreangels Mbizah, founder of Wildlife Conservation Action, speaking during Fellows Session at TED Talks 2019: Bigger Than Us in Canada.

African NGOs seek more funds, trust, and autonomy in global partnerships

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Oct 2023
An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

Deforestation surges in hotspot of critically endangered Bornean orangutans

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Oct 2023
Yanomami Indigenous

Study: Despite armed conflicts, Indigenous lands have better environment quality

Spoorthy Raman 19 Oct 2023

Brazil strikes intruders of Amazon’s most deforested Indigenous land

Sarah Brown 11 Oct 2023

Indonesian police slammed after protester demanding rightful land is shot dead

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Oct 2023

Amazon drought cuts river traffic, leaves communities without water and supplies

André Schröder 3 Oct 2023
A herd of Asiatic elephants in Assam.

Video: Rice as a peace offering in India’s human-elephant conflict capital

Biswajit Das, Mongabay.com 27 Sep 2023
Tractor and trailer with oil palm seedlings on a Wilmar plantation in Cross River state, Nigeria. Image by Rettet van Regenwald via Flickr (CC BY--NC-ND 2.0)

10 years after land grab, local Nigerian farmers continue fight against palm oil producer

Orji Sunday 22 Sep 2023

Brazil Supreme Court quashes time frame proposal in win for Indigenous rights

Sarah Brown 22 Sep 2023
Cattle in Pará state.

EU bill and new green policies spur progress on Brazil’s cattle tracking

André Schröder 21 Sep 2023

Investors over islanders as Indonesia uses force to push development project

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Sep 2023
Cattle grazing in the Amazon.

Meatpacking giant and Amazon deforester JBS bid for NYSE listing challenged

Shanna Hanbury 20 Sep 2023
“We sow our plants and when the time of flowering comes, the drought dries them up and they die,” says Mariano from rural Indigenous Guatemala.

Indigenous peoples undersupported on frontline of hotter, drier, fiery world

Jeremy Hance 13 Sep 2023
Fetiya Ousman on a patrol.

Balancing elephant conservation and community needs: Q&A with award-winning ranger Fetiya Ousman

Solomon Yimer 8 Sep 2023

In Panama, an Indigenous kingdom fights for its right to the forest

Maxwell Radwin 4 Sep 2023
A rancher herds cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

How the Amazon’s ‘greatest devastator’ sold cattle to a Carrefour supplier 

Marina Rossi, Daniel Camargos, Hyury Potter 29 Aug 2023
Long-tailed macaque. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Skepticism as Cambodia expands protected areas by more than a million hectares

Gerald Flynn 29 Aug 2023
Indigenous mobilization in Brasilia on the Esplanada dos Ministérios against bill 490 and against the time frame for it to be voted on by the court. Image by Cícero Pedrosa Neto/Amazônia Real.

Will Brazil’s Supreme Court rule against Indigenous land rights? (commentary)

Dinamam Tuxá, Suzanne Pelletier 28 Aug 2023
Three pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus).

New concession in Botum Sakor National Park handed to Cambodia’s Royal Group

Gerald Flynn 22 Aug 2023
River in the Western Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

The deceptions of the Amazon Summit in Belém (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 17 Aug 2023
A channel-billed toucan in Yasuní National Park.

Can upcoming referendum in Ecuador stop oil drilling in Yasuní National Park?

Kimberley Brown 11 Aug 2023
A coral reef and fish in the mouth of the Amazon River.

Amazon Summit nations agree on saving rainforest — but not on conservation goals

Sarah Brown 11 Aug 2023

Brazilian authorities launch probe into ‘Amazon’s largest single deforester’

André Schröder 10 Aug 2023
Global map of the oceans including elevation. Image courtesy of Esri.

To protect the oceans, we must map them (commentary)

Dawn Wright 10 Aug 2023
A small-scale fisher from Madagascar.

Madagascar signs new ‘sustainable’ tuna deal with the EU

Edward Carver 7 Aug 2023

Amazon Summit sparks hope for coordinated efforts from the rainforest nations

Sarah Brown 4 Aug 2023
Hawks fly along BR230 in the iTerêrim Marmelos Indigenous Territory in Amazonas. Image by Bruno Kelly/Amazonia Real via Wikimedia Commons (CC 2.0).

In Brazil’s Amazon, a ‘new agricultural frontier’ threatens protected lands

Ana Ionova 27 Jul 2023
The last pocket of forest in Botum Sakor National Park is threatened by new roads, some of which are demarcation boundaries for parcels of forested land that have been awarded to Cambodian senator and tycoon Ly Yong Phat's family. Photo by Gerald Flynn/Mongabay.

Cambodia awards swath of national park forest to tycoon Ly Yong Phat’s son

Gerald Flynn, Meng Kroypunlok 26 Jul 2023
Royal Group's SEZ under construction in Botum Sakor National Park as of May 2023

Cambodian conglomerate sparks conflict in Botum Sakor National Park

Gerald Flynn, Meng Kroypunlok 20 Jul 2023

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