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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
Katia Silene shows the Brazil nuts.

Divided by mining: Vale’s new rail track fractures an Amazon Indigenous group

Maurício Angelo, Sarah Sax 17 Jul 2023

Drug trafficking fuels other deforestation drivers in the Amazon: report

Maxwell Radwin 14 Jul 2023
A man drives a koy-yun loaded with logs through Choam village in Kampong Speu province, Cambodia. Credit: Andy Ball/Mongabay.

Forests in the furnace: Cambodians risking life and liberty to fuel garment factories

Gerald Flynn, Andy Ball 13 Jul 2023
A Cambodian man rides a minivan loaded with timber destined for a garment factory.

Forests in the furnace: Cambodia’s garment sector is fueled by illegal logging

Gerald Flynn, Andy Ball 11 Jul 2023
The Javari river forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Bill stripping Peru’s isolated Indigenous people of land and protections scrapped

Dimitri Selibas 5 Jul 2023

A standing Amazon Rainforest could create an $8 billion bioeconomy: Study

Sarah Brown 4 Jul 2023
Newly found deep-sea octopus nursery

Deep-sea expedition reveals rare octo-nurseries off Costa Rica

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Jul 2023

As one Brazilian state takes up carbon trading, others may fall for the ‘illusion’

Sarah Brown 27 Jun 2023
At an assembly, the president of the Shuar Arutam People shows banners saying “No to mining.”

Over a third of conflicts over development projects affect Indigenous people: Study

Sandra Cuffe 19 Jun 2023

Indonesia’s Mandalika megaproject still trampling on Indigenous community’s rights: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jun 2023

Venezuela’s environmental crisis is getting worse. Here are seven things to know.

Maxwell Radwin 13 Jun 2023
Fishers in Marshall

Can an app help Liberian artisanal fishers fight illegal fishing?

Edward Blamo 12 Jun 2023
Yanomami Indigenous

Majority of Brazil’s Congress votes to restrict Indigenous land advances

Jenny Gonzales 2 Jun 2023

The counterstrike: Brazilian Congress moves to block Lula’s environmental agenda

André Schröder 1 Jun 2023

Shipibo communities create Indigenous guard to protect Peruvian Amazon from deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 30 May 2023

Agro giants buy grains from farmers fined for using Indigenous land in Brazil

André Campos - Repórter Brasil, Naira Hofmeister, João Peres, Leonardo Fuhrmann 29 May 2023
The Palmer mine site, which has been proposed near Glacier Creek, just below the Saksaia glacier.

Residents of southeast Alaskan town debate mine that’s bound to change region

Evan Bourtis 26 May 2023

World Bank: Brazil faces $317 billion in annual losses to Amazon deforestation

Sarah Brown 19 May 2023

Indonesia’s new capital ‘won’t sacrifice the environment’: Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri

Basten Gokkon 4 May 2023
Coral Reef at Marsa Gozlani site, Sharm el Shekh, Egypt

Global Ocean Census aims to find 100,000 marine species in 10 years

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 May 2023

‘Many features of the Amazon are man-made’: Q&A with archaeologist Eduardo Neves

Peter Speetjens 3 May 2023
It’s early morning and Lun Yi feeds her chicken.

Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation rules

Hanna Hett, Shaurya Kshatri, Megan Wilde, Aastha Sethi 28 Apr 2023

‘I’ll keep fighting’: Indigenous activist and Goldman winner Alessandra Munduruku

Sarah Brown 27 Apr 2023
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Professional services abound for Amazon land grabbers seeking legitimacy

Fernanda Wenzel 25 Apr 2023

‘Don’t buy Brazilian gold’: Q&A with Indigenous leader Júnior Hekurari Yanomami

Sam Cowie 20 Apr 2023

Namibia’s first peoples struggle to access their traditional lands (commentary)

Izzy Sasada 19 Apr 2023
Eduardo Mendúa

Indigenous leader assassinated amid conflict over oil that divided community

Ana Cristina Alvarado 17 Apr 2023

‘They have conned us out of our lands’: Conflict brews in Peru as Mennonite settlers clear forest

Yvette Sierra Praeli 14 Apr 2023

Report sums up Bolsonaro’s destruction legacy and Amazon’s next critical steps

Sarah Brown 11 Apr 2023

To build its ‘green’ capital city, Indonesia runs a road through a biodiverse forest

Basten Gokkon 10 Apr 2023

Indonesian Indigenous group AMAN wins Skoll Award for defending land rights

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Apr 2023

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