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Laurensius Asia, a member of the cooperative in Teluk Bakung.

Six steps to tackle exploitation in Indonesia’s palm oil smallholder scheme (commentary)

Tom Walker 23 Feb 2023
Mennonites in the municipality of Bacalar.

Indigenous communities in Latin America decry the Mennonites’ expanding land occupation

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo 26 Jan 2023

Violence in Brazil’s Amazon are also crimes against humanity, lawyers tell international court

Kimberley Brown 19 Jan 2023

At a rubber plantation in Liberia, history repeats in a fight over land

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Jan 2023
Broken windows at Brazil's Presidential Palace after terrorist acts on Jan. 8 in Brasília. Image courtesy of Fabio Rodrigues Pozzebom/Agência Brasil.

For Indigenous Brazilians, capital attack was ‘scenario of war’ akin to deforestation

Karla Mendes 13 Jan 2023
Heng Saphen and her daughter, Chan Lay Phiek

No justice for Indigenous community taking on a Cambodian rubber baron

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 7 Dec 2022

Work on cable car line to Indonesian volcano to begin despite concerns

Basten Gokkon 1 Dec 2022
Waikas, Raraima, Brazil September 1st 2022 Robervaldo a young Yek'wana that used to work in a Garimpo. Photographed in his community Waikas near the venezuelian border. Photo © Victor Raison 2022, all rights reserved.

Indigenous youths lured by the illegal mines destroying their Amazon homeland

Victor Raison; Jean-Mathieu Albertini 30 Nov 2022
Image via ‘Young female fighters in African wars: conflict and its consequences’ by Chris Coulter, Mariam Persson and Mats Utas / Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2008 via Matchnox Media Collection (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Environmental peacebuilding must pay more attention to armed groups (commentary)

Judith Verweijen 29 Nov 2022
Deramakot forest reserve is a FSC-certified logging concession in Sabah, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

With FSC rule change, deforesters once blocked from certification get a new shot

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Oct 2022
Residents of Port-au-Prince wait outside a store to purchase bottled water.

Haiti: An island nation whose environmental troubles only begin with water

Conrad Fox 28 Sep 2022

‘Brazilians aren’t familiar with the Amazon’: Q&A with Ângela Mendes

Carolina Conti 1 Sep 2022

Crimes against the Amazon reverberate across Brazil, analysis shows

Elizabeth Oliveira 31 Aug 2022

China-backed mine in Indonesia poses high risk, World Bank watchdog warns

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Aug 2022
A young fisherman uses a legal net.

Fisheries crackdown pushes Cambodians to the brink on Tonle Sap lake

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 26 Aug 2022

Sumatra villagers protest iron mine allegedly operating despite stop order

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Aug 2022
Misak women, men and children observe the contrast between the monoculture pine and eucalyptus plantation, on the right, and the natural forest in their territory, on the left, from a distance.

FSC-certified paper plantation faces farmer backlash in Colombia

Natalia Torres Garzón 15 Aug 2022
The Matis people made their first official contact with the outside world at the end of 1970.

Violence persists in Amazon region where Pereira and Phillips were killed

Sarah Brown 2 Aug 2022
Young girls line up at a feeding centre in Mogadishu, Somalia

Climate change amplifies the risk of conflict, study from Africa shows

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Jul 2022
“Guardians of the Forest” Paulo Paulino Guajajara (left) and Laércio Guajajara (right)

Indigenous advocates sense a legal landmark as a guardian’s killing heads to trial

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2022
The nursery at the heart of Minawao nurtures the green shoots of a recovery.

Cameroon’s Nigerian refugees who degraded their camp are now vanguards of reforestation

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 28 Jun 2022
A handful of peanuts.

Book Review: ‘Slaves for Peanuts’ gets to the troubling roots of a beloved snack

Malavika Vyawahare 23 Jun 2022
Portrait of Sarayaku Warmikuna, member of Mujeres Amazónicas (Amazonian Women). The women of the community were the first to be part of the collective known as Amazonian Women. Image courtesy of Esteffany Bravo.

A look at violence and conflict over Indigenous lands in nine Latin American countries

Astrid Arellano, Yvette Sierra Praeli 31 May 2022

U.N., rights groups flag potential violations in $3b Indonesian tourism project

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 May 2022
A young girl carrying one of her goats as they travel home at the end of the day.

Conflict over resources in Kenya hits deadly highs with firearms in play

Kang-Chun Cheng 19 May 2022
A migrant fisherman in Thailand.

Wage-related abuses in fishing industry exacerbated by pandemic response

Annelise Giseburt 12 May 2022
Artisanal miners in Rubaya area, DRC.

Scheme to stop ‘conflict minerals’ fails to end child labor in DRC, report says

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 10 May 2022

More than half of activists killed in 2021 were land, environment defenders

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Apr 2022
Beninese Army soldiers taking part in live fire exercise. But by the end of 2021, a series of attacks on soldiers by militants raised the specter of a long-feared spillover of insurgent violence into northern Benin. Image by Jad Sleiman, U.S. Marine Corps via Wikimedia Commons.

In Benin, the line between conservation and counterinsurgency blurs

Ashoka Mukpo 29 Mar 2022

FSC-certified Moorim Paper linked to massive forest clearing in Indonesia’s Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Mar 2022

Brazil Congress fast-tracks ‘death package’ bill to mine on Indigenous lands

Sarah Brown 15 Mar 2022

Civil conflict in Cameroon puts endangered chimpanzees in the crosshairs

Aminateh Nkemngu 15 Mar 2022

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