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Unchecked illegal trawling pushes Indonesia’s small-scale fishers to the brink

No justice in sight for World Bank project-affected communities in Liberia

Can the Cali Fund provide a rights-based remedy for biopiracy? (commentary)

How ‘waste colonialism’ underpins Asia’s plastic problem (commentary)

I’m boycotting COP29 because local Indigenous action matters more (commentary)

‘Five years and no justice’ as trial over Indigenous forest guardian’s killing faces delays

What Indigenous leaders want from the COP29 U.N. climate conference

Indonesian mother imprisoned for protesting palm oil factory next to school

New abuse allegations hit China ghost ships in Indonesia waters

Carbon markets must recognize Indigenous ‘high forest, low deforestation’ areas (commentary)

What Indigenous leaders want from the COP16 U.N. biodiversity conference

Brazil elects record-high number of Indigenous mayors, vice mayors & councilors

Ahead of COP16, groups warn of rights abuses linked to ‘30×30’ goal

In the DRC, a government commission is taking funds owed to people relocated by mines

Colombia’s coca substitution program failing to help farmers or slow deforestation

Advocacy group links Uganda oil infrastructure to human-elephant conflict

Sundarbans fisherfolk are battered by cyclones amid fishing bans

Investigation confirms more abuses on Cameroon, Sierra Leone Socfin plantations

Revealed: Illegal cattle ranching booms in Arariboia territory during deadly year for Indigenous Guajajara

Caught in the net: Unchecked shrimp farming transforms India’s Sundarbans

UNESCO accused of supporting human rights abuses in African parks

Activists decry latest arrests of East African oil pipeline opponents

Report: Illegal fishing and labor abuse rampant in China’s Indian Ocean fleet

How real action on environmental justice comes from Latin America’s community alliances (commentary)

Indigenous communities make clean energy drive work for, not against, them

Mongabay video screening at Chile’s Supreme Court expected to help landmark verdict in Brazil

Marshallese worries span decades — first nuclear tests, now sea-level rise

Mongabay investigation is turned into art for World Press Freedom Day event

To renew or not to renew? African nations reconsider EU fishing deals

As miner quells protests in Ecuador, Canadian firms’ rights record faces scrutiny

Environmental defenders paid the price during Panama’s historic mining protests – report

Impunity and pollution abound in DRC mining along the road to the energy transition

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