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Nguy Thi Khanh.

Early release for imprisoned climate activist as Vietnam aims for net zero goals

Mongabay.com 24 May 2023

Congo Basin communities left out by ‘fortress conservation’ fight for a way back in

Mike DiGirolamo 16 May 2023
Aerial image of Tinipak River.

‘It gives life’: Philippine tribe fights to save a sacred river from a dam

Keith Anthony Fabro 9 May 2023
Nevada lithium battery

Scramble for clean energy metals confronted by activist calls to respect Indigenous rights

Sarah Sax 21 Apr 2023
Eduardo Mendúa

Indigenous leader assassinated amid conflict over oil that divided community

Ana Cristina Alvarado 17 Apr 2023

Element Africa: Gold in Ghana, oil in Nigeria, and fracking in South Africa

Mongabay.com 5 Apr 2023
Chief Patiburi Pataxó stands on the beach of the reclaimed Quero-Ver community.

Indigenous Pataxó demand land demarcation amid rising violence and murders

Sarah Sax and Hanna Wallis 31 Mar 2023
Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia.

Robust river governance key to restoring Mekong River vitality in face of dams

Carolyn Cowan 30 Mar 2023
A cobalt mine in central Africa.

Will clean-energy minerals provoke a shift in how mining is done in Africa?

Malavika Vyawahare 30 Mar 2023
Fishers pull in nets on Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia

As hydropower dams quell the Mekong’s life force, what are the costs?

Carolyn Cowan 29 Mar 2023
A worker sorts through harvested oil palm.

How do oil palm companies get away with disregarding Indonesian law? (commentary)

Tania Li 29 Mar 2023

Brazil’s Indigenous groups demand a voice in new soybean railway project

Elizabeth Oliveira 7 Mar 2023
Yellowfin tuna. Image by Ellen Cuylaerts / Ocean Image Bank.

Fishing industry transparency is key for a thriving ocean (commentary)

Steve Trent 3 Mar 2023
Duyen walks between shrimp farms.

As livelihoods clash with development, Vietnam’s Cần Giờ mangroves are at risk

Lam Nguyen, Danielle Keeton-Olsen 28 Feb 2023
Members of the Mulambwane community under a baobab tree.

Element Africa: The platinum ‘bully’ and the secret oil deal

Mongabay.com 21 Feb 2023
Frozen albacore tuna on a fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean.

U.S. grocery chains flunk sustainability, human rights tests for tuna sourcing

Monica Evans 21 Feb 2023
A Siamese fireback.

Vietnam’s environmental NGOs face uncertain status, shrinking civic space

Hướng Thiện 13 Feb 2023
People protesting against fossil fuels and related pollution in Africa.

Element Africa: A lawsuit over oil, deaths over mining, and worries over lithium

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2023
Célia Xakriabá.

‘If Brazil starts with us, why did we arrive last?’: Q&A with Indigenous lawmaker Célia Xakriabá

Karla Mendes 8 Feb 2023
Joenia Wapichana.

Joenia Wapichana: ‘I want to see the Yanomami and Raposa Serra do Sol territories free of invasions’

Karla Mendes 1 Feb 2023
The dilapidated home of Ambroise Ondoa, local leader from Nkol-Bifouan, damaged by vibrations from the Febe village quarry. Image © Yannick Kenné.

Tense neighbors: Chinese quarry in Cameroon takes a toll on locals

Yannick Kenné 24 Jan 2023

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

Kimberley Brown 19 Jan 2023
Village Headman Kawale.

Australian niobium mining project instills 16 years of anxiety for Malawi communities

Charles Mpaka 18 Jan 2023
An elephant in Kui Buri National Park.

Corruption scandal in Thai parks agency has far-reaching impacts, activists say

Kannikar Petchkaew 17 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

Dammed, now mined: Indigenous Brazilians fight for the Xingu River’s future

Andrew Johnson 12 Jan 2023

Weakening of agrarian reform program increases violence against settlers in Brazilian Amazon

Andrew Johnson 10 Jan 2023
‘Funai is ours’: Officers, Indigenous people ‘retake’ agency under President Lula

‘Funai is ours’: Brazil’s Indigenous affairs agency is reclaimed under Lula

Karla Mendes 9 Jan 2023
Acampamento Terra Livre Indigenous protest in Brazil, April 6, 2022. Image by Mídia NINJA Via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Top 10 notable Indigenous stories of 2022

Latoya Abulu 28 Dec 2022
Humberto Sánchez.

Shadows of oil in Peru: Shipibo people denounce damage, contamination left by company

Enrique Vera 26 Dec 2022
The Long Xing 621, one of DOF’s boats, hauls up a shark.

Dalian Ocean Fishing, subject of Mongabay probe, now sanctioned by U.S.

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Dec 2022

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