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A thin elderly man, the open neck of hard-worn brown t-shirt exposing bones in his chest, looks at the camera, the trunk of a palm tree, dried fronds, and simple houses with rusting corrugated iron roofs in the background. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

World Bank’s IFC under fire over alleged abuses at Liberian plantation it funded

Victoria Schneider 4 Apr 2024

Locals slam Zimbabwe for turning a blind eye to Chinese miner’s violations

Tatenda Chitagu 1 Apr 2024

Maydany Salcedo: the environmental defender who catches the ire of armed groups

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 1 Apr 2024
Véronique Sekuka, a Baka woman who was evicted from what is now Odzala-Kokoua National Park.

African Parks vows to investigate allegations of abuse at Congolese park

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Feb 2024

From murder to mining, threats abound in Colombian Amazon Indigenous reserves

Dora Montero 5 Feb 2024
A framed photo of Ari Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau

Grassroots efforts and an Emmy-winning film help Indigenous fight in Brazil

Sarah Brown 29 Jan 2024
Pandang on the road, going to the river.

Jokowi’s land reform agenda stalls as conflicts nearly double, report shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Jan 2024
Yuly Velásquez, an environmental defender from Barrancabermeja.

Courage & calm despite attacks: Q&A with Colombian activist Yuly Velásquez

Aimee Gabay 19 Jan 2024
A Kawahiva indigenous man fleetingly caught on film.

Promise of full demarcation for isolated Amazon tribe rings hollow for some

Aimee Gabay 11 Jan 2024
A logger carries his chainsaw through the forest of the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia. He will sell the timber to garment factories.

Shrinking civil space and persistent logging: 2023 in review in Southeast Asia

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 28 Dec 2023
Activists protesting at Glencore's coal mining site in Cerrejón, Colombia.

Reports allege abuses by Glencore in Peru and Colombia, and the banks funding them

Aimee Gabay 27 Dec 2023
Peter Nagul sit on the rubble that used to be his house.

Violent evictions are latest ordeal for Kenya’s Ogiek seeking land rights

Anthony Langat 20 Dec 2023

‘The police are watching’: In Mekong countries, eco defenders face rising risks

Hướng Thiện 18 Dec 2023

Colombian Amazon park rangers face violence, threats by illegal armed groups

David Tarazona 12 Dec 2023
Portrait of Quinto Inuma. Image courtesy of Quinto Inuma.

Safety of Peru’s land defenders in question after killing of Indigenous leader in the Amazon

Geraldine Santos, Gloria Alvitres 7 Dec 2023
Indigenous forest guardians Laércio Guajajara and Paulo Paulino Guajajara.

End of impunity for Indigenous killings in sight for Brazil’s Guajajara

Karla Mendes 20 Nov 2023
Olivier Ndoole Bahemuke

‘We won’t give up’: DRC’s Front Line Defenders award winner Olivier Ndoole Bahemuke

Elodie Toto 17 Nov 2023
Ogiek recovering belongings from a house demolished by Kenya Forest Service officers. Image courtesy OPDP.

Kenyan government again evicts Ogiek communities from Mau Forest

Caroline Chebet 8 Nov 2023

Indonesian police slammed after protester demanding rightful land is shot dead

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Oct 2023
An uncontacted Indigenous community in Acre, Brazil.

New online map tracks threats to uncontacted Indigenous peoples in Brazil’s Amazon

Sarah Brown 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
Volunteer teacher Chad Booc. Image by Chad Booc's via Facebook.

Who were the 11 Philippines environmental defenders killed in 2022?

Keith Anthony Fabro 21 Sep 2023

Video: Five Tembé Indigenous activists shot in Amazonian ‘palm oil war’

Karla Mendes 11 Aug 2023
Indigenous activists demand justice after five from their communities were shot.

Indigenous activists demand justice after 5 shot in Amazonian ‘palm oil war’

Karla Mendes 9 Aug 2023

Killing of U.S. biologist adds to rising violence against scientists in Mexico

Astrid Arellano 4 Aug 2023
Close shot of the face of a white-thighed colobus (Colobus vellerosus) with characteristic black face and white ruff, framed by green leaves in a forest at Brong Ahafo, Ghana. Image by César María Aguilar Gómez via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC)

Element Africa: Ghanaian communities challenge mining regulation and Shell spills more oil in the Niger Delta

Mongabay 1 Jul 2023
Mining the Seti River.

Climate of fear persists among Nepal’s eco defenders as threats rise

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Jun 2023
A worker in an oil palm plantation.

Alleged torturers roam free as Indonesia struggles to bring charges in palm oil slavery case

Mongabay.com 21 Jun 2023
Manoka, Cameroon: solitary fisher with a fish in their right hand, stepping away from three canoes beached on a shimmering mudflat, to a concrete jetty in the bottom right. Image by Christophe Nyemeck Beat

Element Africa: offshore oil threatens fisheries, gold mining topples homes and forests

Mongabay.com 15 Jun 2023
More than 5,000 Indigenous peoples participated in the 2023 Acampamento Terra Livre (ATL) march in Brasilia on April 26, demanding the demarcation of Indigenous territories and the end of violence against Indigenous peoples. Image by Maiara Dourado / CIMI.

Indigenous groups turn to Brazil’s highest court to stop police violence

Aimee Gabay 9 Jun 2023
Lúcio Tembé, chief of the Turé-Mariquita village in Tomé-Açu, northeastern Pará.

Indigenous chief shot in head in Brazil’s ‘palm oil war’ region; crisis group launched

Karla Mendes 16 May 2023
Ceremony in homage to those assassinated during the national strike of June 2022.

Latin America had the most attacks on environmental defenders in 2022, says report

Juan Carlos Granados, Pilar Puentes 5 May 2023

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