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Indigenous leaders killed as narco airstrips cut into their Amazon territories

Mongabay Latam 25 Nov 2024

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

Karla Mendes 13 Nov 2024
Carlos’ fellow guardians carry his coffin

The underreported killing of Colombia’s Indigenous land guardian, ‘The Wolf’ (Photos)

Tony Kirby, Anna Abraham, Cesar Quiroz 7 Nov 2024

In Colombia, guerrilla groups decide the fate of the Amazon

Maxwell Radwin 31 Oct 2024
Ouk Mao showed reporters timber cut from the Phnom Chum Rok Sat community forest by loggers working for Lin Vatey. Image by Nehru Pry / Mongabay

Reporter who revealed deforestation in Cambodia now charged with deforestation

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 27 Sep 2024

Police murder Guarani man as Brazil struggles with Indigenous land demarcation

Maxwell Radwin 26 Sep 2024
Endorois and Ogiek Peoples of Kenya in a peaceful procession to demand for their land rights in Feb., 2024.

Indigenous peoples won in court — but in practice, they face a different reality

Aimee Gabay 20 Sep 2024

Community forest or corporate fortune? How public land became a mine in Cambodia

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Sep 2024
An Indigenous group in a boat in the Ucayali River.

Report links killings to environmental crimes in Peru’s Amazon

Aimee Gabay 12 Sep 2024
Banner image: Photos of human rights lawyer Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca, who disappeared last year in Mexico. Photo by Luis Rojas via Global Witness.

Why is violence against environmental defenders getting worse? Five things to know

Maxwell Radwin 11 Sep 2024
Having already picked Phnom Chum Rok Sat community forest clean of large, valuable trees, loggers working for Lin Vatey now appear to be clear-cutting what remains of the forest. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay

Mining company tied to Cambodian military officials grabs community forest

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 5 Sep 2024
Isolated Indigenous Mashco Piro men and boys on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon. Image courtesy of Survival International.

Peruvian logger loses FSC label after latest clash with isolated Mashco Piro

Dan Collyns 4 Sep 2024
A Nicobar pigeon, found in Vietnam.

In Vietnam, environmental defense is increasingly a crime

Hướng Thiện 3 Sep 2024

Mexican fishing industry rep killed after denouncing illegal fishing

Maxwell Radwin 5 Aug 2024
Commercial coal shipping in Vietnam.

Vietnam sentences yet another energy expert over renewables research

Mongabay.com 2 Aug 2024
Phuon Keorasmey, 23, a prominent figure in Mother Nature Cambodia, is arrested on July 2, 2024. Image courtesy of Licadho.

Mother Nature Cambodia activists sentenced to prison — again

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 2 Jul 2024
Protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline on Oct. 25, 2016.

Environmental protests under attack: Interview with UN special rapporteur Michel Forst

Peter Speetjens 24 Jun 2024
Preparation towards graduating boys into Maasai warriors in Simanjiro District.

Forced evictions suppress Maasai spirituality & sacred spaces in Tanzania

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 22 Jun 2024

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

Karla Mendes 19 Jun 2024

UNESCO accused of supporting human rights abuses in African parks

Aimee Gabay 17 Jun 2024
Ilham Mahmudi

Unrest and arrests in Sumatra as community fights to protect mangroves

Ayat S. Karokaro 5 Jun 2024
Giant kapok tree in Panama. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

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

Eliana Lafone 2 Jun 2024

Narco activity takes heavy toll on Colombia’s protected forests, satellite data show

Morgan Erickson-Davis 31 May 2024
Indigenous leader Paulo Paulino Guajajara shows a bullet shell in 2019.

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

Karla Mendes 31 May 2024

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

Maxwell Radwin 14 May 2024
An Iranian cheetah.

Final cheetah conservationists freed in Iran, but the big cat’s outlook remains grim

Kayleigh Long 13 May 2024
Indigenous farmer in Cambodia

Rights groups call for greater public input in ASEAN environmental rights framework

Carolyn Cowan 8 May 2024

Apologies aren’t enough, Indigenous people say of Brazil dictatorship’s crimes

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Apr 2024

Etelvina Ramos: From coca farmer to opponent of the illegal crop

Diana María Pachón 26 Apr 2024
A stone quarry in Bangladesh's Sylhet District.

Forest officer’s killing highlights Bangladesh authorities’ waning power

Rafiqul Islam 24 Apr 2024
A man is surrounded by tear gas thrown by police during a Maasai rights demonstration outside the Tanzanian high commission in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, on June 17, 2022. Ben Curtis / AP Photo

UN puts spotlight on attacks against Indigenous land defenders

Sarah Sax 18 Apr 2024
Alis Ramírez: The defender of the Colombian Amazon now living as a refugee in New Zealand

Alis Ramírez: A defender of the Colombian Amazon now living as a refugee in New Zealand

Laila Abu Shihab Vergara 8 Apr 2024

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