Violence News

RSS
549 stories
Members of the Quilombolas community make their way across.

Video: Stolen Quilombola cemeteries in the Amazon, and the probe that revealed it all

Karla Mendes 20 Dec 2022
Raimundo Serrão lights candles for their departed family members.

Major Brazil palm oil exporter accused of fraud, land-grabbing over Quilombola cemeteries

Karla Mendes 15 Dec 2022

‘Panic’ sets in as armed groups occupy, deforest Colombian national park

Astrid Arellano 12 Dec 2022
Satellite imagery from Planet Labs Inc. captured October 2022 shows several recently cleared areas in the territory of the Indigenous community of Puerto Nuevo.

Indigenous communities in Peru ‘living in fear’ due to deforestation, drug trafficking

Yvette Sierra Praeli 2 Dec 2022
Wide shot of scattered buildings on green hills, a mountain on the horizon. Image by Victoria Schneider for Mongabay.

In South Africa, a community says no after a coal miner said go

Victoria Schneider 28 Nov 2022
A boy playing near Tendele's washing plant: the coal mine has impacted life in the community. Image by Rob Symon via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

‘I have anger every day’: South African villagers on the mine in their midst

Anna Weekes 28 Nov 2022

Indigenous community in Peru losing forests to timber, drug, land trafficking

Yvette Sierra Praeli 21 Nov 2022
Lowland forest

Myanmar communities decry disempowerment as forest guardians since 2021 coup

Carolyn Cowan 17 Nov 2022
A group of Guarani-Kaiowá residents dance and chant.

In Brazil’s soy belt, Indigenous people face attacks over land rights

Ana Ionova 8 Nov 2022

Attorney keeps alive legacy of murdered Pará activists, despite death threats

Elizabeth Oliveira 26 Oct 2022
Okapis (Okapia johnstoni) are related to giraffes. Image in the public domain.

Element Africa: Mines take their toll on nature and communities

Mongabay.com 20 Oct 2022

How an Indigenous family under siege became a symbol of resistance in the Amazon

Elizabeth Oliveira 18 Oct 2022
Tewe Dayuma Michela Conta, one of the girls kidnapped from the Tagaeri and Taromenane territory, speak during the trial. Image courtesy of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

First-ever regional court case involving rights of uncontacted peoples awaits verdict

Kimberley Brown 13 Oct 2022

In Brazil, a heavily fined firm is also accused of waging a ‘palm oil war’ on communities

Karla Mendes 11 Oct 2022
Mangroves in Los Haitises National Park, Dominican Republic. Image by Anton Bielousov via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Mangrove restorers in Haiti bet on resilience amid rising violence

Conrad Fox 29 Sep 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
A mona monkey (Cercopithecus mona), one of the many species that inhabit Stubbs Creek Forest Reserve. Image by AlexisENVN via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

New oil refinery ‘a huge disaster’ for Nigerian forest reserve

Orji Sunday 20 Sep 2022
Indigenous demonstration in Brasília

Indigenous Brazilians demand justice as 4 killed in escalating violence

Karla Mendes 12 Sep 2022
Greenpeace called for FCF to commit to reform sustainable policy of fisheries

Illegal fishing, worker abuse claims leave a bad taste for Bumble Bee Seafood

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 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
A turquoise tanager

Venezuelan Amazon deforestation expands due to lawlessness, mining, fires: Reports

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 31 Aug 2022
Tamandua and Pakyî

Brazil miner sees Indigenous land as ripe for exploration if protections expire

Sydney Bauer 30 Aug 2022
Indigenous Guards from the mountains of Miraflores, Quinchía, department of Risaralda, Colombia. Photo courtesy of Sandra Bejarano Aguirre.

A 13-year fight against gold mining in Colombian community marches on

Maritza Palma Lozano, La Cola de Rata 24 Aug 2022
Hafidh Wanje stands near a creek.

As their land and water turns saline, Kenyan communities take on salt firms

Anthony Langat 18 Aug 2022

Crime and no punishment: Impunity shrouds killings of Indigenous Amazonian defenders

Vanessa Romo, Gloria Alvitres 17 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
Timber is sorted for transport in Uruará in the state of Pará.

Organized crime drives violence and deforestation in the Amazon, study shows

Sarah Brown 1 Aug 2022
Indigenous people from Pará and Amapá

Scientists call for end to violence against Amazon communities, environmental defenders

Sandra Cuffe 15 Jul 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

‘We have advanced, but with much pain’: Q&A with Indigenous leader José Gregorio Díaz Mirabal

Astrid Arellano 8 Jul 2022
Joan Carling, Indigenous rights activist of the Indigenous Peoples' Major Group, speaking at COP26 climate talks Forest in November 2021. Image courtesy of Karwai Tang/ UK Government via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Disappointment and a few wins, Indigenous leaders react to Nairobi biodiversity talks

Laurel Sutherland 1 Jul 2022

you're currently offline