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Fishermen in Robertsport in 2009.

Plan for close season rings alarm bells for Liberia’s artisanal fishers

Edward Blamo 26 Sep 2024
Aerial view of rust-red roofs of the town of Jorkporlorsue in the bottom left, surrounded dark green crowns of rubber trees owned by Socfin's Salala plantation in the rest of the frame. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Troubled rubber plantation in Liberia shuts down after labor unrest

Ashoka Mukpo 25 Jul 2024
a western chimpanzee in a tree

Setback for Guinea mine that threatens World Heritage chimp reserve

Ashoka Mukpo 15 May 2024
Squared-off blocks of timber, stacked on a flatbed truck fitted with a mechanic loader arm at the Klay Checkpoint, Bomi, Liberia. Image courtesy James Harding Giahyue/The Daylight.

New illegal logging threatens Liberia’s forests amid vague ban

James Giahyue 2 May 2024
Three forestry workers standing in front of logs that have been skidded out to a logging road in River Cess County, Liberia in 2013. Image by Flore de Preneuf/PROFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Liberia puts a wartime logger in charge of its forests

Ashoka Mukpo 25 Apr 2024
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

In Liberia, a former mining activist gets the bully pulpit

Ashoka Mukpo 28 Mar 2024
People walking through a forest.

Control of Africa’s forests must not be sold to carbon offset companies (commentary)

Alexandra Benjamin 17 Nov 2023
Members of Synaparcam, an association of communities affected by Socapalm holding a banner reading "YES to the respect of community rights" in French. Image courtesy Thierry Didier Kuicheu

Bolloré blacklisted over alleged rights violations on plantations in Africa and Asia

Victoria Schneider 29 Sep 2023
A local community member who works at an oil palm plantation in Liberia pushing a cart of the harvest.

Investigation confirms most allegations against plantation operator Socfin

Victoria Schneider 11 Aug 2023
People walking through a forest.

Massive carbon offset deal with Dubai-based firm draws fire in Liberia

Ashoka Mukpo 4 Aug 2023
Fishers in Marshall

Can an app help Liberian artisanal fishers fight illegal fishing?

Edward Blamo 12 Jun 2023
An oil palm plantation and natural forest in Jambi, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Conservationists decry palm oil giants’ exit from HCSA forest protection group

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Mar 2023
A woman harvests palm fruit in a village near Equatorial Palm Oil's former concession in Grand Bassa, Liberia. Image courtesy of the Open Government Partnership via Flickr, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0).

Palm oil plantation linked to Wilmar faces accusations in Liberia

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Feb 2023

Liberian courts rubber-stamp export shipment of illegal logs

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Jan 2023

At a rubber plantation in Liberia, history repeats in a fight over land

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Jan 2023

In Liberia, a gold boom leads to unregulated mining and ailing rivers

Varney Kamara 22 Dec 2022

Forests & Finance: Sit-ins, seeds over seedlings, and fuel-saving cookstoves

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2022
Solitary figure in a partly cultivated field, Nimba mountain range in the background. Image by Maarten van der Bent via Flickr CC BY-SA-2.0

Liberian villagers threaten to leave mining agreement, citing broken promises

Varney Kamara 27 Jan 2022

Liberia loggers felling trees outside concession as government stands by

James Giahyue 23 Nov 2021

Scientists turn to eDNA to curtail the freshwater extinction crisis

Caitlin Looby 16 Jul 2021
Liberian tropical forest. Image via USAID

Review finds palm oil firm Golden Veroleum cleared carbon-rich Liberian forests

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Mar 2021
A village near a community forest in River Cess County, Liberia, 2016. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Liberia gave villagers control over their forests. Then a mining company showed up

Ashoka Mukpo, James Giahyue 22 Dec 2020
Still image from footage of a Wild Chimpanzee Foundation camera trap set up in Grebo-Krahn National Park in Liberia, showing a Diana Monkey (Cercopithecus diana).

Watch: Rare wildlife caught on camera in a remote Liberian rainforest

Ashoka Mukpo 25 Sep 2020

Sounding the alarm about illegal logging? There’s an app for that

Liz Kimbrough 17 Jul 2020

10-year plan hopes to give western chimpanzees a fighting chance

Jim Tan 10 Jul 2020

No more business as usual: Halt dangerous development projects that put our health at risk (commentary)

Gaurav Madan 1 May 2020
A forest elephant in Gabon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Liberia expands a key elephant park again, this time with help of locals

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Jan 2020

Enough is too much: The growing case for investors to drop Golden Agri-Resources (commentary)

Jeff Conant and Gaurav Madan 31 Oct 2019
Silhouette of man standing by oil palm tree on a plantation still belonging to local residents in Malen Chiefdom in Pujehun district of Sierra Leone, West Africa.

Industrial palm oil investors struggle to gain foothold in Africa

Ashoka Mukpo 20 Sep 2019

This land is ours: New law could end age-old injustice faced by Liberian women (commentary)

Alexandra Benjamin 17 Sep 2019

‘We come from the earth’: Q&A with Goldman Prize winner Alfred Brownell

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Jun 2019

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