
Endangered environmentalists
Green groups under threat from governments and corporate actors: As climate change, pollution, and habitat destruction worsen across the globe, environmental groups are responding by ratcheting up the pressure on governments and corporations to act. Many governments have responded by increasing restrictions on environmental NGOs, including revoking charity status, increasing sentences for protestors, and passing legislation restricting NGO activity.


Environmental journalist in Cambodia shot and killed by suspected logger

Vietnam sentences yet another energy expert over renewables research

Mother Nature Cambodia activists sentenced to prison — again

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

Indonesian activist freed in hate speech case after flagging illegal shrimp farms
Global forest reporting network

A new 100-page report raises alarm over Chevron’s impact on planet

Science refutes United Cacao’s claim it didn’t deforest Peruvian Amazon

‘We are invisible’: Brazilian Cerrado quilombos fight for land and lives

Chimps in Sierra Leone adapt to human-impacted habitats, but threats remain

Cocaine blamed for rising deforestation in Peru’s Bahuaja-Sonene National Park

Devastating Laos dam collapse leads to deforestation of protected forests
Indonesian coal

Indonesia’s coal gasification reboot faces backlash over economic, environmental risks

As Indonesia, US back away from climate goals, hopes fade to retire coal plants early

Indonesian Islamic behemoth’s entry into coal mining sparks youth wing revolt

Muhammadiyah latest faith group to join Indonesia religious coal rush

Jokowi’s religious mining rule divides Indonesia’s largest Islamic organization

Biomass-burning coal plants leave the air even dirtier, Java communities say
Southeast asian infrastructure
Focusing on the social and environmental impacts of roads, dams, mines, and other infrastructure projects in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea.

An ‘ocean grab’ for a property megaproject leaves Jakarta fishers grounded

Study: Indonesia’s new capital city threatens stable proboscis monkey population

Indonesia’s new capital ‘won’t sacrifice the environment’: Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri

Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation rules

To build its ‘green’ capital city, Indonesia runs a road through a biodiverse forest

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

Mouth of the Amazon oil exploration clashes with Lula’s climate promises

Electricity day and night: Solar power is changing isolated Amazon communities

Road network spreads ‘arteries of destruction’ across 41% of Brazilian Amazon

‘Lost’ Amazonian cities hint at how to build urban landscapes without harming nature

Making room in the Atlantic Forest for the largest primate in the Americas

New transport infrastructure is opening the Amazon to global commerce
Asian rhinos

More alarms over Indonesia rhino poaching after latest trafficking bust

Javan rhino poaching saga reveals serious security lapse

Javan rhino poacher gets 12 years in record sentence for wildlife crime in Indonesia

Poachers claim to have killed one-third of all Javan rhinos, Indonesian police say

Max sentence request for Javan rhino poacher too low, experts say

New calf, same threats: Javan rhinos continue to reproduce despite perils
Indonesian fisheries

Community-based conservation cuts thresher shark fishing by 91% in Indonesia: Study

Indonesia seeks alternative funding as USAID freeze delays marine conservation efforts

Illegal sea fence displaces fishers and sparks land scandal near Jakarta

Concerns of illegal sea turtle trade persist in Bali as police foil smugglers

Illegal seabed dredging surges as Indonesia resumes sand exports

Unchecked illegal trawling pushes Indonesia’s small-scale fishers to the brink
Global environmental impacts of u s policy

President Biden signs order aimed at protecting old-growth forests across U.S.

FOREST Act bill would hold global suppliers accountable for illegal deforestation

As the rest of world tackles plastics disposal, the U.S. resists

As climate chaos escalates in Indian Country, feds abandon tribes

COP24: Trumpers tout clean coal; protesters call it ‘climate suicide’

COP24: US, Russia, Saudis downplay IPCC report in display of disunity
Conservation in madagascar
Madagascar has been a global conservation priority for decades, receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in conservation funds from international donors, but rising deforestation, commercial exploitation of wildlife, and degradation of critical habitats suggest that conservation investments may not be reaching their full potential. This series investigates the effectiveness of past conservation spending in Madagascar, examining the factors that contribute to or hinder success, with the aim of informing future investments.

Newly described gecko from Madagascar a master of disguise

Fire imperils Madagascar’s baobabs: Q&A with park director Diamondra Andriambololona

Extreme reforestation: Baobab planters confront fires, loggers, cattle and more

Eight new-to-science geckos described from biodiversity haven Madagascar

Rio Tinto-owned mine is polluting Malagasy water with uranium and lead, NGOs say

Even as the government bets big on carbon, REDD+ flounders in Madagascar
Conservation effectiveness

How effective is the EU’s marquee policy to reduce the illegal timber trade?

How sharing and learning from failures can transform conservation (commentary)

Is planting trees as good for the Earth as everyone says?

Failure in conservation projects: Everyone experiences it, few record it

The nature of conservation evidence: Imperfect, but good enough (commentary)

Conservation Effectiveness series sparks action, dialogue
Global agroforestry
An ancient agricultural system, agroforestry combines trees with shrubs, crops, and livestock in a system that produces food, supports biodiversity, builds soil horizons and water tables, and sequesters carbon from the atmosphere – this series explores how and where it is being practiced by Indigenous communities, traditional agriculturists, and new farmers.

Rio’s grassroots agroforestry sustains birds, bees & communities

Agroforestry offers Thai rubber farmers a pathway to profit and sustainability

How agroecological cacao can save an endangered lion tamarin in southern Bahia

Shade-grown coffee benefits birds, forests & people in Venezuela

Agroforestry project sows seeds of hope in drought-hit Honduras

‘Another catastrophe’: Flooding destroys Indigenous agroforestry projects in Peru’s Amazon
Global forests

Indonesian forests put at risk by South Korean and Japanese biomass subsidies

Parties gutting EUDR received donations from companies tied to illegal deforestation: Report

NGOs ask to include Brazilian Cerrado in the EUDR at next review

As logging intensifies forest fires, Wet’suwet’en fight to protect old growth

After isolated tribes’ rare appearance in Peruvian Amazon, big questions remain for their future

New illegal logging threatens Liberia’s forests amid vague ban
Almost famous animals

A tale of two frogs: The tough uphill battle for rediscovered species

Elusive jaguarundi inspires biologists to share data across Latin America

Mysterious, at risk, understudied flat-headed cat lacks conservation focus

Ridiculously rare photo catches Asian caracal swimming a river in India

Saving Asia’s fishing cat means protecting threatened wetland habitat
