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 & rights activists flee and hide as M23 captures DRC’s cities
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
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
Batang coal plant’s seawater permit imperils marine life, fishing communities
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
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.
Flores’ geothermal ambitions collide with justice, culture & local resistance
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
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
Indonesia’s 1st Javan rhino translocation ends in death, in conservation setback
Indonesia convicts trafficking accomplice in a Javan rhino poaching scandal
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
Indonesian fisheries
A flood of logs post-Cyclone Senyar leaves Padang fishers out of work
Study maps whale shark stranding hotspots in Indonesia, highlights conservation needs
Scientists call for stronger action to save Indonesia’s vanishing seagrass meadows
Radioactive leak in Banten exposes workers to danger & reveals regulatory failures
Rare dugong calf sighting in Alor spotlights seagrass & marine mammal conservation
Nickel mining threatens Raja Ampat ecosystems, communities & conservation: Report
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
In the race for DRC’s critical minerals, community forests stand on the frontline
Hope, solidarity & disappointment: A familiar mix for Indigenous delegates at COP30
FSC to vote on new traceability rules amid fraud allegations
Poaching intensifies in M23-occupied areas of Virunga National Park
Indonesian forests put at risk by South Korean and Japanese biomass subsidies
Parties gutting EUDR received donations from companies tied to illegal deforestation: Report
Almost famous animals
Small cat conservationists hail Uganda’s new Echuya Forest National Park
Asian golden cat range expands, but declines continue amid rising threats
IUCN downgrades guiña threat status, prompting conservation warning
NGOs launch novel community projects to conserve Mexico’s ocelots
Endangered Andean cat is imperiled by climate change and its solutions