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A mine in Likasi on November 26, 2025. Image by Glody MURHABAZI / AFP).

In the race for DRC’s critical minerals, community forests are on the frontline

Didier Makal, Latoya Abulu 16 Jan 2026

Revealed: Paper giant’s ex-staff say it used their names for secret company in Borneo

Philip Jacobson 10 Jul 2018

Brazil’s political storm driving Amazon deforestation higher

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 9 Jul 2018

Peru: How chocolate saved a community and a protected area from the drug trade

Vanessa Romo 6 Jul 2018

Cerrado: traditional communities win back land from agribusiness firm

Flávia Milhorance 5 Jul 2018

New research calculates full carbon cost of oil palm cultivation in Indonesia’s forests

Mike Gaworecki 5 Jul 2018

Smartphone app helps indigenous communities fight deforestation

Mongabay.com 2 Jul 2018

Investing in indigenous communities is most efficient way to protect forests, report finds

Cory Rogers 2 Jul 2018

The world lost an area of tropical forest the size of Bangladesh in 2017

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jun 2018

DRC adopts a strategy that will bolster community forestry, conservation group says

John Cannon 25 Jun 2018

Illegal mining creeps into southern Bahuaja-Sonene National Park

Vanessa Romo 20 Jun 2018

Peru’s Bahuaja-Sonene National Park at risk over illegal mining

Vanessa Romo 19 Jun 2018

In Peru, coca puts one of the world’s best coffee crops at risk

Vanessa Romo 18 Jun 2018

Ecuador: Waorani people map their rainforest to save it

Daniela Aguilar 6 Jun 2018

● Guided by the indigenous people of Ecuador’s Sucumbíos province, which has been hit by oil exploitation, Waorani people from Pastaza province joined a “Toxic Tour” to learn how contamination has affected other communities in the Amazon.

Ecuador: Tribe sees how oil industry affects forest on ‘Toxic Tour’

Daniela Aguilar 1 Jun 2018

Khanh Nguy Thi. Photo courtesy Goldman Environmental Prize.

Vietnam’s first Goldman Prize winner pushes for energy conservation

Michael Tatarski 29 May 2018

Rangers face a ‘toxic mix’ of mental strain and lack of support

Jim Tan 24 May 2018

Brazil has the tools to end Amazon deforestation now: report

Giovanni Ortolani 18 May 2018

Tanzania’s Maasai losing ground to tourism in the name of conservation, investigation finds

John Cannon 11 May 2018

Four regions in Peru exposed to mercury contamination

Yvette Sierra Praeli 8 May 2018

Colombia’s supreme court orders government to stop Amazon deforestation

Esteban Montaño 7 May 2018

Flowers in Anchieta in Brazil. Photo by Ignacio Amigo/Mongabay.

In Brazil, an island laboratory for Atlantic Forest restoration

Ignacio Amigo 3 May 2018

Major Islamic financier singled out for deforestation in Indonesia

Daniel Pye 1 May 2018

Palm oil supplier to food giants clears forest, peatland in Indonesia, Greenpeace says

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2018

The traditional Caiçara canoe is in the process of becoming part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Brazilian culture. But building the canoes is becoming increasingly difficult due to bureaucratic setbacks to obtain the wood. Courtesty personal collection of Mario Gato and Ana Carolina Barbosa.

For the Caiçaras, environmental laws in Brazil at odds with tradition

Ignacio Amigo 25 Apr 2018

After cutting down hundreds of trees, workers start fires to more easily clean the land and prepare it to grow crops. Photo by Jorge Suárez.

Open destruction in the Colombian Amazon after FARC’s exit

Esteban Montaño, Semana Sostenible 20 Apr 2018

Founder of Camino Verde, Robin Van Loon, holding a leaf from a Moena tree. Photo courtesy Shahrzade Ehya.

Tambopata: Where forest conservation and opportunity meet

Heather D'angelo 19 Apr 2018

Brazil’s actual forest-related CO2 emissions could blow by Paris pledge

Claire Asher 19 Apr 2018

Colombia grants ‘historic’ protections to rainforest, indigenous groups

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Apr 2018

Indigenous environmental activist killed in Myanmar

Mongabay.com 12 Apr 2018

NGOs acquire land in Brazil to create wildlife corridor

Ignacio Amigo 12 Apr 2018

Indonesian billionaire using ‘shadow companies’ to clear forest for palm oil, report alleges

Daniel Pye 11 Apr 2018

Six staff killed in deadliest attack at Congo’s Virunga National Park

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Apr 2018

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