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A cattle ranch in a deforeated area.

A web of front people conceals environmental offenders in the Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 22 Apr 2024

Worked to death: How a Chinese tuna juggernaut crushed its Indonesian workers

Mongabay and Tansa and The Environmental Reporting Collective 13 Sep 2021

‘I am Indigenous, not pardo’: Push for self-declaration in Brazil’s census

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2021

In Rio de Janeiro, Indigenous people fight to undo centuries of erasure

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2021

Indigenous in São Paulo: Erased by a colonial education curriculum

Jennifer Ann Thomas 28 Apr 2021

Red flag: Predatory European ships help push Indian Ocean tuna to the brink

Malavika Vyawahare 8 Apr 2021

Déjà vu as palm oil industry brings deforestation, pollution to Amazon

Karla Mendes 12 Mar 2021

Persistence of slave labor exposes lawlessness of Amazon gold mines

Maurício Angelo 4 Mar 2021

Investigation: Dutch, Japanese pension funds pay for Amazon deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini from ((o))oeco 5 Feb 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

Brazil sees record number of bids to mine illegally on Indigenous lands

Eduardo Goulart de Andrade, Hyury Potter, Naira Hofmeister and Pedro Papini 13 Nov 2020

A pile of wood that has been prepared to be burned in land controlled by Korindo in Papua. Photo courtesy of Mighty Earth

Palm oil giant Korindo accused again of illegally burning Papuan rainforest

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Nov 2020

BlackRock’s $400m stake in Amazon meatpackers defies sustainability cred

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 24 Sep 2020

A rotating blade used for small-scale wood-processing. Photo by Chris Humphrey for Mongabay.

Under cover of COVID-19, loggers plunder Cambodian wildlife sanctuary

Chris Humphrey 31 Aug 2020

Marijuana farms expand in Paraguay reserve despite gov’t crackdowns

Aldo Benítez 27 Jul 2020

World Bank-funded factory farms dogged by alleged environmental abuses

John Cannon 16 Jul 2020

World Bank’s IFC pumped $1.8b into factory farming operations since 2010

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Jul 2020

The Consultant: Why did a palm oil conglomerate pay $22m to an unnamed ‘expert’ in Papua?

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 25 Jun 2020

Cows grazing in Nicaragua's southern indigenous autonomous region in October,

Nicaraguan beef, grazed on deforested and stolen land, feeds global demand

Mario Rautner, Sandra Cuffe 10 Jun 2020

The Fenix ferro-nickel mining project operated for a few years in the late 1970s. The Solway Group, the Russian conglomerate that now owns the project, started up operations again in 2014. Photo by Sandra Cuffe for Mongabay.

Contentious Guatemala nickel mine ‘ignores coronavirus lockdown’

Anna-Catherine Brigida 27 May 2020

Murder, logging and land theft: inside a crime factory in the Amazon

Maurício Monteiro/Repórter Brasil 30 Apr 2020

Vladimir Plahotniuc and Asif Chaudhry shake hands at a meeting with the Atlantic Council in 2018.

Former U.S. envoy under scrutiny for links to sanctioned Moldovan oligarch, land baron

Jack Davies 14 Apr 2020

New player starts clearing rainforest in world’s biggest oil palm project

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 24 Mar 2020

Fields of Gold: Commodities kingpin leaves a troubling legacy in Moldova

Jack Davies, Liuba Sevciuk 4 Mar 2020

Deforestation for potential rubber plantation raises concerns in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 19 Dec 2019

Coca farms close in on protected areas, isolated tribes in Peruvian Amazon

Chris Fagan 9 Dec 2019

Follow the permits: How to identify corruption red flags in Indonesian land deals

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 4 Dec 2019

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