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In the Andes, elections ride on political frustrations and social movements

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Nov 2025

Brazil’s governance style leads to controversial impacts

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Nov 2025
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In the Amazon, political systems fail to prioritize the environment

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Nov 2025
Featured image: The amendment to the organized crime law is criticized by prosecutors. In the image, nine clandestine airstrips detected by a Mongabay Latam investigation that affect the territories of two indigenous communities in the central jungle of Peru. Satellite image: Earth Genome / Mongabay Latam.

Across the Amazon, impunity among politicians remains chronic

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Nov 2025

Amid systemic corruption, Amazon countries struggle to fight environmental crime

Timothy J. Killeen 31 Oct 2025

The rise of anti-corruption prosecutors in the Amazon region

Timothy J. Killeen 24 Oct 2025

Centralized governance in the Guianas and economic legacy

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Aug 2025

In the Brazilian Amazon, decentralization can be a double-edged sword

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Jun 2025

Impacts of development come under higher scrutiny in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 22 May 2025

Political nepotism and elected clans in the Brazilian Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Feb 2025

What’s at stake for the environment in Ecuador’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 5 Feb 2025

Indigenous communities rise up against prison projects in Ecuador

Kimberley Brown 22 Jan 2025
Mist rising from the Amazon rainforest at dawn. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Latin America in 2024: politics, turmoil and hope

Alexandra Popescu 3 Jan 2025

Foreign investor lawsuits impede Honduras human rights & environment protections

Sarah Brown 12 Dec 2024

Bolivia’s internal colonization and its March to the East

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Dec 2024
In June 2024, stacks of timber were seen piled outside Angkor Plywood's facility in Kandal province. Much of it is believed to be sourced from Cambodia's protected areas. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Angkor Plywood, the ‘timber cartel’ shipping Cambodian forests internationally

Gerald Flynn 14 Oct 2024

In Ecuador, booming profits in small-scale gold mining reveal a tainted industry – investigation

Arturo Torres, Dan Collyns 3 Oct 2024
In July 2024, forest activists uncovered a timber depot and sawmills at the site of the Stung Meteuk hydropower project. Image supplied by Tat Oudom.

Cambodian environment minister bans logging at tycoon’s Cardamoms hydropower project

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 30 Sep 2024
A ranger with the Uganda Wildlife Authority on patrol in the Queen Elizabeth National Park in November 2023. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

US govt watchdog: Human rights still at risk in overseas conservation aid

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Sep 2024
Having already picked Phnom Chum Rok Sat community forest clean of large, valuable trees, loggers working for Lin Vatey now appear to be clear-cutting what remains of the forest. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay

Mining company tied to Cambodian military officials grabs community forest

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 5 Sep 2024

Expanding the colonization of the Brazilian Amazon through gold mining

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Aug 2024

Brazil’s wildcat mining is deeply rooted in its politics and thirst for minerals

Timothy J. Killeen 26 Jul 2024
The sprawling Stung Meteuk hydropower dam being developed in the Cardamom Mountains appears to be illegally logging within Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

History repeats as logging linked to Cambodian hydropower dam in Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn & Vutha Srey 27 Jun 2024
An anchored trawler offloads its catch to a smaller boat within the Koh Rong Marine National Park. Screenshot from ‘Illegal fishing and land grabs push Cambodian coastal communities to the brink’ by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Efforts to save Cambodia’s coast tread water as fish stocks plummet

Andy Ball, Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 12 Jun 2024
Chun Seiha demonstrates the forest loss across Chi Ouk Boeung Prey, where almost all the large, valuable trees have been logged by Santana Agro. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Cambodian companies tied to abuses promoted by UN program, rights group alleges

Gerald Flynn 5 Jun 2024
Keo Vannob returns from fishing to his home in Botum Sakor National Park. Screenshot from ‘Illegal fishing and land grabs push Cambodian coastal communities to the brink’ by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Fishers left with no land, no fish, in fire sale of Cambodian coast

Andy Ball, Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 4 Jun 2024
On May 29, 2024, five Mother Nature Cambodia activists stood trial on charges of plotting and insulting the king. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Trial begins for Mother Nature Cambodia activists on conspiracy charge

Gerald Flynn 29 May 2024

Amid ravaging wildfires in Venezuela, experts cite institutional collapse

Tony Frangie Mawad 14 May 2024

Is the extractive sector really favorable for the Pan Amazon’s economy?

Timothy J. Killeen 8 May 2024

Faced with an extreme future, one Colombian island struggles to rebuild

Juan Pablo Pérez Burgos 15 Apr 2024

Suriname cancels controversial Mennonite pilot program, but bigger problems loom

Maxwell Radwin 20 Mar 2024
A juvenile northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina) held in a cage outside a gas station in Cambodia. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Impunity for Cambodia’s exotic pet owners as trade outpaces legislation

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 7 Mar 2024

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