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Maasai herder in Morogoro, not far from Ruaha National Park. Image by Shengena Killel/IFRI via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

World Bank cancels $150m tourism project in Tanzania after abuse claims

Ashoka Mukpo 23 Jan 2025

Foreign investor lawsuits impede Honduras human rights & environment protections

Sarah Brown 12 Dec 2024

Certified ethanol produced in Brazil for global airlines linked to slave labor

Poliana Dallabrida from Repórter Brasil 5 Dec 2024

Trial begins in U.K. for victims of Minas Gerais dam disaster

Maxwell Radwin 28 Oct 2024

Past failures can’t stop Indonesia from clearing forests, Indigenous lands for farms

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Oct 2024

As MotoGP heads to Indonesia, Indigenous Sasak brace for another weekend of repression

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 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

Why is violence against environmental defenders getting worse? Five things to know

Maxwell Radwin 11 Sep 2024

China accepts U.N. recommendations to improve environmental conflicts in Latin America

Maxwell Radwin 23 Aug 2024
The sea and the coastal residential land are affected by the waste of upstream nickel mining operations.

At-risk groups in Indonesia demand greater say in climate policymaking

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Aug 2024

Activists ask for help combatting violence against Nicaragua’s Indigenous communities

Maxwell Radwin 29 Jul 2024

Palm oil company fined for cheating; Sulawesi farmers to reap their due rupiah

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Jul 2024
Service in Östersund.

How Europe’s only Indigenous group is inspiring a greener Christianity

John Last 17 Jul 2024

Garifuna land rights abuses persist in Honduras, despite court ruling

Aimee Gabay 17 Jul 2024

Allegations widen against Indonesian palm oil giant Astra Agro Lestari

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jul 2024
Prof. Hariadi Kartodiharjo. Image from Prof Hariadi Kartodiharjo's Facebook

Indonesians mourn loss of Hariadi Kartodiharjo, beloved ‘father of governance’

Christ Belseran, Sarjan Lahay 12 Jun 2024

Pro-business parties accused of holding back Indonesia’s Indigenous rights bill

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 May 2024
A man is surrounded by tear gas thrown by police during a Maasai rights demonstration outside the Tanzanian high commission in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, on June 17, 2022. Ben Curtis / AP Photo

UN puts spotlight on attacks against Indigenous land defenders

Sarah Sax 18 Apr 2024
The access road to the Stung Tatai Leu hydropower dam cuts through forest in the Central Cardamoms National Park, Koh Kong province, Cambodia in April 2022

New report details rights abuses in Cambodia’s Southern Cardamom REDD+ project

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 13 Mar 2024

Harmful mining continues in Nicaragua despite U.S. sanctions, new investigation shows

Maxwell Radwin 5 Feb 2024

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

Maxwell Radwin 29 Jan 2024
An aerial view over the Central Cardamoms National Park, one of several protected areas that constitute the Cardamom Mountains, an evergreen forest situated on the Thai-Cambodia border. In November 2023, the Cambodian government approved the construction of two new hydropower dams in the protected forest. Credit: Andy Ball/Mongabay.

New dams in Cambodia pit ‘green’ hydropower against REDD+ project

Gerald Flynn 20 Dec 2023

Activists slam ‘independent’ probe by Indonesian palm oil giant into violations

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Dec 2023

Indonesian police slammed after protester demanding rightful land is shot dead

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Oct 2023

World Bank accused of supporting evictions, rights abuses at Tanzanian park

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Oct 2023

Indonesia’s Mandalika project a litany of violations for Indigenous Sasak

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Oct 2023

Ken Burns discusses heartbreak & hope of ‘The American Buffalo,’ his new documentary

Liz Kimbrough 3 Oct 2023

Investors over islanders as Indonesia uses force to push development project

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Sep 2023

São Paulo Indigenous community pins its territorial hopes on a new village

Sam Cowie 20 Sep 2023

Latin America most dangerous place for environmental defenders, report says

Maxwell Radwin 14 Sep 2023

Kellogg’s latest to freeze Indonesian supplier over palm oil violations

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Sep 2023

Youth wins climate case against U.S. state of Montana in first-of-its-kind legal ruling

Liz Kimbrough 14 Aug 2023

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