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Commodity kings Cargill, Bunge buying soy from stolen Indigenous land, report says

Maxwell Radwin 19 Aug 2022
The Terra do Meio Ecological Station, near the Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protected Area, is home to margays (Leopardus wiedii), small wild cats native to South and Central America. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Pasture replaces large tract of intact primary forest in Brazilian protected area

Liz Kimbrough 13 May 2022
Iban dugout canoes on the Utik river in Sungai Utik's customary forest in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian government lagging independent effort to recognize Indigenous lands

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 May 2022
Guireja, an Ayoreo woman, sits outside her house that she was forced to abandon as a result of logging, Paraguay. Image by Survival.

Indigenous group defends uncontacted relatives from cattle onslaught in the Gran Chaco

Liz Kimbrough 3 May 2022
A woman harvests palm fruit in a village near Equatorial Palm Oil's former concession in Grand Bassa, Liberia. Image courtesy of the Open Government Partnership via Flickr, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0).

In West and Central Africa, palm oil investors buckle under community pressure

Ashoka Mukpo 10 Mar 2022

In Indonesia, a ‘devious’ policy silences opposition to mining, activists say

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Feb 2022

Gates Foundation among investors backing troubled DRC palm plantation

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Feb 2022

Displaced and deprived, Indigenous communities suffer from hunger in Nicaragua

Maxwell Radwin 28 Jan 2022

Mongabay’s 10 hardest-hitting investigations of 2021

Maxwell Radwin 29 Dec 2021
Fire line moves through a degraded forest area in an undesignated public forest area in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2021

‘Land mafia’ makes its mark in a Sumatran village’s fight against oil palm firm

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Dec 2021

Indigenous community saves Colombia’s poison dart frog from coca and logging

Maxwell Radwin 30 Nov 2021

Lack of resolution mechanisms allow palm oil conflicts to fester in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Nov 2021

Indonesia’s leader touts green goals at COP26, but overlooks green stewards at home

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Nov 2021

Guatemala tightens cattle ranching rules, but can they stop deforestation?

Maxwell Radwin 15 Oct 2021

Environmental defenders in Nicaragua denounce government crackdown as elections loom

Maxwell Radwin 13 Oct 2021

Paper giants’ expansion plans raise fears of greater deforestation in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Oct 2021

Brazil leads Amazon in forest loss this year, Indigenous and protected areas hold out

Liz Kimbrough 6 Oct 2021

Loss of oil palm permits leaves Papuan villages uncertain and fearful

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2021

Lockdowns didn’t stop 2020 being deadliest year yet for earth defenders

Ashoka Mukpo 13 Sep 2021

FSC dumps palm oil giant Korindo amid rights, environmental issues in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jul 2021

Top brands failing to spot rights abuses on Indonesian oil palm plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Jul 2021

Final court ruling orders Indonesian government to publish plantation data

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jun 2021
Jaguars still roam the Chaco, but they require large tracts of contiguous forest to survive and reproduce. As forest is destroyed, fewer of these intact landscapes exist. Photo by Eduardo Merille via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

New areas of primary forest cleared in Brazil’s ‘lawless’ Lábrea

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jun 2021

Brazil’s Xingu River Basin feels the heat from Bolsonaro’s fiery rhetoric

Sam Cowie 27 May 2021

New clearing of forest in protected area in Brazil linked to mining

Liz Kimbrough 27 May 2021

Indigenous Dayak man jailed after Indonesian palm oil firm alleges theft

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Apr 2021
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Gas fields and jihad: Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado becomes a resource-rich war zone

Ashoka Mukpo 26 Apr 2021

81 Indigenous leaders, environmental defenders slam BlackRock in open letter

Ashoka Mukpo 24 Mar 2021

Palm oil conflicts persist amid lack of resolution in Indonesian Borneo

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Mar 2021

As nature declines, so does human quality of life, study finds

Ashoka Mukpo 9 Feb 2021

Trader Cargill, pension fund TIAA linked to land grabs in Brazil’s Cerrado

Caio de Freitas Paes 3 Feb 2021

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