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

Maxwell Radwin 5 Feb 2024
A male gharial guarding hatchlings.

Nepal’s gharial population rises, but threats to the crocs persist

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Jan 2024

Forest restoration planned for Colombia’s Farallones de Cali National Park

Maxwell Radwin 9 Jan 2024
Unregulated gold mining on a river in, Nowshera, Pakistan. Image courtesy of Sabir Hussain.

Illegal gold mining threatens Indus River water and biodiversity in Pakistan (commentary)

Sabir Hussain 9 Jan 2024

Illegal gold mining devastates Peruvian Amazon river and communities

Enrique Vera 2 Jan 2024
The Late Cheng Mining Development site in the Kampong Thom province section of Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary has encroached further into the protected forest as Chinese miners churn up the earth in search of gold. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Chinese gold miners ‘illegally’ tearing up Cambodian wildlife sanctuary

Gerald Flynn & Vutha Srey 7 Dec 2023
Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Peru’s crackdown on illegal gold mining a success, but only briefly, study shows

Dan Collyns 5 Dec 2023

Sieged by mining and megaprojects, the Munduruku push for land rights in the Amazon

Sam Cowie 1 Dec 2023
Indigenous forest guardians Laércio Guajajara and Paulo Paulino Guajajara.

End of impunity for Indigenous killings in sight for Brazil’s Guajajara

Karla Mendes 20 Nov 2023

Can blockchain clean up the gold industry in Brazil and across the globe?

Charlie Espinosa and Charles Lyons 14 Nov 2023

How the U.S. financial system props up illegal logging and mining

Maxwell Radwin 14 Nov 2023

Lifted sanctions on gold, oil could slow conservation efforts in Venezuela

Maxwell Radwin 8 Nov 2023
Ubre Tiblak taps a tree for resin.

Indigenous community fighting a mine in Palawan wins a milestone legal verdict

Keith Anthony S. Fabro 25 Sep 2023
Timber extraction in Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Journalism’s role in the Nature Crime Alliance (commentary)

Rhett A. Butler 23 Aug 2023
Pipeline construction in progress in Uganda.

Element Africa: A ‘disaster’ pipeline, an oil-field spill, and a mining pit tragedy

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2023

Drug trafficking fuels other deforestation drivers in the Amazon: report

Maxwell Radwin 14 Jul 2023
IBAMA officers watch a camp on fire.

No new mining operations on Yanomami land after raids and deaths

Sarah Brown 21 Jun 2023

Venezuela’s environmental crisis is getting worse. Here are seven things to know.

Maxwell Radwin 13 Jun 2023
A black-shanked douc langur in a tree.

Can community payments with no strings attached benefit biodiversity?

John Cannon 13 Jun 2023

Militarized conservation: Insecurity for some, security for others? (commentary)

Fergus O’Leary Simpson, Lorenzo Pellegrini 6 Jun 2023

Venezuela’s hidden runways bring both life and destruction to Indigenous lands

Mie Hoejris Dahl 24 May 2023
Villagers seeking shelter following the March 2021 airstrikes at an IDP camp within the Salween Peace Park. Image courtesy of KESAN.

Award-winning, Indigenous peace park dragged into fierce conflict in Myanmar

Carolyn Cowan 15 May 2023

On the border of Colombia and Venezuela, illegal gold mining unites armed forces

Jose Guarnizo 12 May 2023

A frontline view of the fight against illegal mining in Yanomami territory

Rubens Valente/Agência Pública 2 May 2023
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Professional services abound for Amazon land grabbers seeking legitimacy

Fernanda Wenzel 25 Apr 2023

Mining may contribute to deforestation more than previously thought, report says

Maxwell Radwin 20 Apr 2023
Venezuela mine

Brazilian gold miners get free rein in Venezuela’s Indigenous lands

Mie Hoejris Dahl 11 Apr 2023

Report sums up Bolsonaro’s destruction legacy and Amazon’s next critical steps

Sarah Brown 11 Apr 2023
The banks of the Madeira River in the municipality of Porto Velho

‘Gold library’ helps Brazil crack down on Amazon’s illegal mining

Ignacio Amigo, Sam Cowie and Avener Prado 6 Apr 2023

In central Brazil, mining company ignores Quilombola concerns over gold project

Sandra Silva/The Mining Observatory 29 Mar 2023
Overflight of illegal mining within the Yanomani Indigenous territory, Roraima, Brazil, April 2021. Image by Christian Braga for Greenpeace.

Can a new regional pact protect the Amazon from environmental crime? (commentary)

Carolina Andrade, Melina Risso, Robert Muggah 28 Mar 2023

UN denounces new attacks on Indigenous people in Nicaragua’s largest reserve

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2023

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