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Philippines hydro boom rips Indigenous communities

Michael Beltran 18 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
A Ministry of Environment ranger on patrol in the Cardamom Mountains. Image by Andyb3947 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Cambodian carbon credit project hit by rights abuse claims is reinstated

Gerald Flynn 11 Sep 2024

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

Maxwell Radwin 11 Sep 2024

In Nepal, conservation battles head to Supreme Court amid civil society silence

Abhaya Raj Joshi 11 Sep 2024
Isolated Indigenous Mashco Piro men and boys on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon. Image courtesy of Survival International.

Peruvian logger loses FSC label after latest clash with isolated Mashco Piro

Dan Collyns 4 Sep 2024
Battsengel Lkhamdoorov stands next to one of the summer quarters built by Oyu Tolgoi.

Rio Tinto-linked mine still not fulfilling promises to Mongolian herders

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 28 Aug 2024

Indonesia expands IPLC land recognition — but the pace is too slow, critics say

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2024

One year after oil referendum, what’s next for Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park?

Aimee Gabay 20 Aug 2024
Makonga (in blue), who died in June this year, walking among the rubble of his former home.

In the DRC, a government commission is taking funds owed to people relocated by mines

Didier Makal 20 Aug 2024
Traditional healers use the smoke from the coals of a yellow wood tree (Podocarpus latifolius) to cleanse a cattle herd of problematic spirits and stop the animals from fighting.

‘Everything is a being’ for South Africa’s amaMpondo fighting to protect nature

Leonie Joubert 19 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
Maasai women at their village in Kenya. Image by Matt Biddulph via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Community consultations must also include women — not just men (commentary)

Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu 14 Aug 2024
Image de banniere : Travailleurs de PHC avec des gallons de pesticides dans la plantation de Yaligimba. Image © Luciana Téllez/Human Rights Watch

DRC communities turn up heat on EU lenders funding palm oil giant PHC

Yannick Kenné 12 Aug 2024
Commercial coal shipping in Vietnam.

Vietnam sentences yet another energy expert over renewables research

Mongabay.com 2 Aug 2024

New Indigenous reserve in the Amazon among first steps to protect peoples in isolation

Astrid Arellano 31 Jul 2024
An elephant standing in knee-high grass somewhere in Murchison Falls NP, Uganda, wearing a half-dozen black birds on its back and head. Image by Travel Aficionado via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Advocacy group links Uganda oil infrastructure to human-elephant conflict

Musinguzi Blanshe 30 Jul 2024
Dozens of isolated Indigenous Mashco Piro men and boys on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon. Image courtesy of Survival International.

After isolated tribes’ rare appearance in Peruvian Amazon, big questions remain for their future

Dan Collyns 29 Jul 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
Fishermen in the Sundarbans do not have internationally-recognized rights.

Sundarbans fisherfolk are battered by cyclones amid fishing bans

Sadiqur Rahman 15 Jul 2024

Allegations widen against Indonesian palm oil giant Astra Agro Lestari

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jul 2024

Mother Nature Cambodia activists sentenced to prison — again

Gerald Flynn & Vutha Srey 2 Jul 2024

Investigation confirms more abuses on Cameroon, Sierra Leone Socfin plantations

Victoria Schneider 27 Jun 2024
Protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline on Oct. 25, 2016.

Environmental protests under attack: Interview with UN special rapporteur Michel Forst

Peter Speetjens 24 Jun 2024
Preparation towards graduating boys into Maasai warriors in Simanjiro District.

Forced evictions suppress Maasai spirituality & sacred spaces in Tanzania

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 22 Jun 2024
Commercial cattle ranching is banned on Indigenous territories in Brazil, but a yearlong Mongabay investigation reveals that large plots in the Arariboia Indigenous Territory have been used for ranching amid a record-high number of killings of the region’s Indigenous Guajajara inhabitants.

Revealed: Illegal cattle boom in Arariboia territory in deadliest year for Indigenous Guajajara

Karla Mendes 19 Jun 2024

UNESCO accused of supporting human rights abuses in African parks

Aimee Gabay 17 Jun 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

Activists decry latest arrests of East African oil pipeline opponents

Caroline Chebet 7 Jun 2024

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