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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
Beekeeping in Thailand

Beekeeping helps villagers tend coastal forests in Thai mangrove hotspot

Carolyn Cowan 18 Jun 2024

UNESCO accused of supporting human rights abuses in African parks

Aimee Gabay 17 Jun 2024
Ilham Mahmudi

Unrest and arrests in Sumatra as community fights to protect mangroves

Ayat S. Karokaro 5 Jun 2024

Indonesian fishers mount a community-led fight against destructive fishing

Fathul Rakhman, Wahyu Chandra 4 Jun 2024

Indonesian palm oil firm clashes with villagers it allegedly shortchanged

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Jun 2024
Rainforest in Panama. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

How real action on environmental justice comes from Latin America’s community alliances (commentary)

Rebecca Wilson and Eliana Lafone 3 Jun 2024
Indigenous leader Paulo Paulino Guajajara shows a bullet shell in 2019.

Mongabay video screening at Chile’s Supreme Court expected to help landmark verdict in Brazil

Karla Mendes 31 May 2024
Fish catch, Thailand

Thai plan to relax fishing law stokes fear of return to illegal catches, worker abuse

Carolyn Cowan 31 May 2024

In a village divided, farmers stall massive copper mine in Colombian Andes

Austin Landis 29 May 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

Indonesian activist freed in hate speech case after flagging illegal shrimp farms

Basten Gokkon 22 May 2024
Forest clearing for nickel mining on Wawonii Island.

Critics see payback in Indonesia’s plan to grant mining permits to religious groups

Irfan Maulana 21 May 2024

Environmental defenders paid the price during Panama’s historic mining protests – report

Maxwell Radwin 14 May 2024
Indigenous farmer in Cambodia

Rights groups call for greater public input in ASEAN environmental rights framework

Carolyn Cowan 8 May 2024

Indigenous Philippine village rejects gold mine, cites flawed consultation

Michael Beltran 1 May 2024
Segunda Huenchunao of the Vuelta del Río community near El Maitén. Image by Denali DeGraf.

Indigenous communities along Argentina’s Río Chubut mobilize to conserve waterway

Denali DeGraf 30 Apr 2024

Indigenous Bolivians flee homes as backlash to mining protest turns explosive

Maxwell Radwin 29 Apr 2024

Meet the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 29 Apr 2024
Silvia Vetancourt holds out a coin purse she is crocheting from cabuya fiber on the path to Plaza Gutierrez, Ecuador. Photo by Liz Kimbrough.

Women weave a culture of resistance and agroecology in Ecuador’s Intag Valley

Liz Kimbrough 25 Apr 2024

Outdated infrastructure and oil spills: the cases of Colombia, Peru and Ecuador

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Apr 2024

Activists file last-gasp suit as Indonesia fails again to pass Indigenous bill

Richaldo Hariandja 23 Apr 2024
Farming in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand limits agricultural land sales amid protests & tourism development

Swati Thapa 22 Apr 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

Indigenous efforts to save Peru’s Marañon River could spell trouble for big oil

Carla Ruas 17 Apr 2024

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

Juan Pablo Pérez Burgos 15 Apr 2024
Alis Ramírez: The defender of the Colombian Amazon now living as a refugee in New Zealand

Alis Ramírez: A defender of the Colombian Amazon now living as a refugee in New Zealand

Laila Abu Shihab Vergara 8 Apr 2024

How to ‘stop mining before it starts’: Interview with community organizer Carlos Zorrilla

Liz Kimbrough 4 Apr 2024

Indonesian court jails environmentalist for flagging illegal farms in marine park

Basten Gokkon 4 Apr 2024

‘Planting water, eating Caatinga & irrigating with the sun’: Interview with agroecologist Tião Alves

Xavier Bartaburu 25 Mar 2024

Indonesian activists face jail over FB posts flagging damage to marine park

Basten Gokkon 25 Mar 2024
The helmet jellyfish (Periphylla periphylla) collected with a remotely operated vehicle in the North Pacific Ocean.

Communities worry anew as PNG revives seabed mining plans

John Cannon 20 Mar 2024

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