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Photo of the captive bay cat in 2008.

On the trail of Borneo’s bay cat, one of the world’s most mysterious felines

Jeremy Hance 15 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
A nomadic community preparing a meal in Ladakh, India.

‘Healthy humans without a healthy planet is a logical fallacy’: Interview with Dr. Sakib Burza

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 6 Feb 2024
One of Global Green's new mining sites in Preah Vihear province that sits inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, a protected forest. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Sanctioned timber baron wins new mining concessions in Cambodia’s Prey Lang

Gerald Flynn & Phoung Vantha 23 Jan 2024
A Karen man in his boat in Myanmar.

Who protects nature better: The state or communities? It’s complicated

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Jan 2024
A logger carries his chainsaw through the forest of the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia. He will sell the timber to garment factories.

Shrinking civil space and persistent logging: 2023 in review in Southeast Asia

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 28 Dec 2023
A traditional fishermen in an Indigenous territory on the Tapajós River, in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo credit: Marcio Isensee e Sá. Licensed via Adobe Photo Stock

Despite progress, small share of climate pledge went to Indigenous groups: report

Aimee Gabay 4 Dec 2023
A dismembered tree in Chhaeb-Preah Roka Wildlife Sanctuary documented in April 2023. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Communities track a path of destruction through a Cambodian wildlife sanctuary

Gerald Flynn | Andy Ball | Meng Kroypunlok 9 Oct 2023
An aerial view of a new road that leads from Think Biotech’s concession into the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary where illegal logging is taking place. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Logging route cut into Cambodia’s Prey Lang from Think Biotech’s concession

Gerald Flynn | Andy Ball | Meng Kroypunlok 5 Oct 2023
An uncontacted Indigenous community in Acre, Brazil.

New online map tracks threats to uncontacted Indigenous peoples in Brazil’s Amazon

Sarah Brown 27 Sep 2023

Brazilian Indigenous artists take the forest to the world

Matheus Lopes Quirino 29 Aug 2023

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

Fergus O’Leary Simpson, Lorenzo Pellegrini 6 Jun 2023
Kanamari Indigenous people carry out their work

More evidence backs Indigenous territories as best safeguard against Amazon deforestation

Liz Kimbrough 2 May 2023
A Bornean bearded pig family.

Bearded pigs a ‘cultural keystone species’ for Borneo’s Indigenous groups: Study

John Cannon 20 Mar 2023

Despite pledges, obstacles stifle community climate and conservation funding

John Cannon 23 Nov 2022
Members of an Indigenous community in Guangaje, Ecuador after the blessing of a water spring. Image by Azzedine Rouichi via Unsplash (Public domain).

Small share of land rights pledge went to Indigenous groups: Progress report

John Cannon 7 Nov 2022
Tewe Dayuma Michela Conta, one of the girls kidnapped from the Tagaeri and Taromenane territory, speak during the trial. Image courtesy of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

First-ever regional court case involving rights of uncontacted peoples awaits verdict

Kimberley Brown 13 Oct 2022
Study co-author Corneille Ewango.

In Congo, a carbon sink like no other risks being carved up for oil

John Cannon 28 Jul 2022
NASA satellite image of the Rio Tapajos in March 2022.

Dams on Brazil’s Jamanxim River: The advancing assault on the environment and Indigenous peoples in the Tapajós basin (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 29 Mar 2022
Indigenous Masai women at a community leadership meeting in Kenya. Photo by Edna Kaptoyo, Community Conservation Resilience Initiative, 2018

Indigenous land rights take center stage in a new global framework for biodiversity conservation (commentary)

Karl Burkart 24 Mar 2022

NGOs alert U.N. to furtive 2-million-hectare carbon deal in Malaysian Borneo

John Cannon 17 Mar 2022

Indigenous-led report warns against ‘simplistic take on conservation’

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 8 Mar 2022
Kahuzi-Biega National Park

A conservation paradigm based on Indigenous values in DR Congo (commentary)

Sushil Raj; Dr. Albert Kwokwo Barume 17 Feb 2022

Malaysian officials dampen prospects for giant, secret carbon deal in Sabah

John Cannon 10 Feb 2022
Baka people

Indigenous hunter-gatherers in Cameroon diversify food sources in the face of change

Laurel Sutherland 1 Feb 2022
Mark Plotkin with an Embera shaman in the Darien on the Colombia-Panama. Photo credit: Amazon Conservation Team

Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin: Indigenous knowledge serves as a ‘connective tissue’ between nature and human well-being

Rhett A. Butler 31 Jan 2022
Park rangers

What went wrong with conservation at Kahuzi-Biega National Park and how to transform it (commentary)

Deborah S. Rogers 27 Jan 2022

Despite sanctions, U.S. companies still importing Myanmar teak, report says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 11 Jan 2022

How can illegal timber trade in the Greater Mekong be stopped?

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 30 Dec 2021

How does political instability in the Mekong affect deforestation?

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 23 Dec 2021

Indigenous leader sues over Borneo natural capital deal

John Cannon 17 Dec 2021

The past, present and future of the Congo peatlands: 10 takeaways from our series

John Cannon 16 Dec 2021

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