Illegal gold miners have been moving into Amapá in the wake of federal raids on mining hotspots in other parts of the ...

In the wind-swept town of Khanke in northern Iraq, a fragile tree stands as a quiet symbol of resilience. Its slender trunk ...

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Seychelles became the first country to comply with an international standard that aims to make governments’ management of ...

Indonesia is pressing ahead with construction of a new network of dams in Borneo to power a major “green” industrial estate ...

Beneath Sri Lanka’s serene waters, a pearl oyster cherished her pearl, living in harmony. But disaster struck when a blazing ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. At a time when traditional news outlets are shedding reporters and chasing clicks, ...

In 1889, the British journalist Henry Morton Stanley stumbled out of the forests of Central Africa into the town of Katwe, a ...

A Mongabay investigation that revealed an illegal cattle boom amid a record-high number of killings of Indigenous Guajajara ...

This is part three of a series on the operation to evict illegal gold miners from the Munduruku Indigenous Territory. Read ...

The large leaves of the aguaje, a tropical palm tree that grows in the peatlands and other seasonal wetland areas in tropical ...