Independent journalism reveals palm oil industry abuses in the Brazilian Amazon | Mongabay Impacts
In an 18-month endeavor, Mongabay investigated allegations by local communities of widespread abuses by some of the largest palm oil […]
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How Mongabay Latam pioneered solution-driven reporting on marine ecosystems | Mongabay Impacts
Did you know that Mongabay Latam produces original reporting in Spanish? As such, many of the articles mentioned in this […]
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How Mongabay’s reporting led tech giant Microsoft to invest in agroforestry | Mongabay Impacts
Have you ever bought shade grown coffee or bird-friendly chocolate? Then you’ve enjoyed the fruits of agroforestry. An ancient agricultural […]
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Mongabay Indonesia celebrates its 10th anniversary | Mongabay Impacts
In March 2012, Mongabay Indonesia was established to increase transparency and accountability in Indonesia’s forest sector, laying the groundwork for […]
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How journalism inspired action for endangered river dolphin conservation | Mongabay Impacts
In October 2021, Mongabay published a report on how local fishers in Indonesian Borneo had collaborated with a nonprofit to […]
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How a search for the truth stopped a contentious land deal in Malaysian Borneo | Mongabay Impacts
In November 2021, Mongabay broke a story about an agreement between the Sabah state government in Malaysia and a foreign […]
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5 Years of Mongabay Latam | Mongabay Impacts
After launching our first non-English news bureau in Indonesia in 2012, Mongabay launched a second in Latin America in 2016. […]
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Revealed: a mining firm to drill in endangered chimpanzees’ habitat | Mongabay Impacts
In July 2021, Mongabay published an investigation into an Australian mining firm’s plan to drill within the boundaries of Haut […]
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Shining light on a palm oil giant in Indonesia | Mongabay Impacts
Mongabay has long reported on the status of Indonesia’s rainforests. Large-scale palm oil plantations continue to be one of the […]
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How Mongabay exposed corruption at Rapa Nui | Mongabay Impacts
In Chile, Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island), includes two protected areas. First, the World Heritage status Rapa Nui […]
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How independent journalism helped stop a uranium mining project in a tiger reserve in India | Mongabay Impacts
In May 2019, an expert panel on forests of India’s environment ministry approved the survey and exploration of uranium in […]
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Mongabay in the news, second quarter of 2021
Mongabay’s reporting was cited in the second quarter of 2021 by outlets ranging from The Washington Post to South China Morning Post, Science, […]
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Five successes for Mongabay in 2020
Between the pandemic, widespread environmental policy setbacks, devastating fires and storms, civil strife, and rising authoritarianism, 2020 was a challenging […]
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Mongabay team wins top environmental journalism prizes
A Mongabay writer and a Mongabay editor each recently took the top two awards in the Outstanding Explanatory Reporting category […]
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Mongabay and The Gecko Project win award for Indonesia coverage
Mongabay and its “Indonesia for Sale” series partner The Gecko Project were honored with a Fetisov Journalism Award last month for an […]
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Mongabay feature published in ‘best science and nature writing’ anthology
Mongabay is pleased to announce that senior correspondent Jeremy Hance’s feature, The great rhino U-turn, has been published in ‘The […]
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110,000+ signatures: Petition inspired by Mongabay story on a pristine but threatened PNG island keeps growing
A petition inspired by a Mongabay story has topped its goal of 110,000 signatures, and keeps growing. “Logging, mining companies […]
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Indonesia for Sale series honored with Society of Environmental Journalists award
The Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) has given the second feature in the Indonesia for Sale series, “Ghosts in the […]
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Mongabay Latam and El Deber win prestigious El Rey Award
Mongabay Latam and its partners at the major Bolivian daily newspaper El Deber have won the El Rey Award, also […]
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Bioacoustics paper published in Science
In 2017, Mongabay’s Conservation Effectiveness series looked at what the scientific literature tells us is working and not working in […]
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