The Official Launch of Blue Earth Defense (BED)
Blue Earth Defense is a network of grassroots advocates, communities, and movements committed to defending life on Earth from the threats of extractivism, greenwashing, and systemic inequality.BED envisions a world rooted in autonomy, mutual aid, cooperation, solidarity, and direct action—where people and nature coexist in balance, and where communities chart their own paths toward resilience […]
There is so much corruption’: hundreds of thousands protest in Manila over missing flood funds
An estimated 650,000 of them have flooded the centre of Manila to protest, amid fury over a spiralling corruption scandal in which billions of dollars in flood mitigation funds have evaporated. Organised by the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC), a powerful sect in the Philippines, the three-day rally has shut down schools, roads and offices. Many of those […]
Philippine Tribes Revive Reforestation to Defy Coal Mining Expansion
By Bong S. Sarmiento / Mongabay SOUTH COTABATO, Philippines — It’s been three years since production began at a coal mine in the mountain village of Ned, some 1,500 kilometers, nearly 1,000 miles, south of Manila, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Since then, more than 2 million metric tons of deposits have been […]
Community Efforts Yield New Marine Protected Area In the Philippines
By Kristine Sabillo / Mongabay The Philippines has officially designated a new marine protected area after an 18-year campaign by local communities, fisher associations, civil society organizations and government agencies, the Wildlife Conservation Society announcedAug. 13. The newly created Bitaug Marine Protected Area (MPA), which covers nearly 150 hectares (about 370 acres), is the largest MPA in […]
Palestine Denounces Gaza Devastation as “Ecocide”
The Permanent Mission of the State of Palestine to the Kingdom of the Netherlands has formally described the environmental destruction in Gaza as ecocide, citing that less than 5% of agricultural land remains suitable for cultivation and calling for international legal recognition of the long-term consequences¹. The statement — the first by a state-level actor […]
Exposing The Impact of Mining on Indigenous and Local Communities
As an environmental news organization, Mongabay closely tracks the social and ecological impacts of mining. Beyond raising awareness and inspiring other media outlets to cover this topic and regularly republish and reference Mongabay, the news Mongabay produces often leads to real-world impact by exposing the harmful practices of powerful people and organizations, compelling them to take […]
Conservation in wealthy nations may worsen global biodiversity loss, study finds
By Shanna Hanbury / Mongabay Efforts to rewild landscapes across Europe and North America could be making global biodiversity loss worse by shifting environmental destruction to poorer, more biodiverse regions, a new study warns. Scientists from the University of Cambridge, U.K., found that when farming and resource extraction move abroad to accommodate conservation in wealthy countries, it can […]
Energy Transitions Threaten Indigenous Peoples and the Environment
Cambodian Environmental Journalist Ouk Mao Arrested
BANGKOK — Cambodian journalist Ouk Mao, whose reporting on illegal logging has seen him attacked both physically and legally, was arrested May 16. Ek Cheat, Mao’s wife, spotted an unmarked white Lexus pull up outside their home in Stung Treng province sometime around midday. Three plainclothes officers entered Mao’s home, handcuffed him and told him […]
The Occupation of Palestine
The Occupation of Palestine Start again from the beginning Redazione Piemonte Orientale13.02.25 / Pressenza We are Biellesi per la Palestina libera (Citizens of Biella for a Free Palestine), and we write these words to remind you: something can be done.As Gramsci said—we will return to him later—we must take sides. We must be partisans. […]