New global data highlights the urgent need for greater protections for land and environmental defenders against attacks, as ...

New Global Witness analysis of customs data and Russian rail freight data shows continued exports of European-refined Russian ...

Brazil can't save our world's remaining forests while banks keep fuelling the deforestation economy, says Global Witness ...

UN Climate Change have announced new disclosure requirements for people attending COP, in a big win for accountability and ...

Every year, Global Witness works with partners to gather evidence, verify and document every time a land and environmental ...

Global Witness documented 117 defender killings last year (82%) in Latin America, with 48 in Colombia, which had the most ...

USAID supporters rally in Washington, DC on February 05, 2025 to protest against the Trump administration's sudden freeze of foreign assistance. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Some of the world’s ...

Recent data shows that Chinese banks have become the largest creditors to “forest-risk” companies, after major producing countries Brazil and Indonesia Cattle in Pará State of Brazil. 60% of tropical ...

Bulldozers used for clearing forest on Cresud’s farms in Salta province, Argentina. Greenpeace Argentinean “agricultural real estate” company Cresud is responsible for deforestation three times the ...

With Brazil’s president branding COP30 the "turnaround COP", environmental defenders, Indigenous Peoples and other experts set out Host Country Agreement recommendations to meaningfully include ...

The jaguar's future looks increasingly uncertain as Big Agribusiness tears down its home in Brazil's tropical forests to make way for cattle ranching Jaguars are key for healthy ecosystems. Gerald ...

Fossil fuel giant BP’s recent scrapping of its 2030 interim target to reduce production is estimated to cause 72,000 additional heat deaths by the end of this century driven by increased emissions ...