Campaigners are hailing today’s COP30 launch of a new global initiative aimed at advancing the recognition, protection, and participation of environmental defenders in climate decision and ...

Climate, fuel poverty & tax justice groups have written to Chancellor Reeves and HMRC calling for an investigation into the ...

Investigative campaigners say new forest fund announced before COP30 cannot solve deforestation without urgent binding rules to stop harmful financial flows.

At least 146 land and environmental defenders were killed or disappeared* around the world last year defending their land, communities or the environment, a new report by Global Witness reveals. Today ...

Julia Francisco Martínez stands at the graveside of her husband Juan, a Honduran Indigenous defender who was found murdered in 2015. Giles Clarke / Global Witness Every year, Global Witness works with ...

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 ...

A mine worker walks near the leaching pools near Pangwa (the Kachin Special Region 1), in Northern Myanmar, near the Chinese border in early 2024. Supplied by a Global Witness partner To reverse the ...

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 ...

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 ...

UK imports in 2024 linked to forest destruction the size of a major city, despite government pledges to tackle the global nature emergency Consumers in the UK are still at risk of buying goods linked ...