Press Releases

Sept 25, 2025 - New spatial analysis with Auriga Nusantara provides stark evidence of nickel mining's impacts and future threats to Indonesia’s Raja Ampat islands, an area of Southeast Asian seas containing the richest marine biodiversity on earth

September 9, 2025 - Construction Threatens 44 Protected Areas and Displaces Thousands, With 39% of Pipeline Already Cleared Despite Community Opposition

September 4, 2025 - Two Oil Blocks Overlap More Than Half of Conkouati-Douli National Park's Terrestrial Area and Nearly 90% of Its Wetlands, Putting Endangered Species and 7,000 Local Residents at Risk

August 19, 2025 - In Advance of Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) Summit, Groups Urge Colombian Government to Permanently End New Oil and Gas Exploration in Region and Transition Away from Fossil Fuels

July 29, 2025 - Newly approved tenders overlap with over 100 million hectares in protected areas, Key Biodiversity Areas, and intact tropical forests throughout the Democratic Republic of Congo

June 25, 2025 - Despite widespread opposition, the Democratic Republic of Congo signed off on a new licensing round for 55 oil blocks covering 124 million hectares

June 4, 2025 - This new mapping and analysis visualizes the threats posed by future offshore fossil fuel projects to frontier biodiversity hotspots and coastal communities across the pantropics.

April 15, 2025 — Alarming new research exposes the risks of sovereign debt and threat of the continued expansion of oil, gas, and mining in the world’s most intact forests, underscoring debt relief as a potential mechanism for protecting nature.

November 20, 2024 – With 18% of the Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) in the largest tropical forests facing threats from looming oil and gas expansion, there is a closing window of opportunity to mobilize around nature as a climate solution

October 26, 2024–Fossil fuel development in the Coral Triangle overlaps with environmentally-sensitive areas, threatening marine biodiversity and human livelihoods.

October 24, 2024 – New analysis reveals the immense opportunity to protect forests, Indigenous territories, and key coastal areas from fossil fuel expansion and underscores the importance of financial solutions.

October 21, 2024 – Alarming new research underscores the need for immediate action to protect the world's most vital ecosystems, which are facing unprecedented threats from extractive industries.

October 10, 2024 – Indonesian, Japanese and South Korean policies and subsidies are supporting a false climate solution which could drive massive deforestation and forest degradation, reveals new research released at ASEAN Summit.

August 8, 2024 – New maps show fossil fuel concessions overlapping the territories of "Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact" (PIACI), threatening not only global climate and biodiversity but an entire way of life.

June 20, 2024 – New maps and technical analysis by Earth Insight show the Conkouati oil exploration permit overlaps 26% of Conkouati-Douli National Park and over 1,000 km2 of undisturbed tropical forest.

June 6, 2024 – New LNG developments lock in fossil fuels and threaten fisheries, human health, ecosystems, and the global climate

December 3, 2023 - New research maps fossil fuel threats to vital strongholds for biodiversity with huge climate implications.

October 24, 2023 - New maps reveal large parts of the world's tropical forests threatened by fossil fuel, mining, and extractive industries.

June 5, 2023 - Fossil fuel expansion in the Amazon and Congo basins is an existential threat to climate and communities

December 12, 2022 - An area six times the size of the UK threatened and tens of millions of Indigenous and local community members at risk.

November 10, 2022 - New maps and report show the Congo Basin is the epicenter of oil and gas expansion threats to tropical forests in Africa, and likely the world.

October 24, 2022 - Indigenous and local leaders name lending practices of banks and financial institutions as critical factors in oil & gas expansion in vital forest basins.