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Pangolins rescued from wildlife traffickers. These individuals are at a rehabilitation center in Cambodia. Photo by Rhett Butler.

Illegal wildlife trade in Asia decimating species, warn scientists

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jul 2016

Fish kills at Amazon’s Belo Monte dam point up builder’s failures

Sue Branford 13 Jul 2016

Even reduced-impact logging in the Amazon may be unsustainable

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jul 2016

Forest conservation can offset emissions from palm oil expansion in Africa: Study

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jul 2016

DRC declares first new national park in 40 years

Morgan Erickson-Davis 12 Jul 2016

Putting the ‘evidence’ in evidence-based forest conservation

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jul 2016

Amazon turtles imperilled by dams, mercury pollution and illegal trade

Claire Salisbury 12 Jul 2016

New orchid discovered in Colombia is critically endangered

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Jul 2016

New map of Malaysia’s limestone hills will help set conservation priorities

Mike Gaworecki 11 Jul 2016

Can nature thrive in cities? New book looks at changing face of nature in Bangalore

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Jul 2016

Bolivian expedition discovers 1,000th bird species

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 Jul 2016

Citizen science leads to snail rediscovery in Vietnam

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jul 2016

Pre-Columbian Amazon settlement primarily ate fish — more sustainable?

Claire Salisbury 8 Jul 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Fires begin to appear en masse as Indonesia’s burning season gets going

Mongabay Haze Beat 8 Jul 2016

Deforestation from illegal gold mining spreads to northern Peru

Apoorva Joshi 7 Jul 2016

New report exposes “network of secret deal-making and corruption” that has kept Cambodia’s ruling family in power for decades

Mike Gaworecki 7 Jul 2016

GDELT: Mining and mapping global wildlife crime news

Julia John 7 Jul 2016

Illegal gold mining causing mercury contamination in indigenous groups

Carolina Torres 7 Jul 2016

Anti-coal activist murdered in the Philippines

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Jul 2016

Bunge joins ranks of palm oil users to sanction Malaysia’s IOI

Mongabay.com 7 Jul 2016

Replanting oil palm plantations reduces frog diversity, but researchers say there are ways to fix that

Mike Gaworecki 6 Jul 2016

Unknown, ignored and disappearing: Asia’s Almost Famous Animals

Laurel Neme 6 Jul 2016

Three Cambodian activists convicted and heavily fined — but free

Rod Harbinson 6 Jul 2016

5,000 wild animals killed in West Bengal, India, on World Environment Day

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jul 2016

Protecting the animal that eats lemurs — why it’s important to conserve Madagascar’s largest carnivore

Samuel D. Merson 5 Jul 2016

Can public-private partnerships preserve the dwindling biodiversity of Lagos?

Kolawole Talabi 5 Jul 2016
Borneo orangutan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Bornean orangutan declared ‘critically endangered’ as forests shrink

Loren Bell 5 Jul 2016

Small time land speculators profit in advance of Amazon dams

Tatiana Farah, from Repórter Brasil 5 Jul 2016

Bringing Star Trek tricorder analysis to the 21st century

Hina Alam 4 Jul 2016

New tarantula named after Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Jul 2016

UK takes action against companies importing timber from Cameroon tied to illegal logging

Mike Gaworecki 1 Jul 2016

Greenpeace fires back at Nobel laureates calling for end to campaign against genetically engineered food

Mike Gaworecki 1 Jul 2016

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