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Singapore sand imports threaten an already sinking Cambodian fishing community, again

Andy Ball 6 Nov 2026
Asian black bears

Ecotourism may deter hunters, but also keeps wildlife away, Laos study suggests

Carolyn Cowan 2 Nov 2026

The women who won’t let go: Female-led resistance to development harms across Asia

Kannikar Petchkaew 30 Oct 2026
A man carries a discarded television set that he bought in Tondo, Manila. Image © Greenpeace.

Philippines halts U.S. e-waste imports but struggles to police customs-free zones

Biena Magbitang, Helena Rodríguez Gómez, Louis Boyd-Madsen, Gabriele Di Donfrancesco 30 Oct 2026
Clouded leopard

‘Action on the ground’ in Laos is needed to recover large mammals, protect more species

Carolyn Cowan 29 Oct 2026
Sunda pangolin

Pangolin scale lawsuit in Indonesia could shake up how wildlife traffickers pay

Carolyn Cowan 28 Oct 2026
Copper mine in Chile. Image by Tom Hegen

Photographer Tom Hegen’s aerial eye reveals the true scale of the critical mineral age

Carolyn Cowan 28 Oct 2026

Scorched sanctuaries: The race to save Borneo’s orangutans from fires

Garry Lotulung 22 Oct 2026

Search for the ‘Asian unicorn’ faces an uncertain future amid funding losses

Jeremy Hance 20 Oct 2026
Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

Cambodia was told to clean up its monkey trade. Regulators say it still hasn’t

Gerald Flynn 15 Oct 2026

Chinese social media used to promote illegal wildlife trade in Laos

Mongabay.com 14 Oct 2026

Two rare pregnancies spark hope for Sumatran rhinos — but also concerns about inbreeding

Basten Gokkon 14 Oct 2026
A leopard cat steps out of its cage and into the forest in Phu Pha Man National Park, northeastern Thailand, after several months in the care of the Khon Kaen wildlife rescue center. Image by Ana Norman Bermúdez for Mongabay.

‘A few are afraid of the chicks’: Preparing Thailand’s rescued leopard cats for life in the wild

Ana Norman Bermúdez 7 Oct 2026
Viernamese fishers in a boat.

Vietnam’s fishers face rising costs, declining catches and a contested sea

Minh L Tran 2 Oct 2026
A mother Philippine eagle, Aya, and her young, Cabuaya, at Mount Hamiguitan in their nest in 2005.

Philippine eagle habitat study maps mining risks and conservation priorities

Keith Anthony Fabro 30 Sep 2026
A logger carries his chainsaw through the forest of the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia. He will sell the timber to garment factories.

Despite a drop in deforestation in 2025, forest losses pile up in the Mekong

Gerald Flynn 29 Sep 2026
Protesters outside the Grand Hyatt Manila on Sept. 10 called for an end to the Pax Silica pact.

Planned US tech hub in Philippines hit over environmental and Indigenous land concerns

Michael Beltran 23 Sep 2026

Logging still threatens Bornean forest once envisioned as an Indigenous-led peace park

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 23 Sep 2026
A Northern pygmy slow loris

A rare slow loris may have a much larger population in China than scientists thought

Matthew Burkhart 22 Sep 2026
Freediver and turtle

Tourism has the potential to reverse coral decline at Bali travel hotspot: Study

Carolyn Cowan 22 Sep 2026
Bajau/PELITA member Well uses the Pocong, an octopus shaped fishing lure, to try and tempt an octopus out of the reef.

How freediving helps Indonesia’s Bajau preserve traditions and conserve marine life

Maddy Bolt 21 Sep 2026
A Tapanuli orangutan. Image © Bert Harris via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Tapanuli orangutans face mining, landslides, and fire threats — with no recovery plan

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Sep 2026
A newborn Irrawaddy dolphin calf, approximately three days old, was seen on Feb. 17, 2026

Mekong’s Irrawaddy dolphins find cautious hope amid a river in crisis

Eung Sea 17 Sep 2026
Mending fishing nets in Vietnam

Fishers bear deep costs of plastic pollution in Vietnam, but could help turn the tide

Carolyn Cowan 16 Sep 2026
Participant in forest restoration in the Annamite mountains in Vietnam.

Biodiversity corridor payments boost household incomes in Vietnam’s Annamite mountains

Carolyn Cowan 14 Sep 2026
Orangutans seen in the Leuser Ecosystem, the last place on earth where tigers, orangutans, elephants and rhinos still coexsist.

Singkil peat swamp: The embattled orangutan capital of the world

Mongabay 8 Sep 2026
Mindoro Bleeding-heart captured via camera trap.

A ‘lost’ Philippine pigeon reappears after 20 years — but its forest is disappearing

Keith Anthony Fabro 3 Sep 2026
A man working in a mine in Bicol.

Philippines fast-tracks critical minerals, raising Indigenous, environmental concerns

Keith Anthony Fabro 2 Sep 2026
Smooth-coated otters (Lutrogale perspicillata) have a midday snack at Jurong Eco Garden, Singapore. Image by JJ Harrison via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Logging operations uncovered at Cambodian senator’s dam in the Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn 2 Sep 2026

Can REDD+ deliver for Philippines’ Iraya Mangyan?

Keith Anthony Fabro 26 Aug 2026
National park staff, government officials and local community members conduct a tree survey in Nakai-Nam Theun National Park, Laos, located in the Annamite mountain range. Image by Oudomphone Insisiengmay.

Southeast Asia is a hotspot for oak trees, many under ‘dire threat’

Sean Mowbray 21 Aug 2026
A Visayan spotted deer (Rusa alfredi) in a zoo.

From one deer’s DNA, a road map emerges to save an endangered Philippine species

Pippo Carmona 14 Aug 2026

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