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A rice farmer harvesting in rice fields.

Thailand bets on coal despite long losing streak for communities

Kannikar Petchkaew 13 Oct 2022

Study highlights ‘friends with benefits’ relation between gorillas and chimps

Ryan Truscott 12 Oct 2022
The Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Indonesia

Indonesian banks prop up coal industry increasingly shunned by outside lenders

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Oct 2022
Pygmy loris

The slow, toxic and sleepy life of lorises is coded in their genes

Carolyn Cowan 11 Oct 2022
A bonobo

Easygoing bonobos accepting of outsiders, study says

Charles Mpaka 10 Oct 2022

Malaysia revokes oil palm concession near UNESCO-listed Bornean park

Rachel Donald 5 Oct 2022
Forest in the Baram Peace Park area in November 2019. The Baram Peace Park – or Taman Damai Baram – is an Indigenous community-led initiative that aims to protect old-growth forest and traditional Indigenous lands in the upper Baram river basin near the border with Indonesia. Photo credit: The Borneo Project.

Survey captures Bornean ecosystems and Indigenous lives around them

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 5 Oct 2022

As Indonesia paints rosy picture for orangutans, scientists ask: Where’s the data?

Philip Jacobson 3 Oct 2022
Elephant in Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve

In Vietnam, farmers show a willingness to work with the elephant in the room

Sean Mowbray 30 Sep 2022
Sumatran rhinos

New estimate of less than 50 Sumatran rhinos shows perilous population drop

Jeremy Hance 29 Sep 2022
A mugger crocodile.

Nepal’s mugger crocs face ‘senseless’ turf war over dwindling fish resources

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Sep 2022
Tampakan government employees close a facility belonging to Sagittarius Mines, Inc.

Activists welcome decision to revoke permit for controversial Philippine gold mine

Bong S. Sarmiento 21 Sep 2022
Nguy Thi Khanh

Vietnam’s Human Rights Council bid under fire after environmentalists jailed

Mongabay.com 14 Sep 2022
Tigers on a forest path.

‘South Asia needs its own tiger plan’: Q&A with Nepal’s Maheshwar Dhakal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 14 Sep 2022
Elephants in Zimbabwe.

As poachers poison wildlife, Zimbabwe finds an antidote in tougher laws

Ryan Truscott 12 Sep 2022

In Nepal, endangered tiger kills critically endangered gharial. What does it mean?

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Sep 2022
Seaweeds are harvested and dried.

Seaweed an increasingly fragile lifeline for Philippine farmers

Keith Anthony Fabro 1 Sep 2022

In Kathmandu, when the falcon’s away, pigeons come out to play. And poop

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Aug 2022
Fishers in a boat in the Malampaya Sound mangroves.

Healthy mangroves build a resilient community in the Philippines’ Palawan

Keith Anthony Fabro 29 Aug 2022
A young fisherman uses a legal net.

Fisheries crackdown pushes Cambodians to the brink on Tonle Sap lake

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 26 Aug 2022
Loggers cut down a tree with a chainsaw.

Australian miner threatens lawsuit against PNG for scrapping carbon scheme

Rachel Donald 15 Aug 2022
Camera trap image of an adult male and a baby gorilla in Ebo Forest.

Study highlights elusive Cameroonian gorillas, and the threats encircling them

Ryan Truscott 10 Aug 2022
A crane lifts an elephant into a truck.

Jumbo task as Malawi moves 263 elephants to restock a degraded national park

Charles Mpaka 5 Aug 2022

Indigenous activists in Borneo claim win as logging firm removes equipment from disputed area

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 2 Aug 2022
A coal mine in Borneo.

Building Indonesia’s ‘green’ new capital could see coal use surge (analysis)

Chun Sheng Goh 2 Aug 2022
A chimpanzee digs a well as another adult chimpanzee with an infant watches.

Chimps digging wells shows learned behavior that may help amid climate change

Manon Verchot, Sanshey Biswas 28 Jul 2022
Artist's impression of the Nombe kangaroo.

Giant kangaroo fossil points to previously unknown species in New Guinea

Jim Tan 27 Jul 2022

Worries and whispers in Vietnam’s NGO community after activist’s sentencing

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2022
Ibrahim with the underground water source

In Thailand’s deep south, a fight to stop quarrying in a global geopark

Kannikar Petchkaew 6 Jul 2022
Boats in Lake Malawi National Park.

Construction begins on controversial water project inside Lake Malawi National Park

Charles Mpaka 4 Jul 2022
A chimpanzee in the Congo rainforests

Data from droppings: Researchers draw up a genetic ID map for chimps

Charles Mpaka 1 Jul 2022
A king cobra in Nepal.

Nepal conservationists work to overturn ‘all snakes are venomous’ mindset

Abhaya Raj Joshi 15 Jun 2022

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