Isabel Esterman

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Sumatran rhinos show low inbreeding — but when it happens, collapse is quick

Carolyn Cowan 29 Apr 2021

Environmental art initiative aims to help paint a better future for Southeast Asia

Carolyn Cowan 21 Apr 2021

Caring for those ‘just like us’: Q&A with vet and great ape advocate Rick Quinn

Mongabay.com 20 Apr 2021

Illegal coal mine tunnels threaten a Sumatran village

Jaka Hendra Baittri 19 Apr 2021

South Korea faces a public reckoning for financing coal plants in Indonesia

Seulki Lee 15 Apr 2021

Cambodia puts its arduous titling process for Indigenous land up for review

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 15 Apr 2021

Frustration over light penalties for coal mine that polluted Indonesian river

Della Syahni 5 Apr 2021

In Malaysia, the fate of a peat forest hinges on a powerful state official

Fatima Qureshi 5 Apr 2021

Rare captive-bred crocodiles develop new, ‘odd’ habits in Philippine wild

Erwin M. Mascariñas 2 Apr 2021

Mixed fates for captive elephants sent back to villages amid Thai tourism collapse

Carolyn Cowan 1 Apr 2021

In Indonesia, an illegal leopard trade thrives out of sight, new study shows

Claudia Geib 24 Mar 2021

Indonesian campaigners triumph against a coal mine in top court

Della Syahni 23 Mar 2021

Myanmar’s environmental record was weak but improving. Then came the coup

Andrew Nachemson 18 Mar 2021

King Coal: How Indonesia became the fossil fuel’s final frontier

Nithin Coca 17 Mar 2021

Video: Doomed or viable? Sumatran rhino captive breeding faces a dilemma

Isabel Esterman 3 Mar 2021

In Malaysian Borneo’s rainforests, powerful state governments set their own rules

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 18 Feb 2021

In Indonesia, a village held hostage by coal pleads for change

Della Syahni 4 Feb 2021

For border-crossing Thai tigers, the forest on the other side isn’t as green

Carolyn Cowan 3 Feb 2021

Mongabay editor Philip Jacobson wins courage in journalism award

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2021

Award-winning Thai community continues the fight to save its wetland forest

Carolyn Cowan 11 Jan 2021

Indonesia’s five most consequential environmental stories of 2020

Loren Bell 29 Dec 2020

As world sours on coal, top producer Indonesia tries to sweeten it at home

Nithin Coca 28 Dec 2020

Pollution, water cuts strengthen calls for environmental law reform in Malaysia

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 23 Dec 2020

Being realistic about coal mine rehabilitation in Indonesia: An ecological perspective

David Woodbury, Arbainsyah 23 Dec 2020

On plantations and in ‘protected’ areas, Sumatran elephants keep turning up dead

Mongabay Indonesia, Tempo 16 Dec 2020
Sumatran elephants. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

A forest in Sumatra disappears for farms and roads. So do its elephants

Mongabay Indonesia, Tempo 14 Dec 2020

Dolphins face growing pressure as development eats into Borneo’s interior

Carolyn Cowan 2 Dec 2020

Coal stockpiles threaten public health, ancient temple, in Indonesian village

Yitno Suprapto 23 Nov 2020

11 workers killed in landslide at illegal coal mining site in Indonesia

Taufik Wijaya 3 Nov 2020

In Uganda, safeguarding chimpanzees against the scourge of snaring

Alex Dudley 20 Oct 2020

The Sumatran rhino is sliding into extinction. It doesn’t have to

Mongabay.com 19 Oct 2020

In Bali, the pandemic unravels a hard-won campaign to save Benoa Bay

Alaine Johnson 12 Oct 2020

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