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Joseph Vargas and Wilma Abanil in their home

As gas giants move in, Philippine fishers fight for their seas and survival

Nick Aspinwall 29 Jul 2025
Indigenous Lumad women hold slogans during a rally outside a military headquarters in the Philippines in 2018

Across Southeast Asia, Indigenous women challenge extraction and erasure

Hướng Thiện 25 Jul 2025
An adult Sumatran orangutan

Orangutans make up for lost sleep with daytime naps, study finds

Carolyn Cowan 24 Jul 2025
The StAR Project, which has been breeding and releasing Indo-Pacific leopard sharks in Indonesia, has now opened a nursery in Phuket.

Conservationists raise sharks to restore reefs in waters around Thailand

Claire Turrell 18 Jul 2025
A male proboscis monkey with its characteristic long nose. The species is classified as endangered and is already threatened by habitat destruction, wildfires and hunting.

Study finds worrying uptick in proboscis monkey trade in Indonesia

Spoorthy Raman 18 Jul 2025
A northern cassowary

Forest connectivity key to preserving PNG’s spectacular rainforest birds: Study

Carolyn Cowan 8 Jul 2025

As Thailand’s fishing cats face habitat loss & conflict, experts seek resolution

Carolyn Cowan 3 Jul 2025
A mimic poison frog (Ranitomeya imitator).

EU remains major wildlife trafficking hub, report finds

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 Jun 2025
Glass eels are a juvenile form of the European eel (Anguilla anguilla), a species that undergoes an incredible 10,000 kilometer (6,200 mile) migration. Photo courtesy of Alessandro Cresci.

Glass eel smuggling booms despite bans, leaving species on the brink

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 Jun 2025
Boats sporting "No Dam" parade down the Salween River along the Thai-Myanmar border in March 2025. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Specter of dams and diversion looms over Southeast Asia’s Salween River

Gerald Flynn 19 Jun 2025
Clown anemonefish live symbiotically with anemone

When heat waves hit, clownfish shrink to survive, study finds

Keith Anthony Fabro 18 Jun 2025
Keleino and his colleagues leave a community after training for the city of Lae.

‘It’s our garden’: PNG villages fight to prevent mine waste dumping in the sea

John Cannon 13 Jun 2025
A seaweed farmer on Nusa Lembongan flashes a warm, cheeky smile as she moves through her daily harvesting routine.

Indonesian women sustain seaweed traditions in a changing climate

Maddy Bolt 10 Jun 2025

Rare earth rush in Myanmar blamed for toxic river spillover into Thailand

Stefan Lovgren 9 Jun 2025
Group of grey-shanked douc langurs in a tree.

New population of rare douc langurs found in Vietnam’s highland forests

Carolyn Cowan 9 Jun 2025
A woman in the field in the Bien La commune.

Study shows Vietnam’s ethnic communities’ grapple with hydropower plant impacts

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 5 Jun 2025
Representatives from several associations submit an open letter to the UNFCCC, stating that climate finance must adhere to the principle of historical responsibility for the climate change by wealthy industrialized countries by repaying the 'ecological debt' to developing countries in the Global South.

Carbon capture projects promise a climate fix — and a fossil fuel lifeline

Nithin Coca 4 Jun 2025
Sakda Khayankitphuanphon took reporters into the old mining tunnels to see the fluorite that Universal Mining seeks to extract from the mountains. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Mining company returns to haunt Thailand’s Karen communities as resistance mounts

Gerald Flynn 4 Jun 2025
women working in a field in Uganda

Peril and persistence define the path of Africa’s conservationists

Orji Sunday 3 Jun 2025
A Javan gibbons (Hylobates moloch)

After years of silence, Indonesia moves to assess its iconic wildlife

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 29 May 2025
Asian small-clawed otter

DNA probe links Japan’s otter-themed cafes to poaching hotspots in Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 26 May 2025

In New Guinea, megadiverse lowland forests are most at risk of deforestation

Carolyn Cowan 21 May 2025
Cambodian journalist Ouk Mao has been placed under court surveillance for exposing deforestation linked to a powerful mining company. Image by Nehru Pry / Mongabay.

Cambodian environmental journalist Ouk Mao arrested

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 16 May 2025

Indigenous conservationists lead the fight to save Mentawai’s endangered primates

Ana Norman Bermúdez 15 May 2025
Palm oil farmer

Profit imbalance in palm oil industry risks environmental compliance, report says

Carolyn Cowan 15 May 2025
Cambodian journalist Ouk Mao has faced physical and legal threats for his continued reporting on environmental crimes in Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. Image by Nehru Pry / Mongabay.

Attacks on Cambodian environmental journalist continue to pile up

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 12 May 2025
Aeta women read a book.

Viral standoff at Philippines’ Mt. Pinatubo exposes decades of Indigenous exclusion

Michael Beltran 9 May 2025
A western lowland gorilla in Cameroon.

In Cameroon’s forgotten forests, gorillas and chimps hang on

Spoorthy Raman 7 May 2025

Mother Nature Cambodia activists denied bail by Supreme Court

Gerald Flynn 2 May 2025
An aerial view of mining operations run by KP Cement, Vantage Mining and others inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary in October 2023. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Cement factory approved inside Cambodia’s Prey Lang sanctuary despite mining ban

Gerald Flynn 28 Apr 2025

Armed groups and junta profit as toxic mines devour southern Myanmar

Dawei Watch 23 Apr 2025
Agarwood is a prized constituent in incense, perfumes, medicines and ornaments and remains in high demand across East Asia and the Middle East–North Africa region.

Global agarwood trade heavily dependent on wild, threatened trees: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 Apr 2025

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