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India repatriates seized orangutan, raising hopes for five more

Mongabay.com 6 Nov 2026

Extreme heat is creating a workplace health crisis in Bangladesh’s garment industry

Mongabay.com 6 Nov 2026

AI tiger-warning system rooted in local knowledge stalls for lack of support

Mongabay.com 5 Nov 2026

Artificial mangrove roots offer temporary shield for Thailand’s eroding coastline

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2026

Legal loopholes and weak enforcement leave India’s exotic pet trade hard to police

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2026

India’s forgotten vegetables offer a glimpse into what global diets are missing

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2026

Artificial nests help Hong Kong’s rare cockatoos cope with a ‘housing crisis’

Mongabay.com 28 Oct 2026

A Thai rescue center gives injured leopard cat cubs a second chance

Mongabay.com 28 Oct 2026

Two decades after crash, Nepal still searching for new generation of conservation visionaries

Mongabay.com 23 Oct 2026

Rare Indonesian maleo birds face new threat from international exotic pet trade

Mongabay.com 22 Oct 2026

Six new calves offer hope amid ongoing threats to Cambodia’s Irrawaddy dolphins

Mongabay.com 20 Oct 2026

Dhaka’s waste-to-energy plant face backlash over air pollution

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2026

Australia’s new eco police flexes muscles with major wildlife trafficking bust

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2026

Logging threatens Bornean forest earmarked for Indigenous Peace Park

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2026

A shopper walks through Chatuchak Market carrying her pet raccoon.

More Latin American species are surfacing at a Bangkok wildlife market

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2026

Sumatran tiger

Weak prosecution leaves Southeast Asia’s tigers vulnerable to trafficking: Report

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2026

Women shoulder the burden of expanding wildfires in rural India

Mongabay.com 2 Oct 2026

Gillnetting fishers off North Sentinel- wreck coast: Fishermen from South Andaman lay gillnets around North Sentinel Island, exploiting the rich fishery. This picture in from 1999, and the exploitation has increased to skin diving lobster fishermen, hook & line fishers, trawlers, and also opportunists of various intent and origin. Image courtesy of Mandish Chandi.

India’s isolated island tribes need autonomy to survive rising threats, says scholar

Mongabay.com 1 Oct 2026

Endangered dolphins survive in a Bangladesh river so polluted it’s ‘not livable’ for fish

Mongabay.com 1 Oct 2026

Honoring Jane Goodall’s conservation legacy and combatting misinformation

Mongabay.com 22 Sep 2026

Drought and state neglect deepen health crisis for Peru’s recently contacted Matsés

Mongabay.com 22 Sep 2026

New study reveals the genetic history – and possible future – of four Asian hornbills

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2026

At 86, Sri Lanka’s ‘father of herpetology’ inspires a new conservation generation

Mongabay.com 18 Sep 2026

Exotic pet trade poses rising zoonotic disease risks in India

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2026

Abandoned houses in Tengjhih, a settlement of the Bunun Indigenous people, in southern Taiwan, on Aug. 6, 2026. Image by Aylin Ho for Mongabay.

Displaced by typhoons, Taiwan’s Bunun Indigenous people struggle to preserve heritage

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2026

Bhutan’s pursuit of happiness takes root on its farms

Mongabay.com 7 Sep 2026

Genetic road map offers hope for threatened Visayan spotted deer

Mongabay.com 4 Sep 2026

Women farmers in Sumatra find a gentler way to keep elephants at bay

Mongabay.com 3 Sep 2026

For the Iraya, the forest is a largely unwritten living archive.

The race to document Indigenous knowledge to protect Philippines’ birds

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2026

Southeast Asia’s oak trees highly threatened as report warns of lack of protection

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2026

Singapore made a crow-friendly city. Now it wants to shoot them

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2026

A Sumatran villager lost ground to the sea. So he planted mangroves

Mongabay.com 27 Aug 2026

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