Isabel Esterman

About

I am a writer and editor currently based in Cairo, Egypt after beginning my career in Southeast Asia. I have a deep interest in the intersections of biodiversity, conservation, environmental science and human rights.

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26 stories

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From declining deforestation to quitting coal, Indonesia marks a pivotal 2022

Isabel Esterman 30 Dec 2022

Mongabay’s top 10 stories of 2022

Isabel Esterman 29 Dec 2022

Mongabay’s 10 most popular posts of 2021

Isabel Esterman 30 Dec 2021

Causes for celebration, and concern, on World Gorilla Day

Isabel Esterman 24 Sep 2021

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

Isabel Esterman 3 Mar 2021

Global biodiversity treaty still searches for its moment in the spotlight

Isabel Esterman 3 Dec 2018

Natural gas project that promised economic boom leaves PNG in ‘worse state’: report

Isabel Esterman 17 May 2018

Documenting Africa’s poaching epidemic: Q&A with the director of ‘The Last Animals’

Isabel Esterman 22 Sep 2017

Traffickers find new ways to smuggle rhino horn out of Africa

Isabel Esterman 19 Sep 2017

As habitat fragmentation increases, so does extinction risk: study

Isabel Esterman 3 Jul 2017

One of Malaysia’s last rhinos euthanized to ‘end her suffering’

Isabel Esterman 5 Jun 2017

Rare Malaysian rhino still sick, but showing signs of improvement

Isabel Esterman 10 Apr 2017

One of the last three rhinos in Malaysia is critically ill

Isabel Esterman 7 Apr 2017

Japanese, Singaporean banks finance controversial Indonesian coal plant

Isabel Esterman 6 Mar 2017

SpongeBob SquarePants and the ‘last frontier’ of the Philippines

Isabel Esterman 23 Feb 2017

Environmental lawyer killed in the Philippines

Isabel Esterman 21 Feb 2017

World Bank loans support high-carbon development in Indonesia: report

Isabel Esterman 26 Jan 2017

Southeast Asia’s coal boom could cause 70,000 deaths per year by 2030, report says

Isabel Esterman 16 Jan 2017

An ‘infrastructure tsunami’ for Asia: Q&A with researcher William Laurance

Isabel Esterman 6 Jan 2017

French bank backs out of financing Indonesian coal plant

Isabel Esterman 4 Jan 2017

Lessons from the $2 billion coal mining lawsuit against Indonesia

Isabel Esterman 20 Dec 2016

Reports that wild Sumatran rhinos may survive in Malaysia prompt hope, skepticism

Isabel Esterman 8 Dec 2016

Its own rhinos hunted to extinction, Vietnam is a hub for the rhino horn trade

Isabel Esterman 10 Nov 2016

Rhino killed in India’s Kaziranga Park, highlighting the ever-present threat of poachers

Isabel Esterman 24 Oct 2016

World Bank money is helping to finance Asia’s coal boom: report

Isabel Esterman 19 Oct 2016

Efforts to conserve Asia’s rhinos meet successes, setbacks

Isabel Esterman 22 Sep 2016

News and Inspiration from Nature's Frontline.

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A firefighter puts out fires in a peatland in Indonesia.

Mangroves on Vanua Levu Island, Fiji. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

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