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A rose-ringed parakeet carries a head of grain in Kathmandu Valley.

Nepal farmers struggle to access relief for wildlife crop damage

Suresh Bidari 5 Jun 2026

Indigenous communities in eastern Indonesia revive systems for marine protection

Mongabay.com 5 Jun 2026
Phuon Keorasmey, 23, a prominent figure in Mother Nature Cambodia, is arrested on July 2, 2024. Image courtesy of Licadho.

Rights groups renew call to free jailed Cambodian environmental activists

Gerald Flynn 5 Jun 2026

Bangladesh struggles to enforce ‘polluter pays’ principle amid legal delays

Sadiqur Rahman 4 Jun 2026
Sok Pheap climbs a tree to tap resin.

Bengal tigers in Cambodia? Reintroduction plan raises questions

Arathi Menon, Andy Ball 4 Jun 2026

Tiny ‘sesame’ sea slug discovered in Taiwan is first of its genus named in 30 years

Naina Rao 4 Jun 2026

Solar power brings energy to rural Indonesia, but inequality remains

Mongabay.com 3 Jun 2026
Survivors inspect clothings they salvaged at a village affected by a flash flood in Batang Toru, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

Survivors sue Indonesian government over response to catastrophic Sumatra floods

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Jun 2026

Conservationists wary of Nepal’s plan to relocate blackbucks

Mongabay.com 2 Jun 2026
This is ecoprint fabric created by the Ambu Halimun women's group, utilizing plants found in the surrounding Halimun forest. Photo: Falahi Mubarok/Mongabay Indonesia

In Java, a women’s collective is helping save gibbons through forest-inspired textiles

Falahi Mubarok 2 Jun 2026

The global trafficking ring preying on a rare golden monkey from Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel, Marco Mantovani 1 Jun 2026

Global sand demand is outpacing nature’s ability to replenish it, UN says

Mongabay.com 1 Jun 2026

Intense heat during Mecca’s spring threatens millions of Hajj pilgrims

Naina Rao 1 Jun 2026

27 Moon Bears rescued from illegal Laos bile farm

Naina Rao 1 Jun 2026
Yo Yaj at Songkhla Lake, Thailand

What is happening to Thailand’s famous giant nets

Lucia Torres 30 May 2026

Sri Lanka flamingo deaths raise concerns over power infrastructure in wetlands

Malaka Rodrigo 29 May 2026

Nepal’s infrastructure risks wildlife habitats beyond protected areas, study warns

Deepak Adhikari 27 May 2026
Banner image of Myanmar teak courtesy of EIA.

Luxury yacht maker Sunseeker pleads guilty to violating a US environmental law

Naina Rao 27 May 2026
Yap conducts canopy bridge education. Image by Wong Hui Yi/Langur Project Penang.

Building bridges for human-wildlife coexistence: Interview with Yap Jo Leen

Philip Jacobson, Isabelle Leong 27 May 2026
Illegal sand and gold mining

Indonesia seizes mercury shipment bound for illegal mines in the Philippines

Anggita Raissa 26 May 2026
A rhododendron tree with the snow-capped Himalayan mountains in the background.

Nepal’s rhododendron tourism sparks unchecked liquor trade concerns

Mukesh Pokhrel 26 May 2026
A leopard cat in India’s West Bengal state. India’s population of leopard cats is not contiguous, with individuals in the western part of the country isolated from the rest of the leopard cat’s range. Image by Soumyajit Nandy via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Asia’s overlooked leopard cat

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 May 2026
Aerial view of a cargo ship. Photo by Cameron Venti / Ocean Image Bank

The most underfunded climate opportunities may be at sea

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 May 2026

West Asia conflict brings Norwegian marine research vessel back to Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 23 May 2026

In Kyrgyzstan, a climate-ready corridor gives snow leopards and herders room to roam

Liz Kimbrough 22 May 2026
Tigers swim in an artificial pond inside the central zoo in Kathmandu.

Nepal prepares to hand over mega zoo project to conservation body

Rajendra Pokherel 22 May 2026

‘Same dangerous project’: Fury after Indonesia revives disputed mine

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 May 2026
Two hoolock gibbon in Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary, India. Image by কুমুদ ঘোষ via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

What drives the trafficking of gibbons? Conservationists shed light on demand

Mongabay.com 22 May 2026
Bengal slow loris

Slow lorises struggle to survive in the wild after captivity

Mongabay.com 22 May 2026
The site of an illegal gold mine in Sijunjung Regency where a landslide occurred, killing nine people.

Nine killed at illegal mine in latest Sumatra landslide tragedy as gold surge continues

Novia Harlina 21 May 2026

Norlan Pagal, fisherman and guardian of Tañon Strait, died on May 14th, aged 56

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 May 2026
A goatherd looks through solar panels in Bangladesh. Image by UN Environment Programme/Reza Shariar Rahman via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Bangladesh’s energy crunch highlights the promise — and limits — of solar

Md Jahidul Islam 21 May 2026

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