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One-two punch of habitat loss, capture hammers Southeast Asian birds

Basten Gokkon 16 Oct 2018

Land rights, forests, food systems central to limiting global warming: report

Justin Catanoso 15 Oct 2018

Second environmental expert sued over testimony against palm oil firm

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Oct 2018

It’s déjà vu for orangutans, devastated by climate change and hunting once before

Linda Lombardi 11 Oct 2018

In a rhino stronghold, indigenous wood-carvers cut through stereotypes

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 10 Oct 2018

Indonesian government puts off Sumatran rhino IVF program

Basten Gokkon 10 Oct 2018
Monopterus rongsaw, a swamp eel from India. Photo © Rachunliu G Kamei

Hot pink swamp eel discovered in Indian rainforest

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2018
The coast of Freedom Island in Metro Manila teems with trash in this photo taken in 2017. Image courtesy of Greenpeace.

Plastic trash from the ‘sachet economy’ chokes the Philippines’ seas

Bong S. Sarmiento 9 Oct 2018

Int’l protections not stopping pangolin overexploitation in Cameroon

John Cannon 8 Oct 2018
Planet satellite image of Sipatnanam, Fakfak Regency. Taken in September 2018. Courtesy of Planet.

To conserve West Papua, start with land rights (commentary)

Bernadinus Steni, Daniel Nepstad 5 Oct 2018

Business and biodiversity benefit from Kyrgyz agroforestry systems

Cholpon Uzakbaeva 5 Oct 2018

Dam project pushes threatened orangutans from forest to farms

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2018

Nepali scientists deploy drones to count endangered crocodiles

Abhaya Raj Joshi 4 Oct 2018

The rhino reckoning

Jeremy Hance 2 Oct 2018

Jakarta cancels permits for controversial bay reclamation project

Basten Gokkon 2 Oct 2018

The great rhino U-turn

Jeremy Hance 28 Sep 2018

In an Indonesian village, compressor diving for fish is a dangerous business

Fathul Rakhman 27 Sep 2018

Traditional Kyrgyz walnut-apple forests provide map for sustainable future

Cholpon Uzakbaeva 27 Sep 2018

New survey results show Nepal is on track to double its tiger population by 2022

Mongabay.com 26 Sep 2018

Dress like a polar bear: learning to love muskoxen at 15 below zero

Gloria Dickie 25 Sep 2018

Indonesian fish farmers get early-warning system for lake pollution

M Ambari 25 Sep 2018

Deforestation-linked palm oil still finding its way into top consumer brands: report

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Sep 2018

China’s primates could disappear by end of this century, study warns

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Sep 2018

Indonesian president signs order to accelerate land reform

Donny Iqbal, Lusia Arumingtyas 25 Sep 2018

A herd of dead rhinos

Jeremy Hance 24 Sep 2018

Limi Valley: A threatened Shangri-La for wildlife (commentary)

Yadav Ghimirey 24 Sep 2018
A forestry department ground inspection team checks the timber to be exported and monitors con-tainer loading at the site before sealing the container. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay.

Activists blast Myanmar timber deal: ‘There is no transparency at all’

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2018

Activists say Indonesia dragging its heels on indigenous rights

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Sep 2018

1984: the meeting that changed everything for Sumatran rhinos

Jeremy Hance 20 Sep 2018

Indonesian president signs 3-year freeze on new oil palm licenses

Mongabay.com 20 Sep 2018

Indonesia’s Teater Potlot takes on the plight of the Sumatran tiger

Taufik Wijaya 19 Sep 2018
Planet satellite image of the open pit copper-gold mine on Sumbawa.

Indonesian province calls time-out on mining

Ebed de Rosary 19 Sep 2018

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