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Indonesia adds hundreds of birds to protected species list

Basten Gokkon 3 Aug 2018

Study links US demand for Chinese furniture to deforestation in Africa

John Cannon 3 Aug 2018
The Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest species of great ape. Photo © Maxime Aliaga.

Belt and Road Initiative could doom the world’s rarest ape (commentary)

William F. Laurance 2 Aug 2018

Chinese / Western financing of roads, dams led to major Andes Amazon deforestation

Gus Greenstein 1 Aug 2018

Meet the Bornean village chief dealing with the fallout from a corrupt plantation deal

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 1 Aug 2018

India’s dancing deer and their unique floating home are under threat

Sahana Ghosh 31 Jul 2018
Indigenous women march in Puyo, Ecuador on March 8, 2018. Photo by Kimberley Brown/Mongabay.

In battle over land rights, indigenous groups are fighting uphill

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jul 2018
Timber is only allowed to be exported via ports and must be processed before export in Myanmar. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay.

Rampant timber smuggling in Myanmar as forest service restructures

Genevieve Belmaker 30 Jul 2018

Indonesia forest assessment casts an optimistic light on a complex issue

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Jul 2018

Community groups in Cambodia say logging surged with approaching election

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2018

Combining aerial imagery and field data estimates timber harvest and carbon emissions

Neha Jain 27 Jul 2018

In Malaysia, an island drowns in its own development

Keith Schneider 26 Jul 2018

New flash-flood warning system in India could be life-saving

Karthikeyan Hemalatha, Mayank Aggarwal 24 Jul 2018
A butterfly in the forest outside Son Doong Cave. (Photo courtesy Professor Phuong Ta)

In Vietnam, cable car plans continue to threaten important cave system

Kit Humphrey 24 Jul 2018
Sumatran elephants are critically endangered and could go extinct in the wild before mid-century. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Study finds elephants plant trees, play big role in forest structure

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Jul 2018

As planned excise flops, Indonesia ponders how to give up plastic bags

Basten Gokkon 23 Jul 2018

India’s pre-election changes to green laws draw criticism

Mayank Aggarwal 19 Jul 2018

Cross-border camera trap research puts wild Amur leopard number at 84

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2018

First fern genomes sequenced — and they hold a lot of promise

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Jul 2018

Southeast Asian deforestation more extensive than thought, study finds

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 18 Jul 2018

Cracks appear in Malaysia’s building spree, once a model for development

Keith Schneider 17 Jul 2018
Duong Le feeds shrimp on his intensive shrimp farm in Long An Province, Vietnam. Image by Zoe Osborne for Mongabay.

Pushing Vietnam’s shrimp industry toward sustainability

Zoe Osborne 17 Jul 2018
Wood that was cut for charcoal production near Katha, northern Myanmar. Villages in this area used to cut teak and other valuable trees for export, but have since started producing charcoal. The charcoal being exported to China can be made from any tree, regardless of size or kind. This amount of trees could produce about 150 bags of charcoal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

‘Single-minded determination’: China’s global infrastructure spree rings alarm bells

Basten Gokkon 17 Jul 2018

Scientists urge Indonesian president to nix dam in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Jul 2018

After devastating floods in 2013, an Indian state ignores the lessons

Mayank Aggarwal, Video by Kartik Chandramouli 13 Jul 2018

Extractive industries threaten a million square kilometers of intact tropical forests around the globe

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jul 2018

Rhino poop gives villagers in India a conservation incentive

Moushumi Basu 11 Jul 2018

Vietnam’s bear bile farms are collapsing — but it may not be good news

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Jul 2018

RSPO fails to deliver on environmental and social sustainability, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Jul 2018

Revealed: Paper giant’s ex-staff say it used their names for secret company in Borneo

Philip Jacobson 10 Jul 2018

Tiger, clouded leopard skins among illegal wildlife parts seized in Malaysia

Mongabay.com 9 Jul 2018

Palm oil firms using ‘shadow companies’ to hide their links to deforestation: report

Daniel Pye 9 Jul 2018

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