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The saltwater crocodile — the world’s largest reptile — can exceed 6 meters (20 feet) in length

Wetland destruction for mining, oil palm tied to crocodile attacks in Indonesia

Taufik Wijaya 23 Apr 2026

Open dumping & failed reforms bury Sri Lankan cities in waste problem

Malaka Rodrigo 23 Apr 2026

Singapore to halt sourcing and breeding dolphins

Mongabay.com 23 Apr 2026
Volunteer surveyors in Singapore

Citizen science helps reconnect Singapore treetops for elusive leaf-eating langurs

Carolyn Cowan 23 Apr 2026
Asian elephant in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Image by Tim Parkinson via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Elephants adjust what they eat in altered habitats, signaling growing pressure

David Brown 23 Apr 2026
A woman and child cross a street flooded due to Typhoon Fung-wong in November 2025, in Navotas, Philippines. Image © Aaron Favila/AP Photo.

Disaster impacts in 2025 were ‘typical’ despite no mega-disasters: Report

Shanna Hanbury 22 Apr 2026
A Chinese pangolin. Image by Sarita Jnawali of NTNC – Central Zoo via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

In Nepal, controversial dam threatens endangered pangolins: Study

Bibek Bhandari 22 Apr 2026
Black rhinos are critically endangered.

Chinese court cases reveal most trafficked rhino horns come from Southern Africa

Spoorthy Raman 21 Apr 2026
A solar power plant installation for a mosque. Image by Jaka Hendra Baittri/Mongabay Indonesia.

Fossil fuel subsidies and high costs stall energy transition across rural Indonesia

Luh De Suriyani 21 Apr 2026
New-to-science microsnail, Clostophis udayaditinus. Image courtesy of Somsak Panha, the lead author of the species description.

Translucent microsnail discovered in Cambodia: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 21 Apr 2026

Five ‘lost’ bird species rediscovered in 2025

Mongabay.com 21 Apr 2026
Joy as a baby. Image courtesy of Gibbon Conservation Society.

To tackle trafficking in gibbons, experts probe what drives demand

Ana Norman Bermúdez 20 Apr 2026
Pa Haw, father of Saw Si Paw, takes to the Salween River each morning to inspect their nets for fish, despite heavy metal contamination linked to mining sites upstream. Photo by Gerald Flynn/Mongabay.

Asia’s longest free-flowing river contaminated by arsenic linked to Myanmar mines

Gerald Flynn 20 Apr 2026
A Philippine duck (Anas luzonica) at Liguasan Marsh.

Energy crisis revives push to drill in Philippines’ largest intact wetland

Bong S. Sarmiento 17 Apr 2026

In Sri Lanka, animals pay the price for overcrowding and speeding jeeps

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 17 Apr 2026

EU deforestation law nudges timber trade, Indonesia probe shows, but risks persist

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Apr 2026

Community-led ecotourism protects rebounding wild cattle in Thailand

Mongabay.com 17 Apr 2026

A chimpanzee’s rhythmic drumming with floorboards hints at origins of instruments

Liz Kimbrough 16 Apr 2026
A Borneo orangutan.

See an orangutan, take a photo, earn some money: A viable conservation model?

Linnea Hoover 15 Apr 2026
A yellow-fronted canary from South Africa. The songbird tops the list of wild birds exported from Africa to Asia.

Nearly a million birds shipped from Africa to Asia in 15 years; canaries top the list

Spoorthy Raman 15 Apr 2026
A student goes to school wearing a mask in the haze that blankets the city of Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan in 2017.

Indonesia braces for possible ‘Godzilla El Niño’ as fire season escalates early

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Apr 2026
A pygmy long-fingered possum (Dactylonax kambuayai), photographed in 2023. Image courtesy of Jon Hall/mammalwatching.com.

‘Rediscovered’ species in Papua spotlight importance of Indigenous knowledge

John Cannon 15 Apr 2026

Afghanistan’s capital is in the grip of a water crisis

Associated Press 14 Apr 2026
Casper octopus

This ghost octopus is facing a new threat

Juan Maza 14 Apr 2026
Schaller with a peccary. Courtesy of the George B. Schaller Archive.

George Schaller: The field biologist who helped redefine conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Apr 2026

Landmark win for Thai villagers, but gold mine appeal delays justice

Mongabay.com 14 Apr 2026
Of the 500 timber species growing in Bangladesh, boilam is one of the tallest. Image by Mohammad Minhaj Uddin.

Conservation efforts help an endangered dipterocarp spread roots in Bangladesh

Sadiqur Rahman 14 Apr 2026

Two-month-old bear cubs rescued from Facebook sale in Laos

Naina Rao 14 Apr 2026
Visitors report seeing kalij pheasants (Lophura leucomelanos), a forest-dependent native species, around the reforestation site. Image by Mprasannak via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

30-year Himalayan project shows power of community-led forest restoration

Shradha Triveni 13 Apr 2026

A new bird species has been discovered in Japan after 45 years

Naina Rao 13 Apr 2026

Repeated failures expose gaps in Indonesia’s nickel waste management

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Apr 2026

The mother of orangutans

Izzy Sasada 11 Apr 2026

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