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The binturong or bearcat (Arctictis binturong). Photographed in Cambodia by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

What is a binturong?

Carly Nairn 13 Oct 2016

Mother Nature and a hydropower onslaught aren’t the Mekong Delta’s only problems

David E. Brown 13 Oct 2016

Airbus to marshal its satellites against deforestation

Philip Jacobson 12 Oct 2016

Struggle against mining on Bangka Island continues despite wins in court

M Ambari 11 Oct 2016

Scientists dive deep to discover new fish species at 150 meters

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Oct 2016

Fires ravaged forests in Indonesian palm oil giant Astra’s land in 2015

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2016

Indonesia’s oil palm plantations are rife with spitting cobras

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 6 Oct 2016

Vietnam sweats bullets as China and Laos dam the Mekong

David E. Brown 6 Oct 2016

Hunting, not deforestation, biggest threat to Southeast Asian biodiversity: Study

Mike Gaworecki 6 Oct 2016

House of Mussels: an artificial reef off the coast of Jakarta

Edith Koesoemawiria 5 Oct 2016

Laws alone don’t stop companies from abandoning deadly mine pits in Indonesia

Yitno Suprapto 5 Oct 2016

New species of rabbit-like pika discovered in India

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Oct 2016

The Myanmar snub-nosed monkey: discovered and immediately endangered

Sean Mowbray 4 Oct 2016

Victory for forests: Rosewood gets enhanced protection at wildlife summit

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Oct 2016

139 scientists shoot down ‘misleading’ reports from Malaysia peat congress

Loren Bell 4 Oct 2016

Will climate change sink the Mekong Delta?

David E. Brown 3 Oct 2016

Disappearing Gardeners: thoughts on the Laotian elephant crisis

Shannon Cuthbert 3 Oct 2016

Russia’s Far East: then and now

Jeremy Hance 1 Oct 2016

Indonesia exploring new model to fund national parks

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 30 Sep 2016

No decline in tiger trafficking: new report

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Sep 2016

Fires driving deforestation in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Mongabay.com 29 Sep 2016
Truck carrying logs across the river border Zizhi Yunnan in 2012. Photo courtesy Environmental Investigation Agency

Myanmar’s forests face myriad problems as logging ban continues

Jennifer Rigby 29 Sep 2016

Slave-linked fishing firm thought to have resumed operations in Indonesia

M Ambari 29 Sep 2016

Conservationists: It’s time for pangolins to be listed on Appendix I of CITES

Mike Gaworecki 27 Sep 2016

China’s reforestation program a letdown for wildlife, study finds

Benji Jones 27 Sep 2016

Indonesia seeks foreign funds to aid peat restoration drive

Mongabay Haze Beat 26 Sep 2016

Lao PDR commits to shut its commercial tiger farms

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Sep 2016

Alaska’s salmon and Vietnam’s doucs: wildlife narratives by Producer Tim Plowden

Shannon Cuthbert 26 Sep 2016

‘We are revolutionaries’: Villagers fight to protect Myanmar’s forests

Katie Arnold 23 Sep 2016

Calls for CITES to address the corruption fueling the illegal wildlife trade

Mike Gaworecki 23 Sep 2016

Lao PDR failing to curb pangolin and hornbill trafficking: new reports

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Sep 2016
A mother humpback and calf off the coast of Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. Photo courtesy of NOAA

Whalesong, interrupted

Melati Kaye 23 Sep 2016

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