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Singapore crushes illegal ivory worth $10 million

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Jun 2016

Indonesia to rezone 3.8m of protected peat that was damaged or converted

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 13 Jun 2016

In unprecedented move, Michelin adopts zero deforestation for rubber sourcing

Mongabay.com 13 Jun 2016

Malaysia gets its largest marine park

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jun 2016
Rainforest emergent tree in Borneo.

Tropics’ tallest tree found in Malaysia

Mongabay.com 12 Jun 2016

Peat expert dies from cancer after fighting Indonesian fires

Indra Nugraha 12 Jun 2016
Illegal forest clearingfor oil palm in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

How is Indonesian president Jokowi doing on environmental issues?

Philip Jacobson 12 Jun 2016
A golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana), caught on camera trap inside the reserve. Photo courtesy of Laohegou Nature Reserve Center.

Can China’s first private nature reserve become truly sustainable?

Wang Yan 10 Jun 2016

e-Eye of the tiger: Complex surveillance system extends watch over India’s wildlife sanctuaries

Julia John 10 Jun 2016

Is that palm oil mill “sustainable”? A new tool can tell

Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Jun 2016
Oil-palm estate in Sabah, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tracking assets for environmental advocacy work with Bloomberg

Dan Williams 9 Jun 2016

Indigenous groups pressured to give up lands for doubtful Nicaragua Canal

Lindsay Fendt 9 Jun 2016

Orangutan reintroductions could risk population survival, study warns

Claire Salisbury 8 Jun 2016

Chinese villagers turn from logging to forest patrols, bees, and fish

Wang Yan 8 Jun 2016

Timber plantations are the latest threat facing Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands

Mike Gaworecki 7 Jun 2016

Dams threaten future of Amazonian biodiversity major new study warns

Claire Salisbury 6 Jun 2016

China’s Wanglang panda reserve, once an ecotourism model, faces new threats

Wang Yan 6 Jun 2016

Unclear if France will revisit ‘discriminatory’ palm oil tax

Loren Bell 6 Jun 2016
Greenpeace protesting against a company's palm oil policy. Courtesy of Greenpeace

10 reasons to be optimistic for forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Jun 2016

PanEco resigns from RSPO over ‘sheer level of inaction’

Mongabay.com 3 Jun 2016

Indonesia’s Salim Group linked to ‘secret’ palm oil concessions in West Papua

Daniel Pye 3 Jun 2016

More remains seized, deeper issues revealed at Thailand ‘Tiger Temple’

Apoorva Joshi 2 Jun 2016

The dark side of China’s foreign fishing boom

Cory Rogers 2 Jun 2016

Photos: the people of Indonesia’s marine protected areas

Mongabay 2 Jun 2016

Cambodia declares new national park, plans to reintroduce tigers

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Jun 2016

SE Asia’s damaged peat swamps could release 8.7 gigatons of CO2

Loren Bell 31 May 2016

New Cambodian protected forest offers hope for endangered wildlife

Daniel Pye 27 May 2016

Indonesia’s birds being wiped out by pet trade

Shreya Dasgupta 27 May 2016

Video: Critically Endangered monkey ‘chatters’ for camera

Shreya Dasgupta 27 May 2016

Empowering smartphone users to bear witness to illegal wildlife trade

Julia John 26 May 2016

Thousands of Southeast Asian newts being collected from the wild for pet trade

Shreya Dasgupta 26 May 2016

The Borneo rainbow toad has been missing for 87 years — until now

Mike Gaworecki 25 May 2016

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