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Did mining company drive 3 species to extinction?

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Jun 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

What are South Sumatrans doing to prevent another haze crisis?

Taufik Wijaya 29 Jun 2016

French MPs say they were pressured into dropping palm oil tax

Mongabay.com 29 Jun 2016

Malaysian palm oil giant IOI under pressure after Cargill ultimatum

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2016

64 dead in Indonesia landslides as La Nina brings heavy rains

Indra Nugraha, Lusia Arumingtyas 27 Jun 2016
Protesters target Cathay Pacific at Hong Kong International Airport in May. Courtesy of WildAid

Cathay Pacific bans shark fin shipments

Mongabay.com 27 Jun 2016

Trafficking: Indonesian soldier caught with 8 pangolins in car backseat

Ayat S. Karokaro 24 Jun 2016

Malaysian land rights activist Bill Kayong murdered in broad daylight

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jun 2016

Cambodia declares first-ever marine protected area

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jun 2016

Judges up the ante for tiger traffickers in Indonesia

Chik Rini, Dedek Hendry 24 Jun 2016

Corruption is driving unsustainable, illegal rosewood trade in Cambodia and Laos: Report

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jun 2016

Saving Borneo’s wild cats and small carnivores

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jun 2016

PepsiCo products in Indonesia tainted with worker abuses, report finds

Daniel Pye 23 Jun 2016

Sub-Saharan African countries most vulnerable to invasive crop pests

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Jun 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

No more fires in Indonesia?

Erik Meijaard 20 Jun 2016
Sumatran orangutan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Hype and secrecy in wildlife conservation

Erik Meijaard 18 Jun 2016

After mass die-off, saiga antelope numbers go up in Kazakhstan

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Jun 2016
Yu Jiahua poses in front of a small portion of the wire loops collected by the anti-poaching patrol team during the past two decades. Photo by Wang Yan.

PHOTOS: On a Chinese mountain, an aging anti-poaching hero ponders the future

Wang Yan 16 Jun 2016

New ‘froggy-style’ mating position discovered in Bombay night frogs

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Jun 2016

On The Road: Rhino Translocation in Nepal

Kashish Das Shrestha 15 Jun 2016
A still of juvenile blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus) from the baited Go-Pro rig that researchers set in the waters of the Daram no-take zone in West Papua, Indonesia. Photo by Vanessa Jaiteh.

Protected areas grow populations of shark — and disenfranchised fishers

Melati Kaye 15 Jun 2016
Zou Huagang, head of Lianhe village, poses in front of a local kiwi farm. Zou's family owns about three acres of kiwi farmland. Photo by Wang Yan.

Making a living inside a reserve: an interview with village head Zou Huagang

Wang Yan 14 Jun 2016

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

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