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Riau emergency status to end as S. Sumatra pledges peat clampdown

Mongabay Haze Beat 24 Nov 2015

Villagers thwart an eagle trafficker on a volcano in Java

Hariyawan A. Wahyudi 24 Nov 2015

Eden Besieged: Amazonia’s Matchless Wildlife Pillaged by Traffickers

William H. Funk 23 Nov 2015

Haze compensation to poor stalls as Indonesia spends on new palm oil cartel

Mongabay Haze Beat 23 Nov 2015

Camera trap pictures help nab tiger poacher

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Nov 2015
These baby orangutans were confiscated from a trafficker in Indonesia's Aceh province in 2015. Photo by Junaidi Hanafiah.

First-ever conviction for orangutan trafficking in Aceh

Chik Rini 23 Nov 2015

New rat species find sheds light on Philippine mammalian diversity

Kolawole Talabi 20 Nov 2015

RSPO pledges reform after NGO exposes shoddy palm oil audits

Mongabay.com 20 Nov 2015

Trouble in paradise: Wakatobi’s ‘sea gypsies’ adjust to life in a marine park

Melati Kaye 20 Nov 2015

Palm oil company revs up deforestation in Malaysia

Ethan Harfenist 19 Nov 2015

Latin American wildlife trafficking takes to the air

Lindsay Fendt 19 Nov 2015

Fires smoulder and floods soak Sumatra as RSPO calls for palm oil reform

Mongabay Haze Beat 19 Nov 2015

The impacts of haze on Southeast Asia’s wildlife

Jose Hong 19 Nov 2015

VP Kalla fans flames in Manila as Indonesia presses on with water bombing

Mongabay Haze Beat 18 Nov 2015

Water supply for 2 billion people at risk as snowpack declines across northern hemisphere

Mike Gaworecki 18 Nov 2015

After the NGOs: can Wakatobi National Park survive on its own?

Melati Kaye 18 Nov 2015
Air pollution from outdoor cooking fires like this contribute to millions of global deaths, according to the study. Photo by Engineering for Change / Flickr.

Air pollution causes millions of preventable deaths in East Asia, say scientists

Ramin Skibba 17 Nov 2015
A giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) climbs a tree at the Bifengxia Giant Panda Breeding and Conservation Center in Sichuan, China. Photo by Binbin Li, Duke University

Protecting pandas shields other species in China

Laurel Hamers 17 Nov 2015

From fires to floods: Indonesia’s disaster agency prepares for rain

Mongabay Haze Beat 17 Nov 2015
Sumatran tiger

Aceh’s priceless Leuser Ecosystem still shrinking as oil palm spreads

Cory Rogers 17 Nov 2015

Stemming the tide: A new tool in wildlife crime whodunits

Caleb O'Brien 16 Nov 2015

Photos: ‘Shocking’ scale of illegal trade in Indian star tortoise uncovered

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Nov 2015
Young orangutan orphaned by the palm oil industry when its mother was killed in a plantation in Central Kalimantan. This orangutan was one of the lucky ones -- it ended up in a rehabilitation center rather than dying of starvation or being sold into the pet trade.

Greenwashing? RSPO audits rife with ‘mistakes and fraud,’ report finds

Jonathan Vit 16 Nov 2015

Singapore calls end of haze this year as Indonesia continues to push peat plans

Mongabay Haze Beat 16 Nov 2015

The Holy Trinity: how Wakatobi’s coral stays healthy and diverse

Melati Kaye 16 Nov 2015

Singapore court: illicit timber trafficking through our ports not our problem

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Nov 2015

Putting our heads together for tigers

Caleb O'Brien 13 Nov 2015

Chinese Giant Salamander: millions farmed, nearly extinct in the wild

Claire Salisbury 13 Nov 2015

First-of-its-kind mapping platform could help protect land held by Indigenous communities

Basten Gokkon, Shreya Dasgupta 13 Nov 2015
Picture courtesy of Greenpeace.

Jokowi turning over a new leaf for Indonesia on haze but details still foggy

Mongabay Haze Beat 13 Nov 2015

Key forest countries’ climate pledges fall short on emissions from land use and deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 13 Nov 2015

Community plants green shoots of hope in the land of the lost Javan tiger

Petrus Riski 11 Nov 2015

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