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A Khudi Bari built by residents living along the Jamuna River. Image courtesy of Tabassaum Studio.

In flood-prone Bangladesh, tiny homes are built to move with the river

Mongabay.com 21 May 2026

Climate change triples chance of deadly 2026 South Asia pre-monsoon heatwave: Report

Naina Rao 21 May 2026

Rural women at increasing risk of human-wildlife conflict in Nepal

Mongabay.com 21 May 2026

Nepal proposes park for ‘problem’ tigers amid rising conflicts

Mongabay.com 21 May 2026
Dugong rescue in Thailand

Thai island community rallies to protect beloved dugongs, revive declining seagrass

Carolyn Cowan 21 May 2026
A farmer collects dried salt from his field, carefully filling baskets to store them in nearby pits for processing.

Bangladesh salt farmers struggle as climate shifts disrupt harvests

Sifayet Ullah 20 May 2026
Representative image of a sacred rainforest grove surrounded by paddy fields in Coorg district, Karnataka. Image by Anand Osuri via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Communities say sacred groves are shrinking in India’s eastern ghats

David Brown 20 May 2026
Pit viper (trimeresurus lii)

New animals discovered in Cambodian caves

Shanna Hanburry 20 May 2026
A female langur with her baby crosses an artificial canopy bridge called Numi’s Crossing along Lembah Permai road in the Tanjung Bungah area of George Town, Penang Island. Image by Mohd Rasfan / AFP.

In Malaysia, a bridge helps endangered langurs and humans coexist

Philip Jacobson, Isabelle Leong 20 May 2026
Rice paddies, forest, and agroforest in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Smallholders are not the weak link in forest protection (commentary)

Aida Greenbury 20 May 2026
A local guide training Community-Based Fire Management (CBFiM) members with camera trap set up.

On Southeast Asia’s largest lake, locals wield tech to defend the flooded forest

Claire Turrell 19 May 2026
A PT IWIP worker walks through the cafeteria after work in early July 2025

Indonesia’s nickel boom linked to rising illness and worker harm, reports find

Rabul Sawal, Yulia Adiningsih 19 May 2026

Timor green pigeon could go extinct without immediate action, study finds

Naina Rao 19 May 2026
Ed Singson shows off the seaweed in his bucket

Philippine fishing and Indigenous communities wary of clean energy boom in Marcos stronghold

Michael Beltran 18 May 2026
Sand mining along the Mekong River

19,000 Great Pyramids a year: Report flags unsustainable rate of sand mining

Carolyn Cowan 18 May 2026
A male blackbuck in neighboring India's Rajasthan state.

Nepal’s plan to release blackbucks into tiger country raises red flags

Bibek Bhandari 18 May 2026

War on Iran may threaten conservation of the world’s rarest big cat

Mongabay.com 18 May 2026

More than a million live birds imported to Asia in 15 years, report finds

Mongabay.com 18 May 2026

In Thailand, burned sugarcane plantations become traps for leopard cat cubs

Ana Norman Bermúdez 15 May 2026
A captive Persian leopard in a British zoo, 2005.

Endangered Persian leopards persist across borders, despite hunters and landmines

Kayleigh Long 15 May 2026

Illegal wildlife trade in Himalayan countries threaten mountain ecosystem

Mongabay.com 15 May 2026
Solar panels in Bali, Indonesia.

Solar brings power to women entrepreneurs in Borneo, but rural energy inequality remains

Yuda Almerio 14 May 2026

In Nepal’s capital, invasive flora crowd out native species

Mongabay.com 14 May 2026

In eastern Indonesia, communities revive customary systems to protect the seas

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 May 2026

Sawfish in Sri Lanka may be ‘functionally extinct,’ but refuges remain

Mongabay.com 13 May 2026

Wetland destruction blamed for rise in croc attacks on Indonesia’s Bangka Island

Mongabay.com 13 May 2026

New study explores how reforestation could help Java’s leopards survive

Basten Gokkon 13 May 2026
Harvesters carry baskets full of grapes at Trinity Canyon Vineyards.

How grape farmers are restoring Armenia’s wine heritage while safeguarding ecosystems

Kushane Chobanyan 12 May 2026

Can Bangladesh’s new law save its natural wetlands?

Sadiqur Rahman 12 May 2026
Hard-ground swamp deer in their new habitat in Satpura Tiger Reserve. Image courtesy of L. Krishnamoorthy.

Rare swamp deer subspecies thriving in new home in India

Mongabay.com 12 May 2026

Paying people to see wildlife: Inside a $1-per-hectare conservation experiment in Borneo

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 May 2026

Sharks and rays do not know boundaries and a new high seas treaty seeks to protect them

Malaka Rodrigo 12 May 2026

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