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A customary longhouse in Sungai Utik.

Indigenous activist Kynan Tegar on Indonesia’s fires, and defending the Earth

Mike DiGirolamo, Basten Gokkon 6 Oct 2026
A Dayak Ngaju tribe man tries to extinguish fire on burning peatland in Mantangai, Central Kalimantan.

The Indonesians facing El Nino’s fires have lessons to teach us (commentary)

Akane Nishimura 6 Oct 2026
A pair of cockatoos is spotted perching on a nest box at St. Louis School in Hong Kong on May 9, 2026. Image courtesy of Winster Wong/St. Louis School.

Artificial nests give Hong Kong’s cockatoos a home – and a chance to study their behavior

Yenni Kwok 6 Oct 2026

16 new fungal species found hiding in Thailand’s flowers

Naina Rao 6 Oct 2026
A Sumatran orangutan in Bukit Lawang, North Sumatra.

Indonesia threatens prison time for unauthorized downloads of forest data

Dyna Rochmyaningsih, Philip Jacobson 6 Oct 2026

Sabine Schoppe who built a refuge for Palawan’s forest turtles has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Oct 2026

Thailand braces for more rain as death toll from recent flooding hits 31

Associated Press 5 Oct 2026

‘There could be local extinction’: The fight to protect Indonesia’s orangutans as El Niño fuels fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2026
A shopper walks through Chatuchak Market carrying her pet raccoon.

More Latin American species are surfacing at a Bangkok wildlife market

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2026
Sumatran tiger

Weak prosecution leaves Southeast Asia’s tigers vulnerable to trafficking: Report

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2026
Myanmar mines

Myanmar’s mines pollute Thai rivers

Juan Maza 4 Oct 2026
Viernamese fishers in a boat.

Vietnam’s fishers face rising costs, declining catches and a contested sea

Minh L Tran 2 Oct 2026
An apartment demolition and remodeling worker pushes a cart loaded with rubble in Hong Kong on Sept. 18, 2026.

As Hong Kong heats up, calls grow for tougher rules to protect outdoor workers

June Wong 2 Oct 2026
A maleo

Wildlife traffickers are now targeting Indonesia’s critically endangered maleo birds

Spoorthy Raman 2 Oct 2026
A resident is extinguishing a fire at Talang Turunan Gajah using simple tools. Photo: Muhammad Akbar/Mongabay Indonesia.

As fires spread, Indonesia’s rubber growers draw on traditional ways to fight back

Taufik Wijaya 2 Oct 2026

Women shoulder the burden of expanding wildfires in rural India

Mongabay.com 2 Oct 2026
Gillnetting fishers off North Sentinel- wreck coast: Fishermen from South Andaman lay gillnets around North Sentinel Island, exploiting the rich fishery. This picture in from 1999, and the exploitation has increased to skin diving lobster fishermen, hook & line fishers, trawlers, and also opportunists of various intent and origin. Image courtesy of Mandish Chandi.

India’s isolated island tribes need autonomy to survive rising threats, says scholar

Mongabay.com 1 Oct 2026
Two Spix’s macaws

Vantara in talks with Brazil on ‘strategic cooperation’ on threatened species, FOIA documents reveal

Fernanda Wenzel, Spoorthy Raman 1 Oct 2026

Endangered dolphins survive in a Bangladesh river so polluted it’s ‘not livable’ for fish

Mongabay.com 1 Oct 2026

Indonesia’s new peatland agency faces questions over what it will do differently

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Oct 2026
Mineral traders watch on as antimony ore is transferred from Myanmar trucks to Thai trucks at the Pheung Khleung border crossing. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Myanmar’s polluting mines selling to China through Thai companies

Gerald Flynn 1 Oct 2026
A mother Philippine eagle, Aya, and her young, Cabuaya, at Mount Hamiguitan in their nest in 2005.

Philippine eagle habitat study maps mining risks and conservation priorities

Keith Anthony Fabro 30 Sep 2026
Pratap Singh Chundawat via his Facebook page.

Pratap Singh Chundawat rescued a leopard from a well. He died in the line of duty, aged 40

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Sep 2026

Tokyo records historic 35-day rain streak driven by El Niño and stalled fronts

Naina Rao 30 Sep 2026

Plastic fused to coral rubble raises new concerns for ocean pollution

Bobby Bascomb 29 Sep 2026

Bhutan recognized for eliminating dog-transmitted rabies ahead of World Rabies Day

Naina Rao 29 Sep 2026
A logger carries his chainsaw through the forest of the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia. He will sell the timber to garment factories.

Despite a drop in deforestation in 2025, forest losses pile up in the Mekong

Gerald Flynn 29 Sep 2026

Sri Lanka’s disappearing snake charmers carry a legacy of fear and fascination

Malaka Rodrigo 28 Sep 2026

Rain eases in Bangkok but persistent flooding forces thousands to leave home

Associated Press 28 Sep 2026

Indonesia passes agrarian reform law amid concerns over land protections

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Sep 2026

Philippines is the deadliest country in Asia for environmental defenders, report finds

Naina Rao 28 Sep 2026
A bluespotted ribbontail ray (Taeniura lymma) on a reef bed by Pulau Hantu

Singapore’s plan to merge several islands could wipe out coral reefs

Robin Hicks 28 Sep 2026

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