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Tapanuli orangutan, devastated by cyclone, now faces habitat loss under zoning plans

Hans Nicholas Jong, Achmad Rizki Muazam 18 Dec 2025
Izzy Sasada and orangutan

Orangutans rescued undergo re-training to return to the wild

Izzy Sasada, Sam Lee 17 Dec 2025
A spectacled cobra in India.

Rapid urbanization, habitat loss are forcing the snakes out in Dhaka

Tasmin Era 17 Dec 2025
Healthy reef off the coast of Panaon Island. Image courtesy of Danny Ocampo / Oceana.

Philippines’ newest marine protected area ‘sets inspiring example’ (commentary)

Antha Williams, Loren Legarda 16 Dec 2025
Previously undetected in other protected areas, a tigress known as SWT001F was the first individual tiger captured on camera in Thailand's Sisawat Non-Hunting Area in 2024. Panthera, Thailand's DNP and other partners are working to monitor and protect Indochinese tigers and their prey in this region where camera traps have shown tigers are using Sisawat forest as a corridor. Currently plans exist to propose the adjoining forest area to the east as an extension of Sisawat.

Hope for tigers grows as Thailand safeguards a key link in their habitat

Gloria Dickie 16 Dec 2025
Musofa arrived at the Javan Rhino Study and Conservation Area (JRSCA). Image courtesy of Ujung Kulon National Park Authority.

Indonesia’s 1st Javan rhino translocation ends in death, in conservation setback

Basten Gokkon 16 Dec 2025

Seafloor survey in Cambodia finds simple anti-trawling blocks help seagrass recover

Keith Anthony Fabro 15 Dec 2025

Green labeler PEFC under fire for certifying Indonesian firm clearing orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Dec 2025

Cyclone Ditwah takes heavy toll on Sri Lanka’s biodiversity-rich Central Highlands

Malaka Rodrigo 15 Dec 2025
A tree kangaroo.

Malaysian companies dominate PNG forest-clearance permits: report

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 15 Dec 2025
Survivors inspect clothings they salvaged at a village affected by a flash flood in Batang Toru, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

Sumatra’s ‘natural’ disaster wasn’t natural: How deforestation turned a rare cyclone catastrophic

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Dec 2025
Herders cross the Lungasamba pass with their yaks. Image by Chyamtang-Kathmandu Welfare Society.

Nepal Indigenous leaders refile writ petition against hydropower project

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 12 Dec 2025
A mother and infant Tapanuli orangutan were directly sighted in the Lumut Maju peat swamp forest in North Sumatra. Image by Junaidi Hanafiah/Mongabay-Indonesia.

Sumatran flood disaster may have wiped out a key Tapanuli orangutan population, scientists fear

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Dec 2025
kathmandu aerial view

Nepal’s cities must plan for resilience and inclusion for the future & nature (commentary)

Hitesh Raj Pant 11 Dec 2025
A diver swimming close to a female sperm whale pod.

Unregulated tourism risks disrupting Timor-Leste’s whale migration

Robin Hicks 11 Dec 2025
Smoke rises from a coal-burning power plant. Refuse-derived fuel (RDF), which includes large amounts of plastics, is replacing fossil fuels in some energy and industrial furnaces. But critics say this practice is merely replacing one dirty fuel for another.

Boom in burning waste for fuel could put human health and environment at risk

Sean Mowbray 10 Dec 2025
A woman gathers plants along the banks of the Mekong River while a child plays in the background. Water levels of the mighty Mekong River have dropped drastically due to drought-like conditions and damming upstream. The drop disrupts the region’s water supply, transport routes, and the livelihood of communities in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts that more than one billion people will face water shortages due to climate change. Credit: © Greenpeace / Vinai Dithajohn

New mapping reveals hidden mining boom in Laos that threatens the Mekong

Andy Ball, Gerald Flynn, Konlaphat Siri 10 Dec 2025
Men stand on logs swept away by flash flood in Batang Toru, North Sumatra, Dec. 2.

Death toll rises in Sumatra flood catastrophe as gov’t moves to protect Batang Toru forest

Achmad Rizki Muazam, Ayat S. Karokaro, Taufik Wijaya 9 Dec 2025
greater mouse-deer

Reforestation and wild pig decline spark surge in miniature deer in Singapore

Carolyn Cowan 8 Dec 2025
A looper moth (Biston suppressaria) in Assam, India.

Warmer climate triggers pest infestations in Bangladesh, India tea estates

Sadiqur Rahman 8 Dec 2025

From COP30 to Sri Lanka, indigenous voices shape climate & food sovereignty

Malaka Rodrigo 5 Dec 2025
Paraiso Mangrove Eco Learning Park, Tacloban City.

Philippine mangroves survived a typhoon, but now confront a human-made challenge

Keith Anthony Fabro 4 Dec 2025

In wake of Cyclone Ditwah, Sri Lanka faces continuing disaster risks

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 4 Dec 2025
Batasan Island in Danajon Bank, the only double barrier reef in the Philippines and one of only three in the Indo-Pacific region, is sinking as a result of a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit Bohol province in 2013.

Filipinos wade through floodwaters due to sinking land, rising sea & corruption

Jewel S. Cabrera 4 Dec 2025
Flood survivors use logs to cross a river in Batang Toru, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on Dec. 2, 2025. Image by AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara.

More than 1,400 dead across Asia after ‘rare’ cyclone & typhoon converge

Shanna Hanbury 3 Dec 2025
A child at work collecting e-waste in the Agbogbloshie dump in Ghana.

Can two Amazons survive? Invisible e-waste is poisoning the world

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 3 Dec 2025
A Bornean orangutan.

Indigenous Dayak sound alarm as palm oil firm razes orangutan habitat in Borneo

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Dec 2025
Rainforest in northern Borneo. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Endangered knowledge and endangered plants: Threats to Indigenous medicinal traditions in Borneo

Cassidy Beach 1 Dec 2025

Changing weather patterns threaten time-tested houses in Nepal village

Tanka Dhakal 29 Nov 2025
Tourists Bharat Lake Nepal

New riverside lake in Nepal wins hearts, but faces government opposition

Suresh Bidari 28 Nov 2025
A Manggarai village in Flores.

As agroforestry declines in Indonesia’s Flores, a traditional ecological lexicon fades with it

Keith Anthony Fabro 28 Nov 2025

A fragile Sri Lankan island fights back against the threat of mineral extraction

Malaka Rodrigo 28 Nov 2025

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