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How a Philippine town is dealing with the fallout of its own popularity

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2025
A fisherman poses with a crocodile belonging to PT Perkasa Jagat Karunia that was recaptured.

Order restored in Indonesia as fishers recapture scores of farmed crocodiles

Yogi Eka Sahputra 17 Feb 2025

China’s pangolin scale trade declines, study shows, but smuggling persists

Keith Anthony Fabro 14 Feb 2025
Malir River near Damloti check dam, Karachi suburbs.

Ecology vs. development in Karachi: Interview with photographer Salman Baloch

Waqas Alam Angaria 14 Feb 2025

Massive songbird seizure highlights Indonesia’s unrelenting illegal wildlife trade

Keith Anthony Fabro 13 Feb 2025

Mammals, birds in Vietnam’s rare coastal forests revealed by camera traps

Carolyn Cowan 13 Feb 2025
A long-tailed macaque in Bali, Indonesia.

Sun, sand and skulls: Bali tourism trade peddles threatened primate skulls

Spoorthy Raman 12 Feb 2025

More cable car controversy surfaces in Nepal’s western mountains

Abhaya Raj Joshi 12 Feb 2025
Banner image: Satellite image of Japan on Feb. 11 via Himawari Satellite, CSU/CIRA & JMA/JAXA.

Japan sees record snowfall as Australia braces for cyclone Zelia

Kristine Sabillo 11 Feb 2025
Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

CITES rejects proposed suspension of Cambodian monkey exports

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2025
Zulkifli Dalimunthe pulls in the net he cast the previous morning.

Unchecked illegal trawling pushes Indonesia’s small-scale fishers to the brink

Tonggo Simangunsong 11 Feb 2025
Banner image of a snow leopard in snow by In India travel via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

‘Helicopter tourism’ in the Himalayas affecting Sherpas, wildlife

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2025
Banner image of a roof rat (Rattus rattus) by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Surge in rat numbers linked to climate warming, urbanization: Study

Kristine Sabillo 7 Feb 2025

Surge in legal land clearing pushes up Indonesia deforestation rate in 2024

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Feb 2025
The makuna photographed in Sauraha, Chitwan in September 2024. Image courtesy of Madhu Chetri.

In Nepal’s Chitwan, elephant’s shooting, death raises eyebrows

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Feb 2025

Tourists are back at this Instaworthy Philippine town, but can its sewage system keep up?

Keith Anthony Fabro 7 Feb 2025

Vietnam and China partner on wildlife-friendly traditional medicine practices

Spoorthy Raman 6 Feb 2025
A pair of orphaned orangutans in Sabah.

Indonesia targets 2.3m hectares of protected forests for food & biofuel crop production

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Feb 2025
A coal-fired power plant at night in the nickel industrial area in Halmahera.

Disease surges in Indonesia community on frontline of world energy transition

Rabul Sawal 6 Feb 2025

Vietnam faces scrutiny for not sharing enough data on rhino horn trade

Victoria Schneider 5 Feb 2025
Asian small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinereus) photographed in a zoo.

World’s smallest otter makes comeback in Nepal after 185 years

Abhaya Raj Joshi 5 Feb 2025
Common pochard (Aythya ferina) photographed in Pakistan.

Better government policies could help as migratory birds lose habitat in Bangladesh

Pinky Akter 5 Feb 2025

Indian villages seek to protect ecosystem by opting out of state’s development push

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2025

Study highlights effects of habitat fragmentation on Sri Lankan specialist birds

Malaka Rodrigo 4 Feb 2025

Indonesia mulls Paris Agreement exit, citing fairness and energy transition costs

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Feb 2025
Babu Krishna Karki with his camera photographing wildlife.

Military-backed conservation ‘without firing a single shot’: Interview with Nepal’s Babu Krishna Karki

Abhaya Raj Joshi 4 Feb 2025

Indian town trials virtual solar fences to reduce conflict with elephants

Mongabay.com 4 Feb 2025

Mother of 2 jailed in Sumatra as wildfires dragnet continues to catch small farmers

Teguh Suprayitno 4 Feb 2025
In September, Moo Deng went viral, becoming famous for her playful, no-holds-barred attitude.

Has the Moo Deng craze helped wild pygmy hippos at all? (analysis)

Jeremy Hance 3 Feb 2025
Gerry Flynn

Statement on Mongabay journalist Gerald Flynn’s blacklisting from Cambodia following his reporting on illegal logging

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Feb 2025
Gerry Flynn

Cambodia denies re-entry to Mongabay journalist who reported on illegal logging

Mongabay.com 3 Feb 2025
A mangrove pitta

How to tell if mangrove restoration is working? Listen to the birds

Carolyn Cowan 3 Feb 2025

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