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Fishers collect their nets on the Sesan River, just a few hundred meters from the O’Ta Bouk-Sesan confluence. Fishers who use the O’Ta Bouk told Mongabay that their catches have declined significantly over the past three years. Photo by Andy Ball/Mongabay.

Cambodia tested waters amid pollution claims; months later, still no public results

Andy Ball, Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 4 May 2026
RJ Nichole Ledesma. Via Facebook.

RJ Nichole Ledesma, chronicler of unsettled ground on Negros Island, was killed last month. He was 30.

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 May 2026
An African leopard in South Africa.

International Leopard Day: A spotty outlook for the spotted cat

Mongabay.com 2 May 2026
The Golden dorado (Salminus brasiliensis), a powerful migratory freshwater fish native to the Pantanal and Paraná River Basin, shown here being held by researcher Zeb Hogan. Highly prized by recreational anglers and important to commercial fisheries, the species has declined in parts of its range due to dam construction.

Migratory freshwater fish are in trouble: Will we act in time to save them?

Stefan Lovgren 1 May 2026

World’s largest shark conference is set to begin in Sri Lanka next week

Malaka Rodrigo 1 May 2026

Indonesia busts wildlife trafficking ring targeting Komodo dragons

Naina Rao 1 May 2026
Raffles’ banded langur, courtesy of Andie Ang.

Singapore’s population of Raffles’ banded langur has doubled

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 May 2026
Most of Chi’s annual income comes from selling apricot blossoms — a symbol of luck and prosperity in Vietnam — around Lunar New Year.

Saline intrusion in Mekong Delta leaves farmers and scientists at odds

Minh L Tran 30 Apr 2026
An orange-footed sea cucumber (Cucumaria frondosa). Image courtesy of Sara Jobson/Mercier Lab.

Global trade in sea cucumbers ‘alarming’ with many species at risk: Study

Edward Carver 30 Apr 2026
A farmer in south-central Bangladesh uses an axial flow pump to irrigate his rice field.

Bangladesh struggles to choose between food security & stable groundwater table

Abu Siddique 30 Apr 2026
A tiger in the Central Zoo in Kathmandu.

Experts caution Nepal’s plan to open doors to private zoos

Deepak Adhikari 30 Apr 2026
Pakusari landfill, Jember, East Java. Image courtesy of Wiskomunalian.

In Indonesia, a schoolboy moves mountains on waste as government targets reform

Gafur Abdullah 30 Apr 2026
Raw and cooked orb-weaver spiders

‘Creamy, nutty’ spiders are protein source for Indigenous Indian tribe

Megan Strauss 30 Apr 2026
Cabe at Gunung Mulu National

Borneo’s GIGANTIC bat caves

Izzy Sasada 30 Apr 2026
Women in the river pulling fish net; Hoa Lu, Ha Nam Ninh Province, Red River Delta Region, Vietnam.

Laos can do more to mitigate chemical pollution of rivers flowing into Vietnam (analysis)

Pham Phan Long 30 Apr 2026
The Congo River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

A “good year” for forests changes less than it seems

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Apr 2026
A young ring-tailed glider (Tous ayamaruensis). Image courtesy of Arman Muharmansyah.

Species thought extinct for thousands of years ‘rediscovered’ thanks to Indigenous knowledge

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Apr 2026

Tropical forest loss falls in 2025, but world still off track on deforestation goals

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Apr 2026
Hasina Begum stands in front of her house that got destroyed in multiple flash floods occurring in 2022. She temporarily moved to the industrial town of Narayanganj to earn the money needed to repair the house and to make up for the loss of crops. Image by Masud Al Mamun.

Migration and climate pressures deepen flood risks in Bangladesh’s haors

Ashraful Haque 29 Apr 2026
Excavators clear a pile of trash at the Bantargebang landfill following a landslide in March.

Indonesia escalates ‘war on waste’ with criminal probe into Jakarta landfill disaster

Achmad Rizki Muazam, Luh De Suriyani 29 Apr 2026
Siamese crocodile

Saving crocodiles from extinction

Abhishyant Kidangoor 28 Apr 2026
The critically endangered Kolar leaf-nosed bat. Image by Rajesh Puttaswamaiah via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India has a wealth of bats, but our knowledge of them is poor: Report

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Apr 2026
Malay tapir. Image courtesy of Shariff Mohamad.

On World Tapir Day, data gaps cloud future of Malaysia’s tapirs

Naina Rao 28 Apr 2026
Nickel mining on Manuran Island. Image courtesy of Auriga Nusantara.

Deforestation is surging in Indonesia

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Apr 2026
Wind farm off Pingtan Island in Pingtan county, Fuzhou, China. Image by Kilian Murphy via Unsplash.

Offshore wind’s clean energy potential remains largely untapped, say experts

Sean Mowbray 27 Apr 2026

After nearly a century, Taiwan’s legless lizard gets its own identity

Naina Rao 27 Apr 2026

Endangered civet faces local extinction in Cambodian sanctuary

Naina Rao 27 Apr 2026

As Walk for Peace begins in Sri Lanka, activists call for animal rights

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Apr 2026
Khudi Bari hause

These tiny houses are designed to stand in extreme floods

Lucia Torres 25 Apr 2026
The bottom otter trawler Hendrika Jacoba operating in the Dogger Bank waters in the North Sea. Image © Greenpeace.

NPFC adopts illegal fishing measures — but no Emperor Seamount protections

Francesco De Augustinis 24 Apr 2026
Lanal Banten (Banten Navy Base) displays hundreds of kilograms of pangolin scales seized from a Vietnamese-flagged vessel.

Investigators eye organized crime links in 3-ton pangolin scale haul at Jakarta port

Anggita Raissa 24 Apr 2026

New ‘cryptic’ gecko species discovered in Vietnam’s imperiled karst forests

Naina Rao 24 Apr 2026

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