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Despite sanctions, U.S. companies still importing Myanmar teak, report says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 11 Jan 2022

Dual pressures of hunting, logging threaten wildlife in Myanmar, study shows

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 31 Dec 2021

How can illegal timber trade in the Greater Mekong be stopped?

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 30 Dec 2021

How does political instability in the Mekong affect deforestation?

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 23 Dec 2021
Mushrooms

Scientists on a quest to map worldwide web of fungi beneath our feet

Carolyn Cowan 17 Dec 2021

Where does the Greater Mekong’s illegal timber go?

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 16 Dec 2021

Why has illegal logging increased in the Greater Mekong?

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 9 Dec 2021

‘Our land, our life’: Okinawans hold out against new U.S. base in coastal zone

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 25 Nov 2021

The Greater Mekong region: A hotspot of wildlife and crime

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 17 Nov 2021

Top Brazil gold exporter leaves a trail of criminal probes and illegal mines

Guilherme Henrique and Ana Magalhães/Repórter Brasil 10 Nov 2021

COP-26: Amazonia’s Indigenous peoples are vital to fighting global warming (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 2 Nov 2021

BR-319 highway hearings: An attack on Brazil’s interests and Amazonia’s future (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 26 Oct 2021

Green groups call for scrapping of $300m loan offer for Borneo road project

Basten Gokkon 20 Oct 2021
Chimpanzee

In Guinea, an illegal $6b gold ‘bonanza’ threatens endangered chimpanzees

Ashoka Mukpo 19 Oct 2021
Malayan tiger

Fate of Malaysian forests stripped of protection points to conservation stakes

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Oct 2021

To predict forest loss in protected areas, look at nearby unprotected forest

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Oct 2021

In Half-Earth Project, a full-on bid to get countries to protect biodiversity

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Oct 2021

Borneo’s bearded pigs and traditional hunters adapted to oil palms. Then came swine fever

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 8 Sep 2021

One in three tree species is in the red, new global assessment says

Malavika Vyawahare 3 Sep 2021

Italian firms flout EU rules to trade in illegal Myanmar timber, report says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 2 Sep 2021
An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

Highway cutting through Heart of Borneo poised to be ‘very, very bad’

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 23 Aug 2021

China joins the foreign fleets quietly exploiting Madagascar’s waters

Edward Carver 16 Aug 2021
A women working in a tree nursery to supply reforestation in the Maji Mazuri and Makutano forests of Kenya. Photo by The Green Belt Movement courtesy of Ecosia.

‘Shared earth’ conservation promises to prioritize nature and people

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 13 Aug 2021

Platform presents unpublished data on Brazilian biodiversity

Ronaldo Ribeiro | Alan Azevedo | Letícia Klein 11 Aug 2021

UNESCO calls for closure of road running through World Heritage park in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Aug 2021

In Indonesia, an unassuming brown bird is proof of turbo-charged evolution

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 10 Aug 2021

There’s still room to save Asia’s hoolock gibbons, study says, but only just

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 27 Jul 2021

EU sanctions no ‘silver bullet’ against Myanmar’s illegal timber trade, experts say

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 22 Jul 2021

Planned Brazil-Peru highway threatens one of Earth’s most biodiverse places

Fabiano Maisonnave 22 Jul 2021

Monks and wildlife come under pressure from Malaysian cement company

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 30 Jun 2021
Sabah’s remaining elephants are hemmed in by oil palm plantations, and scientists worry that stretches of the Pan Borneo Highway could further fragment the population. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

NGOs call for alternative routes for Bornean road to avoid wildlife habitat

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 29 Jun 2021
An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

‘Conservation litigation’ tries to put a true price on wildlife crime

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Jun 2021

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