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San Mala and the community members document the stumps of freshly cut trees throughout the protected forest in northern Cambodia. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Illegal timber imports from Cambodia, Laos skirt Vietnam safeguards, report reveals

Carolyn Cowan 2 Jul 2026

Giant Salmon Carps in Laotian market. Image by Peter Cunningham via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).

Recent discoveries of ‘lost’ Mekong giant salmon carp renews hope for the fish

Naina Rao 1 Jul 2026

Ruos Lim, 71, a Kuy Indigenous community leader, harvests corn he planted at the L4 station in Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary

Indigenous people in Cambodia claim they’re blocked from sacred sites

Andy Ball, Phoung Vantha, Roun Ry 23 Jun 2026

A full-circle rainbow arcing over a vast oil palm plantation in Jambi, Indonesia, carved out of what was once native rainforest. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Southeast Asian nations chart important new course toward environmental justice (commentary)

John Knox 11 Jun 2026

A Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) in India. Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Cambodia wants its tigers back. So it plans to import Bengal tigers from India

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Jun 2026

Phuon Keorasmey, 23, a prominent figure in Mother Nature Cambodia, is arrested on July 2, 2024. Image courtesy of Licadho.

Rights groups renew call to free jailed Cambodian environmental activists

Gerald Flynn 5 Jun 2026

Sok Pheap climbs a tree to tap resin.

Bengal tigers in Cambodia? Reintroduction plan raises questions

Arathi Menon, Andy Ball 4 Jun 2026

Pit viper (trimeresurus lii)

New animals discovered in Cambodian caves

A local guide training Community-Based Fire Management (CBFiM) members with camera trap set up.

On Southeast Asia’s largest lake, locals wield tech to defend the flooded forest

Claire Turrell 19 May 2026

Fishers in the Mekong River near Chiang Khong, Thailand. Elevated arsenic levels at testing sites in the Mekong indicate that contamination may be spreading into this vital waterway. Image by Stefan Lovgren.

Dangerous arsenic levels detected in Thailand’s Mekong mainstream for first time

Gerald Flynn 8 May 2026

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

New-to-science microsnail, Clostophis udayaditinus. Image courtesy of Somsak Panha, the lead author of the species description.

Translucent microsnail discovered in Cambodia: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 21 Apr 2026

Gerald Flynn’s first reporting trip outside of the Cambodian capital took him to Banteay Meanchey province, in the country’s northwest, near the Thai border, in 2020 to report on the impact of climate change on livelihoods. Image courtesy of Pann Bony.

Banned but not silenced: Gerry Flynn’s commitment to uncovering the truth across the Mekong

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 2 Apr 2026

A new species of pit viper was discovered and is still in the process of being described. Image courtesy of Fauna & Flora.

New species discovered in Cambodia’s rare rocky ecosystems

Shanna Hanbury 2 Apr 2026

Officers display pangolin scales intended for smuggling into Cambodia.

Jakarta port authorities seize 3 tons of pangolin scales in Cambodia-bound container

Anggita Raissa 20 Mar 2026

Cambodia’s Supreme Court denies release of five imprisoned environmental activists

John Cannon 16 Mar 2026

Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia.

The promise and perils of the 1995 Mekong River Agreement (commentary)

Pham Phan Long 10 Mar 2026

Cambodian market survey a snapshot of a resilient — but stressed — Mekong

Stefan Lovgren 10 Mar 2026

Helicopter translocation brings isolated banteng to safer grounds in Cambodia

Carolyn Cowan 17 Feb 2026

Fishers in Takeo province rely on the annual flooding of wetlands where they raise and catch a variety of crustaceans. Image by Gerald Flynn/Mongabay.

Farmers fear displacement, drought, flooding tied to Cambodia’s Funan Techo Canal

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 12 Feb 2026

Across Kep province, fishing communities fear the Funan Techo Canal will see them lose their homes on land and their livelihoods at sea. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Cambodia’s canal mega-project threatens coastal communities and marine life

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 10 Feb 2026

Mines, dams move in as protection slips in a Cambodian wildlife sanctuary

Coby Hobbs, Eung Sea 6 Feb 2026

Trekking through the Cardamom Tented Camp concession in Botum Sakor National Park Photo by Gerald Flynn

Carving up the Cardamoms

Sand mining in the Mekong

Mekong sand mining risks collapse of SE Asia’s largest freshwater lake, study finds

Carolyn Cowan 23 Dec 2025

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

Keith Anthony Fabro 15 Dec 2025

Environmental activists remain jailed in Cambodia on Human Rights Defenders Day

Mongabay.com 9 Dec 2025

Satellite imagery from February 2025 shows the transformation of the landscape at Global Green's gold mine, which is believed to be contaminating the O'Ta Bouk River. Image provided by Google Earth, Maxar Technologies.

Toxic runoff from politically linked gold mine poisons Cambodian rivers, communities

Andy Ball, Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 24 Nov 2025

Trawlers docked outside Sihanoukville. Screenshot from ‘Illegal fishing and land grabs push Cambodian coastal communities to the brink’ by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Chaos on Cambodia’s Coast

Mongabay.com 3 Nov 2025

Logging in western Cambodia. Image anonymously provided to Mongabay.

Most Cambodia & Laos tree cover loss in 2024 happened inside protected areas

Mongabay.com 27 Oct 2025

Leaching ponds have been drilled into the mountains of Laos, using a mix of toxic chemicals to separate the rare earth minerals from the other materials siphoned out of the ground. Image supplied by source.

Rare earth mining expands into Laos, threatening entire Mekong River

Mongabay 27 Oct 2025

IUCN upholds long-tailed macaques’ endangered status after complaint

Gerald Flynn 15 Oct 2025

In just a few months, Global Green have cleared vast swathes of forest in Prey Lang, opening the northern section of the wildlife sanctuary up to more potential deforestation. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024

Gerald Flynn 6 Oct 2025

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