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A​ ​temple​ ​at​ ​night​ ​in​ ​the​ ​town​ ​of​ ​Bhamo,​ ​a​n area​ ​greatly​ ​influenced​ ​by​ ​its​ ​proximity​ ​to​ ​the Chinese​ ​border. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

The wily ways of a Myanmar-China border town

Emmanuel Freudenthal 30 Oct 2017
A boat travels in a tributary to the Irrawaddy River near Katha, northern Myanmar. Along this tributary, charcoal is produced by villages and sold to traders that eventually bring it to China, where it is used in factories that make silicon metal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

The charcoal hunters

Emmanuel Freudenthal, Nathan Siegel 27 Oct 2017
A local cools charcoal at a kiln near Katha, Myanmar. This kiln takes seven days to produce 130 bags of charcoal. Myo Htun, who owns the charcoal, will sell each bag for $0.90 to traders in Bhamo, who will then transport it to China. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

Burning down the house: Myanmar’s destructive charcoal trade

Emmanuel Freudenthal 26 Oct 2017

Saving the ‘Star Wars gibbon’: Q&A with primatologist Carolyn Thompson

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Oct 2017

Pandas losing ground to hungry livestock in Chinese nature reserve

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2017

Snow leopards no longer ‘endangered,’ but still in decline and in need of urgent conservation measures

Mike Gaworecki 26 Sep 2017
Snow leopards (Panthera uncial) in the Sanjiangyuan region of China, a still from “Ghost of the Mountains.” Photo courtesy of Disneynature.

Stalking snow leopards: Q&A with the director of “Ghost of the Mountains”

Rebecca Kessler 20 Sep 2017

Jackie Chan joins the fight for endangered pangolins

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Sep 2017

Rhino horn on the auction block in South Africa

John Cannon 22 Aug 2017

U.K. is the world’s biggest exporter of legal ivory, data analysis shows

John Cannon 10 Aug 2017

Five promising stories for Global Tiger Day

Mongabay.com 28 Jul 2017

Investigation finds ‘thriving’ rhino horn trade in Asia

John Cannon 18 Jul 2017

Illegal mining threatens last remaining habitat of green peafowl in China

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jul 2017

A spotty revival amid decline for China’s endemic leopards

Wang Yan 7 Jul 2017

Hong Kong officials seize ‘largest ever’ ivory shipment worth $9 million

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Jul 2017

The Chinese town at the epicenter of the global illegal ivory trade

Mike Gaworecki 5 Jul 2017

Vaquita survival hinges on stopping international swim bladder trade

Mongabay.com 8 Jun 2017

Is the snow leopard actually 3 distinct subspecies?

Mike Gaworecki 30 May 2017
A snow leopard in the Sanjiangyuan region of China's Qinghai province, captured by camera trap. Photo courtesy of Shanshui Nature Center.

China’s first national park, an experiment in living with snow leopards

Wang Yan 19 May 2017

Hong Kong Ivory traders encouraging buyers to smuggle ivory: TRAFFIC

Shreya Dasgupta 11 May 2017

China flexes its new climate action muscles in Bonn; Trump administration blinks

Justin Catanoso 9 May 2017

The meat hook: satiating Asia’s demand for beef

Maxine Chen 27 Apr 2017

From black gold to wind and solar: How China is turning its back on coal

Denise Hruby 13 Apr 2017

Great apes in Asian circus-style shows on rise — so is trafficking

Millie Kerr 12 Apr 2017

Soft-yet-tough robots may one day explore the seas

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 7 Apr 2017

Controversial policy could spur tiger trade in China

Sharon Guynup 10 Mar 2017
Black rhino mom and calf

Reducing Asia’s hunger for rhino horn

Giovanni Ortolani 9 Mar 2017

China’s Domestic Dams: Hydropower not only an export for world’s biggest dam builder

Luc Forsyth 28 Feb 2017

What happens when the soy and palm oil boom ends?

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Feb 2017

It’s World Pangolin Day!

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Feb 2017

The clouded leopard: conserving Asia’s elusive arboreal acrobat

Linda Lombardi 9 Feb 2017

Meet the new ‘Skywalker’ gibbon

Mike Gaworecki 11 Jan 2017

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