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Vietnam’s mammals need conservation within and outside their range: Study

Carolyn Cowan 13 Dec 2024

From selfies to treetops: Thai NGOs rescue and release captive gibbons

Ana Norman Bermúdez 9 Aug 2024

Africa’s great ape sanctuaries are feeling the heat from climate change

Tina Deines 5 Jul 2024

Nepal launches new plan to boost critically endangered Bengal florican

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jun 2024

Spotted softshell turtle release boosts reptile conservation in Vietnam

Carolyn Cowan 4 Apr 2024

New calf brings new hope, and new concerns, for embattled Sumatran rhinos

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2023
Rock gecko

For Vietnam’s rare reptiles, lack of captive populations may spell doom

Carolyn Cowan 21 Sep 2023

Stem cells may make ‘impossible possible’ for near-extinct Sumatran rhino

Basten Gokkon 15 Nov 2022
Scottish wildcat. Photo courtesy of Stewart Grant/Cairngorms National Park.

Scotland changes course to save its last native wildcats

James Fair 16 Jun 2022
Emergent rainforest tree in Malaysia

Asia’s troubled trees need better conservation to reach restoration goals: Study

Carolyn Cowan 26 Apr 2022

It’s a girl: Super rare Sumatran rhino born in captive-breeding center

Basten Gokkon 28 Mar 2022

Cambodian project aims to revive flagging fish populations in Tonle Sap Lake

Carolyn Cowan 22 Mar 2022
Asian giant tortoises

Wild release marks return of giant forest tortoises to Bangladesh hills

Carolyn Cowan 10 Jan 2022
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Snapshot of hatchlings raises hopes for Siamese crocs in northeast Cambodia

Carolyn Cowan 24 Sep 2021

Captive breeding of Sumatran rhinos: Where the program stands today

Mongabay 31 Aug 2021

To count Sumatran rhinos in the wild, look for their poop, study says

Basten Gokkon 24 Aug 2021

Sumatran rhinos show low inbreeding — but when it happens, collapse is quick

Carolyn Cowan 29 Apr 2021

Video: Doomed or viable? Sumatran rhino captive breeding faces a dilemma

Isabel Esterman 3 Mar 2021

Signs, but no sightings: The phantom rhinos of Sumatra’s Bukit Barisan Selatan

Dian Wahyu Kusuma 22 Jan 2021
A small village nestled in the Ha Giang province in Vietnam near the border with China. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Sexual harassment rife in Vietnam’s conservation sector, survey reveals

Michael Tatarski 25 Nov 2020

Building a road to recovery for subtle racism in conservation (commentary)

Resson Kantai Duff (Kenya) 19 Nov 2020

On World Rhino Day, ‘real work’ is still needed to save Sumatran rhinos

Basten Gokkon 22 Sep 2020

A mysterious heart bone in chimps points to cardiac disease

Julia John 28 Aug 2020

‘Every tool in the box’ to save Sumatran rhinos: Q&A with Nina Fascione of IRF

Jeremy Hance 20 Jul 2020

For two rhino species on brink of extinction, it’s collaboration vs. stonewalling

Lauren Evans 6 Jul 2020

Reproductive woes spell need for more viable females in Sumatran rhino program

Basten Gokkon 10 Apr 2020

Indonesia-WWF split puts rhino breeding project in Borneo in limbo

Basten Gokkon 3 Feb 2020

Time is running out for Southeast Asia

Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2019

Malaysian attempt at Sumatran rhino IVF fails on low quality of sperm

Basten Gokkon 16 Oct 2019

At India’s Assam Zoo, decades of experience lead to rhino-breeding success

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 16 Oct 2019

Sumatra survey looks to identify at-risk rhinos for captive breeding

Junaidi Hanafiah 4 Oct 2019

Bid to breed Sumatran rhino is handicapped by bureaucratic ‘quibbling’

Basten Gokkon 2 Oct 2019

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