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Vietnam is now the top producer of robusta beans used in cheap and instant coffee blends, but it carries a huge cost for Vietnamese communities and forests. Image courtesy of Quinn Mattingly/Panos Pictures/Unfold Stories.

Cheap coffee is killing Vietnam’s priceless tropical forests (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 3 Aug 2026

Vietnam’s coffee boom fueled by decades of deforestation, report finds

Naina Rao 22 Jul 2026
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
Two hoolock gibbon in Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary, India. Image by কুমুদ ঘোষ via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

What drives the trafficking of gibbons? Conservationists shed light on demand

Mongabay.com 22 May 2026
IKEA allocates 16,000 hectares of forests for research to further improve responsible forest management. Together with European Forest Institute and Preferred by Nature, IKEA will start a research project that will explore, test and scale improved forestry practices, strengthening climate resilience and minimizing negative impacts on biodiversity.

From forest to flatpack, IKEA faces timber traceability test under EUDR

Annelise Giseburt 10 Mar 2026
An Annamite striped rabbit in a breeding facility in Thailand.

Already disappearing, Southeast Asia’s striped rabbits now caught in global pet trade

Spoorthy Raman 25 Nov 2025
A cassava farmer checks his crops in the Juma Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon, circa 2011. Cassava serves as both an important commercial crop and a subsistence crop by Indigenous and traditional peoples.

Witch Hunt: Virulent fungal disease attacks South America’s cassava crop

Gloria Dickie 5 Nov 2025
Contraband goods seized by the border guard in Vinh Long province, southern Vietnam. Image courtesy of Xuan Loc/Tuổi Trẻ.

Authorities in Vietnam bust wildlife smugglers with tons of rare animal parts

Shanna Hanbury 9 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
Tracking dog

To track a unicorn: Laos team goes all out to find the last saolas

Carolyn Cowan 30 Sep 2025
Drax is the largest consumer of wood pellets for energy in the UK.

Sustainable biomass certification scheme is flawed, degrades forests, report finds

Annelise Giseburt 21 Aug 2025
Group of grey-shanked douc langurs in a tree.

New population of rare douc langurs found in Vietnam’s highland forests

Carolyn Cowan 9 Jun 2025

Agroforestry can reduce deforestation, but supportive policies matter, study finds

Carolyn Cowan 21 Apr 2025
Banner image of a Cao-vit gibbon with an infant by Nguyen Duc Tho / Fauna & Flora

Baby sightings spark hope for critically endangered gibbons in Vietnam

Kristine Sabillo 21 Mar 2025
Peatland forest in Central Kalimantan.

Protecting peatlands and mangroves could halve Southeast Asia’s land-use emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Feb 2025

Mammals, birds in Vietnam’s rare coastal forests revealed by camera traps

Carolyn Cowan 13 Feb 2025

Southeast Asia in review: 2024

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 30 Dec 2024
Three Tonkin snub nosed monkeys on a tree branch

Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys were found in only two places on Earth. Now it’s one

Sean Mowbray 27 Dec 2024
The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Photos: Top new species from 2024

Liz Kimbrough 26 Dec 2024
Hylomys macarong, a smooth hedgehog

Greater Mekong serves up 234 new species in a year, from fanged hedgehog to diva viper

Carolyn Cowan 16 Dec 2024
red shanked douc

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

Carolyn Cowan 13 Dec 2024
Paphiopedilum haynaldianum

A key driver of decline, can wild orchid collectors change their ways?

Carolyn Cowan 14 Nov 2024
Northern white-cheeked crested gibbon

Gibbons found to perform dance routines akin to ‘the robot,’ but why?

Carolyn Cowan 11 Nov 2024

2 new species of rare toothed toads described from Vietnam and China: studies

Kristine Sabillo 9 Oct 2024
Mangroves in Vietnam

In choice of mangroves or livelihood, Vietnam shrimp farmers choose the latter

Carolyn Cowan 25 Jul 2024
Farmers burning cleared forest land after harvesting. Photo courtesy of Buu Nguyen.

Can Vietnam’s forests survive the spread of acacia and eucalyptus plantations? (commentary)

Buu Nguyen 4 Jun 2024

Forests in Vietnam’s Central Highlands at risk as development projects take priority

Le Quynh 10 Apr 2024

Spotted softshell turtle release boosts reptile conservation in Vietnam

Carolyn Cowan 4 Apr 2024
A Cao-vit gibbon in a tree.

Smaller population estimate underscores urgency of saving Cao-vit gibbon

Carly Nairn 27 Mar 2024
A hanging bridge in a forest in Malaysia.

Culture of harassment persists for women in Southeast Asia’s conservation space

Hướng Thiện 19 Mar 2024
A logger carries his chainsaw through the forest of the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia. He will sell the timber to garment factories.

Shrinking civil space and persistent logging: 2023 in review in Southeast Asia

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 28 Dec 2023
A dismembered tree in Chhaeb-Preah Roka Wildlife Sanctuary documented in April 2023. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Communities track a path of destruction through a Cambodian wildlife sanctuary

Gerald Flynn, Andy Ball, Meng Kroypunlok 9 Oct 2023

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