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Greater Mekong primates struggle to cling on amid persistent threats: Report

Carolyn Cowan 17 Jan 2022

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

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 30 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

The Greater Mekong region: A hotspot of wildlife and crime

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 17 Nov 2021

COP26: Surging wood pellet industry threatens climate, say experts

Sharon Guynup 9 Nov 2021

Deforestation-free supply chains in Vietnam rely on working with small scale farmers (commentary)

Phuc Xuan To 20 Aug 2021

Camera trap pics of rare species in Vietnam raise conservation hopes

Michael Tatarski 24 Jun 2021

Meet the 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 15 Jun 2021
Smoke rising from smoldering peatland in PT Raja Garuda Mas Sejati. Photo courtesy of Greenpeace Media Library.

Efforts to restore tropical peatlands need fire-free plantations (commentary)

Evi Wulandari | Dilva Terzano 2 Jun 2021

Wildlife trafficking, like everything else, has gone online during COVID-19

Imelda Abano, Leilani Chavez 1 Jun 2021

‘Drastic forest development’: Vietnam to plant 1 billion trees — but how?

Michael Tatarski 20 May 2021

At Vietnam’s southern tip, mangroves defend the land from the encroaching sea

Michael Tatarski 28 Apr 2021

Nearly one-third of all oak species threatened with extinction, report says

Liz Kimbrough 12 Feb 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

Vietnam creates new nature reserve, possible home to elusive ‘Asian unicorn’

Michael Tatarski 29 Sep 2020

Discovery of threatened species drives bid to protect Vietnam forest

Michael Tatarski 1 Sep 2020

Are forests the new coal? Global alarm sounds as biomass burning surges

Justin Catanoso 31 Aug 2020

Vietnam approves $9 billion development within mangrove reserve

Tim Rist 5 Aug 2020

Anticipated new restrictions on wildlife trade in Vietnam fall short of a ban

Michael Tatarski 30 Jul 2020

Vietnamese agribusiness firm HAGL accused of clearing indigenous land in Cambodia

Michael Tatarski 15 Jun 2020

Vietnam wildlife trade ban appears to flounder amid coronavirus success

Michael Tatarski 25 May 2020

Tigers threatened by a vast network of planned roads across Asia

Liz Kimbrough 21 May 2020

World lost forest ‘the size of Libya’ since 1990, FAO says

Lauren Crothers 8 May 2020

A vital mangrove forest hidden in Vietnam’s largest city could be at risk

Michael Tatarski 21 Apr 2020
Part of anti-trafficking campaign in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Vietnam considers wildlife trade ban in response to coronavirus pandemic

Michael Tatarski 18 Mar 2020
A butterfly in the forests of Vietnam. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Vietnam’s new conservation plan prioritizes trees and people. Emissions? Not so much

CJ Clouse 13 Mar 2020

Coronavirus outbreak hits Vietnam’s timber sector

Michael Tatarski 24 Feb 2020

Illegal hunting a greater threat to wildlife than forest degradation

Nanditha Chandraprakash 9 Dec 2019

Scientists rediscover mammalian oddity in remote Vietnam

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2019
Part of anti-trafficking campaign in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

The challenges of campaigning against wildlife trafficking in Vietnam

Michael Tatarski 1 Aug 2019
Mekong River landscape. Image by WWF-Cambodia.

As Cambodia swelters, climate-change suspicion falls on deforestation

Michael Tatarski 17 Jun 2019

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