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Freshwater ecologist Kurt Pinter holds a fish collected during the 2023 biological survey of the Neretva River, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Photo by Monica Pelliccia for Mongabay.

How biological surveys prevent destructive dams in the Balkans

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2023

Popular aquarium fish from Thailand and Myanmar is new-to-science species

Liz Kimbrough 14 Jul 2023
A Bengal whipping frog (Polypedates taeniatus).

In Bangladesh, microplastic threat to frogs is also concern for rice farming

Farhana Parvin 21 Jun 2023
A European eel (Anguilla anguilla) underwater.

Conservationists aim to save critically endangered European eels on Italy’s Po River

Lucrezia Lozza 26 May 2023
A northern pintail takes flight in the Tanguar Haor wetland.

Fewer migratory birds stopping at key Bangladesh wetland amid human disturbances

Abu Siddique 15 May 2023
A depiction of the legend of the Kim Qui and the Restored Sword (Hoan Kiem), on mural ceramics in Hoan Kiem temple

Death of last female Yangtze softshell turtle signals end for ‘god’ turtle

Jeremy Hance 9 May 2023
A coho salmon spawning.

Spamming streams with hatchery salmon can disrupt ecosystems, study finds

Ruth Kamnitzer 9 May 2023
Mekong giant catfish

‘Chasing giants’: Q&A with megafish biologist and author Zeb Hogan

Carolyn Cowan 9 May 2023
Setting a prescribed fire around vernal pools at Agate Desert Preserve. Image courtesy of Evan Barrientos/TNC.

Counterintuitive conservation: Fire boosts aquatic crustaceans in U.S. savannas

Ashli Blow 21 Apr 2023

Scientists and fishers team up to protect Bolivian river dolphin

Rocío Lloret 12 Apr 2023

Loss of wetlands threatens South Sumatra’s rich fish-preserving tradition

Fadhil Nugraha, Mahesa Putra 15 Mar 2023

A freshwater giant is a boon to Bolivian fishers, but an unknown for native species

Iván Paredes Tamayo 9 Mar 2023
A suckermouth catfish.

Bangladesh bans suckermouth catfish in light of threats to native fish species

Abu Siddique 23 Feb 2023
A bronze-winged jacana.

For key Bangladesh wetland, bid for Ramsar status is no guarantee of protection

Mahadi Al Hasnat 17 Feb 2023
Aplastodiscus leucopygius.

Restore linked habitat to protect tropical amphibians from disease: Study

Sean Mowbray 8 Feb 2023
An Irrawaddy dolphin.

Banned but abundant, gillnets pose main threat to Bangladesh’s river dolphins

Abu Siddique 26 Jan 2023

Unsustainable fishing to be banned in Irrawaddy dolphin’s Bornean sanctuary

Basten Gokkon 22 Dec 2022

‘Europe’s rarest fish’ numbers spawn hopes for species’ survival

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 1 Dec 2022
black softshell turtle

In Nepal, a turtle that rose from the dead makes another grand entrance

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Nov 2022
A family clears overgrown aquatic weeds in a wetland.

Habitat loss, climate change threaten Bangladesh’s native freshwater fishes with extinction

Rafiqul Islam 20 Oct 2022
Fishmongers in the Ndji village market get by with very little. Image by Yannick Kenné.

“Largest of its kind” dam in Cameroon faces backlash from unimpressed fishmongers

Yannick Kenné 13 Oct 2022
A fishing community settlement in Salonga

Catfished: New species described from DRC after mistaken identity

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Sep 2022
A mugger crocodile.

Nepal’s mugger crocs face ‘senseless’ turf war over dwindling fish resources

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Sep 2022
Cambodia's fisheries and food security are at stake as dams continue to blight the Mekong River

Cambodian mega dam’s resurrection on the Mekong ‘the beginning of the end’

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 15 Sep 2022
Drying fish on raised racks instead of the sand reduced the fish waste, a success of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). Photo by Robert Bociaga for Mongabay.

Human pressures strain Lake Tanganyika’s biodiversity and water quality

Robert Bociaga 9 Sep 2022
Watercolor drawing from Janet Marsh’s Nature Diary

Wildlife lover and artist records 5 decades of change on iconic U.K. river

Rebecca Branford and Sue Branford 7 Sep 2022
A female gharial basking on the banks of Chambal River

Gharials, most distinctive of crocs, are most in need of protection, study shows

Abhaya Raj Joshi 25 Aug 2022

In restoring polluted rivers, Indonesia looks at restocking endemic fish

Basten Gokkon, L. Darmawan 12 Jul 2022

Raise-and-release program keeping Nepal’s gharials alive can be improved, study says

Abhaya Raj Joshi 3 Jul 2022

Return of the king? Pakistan moves to bring gharials from Nepal to its rivers

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Jul 2022
Giant freshwater stingray

Giant stingray caught in Cambodia is world’s largest freshwater fish

Carolyn Cowan 21 Jun 2022
Gharial hatchlings

First gharial hatchlings spotted in nearly two decades in Nepal’s Karnali River

Abhaya Raj Joshi 20 Jun 2022

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