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Report: Orangutans and their habitat in Indonesia need full protection now

Basten Gokkon 19 Nov 2021

In Sumatra, a snare trap costs a baby elephant her trunk, then her life

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Nov 2021

Starving and injured Sumatran tiger dies in captivity, Indonesian officials report

Lili Rambe 10 Nov 2021
A chainsaw cuts through timber near Afi River Forest Reserve. Image by Orji Sunday.

Deforestation soars in Nigeria’s gorilla habitat: ‘We are running out of time’

Orji Sunday 29 Oct 2021

Green groups call for scrapping of $300m loan offer for Borneo road project

Basten Gokkon 20 Oct 2021
Malayan tiger

Fate of Malaysian forests stripped of protection points to conservation stakes

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Oct 2021

When a tree falls in the forest, you can still hear the birdsong

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 22 Sep 2021

Environmental activist ‘well-hated’ by Myanmar junta is latest to be arrested

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 9 Sep 2021

Borneo’s bearded pigs and traditional hunters adapted to oil palms. Then came swine fever

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 8 Sep 2021

New map identifies risks, and potential sanctuaries, for Brazil’s diving duck

Carolina Pinheiro 2 Sep 2021

Scientists describe new tree frog in push to catalog Indonesia’s amphibians

Grace Dungey 2 Sep 2021
An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

Highway cutting through Heart of Borneo poised to be ‘very, very bad’

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 23 Aug 2021

There’s still room to save Asia’s hoolock gibbons, study says, but only just

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 27 Jul 2021

Javan leopards, the dwindling ‘guardians’ of Java’s forests

Erik Hoffner 19 Jul 2021

Road construction imperils tree kangaroo recovery in PNG

John Cannon 19 Jul 2021

For Africa’s great apes, even ‘best-case’ climate change will decimate habitat

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jul 2021

Humans are biggest factor defining elephant ranges across Africa, study finds

Jim Tan 28 Jun 2021
Africa's largest population of eastern chimpanzees live in Bili-Uéré. Image by gombe069 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Deforestation intensifies in northern DRC protected areas

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Jun 2021

FSC-certified Indonesian logger may have cleared orangutan habitat: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 May 2021

New palm oil frontier sparks scramble for land in the Brazilian Amazon

Ana Ionova 12 Apr 2021

Deforestation rises in Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Park as cattle invade

Antonio José Paz Cardona 2 Apr 2021

Cerrado’s maned wolves, squeezed by humans, may be picking up mange from dogs

Dimas Marques/Fauna News 1 Apr 2021

The singing apes of Sumatra need rescuing, too (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 3 Mar 2021
A Bornean orangutan. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Forest patches amid agriculture are key to orangutan survival: Study

John Cannon 26 Feb 2021

Cat corridors between protected areas is key to survival of Cerrado’s jaguars

Romi Castagnino 16 Feb 2021
Two babirusa fighting in Indonesia. Image by Meldy Tamenge, edited by Cart, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Southeast Asian wild pigs confront deadly African swine fever epidemic

John Cannon 12 Feb 2021

As the Amazon unravels into savanna, its wildlife will also suffer

Luís Patriani 10 Feb 2021

Cambodian environmental activists reportedly arrested

Mongabay 5 Feb 2021

Smallholder agriculture cuts into key Sumatran tiger habitat

Rachel Fritts 26 Jan 2021
shiny green beetle

Death by 1,000 cuts: Are major insect losses imperiling life on Earth?

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jan 2021
rice field by Rhett Butler/Mongabay.

6% of Earth’s protected land is used to grow crops, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Jan 2021
Photo by the members of the community of Santa Martha.

Indigenous Cacataibo of Peru threatened by land grabbing and drug trade

Enrique Vera 15 Jan 2021

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