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Asian golden cat caught on camera in Nepal.

Asian golden cat range expands, but declines continue amid rising threats

Sean Mowbray 7 Nov 2025

New pledge, old problems as Indonesia’s latest Indigenous forest promise draws skepticism

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Nov 2025

Scientists call for stronger action to save Indonesia’s vanishing seagrass meadows

Basten Gokkon 5 Nov 2025
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Banten Province, Indonesia.

Indonesia pledges energy transition — but the country’s new NDC says otherwise

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Nov 2025
Wilmar Eliaser Simandjorang

One man’s mission to rewild a dying lake

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Nov 2025
Dozens of Mashco Piro people appeared on a riverbank in Peru in 2024, just a few miles from logging concessions. The Mascho Piro are Indigenous nomadic hunter-gatherers who inhabit Manú National Park in the Madre de Dios region of Peru. They have in the past actively avoided contact with outsiders.

Report urges full protection of world’s 196 uncontacted Indigenous peoples

Sue Branford 27 Oct 2025

Radioactive leak in Banten exposes workers to danger & reveals regulatory failures

Anggita Raissa 25 Oct 2025

Indonesia’s most vulnerable push for nation’s first Climate Justice Bill

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Oct 2025

Rare dugong calf sighting in Alor spotlights seagrass & marine mammal conservation

Basten Gokkon 21 Oct 2025
Bambang Hero Saharjo and Basuki Wasis, two environmental experts from IPB University, after the first hearing of their lawsuit against their testimony at the Cibinong District Court,

Indonesia court clears wildfire scientists in case brought by palm oil company

Rendy Tisna 17 Oct 2025
Wilmar Eliaser Simandjorang

Indonesia retiree rewilds world’s largest volcano lake as church demands plantation closures

Sri Wahyuni 17 Oct 2025

New cluster of Tapanuli orangutans discovered in Sumatra peat swamp

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Oct 2025

Indonesia falls short in bid to increase its share of southern bluefin tuna catch

Edward Carver 16 Oct 2025

Nickel mining threatens Raja Ampat ecosystems, communities & conservation: Report

Basten Gokkon 16 Oct 2025

In Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands, youths blend ancestral and world faiths to protect forests

Keith Anthony Fabro 14 Oct 2025
Akhyari Hananto. Courtesy of Hananto

Connecting Indonesia’s environmental stories to millions

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Oct 2025
Denica Riadini-Flesch in Indonesia. Photo by Muhammad Fadli / National Geographic

Regenerative fashion initiative in Indonesia wins 2025 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Oct 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

Indonesia eyes seagrass zoning for blue carbon; experts urge community benefits

Basten Gokkon 7 Oct 2025
Oil palm planation and native tropical rainforest on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.

RSPO sparks NGO outrage for dismissing complaint over alleged ‘shadow companies’

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Oct 2025
A worker of a sustainable solutions company performs maintenance work on a solar panel on a roof on the island of Sumba in Indonesia.

With red tape, canceled rebates, Indonesia risks missing Chinese renewables investment

Jeff Hutton 6 Oct 2025
A Bali starling sings with its beak wide open

Indigenous-led protections spark Bali starling’s recovery in the wild

Heather Physioc 2 Oct 2025
Rainbow over Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler.

Just as Raja Ampat fetches UNESCO Biosphere Reserve title, nickel mining looms

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Oct 2025
A trash picker looks for recyclable plastics at a waste dump in Bali. Image by Jonas Gratzer for Mongabay.

Can courts combat plastic pollution? Lessons from Indonesia (commentary)

Syahriza Alkohir Anggoro 30 Sep 2025

Indonesia aims to redraw UNESCO site boundaries to allow geothermal projects

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Sep 2025

Study spotlights West Papua habitat as whale sharks face increased pressures

Basten Gokkon 28 Sep 2025
Heavy machinery operates at the nickel mining site of PT Kawei Sejahtera Mining on Kawe Island, Raja Ampat.

Religion at a crossroads in Indonesia as Islamic groups bid to operate large-scale mines

Ramadani Saputra 25 Sep 2025
A traditional fisher in Bali, 2013.

EV trial among Bali east coast fishers shows promise amid headwinds

Luh De Suriyani 22 Sep 2025
The cheerful faces of Wulandoni 4 Public Middle School students after harvesting sorghum in the school garden in Tapobali village.

Grassroots community seeds sorghum in eastern Indonesia to adapt to climate change

Ebed de Rosary 17 Sep 2025
Nickel mining activity in the PT IWIP industrial area in Central Halmahera.

Norway fund drops Eramet over Indonesia mine threatening forests, Indigenous tribe

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Sep 2025

Critics say FSC update risks weakening accountability for forest harm

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Sep 2025
Satellite image of Lake Chad. Image courtesy of Maxar.

Ani Dasgupta watched wetlands tame floods in Kigali. He believes nature is infrastructure we can fund.

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Sep 2025

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