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The secret deal to destroy paradise

Malaysiakini, Mongabay, Tempo, The Gecko Project 28 Nov 2018

RSPO adopts total ban on deforestation under sweeping new standards

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Nov 2018

A lucky child: Mongabay’s origin story (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2018

Roads divide opinions along with forests, study finds

John Cannon 8 Nov 2018
A Sumatran rhino in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Face-to-face with what may be the last of the world’s smallest rhino, the Bornean rhinoceros (insider)

Jeremy Hance 4 Nov 2018

One-two punch of habitat loss, capture hammers Southeast Asian birds

Basten Gokkon 16 Oct 2018

Indonesian government puts off Sumatran rhino IVF program

Basten Gokkon 10 Oct 2018

The rhino reckoning

Jeremy Hance 2 Oct 2018

The great rhino U-turn

Jeremy Hance 28 Sep 2018

Deforestation-linked palm oil still finding its way into top consumer brands: report

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Sep 2018

A herd of dead rhinos

Jeremy Hance 24 Sep 2018

1984: the meeting that changed everything for Sumatran rhinos

Jeremy Hance 20 Sep 2018

Conservation groups herald protection of tiger habitat in Malaysia

Mongabay.com 11 Sep 2018

Plantations can produce more palm oil if they keep riverbanks forested

Rachel Fritts 10 Sep 2018

A civic outcry in Malaysia forces a Chinese builder to live up to its eco-friendly tag

Keith Schneider 5 Sep 2018

A Malaysian port city grapples with the fallout from Chinese funding

Keith Schneider 24 Aug 2018

Amid corruption scandal, Malaysia switches track on future of rail network

Keith Schneider 16 Aug 2018

Recovering conservationist: Q&A with orangutan ecologist June Mary Rubis

Basten Gokkon 15 Aug 2018
Rainforest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Top forestry official out in Malaysia

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Aug 2018

A river restored breathes new life into Kuala Lumpur

Keith Schneider 8 Aug 2018

In Malaysia, an island drowns in its own development

Keith Schneider 26 Jul 2018

Cracks appear in Malaysia’s building spree, once a model for development

Keith Schneider 17 Jul 2018
Wood that was cut for charcoal production near Katha, northern Myanmar. Villages in this area used to cut teak and other valuable trees for export, but have since started producing charcoal. The charcoal being exported to China can be made from any tree, regardless of size or kind. This amount of trees could produce about 150 bags of charcoal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

‘Single-minded determination’: China’s global infrastructure spree rings alarm bells

Basten Gokkon 17 Jul 2018

Tiger, clouded leopard skins among illegal wildlife parts seized in Malaysia

Mongabay.com 9 Jul 2018

Implicit gender, racial biases may hinder effectiveness of conservation science, experts warn

Basten Gokkon 4 Jul 2018

Plant response to rising CO2 levels may alter rainfall patterns across tropics

Claire Asher 28 Jun 2018

Online pet trade in Southeast Asia poses a major new threat to otters

Mongabay.com 8 Jun 2018

Geneticists: It’s time to mix the Sumatran rhino subspecies

Jeremy Hance 29 May 2018

Roads might pose even bigger threat to Southeast Asian forests, biodiversity than previously understood

Mike Gaworecki 22 May 2018

First record of ultrasound communication in the mysterious Sunda colugo

Shreya Dasgupta 1 May 2018

New species of Malaysian water beetle named after Leonardo DiCaprio

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2018

‘We are going to self-destruct’: Development plans threaten Malaysian island

Kate Mayberry 30 Apr 2018

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