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A saltwater crocodile basking on the bank of a pond in Karamjol Crocodile Breeding Centre.

Bangladesh uses satellite transmitters on saltwater crocodiles in Asia’s first

Rafiqul Islam 22 Apr 2024

Brazil boosts protection of Amazon mangroves with new reserves in Pará state

Sarah Brown 19 Apr 2024
A hawksbill turtle

As a megaport rises in Cameroon, a delicate coastal ecosystem ebbs

Elodie Toto 5 Apr 2024
A tiger in Sundarbans.

Despite investment in conservation, Bengal tigers still struggling in Bangladesh

Farhana Parvin 25 Mar 2024
Saltwater crocodile

Risks to Myanmar’s last saltwater crocs point to coastal conservation needs

Carolyn Cowan 13 Feb 2024

Study: Indonesia’s new capital city threatens stable proboscis monkey population

Basten Gokkon 8 Feb 2024
Workers at a mangrove nursery in Dam, a coastal town in Pakistan's Balochistan province. Image by Ayaz Khan for Mongabay.

Pakistan bucks global trend with 30-year mangrove expansion

Ayaz Khan 5 Feb 2024

Mangrove crab sustainability is vital for fishers in Indonesia’s Aru Islands

Ridzki R. Sigit 31 Jan 2024
A trawler in Bangladesh.

Overfishing leads to decline in Bangladesh marine fish stocks & diversity

Abu Siddique 30 Jan 2024
Smooth-coated otter

Camera-traps help identify conservation needs of Thailand’s coastal otters

Carolyn Cowan 8 Jan 2024
Roque Regis, one of Paraiso’s community leaders, stands on a bridge through the bay's mangroves.

Causeway threatens mangroves that Philippine fishers planted as typhoon shield

Michael Beltran 21 Dec 2023
Mona Webber pointing at a mangrove restoration site on Norman Manly Highway.

Jamaica battles relentless plastic pollution in quest to restore mangroves

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Nov 2023
Villagers of Muanda.

Oil firm Perenco eyes new blocks in DRC amid criticism of its track record

Elodie Toto 24 Oct 2023

Sumatran Indigenous seafarers run aground by overfishing and mangrove loss

Suryadi, Tonggo Simangunsong 23 Oct 2023
The electric-blue tarantula, Chilobrachys natanicharum, found in Thailand. Image courtesy of Yuranan Nanthaisong

New electric-blue tarantula species is first found in Thailand mangroves

Liz Kimbrough 9 Oct 2023
A black-headed ibis

Tien Hai Nature Reserve latest battleground in Vietnam’s push for development

Michael Tatarski 22 Sep 2023
Fisherfolk leader Lorene Gabayeron holding fish.

A Philippines NGO project aimed to protect villages from typhoons: What went wrong?

Keith Anthony Fabro 13 Sep 2023
A sub-adult Bengal tiger on the river bank.

Sundarbans tiger and prey numbers rise amid Bangladesh conservation efforts

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 11 Sep 2023
Fishing boats in the Sundarbans.

Court order fails to stop poison fishing in Bangladesh Sundarbans

Farhana Parvin 1 Sep 2023
Fishermen fishing for crabs in the wild.

As Bangladesh’s crab fishery booms, its wild stocks suffer the fallout

Farhana Parvin 16 Aug 2023
Volunteers clearing plastic trash gathered from river barriers. Image courtesy of Sam Benchegjib.

For International Youth Day, three youth conservation success stories

Latoya Abulu, Laurel Sutherland 12 Aug 2023
Biologist Mario Moscatelli (right) supervises the work of a colleague during the replanting of mangroves in Jardim Gramacho, close to a disused dump. The area is the most polluted part of the bay and exists under the shadow of the city’s infamous criminal organizations.

Rio de Janeiro’s defender of mangroves

Mongabay.com 9 Aug 2023
Mangroves in Raja Ampat. Photo credit: Rhett A Butler

Study shows how to maximize mangroves as climate and community solution

Sílvia Lisboa and Maurício Brum 8 Aug 2023
Bajo seafarer named Umar Pasandre has been quietly building a career as an influential environmental defender.

Sulawesi sea nomads who inspired Avatar movie chart new course saving forests

Sarjan Lahay 31 Jul 2023

Offshore oil plans in Brazil threaten South America’s largest coral reef

Luan Matheus Santana, Agência Pública 24 Jul 2023

Opposition grows to Indonesia’s resumption of sea sand exports

Basten Gokkon, Sarjan Lahay 8 Jul 2023
Manoka, Cameroon: solitary fisher with a fish in their right hand, stepping away from three canoes beached on a shimmering mudflat, to a concrete jetty in the bottom right. Image by Christophe Nyemeck Beat

Element Africa: offshore oil threatens fisheries, gold mining topples homes and forests

Mongabay.com 15 Jun 2023
A paddy field farmer wades through his agricultural land flooded with red mud.

Red floods near giant Indonesia nickel mine blight farms and fishing grounds

Riza Salman 14 Jun 2023
Coral reef, ocean, mangroves, and forest.

New digital tool maps blue carbon ecosystems in high resolution

Abhishyant Kidangoor 12 Jun 2023

Experts, activists unite to blast Indonesia’s U-turn on sea sand exports

Basten Gokkon 6 Jun 2023
A tiger in the Sundarbans.

Bangladesh tries fences to tackle growing human-tiger conflict in Sundarbans

Rafiqul Islam 31 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

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