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Sri Lankan waters under ‘close watch’ following wreckage of Iranian warship

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 6 Mar 2026
A radio-collared slow loris in Bangladesh.

Out of captivity, into conflict: slow lorises struggle to survive after release

Carolyn Cowan 26 Feb 2026

Profitable cash crop trend in Bangladesh’s hills affects regional ecology

Abu Siddique 26 Feb 2026
A sacred forest protected by Indigenous Magar community in Siluwa Village of Palpa District in Nepal. Image by Sonam Lama Hyolmo/Mongabay.

Nepal signs major carbon deal but community access remains challenging

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Feb 2026
A worker screen-prints flags of the Nepali Congress Party for sale ahead of general election in Kathmandu, Jan. 27, 2026.

In Nepal polls, political parties root for mega infrastructure

Rajendra Pokherel 26 Feb 2026
A captive sand cat in Nushi, Pakistan. Illegal trade is occurring amid a paucity of information about population sizes of small cat populations, says Sheikh. “It's going under the radar to a big extent, and hardly anything is being done to actively stop it or to mitigate this threat.”

Big cats get the press, but small wildcats are being poached and trafficked in silence

Sean Mowbray 25 Feb 2026
A Sherpa man carries bags up a mountain.

As Nepal votes, climate change is an elephant in the room for Sherpa community

Shashwat Pant 24 Feb 2026
Satellite image of the eastern part of the Cape York Peninsula in Australia. Courtesy of Earthstar Geographics SIO / Microsoft maps

Scientists can’t agree on where the world’s forests are

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Feb 2026
Election officials wait to collect election materials at Dhaka Residential Model college on the eve of national election in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Feb. 11.

Bangladesh’s political parties share manifestos, leave environmentalists frustrated

Sadiqur Rahman 11 Feb 2026
A village in Dolakha.

Nepal’s community forests sit on unsold timber

Mukesh Pokhrel 10 Feb 2026
Mulkharka residents who oppose the Nagmati Dam project and are campaigning to stop construction.

A dam threatens Nepal’s Indigenous community; they want it on the ballot

Bibek Bhandari 4 Feb 2026
A whale shark (Rhincodon typus).

Whale sharks released from nets along India’s coast as fishers turn rescuers

K.A. Shaji 4 Feb 2026
Ramon ‘Chin-Chin’ Uy Jr. is Slow Food representative for the Asia and Pacific region. Image courtesy of Slow Food.

Why is a Philippine island now the Asia Pacific center for agroecology? Interview with Ramon ‘Chin-Chin’ Uy Jr.

Keith Anthony Fabro 3 Feb 2026
Hyena in Tanzania. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler.

Viral hyena incident reveals Nepal’s growing online information disorder

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 31 Jan 2026

Habitat destruction, illegal trade threaten Sri Lanka’s endangered agamid lizards

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 31 Jan 2026
In the weeks since the deforestation in May, banda organizers launched a campaign to replant 20,000 saplings.

World Bank watchdog looks into Nepal cable car project amid Indigenous outcry

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 23 Jan 2026
Fishermen and birds coexist in harmony on almost all mudflats of coastal Bangladesh.

Is South Asia becoming inhospitable for migratory birds?

Sadiqur Rahman 21 Jan 2026
Sirsiya river in Nepal. image by Suresh Bidar

‘Holy river’ carries industrial waste & sewage from Nepal to India

Suresh Bidari 21 Jan 2026

From south to north, Sri Lanka’s cricket dreams undermine fragile ecosystems

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Jan 2026
Rhinophis siruvaniensis was recently described in a paper based on specimens first collected by a tour guide 10 years ago on a coffee farm in India. Image courtesy of Umesh P.K.

New species of burrowing snake described from coffee farm in India

Mongabay.com 12 Jan 2026
Madhav Gadgil in 2016. Photo by Syed Shiyaz Mirza

Madhav Gadgil, advocate of democratic conservation, has died at 83

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Jan 2026
A worker carries coal in buckets to burn bricks at a brick field in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Brickmaking keeps eating farmland as Bangladesh misses clean-build goal

Abu Siddique 2 Jan 2026

Cyclone-ravaged Sri Lanka set to apply for ‘loss and damage’ funding

Malaka Rodrigo 31 Dec 2025
A Magar local affected by the Tanahu Hydropower project. Image by Sanjog Laapaa Magar, INWOLAG.

Fights against development projects marks 2025 for Nepal’s Indigenous people

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 29 Dec 2025

Beyond human loss, floods from Cyclone Ditwah devastate Sri Lanka’s wildlife

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Dec 2025
Construction personnel at work on the Kathmandu-Nijhgadh expressway. Image courtesy of Nepal Army.

A ‘national pride’ highway meets Indigenous resistance in ancient Nepali settlements

Bibek Bhandari 28 Dec 2025

Sri Lanka looks to build disaster-resilient housing after devastating cyclone

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 27 Dec 2025

Cyclone Ditwah exposes climate risks to nature-based tourism in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 24 Dec 2025

As Cyclone Ditwah battered land, Sri Lanka’s oceans absorbed a silent shock

Malaka Rodrigo 23 Dec 2025

Grassroots forest protection succeeds where planting drives fail in Nepal

Mukesh Pokhrel 23 Dec 2025
asian small clawed otter

In Nepal, the world’s smallest otter continues to elude researchers

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Dec 2025
A fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus).

Fishing cats need hotspot-based conservation in Bangladesh, research shows

Sadiqur Rahman 19 Dec 2025

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