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A rhesus macaque eats an orange in Kathmandu. Image by Rachid H via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Monkey vs machine: Nepal tests AI to fight crop-raiding macaques

Praveen Kumar Yadav 13 Jul 2026
The Matarbari coal power plant and deep seaport.

Fossil fuel-based mega projects displace locals in Bangladesh, pushing youth out

Eyamin Sajid 13 Jul 2026

Pangolin habitat at risk in Pakistan

Mongabay.com 13 Jul 2026
Manzoor Ahmad Wangnoo rows a shikara across the Khushalsar-Gilsar wetland system in Srinagar

Restoring Kashmir’s lakes one community at a time: Interview with Manzoor Ahmad Wangnoo

Hashim Quraishi 10 Jul 2026
The rescued tiger at Khulna Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center. Image courtesy of the Bangladesh Forest Department.

Bangladesh gets ready for its first release of tiger rescued from poachers’ trap

Abu Siddique 10 Jul 2026

Nepal’s Rhino translocation success in numbers masks habitat struggles

Mongabay.com 10 Jul 2026

Bangladesh relocates refugees after landslide kills at least 5 children

Associated Press 9 Jul 2026
Himalayan Pangolin, Manis aurita museum speciment

Himalayan pangolin emerges as distinct species, 189 years after first described

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Jul 2026
A spiny babbler (Turdoides nipalensis), the only bird species endemic to Nepal.

Nepal’s birdwatchers help monitor wildlife and promote tourism

Bibek Bhandari 6 Jul 2026
Fishing on the Kaptai Lake

Declining carp fishes in Bangladesh’s Kaptai Lake leave small-scale fishers struggling

Sifayet Ullah 3 Jul 2026

Heat and pests are making it hard to grow a gourd that’s critical for Indian music

Mongabay.com 2 Jul 2026

Sri Lanka intensifies fight against dengue and the mosquitos that cause the infection

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 2 Jul 2026
A woman collects water from a pond in Bangladesh, where drinkable water is becoming increasingly scarce due to salt contamination from sea level rise. Image courtesy of Abu Siddique.

Sea level rise is ruining coastal Bangladesh with salty water (commentary)

AL Sharia 1 Jul 2026
Vehicles on a road in Nepal.

Nepal’s new government bets on tax revenue over clean energy push

Rudra Pangeni 1 Jul 2026
A jimbu (Allium przewalskianum) in the Tibetan Plateau.

What’s jimbu? The herb that bolsters an iconic Nepali dish could also help save snow leopards

Bibek Bhandari 30 Jun 2026
An auto rickshaw driver covers his face to protect himself from the pollution in Dhaka

Bangladesh unveils sweeping EV incentives to cut emissions and pollution

Kamran Reza Chowdhury 30 Jun 2026
Mel Sunquist

Mel Sunquist, field biologist and mentor to generations of conservationists

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jun 2026
A Himalayan wolf.

How snow leopards, wolves and leopards share the same Himalayan valley, study

Liz Kimbrough 26 Jun 2026
A fisher at Saude Beach in Kochi. Image by Robert Bociaga for Mongabay.

India’s fishers confront homegrown ‘ghost gear’ problem

Robert Bociaga 26 Jun 2026
A peacock displaying its tail in India. Image by allanlau2000 via Pixabay.

Bangladesh tests a return to the wild for extinct peafowl populations

Abu Siddique 26 Jun 2026

Asia’s shark and ray hotspots remain poorly protected, study finds

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Jun 2026
Sarus Crane in Nepal zoo

Nepal’s Central Zoo faces questions over its bird flu response

Deepak Adhikari 25 Jun 2026

How leopards and wolves share the same Himalayan valley: Study

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jun 2026
Farmers of Bangladesh harvest ripe rice crop

Bangladesh’s lightning death toll persists as years of gov’t safeguards fail

Sadiqur Rahman 23 Jun 2026

Power lines threaten Sri Lanka’s iconic migrant flamingos

Mongabay.com 22 Jun 2026
A snow leopard (Uncia uncia).

Community more crucial than snow leopard counting: Interview with Rodney Jackson

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Jun 2026

Museum DNA unmasks new Himalayan pit vipers, study says

Naina Rao 19 Jun 2026
A greater one horned rhino eats water plants from a river in Janakauli community forest bordering Chitwan National Park, 2010.

Nepal’s rhino translocation looks good in numbers, but not so much in habitat

Bibek Bhandari 18 Jun 2026
A marbled cat captured on camera trap in Nagaland. Image by Giridhar Malla.

Community-led initiatives safeguard marbled cats in northeast India

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2026
An Indian pangolin in India

Beyond wildlife trade: Endangered pangolins are losing habitat in Pakistan

Emma Smith 16 Jun 2026

Himalayan rivers shifting course as climate warming thaws the ‘Water Tower of Asia’

Naina Rao 16 Jun 2026
Chinese pangolin

In Bangladesh, scientists learn what happens after rescued pangolins return to the wild

Carolyn Cowan 16 Jun 2026

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