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India repatriates seized orangutan, raising hopes for five more

Mongabay.com 6 Nov 2026

Extreme heat is creating a workplace health crisis in Bangladesh’s garment industry

Mongabay.com 6 Nov 2026

AI tiger-warning system rooted in local knowledge stalls for lack of support

Mongabay.com 5 Nov 2026
Graphic by Emilie Languedoc/Mongabay with images courtesy of Josh van der Meulen via iNaturalist, David Chamberlin; Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Macaulay Library, Jonathan Casanova; Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Macaulay Library. These show falcons and the United Kingdom's Westminister halls of government.

Do not ‘engage formally’: UK officials advised against billionaire-run zoo ahead of CITES meeting

Elisângela Mendonça, Spoorthy Raman 3 Nov 2026
Bin Maya Gurung spins wool on the rooftop of the enterprise’s headquarters in Naya Padampur on May 19, 2026.

Given a chance, women-led microenterprises uplift Nepali communities & conservation

Emma White 30 Oct 2026
A group of volunteers walk towards a tree mapping area.

How citizen scientists are mapping Pune’s trees, with hopes of a greener future

Stephin Thomas 30 Oct 2026
A leopard in the Central Zoo, Nepal.

After Botswana, Nepal tries artificial scent marking to fend big cats off villages

Deepak Adhikari 30 Oct 2026

Legal loopholes and weak enforcement leave India’s exotic pet trade hard to police

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2026
A tiny sampling of tropical beetle diversity displayed at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. Image by H. Zell/CC 3.0.

If we don’t start counting insect populations, we won’t know what we’re losing (commentary)

Prayan Pokharel 29 Oct 2026

India’s forgotten vegetables offer a glimpse into what global diets are missing

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2026

Fishing cat rescue-and-release offers potential model for conservation in Bangladesh

Naina Rao 29 Oct 2026

Cyclone batters India’s eastern coast, killing 3 and damaging homes and farmland

Associated Press 28 Oct 2026
Md. Mizan Mia, a resident of Katanishar village of Sarail subdistrict, calms his 9-month-old female Sarail hound at his residence. Image by Kamran Reza Chowdhury.

A rare hound with a storied past faces an uncertain future in Bangladesh

Kamran Reza Chowdhury 28 Oct 2026
Kashmiri shepherd girls walk back home after collecting water from nearby spring in Tosamaidan, southwest of Srinagar, 2021.

Kashmir’s springs are drying up. Scientists say saving them starts uphill

Hashim Quraishi 27 Oct 2026
A vendor in Pakistan pushes his cart through smog in Lahore

In Pakistan’s Punjab, toxic air threatens wildlife amid a monitoring blind spot

Muhammad Talal 27 Oct 2026

Baby orangutans in India expose illegal wildlife trade as experts question a billionaire’s zoo

Associated Press 27 Oct 2026
A male great hornbill approaches the nest in which its mate stays with the eggs or chicks.

Bangladesh’s hornbills face hunting risk during breeding season

Sifayet Ullah 26 Oct 2026

Sri Lanka mourns iconic tusker amid renewed calls to address human-elephant conflict

Malaka Rodrigo 24 Oct 2026
Arzu Begum stands by the door of her house in the poor Mirpur area of Dhaka in July, 2022.

Bangladesh’s climate migrants are arriving in cities unprepared to protect them

Usraat Fahmidah 23 Oct 2026

Death of iconic elephant in Sri Lanka pushes authorities to fast-track protection efforts

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 23 Oct 2026

Two decades after crash, Nepal still searching for new generation of conservation visionaries

Mongabay.com 23 Oct 2026

World Snow Leopard Day: Community action and new science foster coexistence with humans

Naina Rao 23 Oct 2026

Bangladesh garment factory workers bear the brunt of rising temperatures

Usraat Fahmidah 21 Oct 2026
An Indian honey bee in Pune, Maharashtra state.

The women keeping Uttarakhand’s native bees alive

Swati Thapa 20 Oct 2026
Houses nearly submerged due to flooding in Sirajganj, 2020.

Bank credit remains scarce in Bangladesh where climate risks are highest

Sajibur Rahman 20 Oct 2026
A tiger in Bardiya National Park, 2021.

In Nepal, AI builds on local knowledge to help prevent tiger attacks

Praveen Kumar Yadav 20 Oct 2026
A woman picks fallen mahua flowers near Kanha Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh state.

How Indian communities earn a living from more than forest timber

Stephin Thomas 15 Oct 2026

A study unravels the genetic mystery of a cobra divided by sea

Malaka Rodrigo 13 Oct 2026

As Colombo heats up, passive cooling offers a low-energy solution — but at a cost

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 12 Oct 2026

Sri Lanka elephant found with a gunshot wound. How can tuskers be protected?

Malaka Rodrigo 9 Oct 2026
A worker throws feed into a pool at a shrimp hatchery at Nagulapally village, Uppada, Kakinada district, Andhra Pradesh, India, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024. Activists say India, the largest supplier of U.S. shrimp, America’s favorite seafood, is polluting the environment through aquaculture. Image by AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.

For Indian communities, fishmeal factories bring pollution, danger and protests

Ian Urbina 9 Oct 2026

Dhaka’s waste-to-energy plant face backlash over air pollution

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2026

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