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Dr. Ajith Kumar. Photo by Ishwar Narayanan

Indian wildlife biologist Ajith Kumar has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Mar 2025
Image of fisherwomen selling fish at a market in Kerala. Image by India Water Portal via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

India’s fisherwomen getting left behind by blue economy policies

Mongabay.com 28 Feb 2025
The last of the sea nomads cling to their roots in a changing world

Thailand’s last sea nomads confront a changing world

Sandy Watt, Thomas Cristofoletti 26 Feb 2025
Image of a Madras hedgehog by Santhosh Krishnan13 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The rarely seen Madras hedgehog in India is also poorly studied

Mongabay.com 26 Feb 2025
Ganga Thapa, a farmer in Sarlahi’s Ishworpur municipality, points towards the eucalyptus plants affecting her farm. Image by Mukesh Pokhrel.

In Nepal, a eucalyptus boom became an ecological cautionary tale

Mukesh Pokhrel 25 Feb 2025
Researchers examine a dead olive ridley at Cox's Bazar Beach.

Conservationists suspect fishing nets, increased tourism for sea turtle deaths in Bangladesh

Abu Siddique 24 Feb 2025

India’s Adani withdraws from controversial Sri Lanka wind power project

Malaka Rodrigo 21 Feb 2025
A wild Asian elephant in Nepal's plains. Image courtesy of Ashok Ram

As elephant conflict shifts, Nepal’s border village offers clues for coexistence

Deepak Adhikari 18 Feb 2025

Rice fields of India host valuable, but disappearing, wild edibles

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2025
Malir River near Damloti check dam, Karachi suburbs.

Ecology vs. development in Karachi: Interview with photographer Salman Baloch

Waqas Alam Angaria 14 Feb 2025

More cable car controversy surfaces in Nepal’s western mountains

Abhaya Raj Joshi 12 Feb 2025
The makuna photographed in Sauraha, Chitwan in September 2024. Image courtesy of Madhu Chetri.

In Nepal’s Chitwan, elephant’s shooting, death raises eyebrows

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Feb 2025
Asian small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinereus) photographed in a zoo.

World’s smallest otter makes comeback in Nepal after 185 years

Abhaya Raj Joshi 5 Feb 2025
Common pochard (Aythya ferina) photographed in Pakistan.

Better government policies could help as migratory birds lose habitat in Bangladesh

Pinky Akter 5 Feb 2025

Indian villages seek to protect ecosystem by opting out of state’s development push

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2025

Study highlights effects of habitat fragmentation on Sri Lankan specialist birds

Malaka Rodrigo 4 Feb 2025
Babu Krishna Karki with his camera photographing wildlife.

Military-backed conservation ‘without firing a single shot’: Interview with Nepal’s Babu Krishna Karki

Abhaya Raj Joshi 4 Feb 2025

Indian town trials virtual solar fences to reduce conflict with elephants

Mongabay.com 4 Feb 2025
Seized live turtles belonging to Pangshura tecta, Morenia petersi and Lissemys punctata species temporarily sheltered at the Forest Department enclosures before releasing them into the wild again.

Illegal trade is pushing Bangladesh’s freshwater turtles to the brink

Sadiqur Rahman 3 Feb 2025

How a Nepali border village learned to live with migratory wild elephants

Deepak Adhikari 30 Jan 2025
An agile gibbon in Berlin Zoo.

Increase in gibbon trafficking into India has conservationists worried

Spoorthy Raman 29 Jan 2025
Smoke billows from an incinerator at the Sheng Huang Industries Co., Ltd garment factory in Kampong Speu province. Credit: Andy Ball/Mongabay.

Fashion has a coal problem, but the solutions are electrifying (commentary)

Peter Ford 28 Jan 2025

Introducing wildlife crime to Nepal’s law enforcement: Interview with Prasanna Yonzon

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Jan 2025
Coal miners in Meghalaya, India.

Coal gasification, an old technology, is quietly expanding across Asia

Nithin Coca 21 Jan 2025
Domesticated yaks ferry essential supplies on the Sagarmatha trekking trail. Image by Shashwat Pant.

Helicopters slash the trek to Earth’s highest peak, but leave Sherpas grounded

Shashwat Pant 21 Jan 2025
Monpura Island. Image courtesy of Ammar Bin Asad.

River culture is the rhythmic pulse of the Bengal Delta (commentary)

Umme Sayeda 17 Jan 2025
Banner image of one of the released elongated tortoises, courtesy of CCA.

Bangladesh sees first ever rewilding of captive-bred elongated tortoises

Kristine Sabillo 17 Jan 2025
Standing amidst a vibrant field of cosmos flowers, Azharul Islam Khan highlights their numerous benefits.

In Bangladesh, a botanist brings quick, fun lessons to social media

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 17 Jan 2025

Serious groundwater contamination in several parts of India: Report

Mongabay.com 16 Jan 2025
Camera trap image of snow leopards feeding on a domestic yak in Limi Valley, northwestern Nepal. Photo: Himalayan Wolves Project.

The paradox of balancing conservation efforts for Himalayan wolves and snow leopards (commentary)

Naresh Kusi 15 Jan 2025
A herd of deer in Bardiya National Park.

Nepal’s top court strikes down law allowing development in protected areas

Abhaya Raj Joshi 15 Jan 2025
A firefighter in the Xingu Indigenous Territory.

World’s record heat is worsening air pollution and health in Global South

Simrin Sirur (with Orji Sunday and Karla Mendes) 13 Jan 2025

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