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Tigers face ‘unprecedented’ threat from transport projects: WWF

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Nov 2016

Damming the Salween: what next for Southeast Asia’s last great free-flowing river?

Demelza Stokes 23 Nov 2016

The Javan rhino: protected and threatened by a volcano

Tom Peeters 23 Nov 2016

Palm oil culprits apprehended in the Leuser Ecosystem. Who sent them?

Junaidi Hanafiah 23 Nov 2016

Small-scale farming threatens rainforests in Sumatra

Devika Garg Bansal 22 Nov 2016

69m people breathed toxic smoke from 2015 Indonesian fires: study

Mongabay.com 22 Nov 2016

Don’t feed the orangutans — a warning unheeded at popular ecotourism stop

Aria Danaparamita 21 Nov 2016

Deep sea mining plans for Papua New Guinea raise alarm

David Hutt 18 Nov 2016

Where have all the lutungs gone? Mystery monkeys fast disappearing

William H. Funk 18 Nov 2016

A data trove to support a hoped-for shark sanctuary in Indonesia

Marge Segre 18 Nov 2016

Illegal trade in bear bile persists in Vietnam despite ban

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Nov 2016

The Philippines’ Mindanao is a treasure trove of reptile and amphibian diversity

Rachel Diaz-Bastin 17 Nov 2016
Rainforest cleared for an oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia ships first containers of timber under EU legality scheme

Lusia Arumingtyas 17 Nov 2016

Public hearing concludes Vietnam fails to crack down on wildlife trafficking

Azarja Harmanny 16 Nov 2016
Indawgyi Lake in Kachin State, Myanmar. Photo by Brent Crane

Illegal logging ‘ravaging’ Myanmar’s Indawgyi Lake Wildlife Reserve

Brent Crane 16 Nov 2016

Sweden sets legal precedent with prosecution of Myanmar teak trader

Mike Gaworecki 15 Nov 2016

Its own rhinos hunted to extinction, Vietnam is a hub for the rhino horn trade

Isabel Esterman 10 Nov 2016

World’s tallest tropical tree discovered, along with nearly 50 other record-breakers

Mike Gaworecki 10 Nov 2016

Controversial Jakarta land reclamation project gets legal go-ahead

Mongabay Indonesia 9 Nov 2016

From Ohio to Indonesia: captive-bred Sumatran rhinos may be the species’ only hope for a future

Linda Lombardi 8 Nov 2016

Asia races to save the Critically Endangered helmeted hornbill

Roz Evans 7 Nov 2016

For the palm oil industry, ‘engagement’ means turning a blind eye to deforestation

Kiki Taufik 7 Nov 2016

Massive hydroelectricity project planned for Indonesian Borneo

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 7 Nov 2016

Was Borneo once a land of tigers?

Taufik Wijaya 7 Nov 2016

Parents who say Indonesia’s haze killed their children testify in citizen suit

Mongabay Haze Beat 4 Nov 2016

Higher incomes driving Indonesian smallholders to oil palm and rubber

John Cannon 3 Nov 2016

From Indonesia to Ohio: the struggle to breed Sumatran rhinos in captivity

Linda Lombardi 3 Nov 2016

Complaint against a palm oil company in Papua held in limbo by RSPO

Alice Cuddy 2 Nov 2016
Wood workers at a shop in Mandalay, Myanmar. Many shops use illegally-sourced wood. Photo by David Doyle

Myanmar’s logging ban feeds shadow economy of illegal trade

David Doyle 1 Nov 2016

North Sumatra’s governor wants to build a road through Mt. Leuser National Park

Ayat S. Karokaro 31 Oct 2016

Could REDD help save an embattled forest in Cambodia?

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Oct 2016

Pledging to reduce emissions while expanding its power grid, Indonesia walks a fine line

Melati Kaye 28 Oct 2016

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