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Pangolins rescued from wildlife traffickers. These individuals are at a rehabilitation center in Cambodia. Photo by Rhett Butler.

Illegal wildlife trade in Asia decimating species, warn scientists

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jul 2016

New map of Malaysia’s limestone hills will help set conservation priorities

Mike Gaworecki 11 Jul 2016

Citizen science leads to snail rediscovery in Vietnam

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jul 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Fires begin to appear en masse as Indonesia’s burning season gets going

Mongabay Haze Beat 8 Jul 2016

New report exposes “network of secret deal-making and corruption” that has kept Cambodia’s ruling family in power for decades

Mike Gaworecki 7 Jul 2016

Anti-coal activist murdered in the Philippines

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Jul 2016

Bunge joins ranks of palm oil users to sanction Malaysia’s IOI

Mongabay.com 7 Jul 2016

Replanting oil palm plantations reduces frog diversity, but researchers say there are ways to fix that

Mike Gaworecki 6 Jul 2016

Three Cambodian activists convicted and heavily fined — but free

Rod Harbinson 6 Jul 2016
Borneo orangutan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Bornean orangutan declared ‘critically endangered’ as forests shrink

Loren Bell 5 Jul 2016

Timber plantation licenses canceled as Mentawai fight off another threat to their traditional lands

Mike Gaworecki 1 Jul 2016

Under gov’t pressure, palm oil giants disband green pledge

Jonathan Vit 1 Jul 2016

5 Tech Projects That Are Protecting Sharks

Taylor Robb-McCord 30 Jun 2016

Amid illegal fishing crackdown, Indonesia to buoy legal catch

Cory Rogers, M Ambari 30 Jun 2016

Did mining company drive 3 species to extinction?

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Jun 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

What are South Sumatrans doing to prevent another haze crisis?

Taufik Wijaya 29 Jun 2016

French MPs say they were pressured into dropping palm oil tax

Mongabay.com 29 Jun 2016

Malaysian palm oil giant IOI under pressure after Cargill ultimatum

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2016

64 dead in Indonesia landslides as La Nina brings heavy rains

Indra Nugraha, Lusia Arumingtyas 27 Jun 2016

Trafficking: Indonesian soldier caught with 8 pangolins in car backseat

Ayat S. Karokaro 24 Jun 2016

Malaysian land rights activist Bill Kayong murdered in broad daylight

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jun 2016

Cambodia declares first-ever marine protected area

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jun 2016

Judges up the ante for tiger traffickers in Indonesia

Chik Rini, Dedek Hendry 24 Jun 2016

Corruption is driving unsustainable, illegal rosewood trade in Cambodia and Laos: Report

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jun 2016

Saving Borneo’s wild cats and small carnivores

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jun 2016

PepsiCo products in Indonesia tainted with worker abuses, report finds

Daniel Pye 23 Jun 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

No more fires in Indonesia?

Erik Meijaard 20 Jun 2016
Sumatran orangutan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Hype and secrecy in wildlife conservation

Erik Meijaard 18 Jun 2016

On The Road: Rhino Translocation in Nepal

Kashish Das Shrestha 15 Jun 2016
A still of juvenile blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus) from the baited Go-Pro rig that researchers set in the waters of the Daram no-take zone in West Papua, Indonesia. Photo by Vanessa Jaiteh.

Protected areas grow populations of shark — and disenfranchised fishers

Melati Kaye 15 Jun 2016

Singapore crushes illegal ivory worth $10 million

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Jun 2016

Indonesia to rezone 3.8m of protected peat that was damaged or converted

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 13 Jun 2016

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