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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
Solar panels installed in Bali

Investors wary of Indonesia’s big climate promises amid record of flip-flopping

Jeff Hutton 27 Jan 2025

Vietnam grapples with ‘alarming popularity’ of online illegal wildlife trade

Carolyn Cowan 27 Jan 2025

Coming to a retailer near you: Illegal palm oil from an orangutan haven

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jan 2025
A Trimeresurus cardamomesis photographed in Cambodia’s Samlout Multiple Use Area.

Survey uncovers ‘wildlife treasure’ in Cambodian park — but also signs of threats

Anton L. Delgado 22 Jan 2025
Coal miners in Meghalaya, India.

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

Nithin Coca 21 Jan 2025

Philippine Indigenous communities restore a mountain forest to prevent urban flooding

Keith Anthony Fabro 20 Jan 2025
Thai activists

Thai farmers demand action to restore ecosystems, compensate for invasive fish

Carolyn Cowan 16 Jan 2025

Indonesian scientist under fire for revealing extent of illegal tin mining

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jan 2025
A Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous) from Papua New Guinea.

Indonesia’s voracious songbird trade laps up rare and poisonous pitohuis

Spoorthy Raman 10 Jan 2025
Oil palm fruits harvested in Kalimantan.

NGOs raise concerns over Borneo pilot of ‘jurisdictional’ certification for palm oil

Rendy Tisna 10 Jan 2025
Forest near Rabia on the island of Waigeo in Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler.

Indonesian forestry minister proposes 20m hectares of deforestation for crops

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jan 2025
An orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Indonesian company defies order, plants acacia in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jan 2025

Indonesian president says palm oil expansion won’t deforest because ‘oil palms have leaves’

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Jan 2025

Companies banking on tech and collaboration to comply with EUDR

Sarah Brown 31 Dec 2024

Southeast Asia in review: 2024

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 30 Dec 2024
Three Tonkin snub nosed monkeys on a tree branch

Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys were found in only two places on Earth. Now it’s one

Sean Mowbray 27 Dec 2024
Farmers squeezing sago palms in South Hakmahera.

Farmers cleave to sago as mining industry digs deeper in Indonesia’s Maluku

Mahmud Ichi 26 Dec 2024

Indonesia risks carbon ‘backfire’ with massive deforestation for sugarcane

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Dec 2024
Deforestation in Vinh Kien, northern Vietnam.

Internet crackdown shrinks already constrained room for activism in Vietnam

Hướng Thiện 24 Dec 2024
YEAR IN RAINFORESTS BANNER

The year in tropical rainforests: 2024

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Dec 2024
Conservationist Wayan Wardika in the farm.

A Bali farm lights up the night with a one-of-a-kind firefly lab

Claire Turrell 23 Dec 2024
The Hadong power plant in South Korea co-fires coal with woody biomass, allowing it to claim it is reducing emissions under the UN loophole.

South Korea slashes forest biomass energy subsidies in major policy reform

Annelise Giseburt 20 Dec 2024
The Dayak Pitap community lives dependent on nature.

Indonesia’s Indigenous communities sidelined from conservation

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Dec 2024
A little girl looks out between the barbwire of the refugee compound in 2015.

In the Philippines, persecuted Lumads push for Indigenous schools to be reopened

Michael Beltran 18 Dec 2024
Landscape of the Thawthi Taw-Oo Indigenous Park. Image courtesy of the Thawthi Taw-Oo Indigenous Park Committee.

Communities launch new Thawthi Taw-Oo Indigenous Park amid Myanmar civil war

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 17 Dec 2024

Indonesia reforestation plan a smoke screen for agriculture project, critics say

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Dec 2024
A man looks up at a merbau tree, which grows abundantly on Enggano Island.

On Indonesia’s unique Enggano Island, palm oil takes root in an Indigenous society

Betty Herlina, Elviza Diana 17 Dec 2024
Hylomys macarong, a smooth hedgehog

Greater Mekong serves up 234 new species in a year, from fanged hedgehog to diva viper

Carolyn Cowan 16 Dec 2024
red shanked douc

Vietnam’s mammals need conservation within and outside their range: Study

Carolyn Cowan 13 Dec 2024

Indonesian forests put at risk by South Korean and Japanese biomass subsidies

Annelise Giseburt 12 Dec 2024

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