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Abandoned houses in Tengjhih, a settlement of the Bunun Indigenous people, in southern Taiwan, on Aug. 6, 2026. Image by Aylin Ho for Mongabay.

Displaced by typhoons, Taiwan’s Bunun Indigenous people struggle to preserve heritage

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2026
Taiwan’s Bunun leader Dahu Ismahasan stands with the damaged road to Tengjhih in the background on Aug. 6, 2026. Image by Aylin Ho for Mongabay.

Displaced by a typhoon, Taiwan’s Bunun people fear for the future of their culture

Aylin Ho 2 Sep 2026

Southeast Asia’s oak trees highly threatened as report warns of lack of protection

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2026
Koupi Experimental Elementary School, the first school where learning Siraya is mandatory, in Sinhua district, in Tainan, Taiwan, on Aug. 21, 2026. Image by Aylin Ho for Mongabay.

Siraya language, deemed ‘extinct’ over a century ago, finds its voice again in Taiwan

Aylin Ho 29 Aug 2026
Taiwan Premier Cho Jung-tai, center, celebrates with Siraya activists Alak Akatuang, left, and Wan Cheng-hsiung, also known as Cheng-hiong Talavan, on July 30, 2026, after announcing the recognition of the Siraya people as the island’s 17th officially designated Indigenous group in Taipei.

Siraya gain recognition as Taiwan’s 17th official Indigenous group

Yenni Kwok 13 Aug 2026

Taiwan’s tallest tree found with help of citizen science

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jun 2026

Tiny ‘sesame’ sea slug discovered in Taiwan is first of its genus named in 30 years

Naina Rao 4 Jun 2026
Model of Jiaolong submersible at the Five-Year Achievements Exhibition. Image by N509FZ via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How we tracked China’s deep-sea mining fleet

Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Kara Fox 1 Jun 2026

China’s deep-sea mining fleet may also track US submarines

Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Kara Fox 24 Mar 2026
Bee Smith, from her Instagram account.

Bethany “Bee” Smith, researcher who documented a megamouth shark alive, died in a diving accident, aged 24

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Dec 2025
A child touches a freshly caught albacore tuna in Vairao, Tahiti, French Polynesia, in January 2024. Image by AP Photo/Daniel Cole.

Pacific fisheries summit gives a boost to albacore & seabirds

Edward Carver 16 Dec 2025

Taiwan evacuates 8,300 and shuts schools before tropical storm brushes island

Associated Press 12 Nov 2025
A yellowfin tuna. Image © Jeff Rotman/naturepl.com, courtesy of WWF.

Countries shorten tuna fishing closure at Pacific summit with few conservation ‘wins’

Edward Carver 12 Sep 2025

That ‘fish’ on the menu? In Brazil’s schools and prisons, it’s often shark

Philip Jacobson, Karla Mendes, Kuang Keng Kuek Ser 29 Jul 2025
Keith Davis, an American fisheries observer, disappeared on a Taiwanese-owned, Panamanian-flagged vessel in 2015. Image courtesy of Mark Benjamin.

‘Fatal Watch’: Interview with documentary makers on fisheries observer deaths

Edward Carver 20 Mar 2025
An ocelot walks tentatively into a pre-release enclosure.

Getting rewilding right with the reintroduction of small wildcats

Sean Mowbray 18 Feb 2025
Workers in "Agbogbloshie," a site with electronic scrap material, in Ghana, 2011.

Ever-smarter consumer electronics push world toward environmental brink

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 30 Sep 2024
Satellite image of dredging in South China Sea

Island-building and overfishing wreak destruction of South China Sea reefs

Carolyn Cowan 8 Apr 2024
Producing an AI chip requires 10-15 times more energy than making a standard chip.

Critics fear catastrophic energy crisis as AI is outsourced to Latin America

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 21 Mar 2024
Formosan black bears. Image courtesy of Yushan National Park.

Endangered Formosan black bears caught in Taiwanese ‘snaring crisis’ (commentary)

Gregory McCann 2 Oct 2023
A shark with remoras.

Shark-fishing gear banned across much of Pacific in conservation ‘win’

Philip Jacobson 8 Dec 2022

As shark numbers plummet, nations seek ban on devastatingly effective gear

Philip Jacobson 26 Nov 2022
Greenpeace called for FCF to commit to reform sustainable policy of fisheries

Illegal fishing, worker abuse claims leave a bad taste for Bumble Bee Seafood

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Sep 2022

In search of Taiwan’s lost clouded leopards, anthropology uncovers more than camera traps (commentary)

Yu Shih-Hsuan 23 Nov 2021

Billions in fishing subsidies finance social, ecological harm, report finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Jul 2021

Indonesia may bar citizens from working on foreign fishing boats after spate of deaths

Basten Gokkon 20 May 2020

Pandemic staple: Report links top tuna company to forced labor, illegal fishing

Monica Evans 7 Apr 2020

Tuna supply chains under scrutiny as Bumble Bee brand changes hands

Monica Evans 7 Feb 2020

Deadly conditions for Indonesian migrant crews tied to illegal fishing

Basten Gokkon 6 Jan 2020

Study maps where tunas, sharks and fishing ships meet

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Mar 2019

Taiwan: Extinct leopard subspecies allegedly seen by rangers

Erik Hoffner 2 Mar 2019

AI and public data identify fishing behavior to protect hungry seabirds

Marianne Messina 22 Feb 2019

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