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Thai rubber smallholders race to meet new EU deforestation rules

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2026
A fisher offloads gear in front of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal operated by state-owned energy company PTT Public Company Limited at the Map Ta Phut Industrial Port in Rayong province, Thailand, on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. Once completed, the Burapa power plant will receive natural gas via pipeline from a terminal at the port. Image by Andy Ball for Mongabay.

Thai farmers fear water woes from planned LNG plant

Gerald Flynn 29 Jun 2026
Perpetrators were attempting to smuggle these hornbills in a car from Aceh, but were caught by officers in a joint operation.

Indonesia driver sentenced over organized crime group trafficking live orangutan

Junaidi Hanafiah 24 Jun 2026
Dugong in Thailand.

An island community in Thailand works to protect and revive its dugongs

Mongabay.com 24 Jun 2026
Rubber farmer

In Thailand, EUDR pressure on small-scale rubber farmers prompts private-sector assistance

Carolyn Cowan 15 Jun 2026
A full-circle rainbow arcing over a vast oil palm plantation in Jambi, Indonesia, carved out of what was once native rainforest. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Southeast Asian nations chart important new course toward environmental justice (commentary)

John Knox 11 Jun 2026
Buddhist monks who participated in the Peace Walk arrive to attend a ceremony marking World Environment Day in Chiang Rai, Thailand, on 5 June 2026. Photo by Ta Mwe.

Northern Thai residents march for action on polluted rivers. ‘This is an emergency’

Gerald Flynn 8 Jun 2026
Yo Yaj at Songkhla Lake, Thailand

What is happening to Thailand’s famous giant nets

Lucia Torres 30 May 2026
Dugong rescue in Thailand

Thai island community rallies to protect beloved dugongs, revive declining seagrass

Carolyn Cowan 21 May 2026

In Thailand, burned sugarcane plantations become traps for leopard cat cubs

Ana Norman Bermúdez 15 May 2026
Fishers in the Mekong River near Chiang Khong, Thailand. Elevated arsenic levels at testing sites in the Mekong indicate that contamination may be spreading into this vital waterway. Image by Stefan Lovgren.

Dangerous arsenic levels detected in Thailand’s Mekong mainstream for first time

Gerald Flynn 8 May 2026
Pa Haw, father of Saw Si Paw, takes to the Salween River each morning to inspect their nets for fish, despite heavy metal contamination linked to mining sites upstream. Photo by Gerald Flynn/Mongabay.

Asia’s longest free-flowing river contaminated by arsenic linked to Myanmar mines

Gerald Flynn 20 Apr 2026

Experts flag trafficking after monkey endemic to Borneo is found in Thailand

Mongabay.com 9 Apr 2026

AI infrastructure growth threatens water-stressed Thai regions

Mongabay.com 8 Apr 2026
Banteng

How wild cattle recovery is transforming local livelihoods near key Thai reserve

Carolyn Cowan 2 Apr 2026

Thai court rules gold mine liable, but villagers face uncertain justice

Kannikar Petchkaew 1 Apr 2026

Proboscis monkey found in Thailand adds to evidence of cross-border illegal trade

Ana Norman Bermúdez 20 Mar 2026
Flooding in HaT Yai, November 2010. Image by Government of Thailand via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Hat Yai’s floods are a warning for cities built against nature (analysis)

Pakamas Thinphanga, Richard Friend 19 Mar 2026
The construction site of Bridge Data Centre's 0.2 GW QHI01 data center in Khlong Tamru subdistrict, Chonburi province, Thailand. Photo by Andy Ball/Mongabay.

Thai data center boom sparks fears of water shortage, air pollution

Gerald Flynn 11 Mar 2026
Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia.

The promise and perils of the 1995 Mekong River Agreement (commentary)

Pham Phan Long 10 Mar 2026
David Chivers. Courtesy of Selwyn College

David Chivers, student of the singing apes

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Mar 2026

Thailand tightens embrace of fossil fuels amid Middle East conflict

Naina Rao 9 Mar 2026

Archived camera-trap images bring Thailand’s tapirs into focus

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2026
Asian tapir adult

In Thailand, old camera-trap photos shed new light on Asian tapirs

Carolyn Cowan 24 Feb 2026
Scientists at work against a backdrop of lab glassware.

In Thailand, a coral cryobank tries to buy time for dying reefs

Neelanjana Rai 20 Feb 2026
A photo of Zeytin posted by the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry on Facebook in December 2024. No further updates have been provided since the country's announcement to not send Zeytin to Africa.

Baby gorilla seized from traffickers languishes in Turkish zoo

Spoorthy Raman 13 Feb 2026
Khun Orwae sorts through the remaining stock in the electrical goods shop where he works.

Thailand’s Hat Yai picks up the pieces in wake of devastating floods (analysis)

Richard Friend, Pakamas Thinphanga 5 Feb 2026
Corals in Thailand

Coast-to-coast coral assessment reveals Thailand’s reefs losing complexity

Carolyn Cowan 27 Jan 2026

Year-end ‘good news’ as flat-headed cats reappear in Thailand after 29-year absence

Sean Mowbray 26 Dec 2025
Previously undetected in other protected areas, a tigress known as SWT001F was the first individual tiger captured on camera in Thailand's Sisawat Non-Hunting Area in 2024. Panthera, Thailand's DNP and other partners are working to monitor and protect Indochinese tigers and their prey in this region where camera traps have shown tigers are using Sisawat forest as a corridor. Currently plans exist to propose the adjoining forest area to the east as an extension of Sisawat.

Hope for tigers grows as Thailand safeguards a key link in their habitat

Gloria Dickie 16 Dec 2025

Rescue teams racing after last week’s flooding in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand

Associated Press 3 Dec 2025
A sapling

In Thailand, a cheap bottle crate hack gives tree saplings a fighting chance

Ruth Kamnitzer 21 Nov 2025

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