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Anant Ambani with elephants

NGOs call on Vantara to end all wild animal imports permanently

Spoorthy Raman 25 Sep 2026
Families are relocated due to flooding and landslides in the Balukhali Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar.

Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps become increasingly vulnerable to landslides

Sadiqur Rahman 25 Sep 2026
An Indus river dolphin

Pakistan expands protected habitat for Indus River dolphin as recovery offers hope

Muhammad Talal 24 Sep 2026
Orange-winged amazon (Amazona amazonica).

Brazil’s tropical forest fund races to raise $2.7 billion before deadline

Carla Ruas 24 Sep 2026
Women work in a paddy field at Uttarbahini village, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal.

In Nepal, women seek ownership rights to the lands they tend

Haven Sager 24 Sep 2026

Indonesia’s geothermal push runs into local fears at Mount Ungaran

Triyo Handoko 24 Sep 2026
Protesters outside the Grand Hyatt Manila on Sept. 10 called for an end to the Pax Silica pact.

Planned US tech hub in Philippines hit over environmental and Indigenous land concerns

Michael Beltran 23 Sep 2026

Logging still threatens Bornean forest once envisioned as an Indigenous-led peace park

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 23 Sep 2026
A man carries a backpack on a trek in the Annapurna Conservation Area in Nepal. Image by Abhaya Raj Joshi/ Mongabay.

Two decades on, Nepal’s conservationists search for new ‘dream’ generation

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Sep 2026
Thismia daemona in its natural habitat. Image by Sahut Chantanaorrapint (CC BY 4.0).

A ‘devil-like’ flower from Thailand is new to science — and critically endangered

Naina Rao 23 Sep 2026
An adult orangutan drinking from a peat river in the Tanjung Puting National Park area, Central Kalimantan.

As fires spread in Indonesia, Bornean orangutans run out of forest to flee

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Sep 2026
In this operation, enforcement officials recovered 28 native reptiles, including shingleback lizards (pictured here), spiny-tailed skinks and lace monitors. Image courtesy of the National Environmental Protection Agency.

Reptiles, gold and money: How Australia is cracking down on wildlife trafficking

Johan Augustin 23 Sep 2026
A Northern pygmy slow loris

A rare slow loris may have a much larger population in China than scientists thought

Matthew Burkhart 22 Sep 2026

World Rhino Day: What does it take to save a species?

Mongabay 22 Sep 2026

Photographing Sri Lanka’s human-elephant conflict — Interview with Federico Borella

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 22 Sep 2026
Freediver and turtle

Tourism has the potential to reverse coral decline at Bali travel hotspot: Study

Carolyn Cowan 22 Sep 2026
Confluence of the Chuwa River (at right) into the Karnali River (left). Image courtesy of Sherparinji via Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0.

For wild rivers like the Karnali, Nepal’s disaster is a warning and an answer (commentary)

Gary Wockner, Megh Ale 21 Sep 2026
Bajau/PELITA member Well uses the Pocong, an octopus shaped fishing lure, to try and tempt an octopus out of the reef.

How freediving helps Indonesia’s Bajau preserve traditions and conserve marine life

Maddy Bolt 21 Sep 2026

New study reveals the genetic history – and possible future – of four Asian hornbills

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2026
This infant Sumatran orangutan was separated from its mother when it was forcibly taken by hunters in the forest in Indonesia.

Five orangutans found in India face long road back home to Indonesia

Junaidi Hanafiah 18 Sep 2026

At 86, Sri Lanka’s ‘father of herpetology’ inspires a new conservation generation

Mongabay.com 18 Sep 2026
A Tapanuli orangutan. Image © Bert Harris via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Tapanuli orangutans face mining, landslides, and fire threats — with no recovery plan

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Sep 2026
A newborn Irrawaddy dolphin calf, approximately three days old, was seen on Feb. 17, 2026

Mekong’s Irrawaddy dolphins find cautious hope amid a river in crisis

Eung Sea 17 Sep 2026
Swami Gowda stands with his herd of sheep and cattle

India’s tiger success brings a new challenge: Living alongside the big cats

Arathi Menon 17 Sep 2026

As drought shrinks Sri Lanka’s water holes, poisoning poses threat to wildlife

Malaka Rodrigo 17 Sep 2026

Rescuers race against time as fires ravage orangutan habitat inside Indonesian oil palm concession

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Sep 2026

Exotic pet trade poses rising zoonotic disease risks in India

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2026
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
Haze blankets Pontianak, a city in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province, on Sept. 3, 2026.

In Southeast Asia, residents grapple with life under Indonesia’s wildfire haze

Choo Ching Yee, Oliver Samson, Irfan Maulana, Krismes Santo Haloho 17 Sep 2026
Mending fishing nets in Vietnam

Fishers bear deep costs of plastic pollution in Vietnam, but could help turn the tide

Carolyn Cowan 16 Sep 2026
A waste picker works amid thick smoke rising from the vast garbage mounds at Dhaka North City Corporation’s Aminbazar landfill in Savar. She was looking for plastic or other valuable recyclable items there.

Dhaka’s waste-to-energy project faces opposition from pollution-weary residents

Eyamin Sajid 15 Sep 2026
A forest and land fire burning in the Bukit Soeharto protected forest area in Sepaku, North Penajam Paser regency, Sept. 1, 2026.

Wildfires on doorstep of Indonesia’s new capital as environmental and health crisis flares

Niken D. Sitoningrum 15 Sep 2026

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