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A crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis), incredulous that its habitat may be able to coexist with oil palm crops without affecting commercial productivity. Image by Alain Rival/TRAILS.

Borneo project hopes to prove that forests and oil palms can coexist

Louise Hunt 15 May 2025
Banner image of an Iban woman in Sarawak, Malaysia, courtesy of Luciana Téllez-Chávez/Human Rights Watch.

Malaysian timber company accused of abuse & rights violations: Report

Kristine Sabillo 14 May 2025

Agroforestry can reduce deforestation, but supportive policies matter, study finds

Carolyn Cowan 21 Apr 2025
A siamang gibbon seized in Chennai, India in August 2024, along with turtles and pythons. It was being carried in the baggage of a passenger travelling from Bangkok.

Illegal trafficking of siamang gibbons is a concerning and underreported crisis (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 18 Apr 2025

Smuggling networks exploit migrant debt to fuel tiger poaching in Malaysia, study shows

Keith Anthony Fabro 1 Apr 2025

Microplastics in sea turtle nests could cause a dangerous gender imbalance

Bobby Bascomb 26 Mar 2025
A researcher notes biomass measurements in a mangrove forest in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Image by Kate Evans/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Mangrove deforestation for commodities limits conservation funding in SE Asia

Carolyn Cowan 25 Feb 2025
Peatland forest in Central Kalimantan.

Protecting peatlands and mangroves could halve Southeast Asia’s land-use emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Feb 2025
A mangrove pitta

How to tell if mangrove restoration is working? Listen to the birds

Carolyn Cowan 3 Feb 2025
An agile gibbon in Berlin Zoo.

Increase in gibbon trafficking into India has conservationists worried

Spoorthy Raman 29 Jan 2025

Southeast Asia in review: 2024

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 30 Dec 2024
The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Photos: Top new species from 2024

Liz Kimbrough 26 Dec 2024
Clouded leopard.

Study shows, via clouded leopards, how to better protect forests

Carolyn Cowan 8 Nov 2024
A logging truck in Sarawak in 2008.

NGOs, officials trade blame as Malaysian forest conservation project is scrapped

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 30 Oct 2024
Deforestation for oil palm plantation in Sarawak.

NGOs push EU to label Sarawak as ‘high risk’ source of timber, palm oil

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 9 Oct 2024
Why the EU must stand firm on its plan to help protect the world’s forests

US consumers may be exposed to deforestation-linked palm oil via dairy: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Sep 2024
A pair of sun bears (Helarctos malayanus) in a tree.

Wildlife busts in Malaysia’s Taman Negara show progress, and gaps, in enforcement

Keith Anthony Fabro 9 Sep 2024

Indigenous communities in Sarawak left in the dark about hydropower proposal

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 9 Jul 2024

Ghost nets haunt marine life in Malaysian marine park, study finds

Ashley Yeong 13 Jun 2024

Mysterious, at risk, understudied flat-headed cat lacks conservation focus

Sean Mowbray 29 May 2024
oriental pied hornbill

New database unveils the role of Asian hornbills as forest seed dispersers

Carolyn Cowan 15 May 2024

Mangrove forestry only sustainable when conservation zones respected: Study

Carolyn Cowan 1 May 2024
Clouded leopard

Borneo and Sumatra megaprojects are carving up clouded leopard forests

Carolyn Cowan 29 Apr 2024
Photo of the captive bay cat in 2008.

On the trail of Borneo’s bay cat, one of the world’s most mysterious felines

Jeremy Hance 15 Apr 2024
Informal logging road

Unseen and unregulated: ‘Ghost’ roads carve up Asia-Pacific tropical forests

Carolyn Cowan 11 Apr 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
A long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) in Borneo.

Previously logged forests struggle to thrive, even with restoration, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 27 Mar 2024
A hanging bridge in a forest in Malaysia.

Culture of harassment persists for women in Southeast Asia’s conservation space

Hướng Thiện 19 Mar 2024
A Borneo elephant (Elephas maximus borneensis) in the Kinabatangan River

UN probes controversial forest carbon agreement in Malaysian Borneo

John Cannon 18 Mar 2024
A southern pig-tailed macaques infant.

‘Shocking’ mortality of infant macaques points to dangers of oil palm plantations

Spoorthy Raman 27 Feb 2024
Members of communities in Baram and Mulu with the petition.

Sarawak government’s hydropower plans worry Indigenous communities

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 2 Feb 2024
Oil palm estate and rainforest in Malaysian Borneo.

New tool aims to help palm oil firms comply with deforestation regulations

Abhishyant Kidangoor 26 Jan 2024

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