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Banner image of a 2018 flood in Vietnam (for representation only) by Eleveneighteen via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Heavy rainfall in Vietnam & China causes flash floods, landslides

Kristine Sabillo 20 May 2025
Long-tailed macaques being held at Sookvannaseng Integrated's breeding farm in Bolikhamsai province, Laos. Image supplied by source.

Data discrepancies suggest Laos monkey smuggling persists, despite trade ban

Gerald Flynn 23 Apr 2025

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

Carolyn Cowan 21 Apr 2025
An endangered long-tailed macaque peeks out from a cage having been exported from Vietnam to Europe. Image supplied by Animal Rights BE.

Report alleges criminality in Cambodian, Vietnamese monkey trade

Gerald Flynn 21 Apr 2025
Solar panels in Bali, Indonesia.

As big money wavers, Southeast Asia’s green startups fight to stay powered

Jeff Hutton 15 Apr 2025

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

Keith Anthony Fabro 1 Apr 2025
Banner image of a Cao-vit gibbon with an infant by Nguyen Duc Tho / Fauna & Flora

Baby sightings spark hope for critically endangered gibbons in Vietnam

Kristine Sabillo 21 Mar 2025
The team that developed the kit has put it into the hands of conservationists to collect samples from lakes across Vietnam.

Can a new DNA test save the world’s rarest turtle?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 19 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

Mammals, birds in Vietnam’s rare coastal forests revealed by camera traps

Carolyn Cowan 13 Feb 2025

Vietnam and China partner on wildlife-friendly traditional medicine practices

Spoorthy Raman 6 Feb 2025

Vietnam faces scrutiny for not sharing enough data on rhino horn trade

Victoria Schneider 5 Feb 2025

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

Carolyn Cowan 27 Jan 2025
Banner image of Bathynomus vaderi’s head, courtesy of Nguyen Thanh Son

The force is strong with new giant ‘Darth Vader’ sea bug found off Vietnam

Kristine Sabillo 20 Jan 2025

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
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
Deforestation in Vinh Kien, northern Vietnam.

Internet crackdown shrinks already constrained room for activism in Vietnam

Hướng Thiện 24 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
Paphiopedilum haynaldianum

A key driver of decline, can wild orchid collectors change their ways?

Carolyn Cowan 14 Nov 2024
Northern white-cheeked crested gibbon

Gibbons found to perform dance routines akin to ‘the robot,’ but why?

Carolyn Cowan 11 Nov 2024

2 new species of rare toothed toads described from Vietnam and China: studies

Kristine Sabillo 9 Oct 2024
A trash picker looks for recyclable plastics at a waste dump in Bali. Image by Jonas Gratzer for Mongabay.

In the battle against plastic pollution, Asia’s informal workers are critical allies (commentary)

Annerieke Douma 2 Oct 2024
Vietnamese environmental activists protesting coal-fired power plants in 2017. Second from left is Hoàng Thị Minh Hồng.

Influential Vietnamese environmentalist released from prison two years early

Mongabay.com 25 Sep 2024
wind farm

SE Asia renewables firms fall short on policies to protect environmental defenders

Carolyn Cowan 25 Sep 2024

Typhoon Yagi death toll reaches 82 after ripping through northern Vietnam

Shanna Hanbury 10 Sep 2024
A Nicobar pigeon, found in Vietnam.

In Vietnam, environmental defense is increasingly a crime

Hướng Thiện 3 Sep 2024
argeting demand for rhino horn-based products must complement efforts to protect rhinos from poaching. Image by Geranimo via Unsplash.

As a medicine, study finds rhino horn useless — and potentially toxic

Juliette Portala 3 Sep 2024
Mangroves in Vietnam

In choice of mangroves or livelihood, Vietnam shrimp farmers choose the latter

Carolyn Cowan 25 Jul 2024
Farmers burning cleared forest land after harvesting. Photo courtesy of Buu Nguyen.

Can Vietnam’s forests survive the spread of acacia and eucalyptus plantations? (commentary)

Buu Nguyen 4 Jun 2024
Farming in Myanmar

Will the Mekong and Salween pay the price of China’s energy transition?

Carolyn Cowan 22 May 2024

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