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Trekkers don headlamps and helmets at one of Hang En's entrances. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Son Doong Cave: Tourism and conservation coexist in one of Vietnam’s largest national parks

Michael Tatarski 16 May 2017
Arevs in O'Tabok, Virachey National Park, Cambodia Feb 2017. Photo courtesy of EIA.

New report details enormous corruption, illegal logging along Vietnamese border with Cambodia

Michael Tatarski 8 May 2017
A passerby looks at a picture that is part of a campaign to save the rhino in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Graffiti campaign brings rhino conservation message to urban Vietnam

Michael Tatarski 12 Apr 2017

Rare barking deer photographed in Vietnam

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Apr 2017

New ‘stone’ frog discovered in Vietnam

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Mar 2017
Black rhino mom and calf

Reducing Asia’s hunger for rhino horn

Giovanni Ortolani 9 Mar 2017

It’s World Pangolin Day!

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Feb 2017
A tea kettle boils atop a TK90 stove provided by FFI Vietnam. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay

Efficient stoves and elephant grass aid primate conservation in northern Vietnam

Michael Tatarski 9 Feb 2017
Carved rosewood furniture. Photo by Jane Tan Kok/Pixabay

Vietnamese luxury wooden furniture makers feel pain of regulations and deforestation

Michael Tatarski 26 Jan 2017

Southeast Asia’s coal boom could cause 70,000 deaths per year by 2030, report says

Isabel Esterman 16 Jan 2017
A small village nestled in the Ha Giang province in Vietnam near the border with China. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Enforcement, development and education define efforts to save Vietnam’s rare primates

Michael Tatarski 15 Jan 2017

Explore the “Wonders of the Annamites” in this new children’s book

Mike Gaworecki 22 Dec 2016

All I want for Christmas… a wildlife researcher’s holiday wish list

Glenn Scherer 20 Dec 2016

Rainbow-headed snake, rare wild banana among 163 new species discovered in Greater Mekong region: WWF

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Dec 2016

Signatories to Hanoi Statement urged to do more to combat illegal wildlife trade

Mike Gaworecki 15 Dec 2016
A Son Tra banyan tree in Vietnam. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Vietnam’s forests on the upswing after years of recovery

Michael Tatarski, Shanti Johnson 11 Dec 2016
Typical landscape in Vietnam that's suitable for growing Coffea canephora. Photo by Michael Tatarski

Vietnam faces dilemma on forests as climate change threatens coffee crops

Michael Tatarski 1 Dec 2016

A dam shame: the plight of the Mekong giant catfish

Claire Asher 30 Nov 2016

Illegal trade in bear bile persists in Vietnam despite ban

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Nov 2016

Public hearing concludes Vietnam fails to crack down on wildlife trafficking

Azarja Harmanny 16 Nov 2016

Its own rhinos hunted to extinction, Vietnam is a hub for the rhino horn trade

Isabel Esterman 10 Nov 2016

A plan to save the Mekong Delta

David E. Brown 18 Oct 2016

Mother Nature and a hydropower onslaught aren’t the Mekong Delta’s only problems

David E. Brown 13 Oct 2016

Vietnam sweats bullets as China and Laos dam the Mekong

David E. Brown 6 Oct 2016

Will climate change sink the Mekong Delta?

David E. Brown 3 Oct 2016

Conservationists: It’s time for pangolins to be listed on Appendix I of CITES

Mike Gaworecki 27 Sep 2016

Alaska’s salmon and Vietnam’s doucs: wildlife narratives by Producer Tim Plowden

Shannon Cuthbert 26 Sep 2016

IUCN motions to ban the pangolin trade

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 6 Sep 2016
While most of Vietnam's natural forests were destroyed since the 1960s, the country is now one of the rare examples of a developing nation that has seen an expansion in forest cover since 2000. Photo by Rhett Butler

Deep-rooted migration cycles challenge green growth in Vietnam

Shanti Johnson 5 Sep 2016

Vietnam is one of world’s biggest illegal ivory markets

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Jul 2016

Citizen science leads to snail rediscovery in Vietnam

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jul 2016
A massive fish die-off. Image via EPA.

Taiwanese chemical spill thought to cause mass fish die-off in Vietnam

David E. Brown 3 May 2016

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