2024
Dec 13 - Mongabay - Vietnam’s mammals need conservation within and outside their range: Study
Dec 10 - Mongabay - Thai citizens protest plans for Mekong dam amid transboundary concerns
Nov 20 - Mongabay - Camera traps reveal little-known Sumatran tiger forests need better protection
Nov 14 - Mongabay - A key driver of decline, can wild orchid collectors change their ways?
Nov 11 - Mongabay - Gibbons found to perform dance routines akin to ‘the robot,’ but why?
Nov 8 - Mongabay - Study shows, via clouded leopards, how to better protect forests
Oct 31 - Mongabay - China’s plans to trace wildlife trade risks inflaming trafficking, critics warn
Oct 17 - Mongabay - Thailand’s budding mangrove restoration plans spark both hope and concern
Sept 25 - Mongabay - SE Asia renewables firms fall short on policies to protect environmental defenders
Sep 24 - Mongabay - Record-breaking floods in northern Thailand intensify scrutiny of Mekong dam project
Sep 10 - Mongabay - Successful Thai community-based hornbill conservation faces uncertain future
Aug 30 - Mongabay - ‘Senseless’ U.S. trinket trade threatens distinctive Asian bat, study shows
Jul 31 - Mongabay - Agroforestry offers Thai rubber farmers a pathway to profit and sustainability
Jul 29 - Mongabay - Shark fin consumption wanes in Thailand, yet demand persists, report shows
Jul 25 - Mongabay - In choice of mangroves or livelihood, Vietnam shrimp farmers choose the latter
Jul 22 - Mongabay - Thai plan to redraw boundaries of tiger reserve sparks concern and criticism
Jul 17 - Mongabay - Thai tiger numbers swell as prey populations stabilize in western forests
Jun 28 - Mongabay - Madagascar lemurs, tortoises seized in Thai bust reveal reach of wildlife trafficking
Jun 18 - Mongabay - Beekeeping helps villagers tend coastal forests in Thai mangrove hotspot
May 31 - Mongabay - Thai plan to relax fishing law stokes fear of return to IUU catches, worker abuse
May 22 - Mongabay - Will the Mekong and Salween pay the price of China’s energy transition?
May 20 - Mongabay - Banks backing Mekong hydropower failing on due diligence, report reveals
May 15 - Mongabay - New database unveils the role of Asian hornbills as forest seed dispersers
May 8 - Mongabay - Rights groups call for greater public input in ASEAN environmental rights framework
May 1 - Mongabay - Mangrove forestry only sustainable when conservation zones respected: Study
Apr 29 - Mongabay - Borneo and Sumatra megaprojects are carving up clouded leopard forests
Apr 11 - Mongabay - Unseen and unregulated: ‘Ghost’ roads carve up Asia-Pacific tropical forests
Apr 8 - Mongabay - Island-building and overfishing wreak destruction of South China Sea reefs
Apr 4 - Mongabay - Spotted softshell turtle release boosts reptile conservation in Vietnam
Mar 28 - Mongabay - Study identifies species with a long history but short future amid threats
Mar 19 - Mongabay - Irrawaddy dolphin death in Thailand’s Songkhla Lake underscores conservation needs
Feb 26 - Mongabay - Skywalker gibbons confirmed in Myanmar for the first time
Feb 21 - Mongabay - Hydropower in doubt as climate impacts Mekong Basin water availability
Feb 13 - Mongabay - Risks to Myanmar’s last saltwater crocs point to coastal conservation needs
Feb 9 - Mongabay - Cornell receives $35m gift for research at nexus of wildlife and health
Jan 31 - Mongabay - Forest diversity is key to Southeast Asia’s climate adaptability, study shows
Jan 30 - Mongabay - DNA probe uncovers threatened shark species in Thailand’s markets
Jan 17 - Mongabay - Civil-backed proposal seeks to address root causes of Thailand’s choking haze
Jan 12 - Mongabay - [Photos] New book is a stunning glimpse of Asia’s wildlife and landscapes
Jan 8 - Mongabay - Camera-traps help identify conservation needs of Thailand’s coastal otters
2023
Dec 28 - Mongabay - Shrinking civil space and persistent logging: 2023 in review in Southeast Asia
Dec 12 - Mongabay - In Laos, forest loss and carbon emissions escalate as agriculture intensifies
Dec 7 - Mongabay - Thailand tries nature-based water management to adapt to climate change
Nov 28 - Mongabay - Forest restoration to boost biomass doesn’t have to sacrifice tree diversity
Nov 23 - Mongabay - Clouded leopards face alarming decline amid ‘genetic crisis,’ study warns
Nov 22 - Mongabay - How scientists and a community are bringing a Bornean river corridor back to life
Nov 8 - Mongabay - Dam-building on Mekong poses risk to regional industries, report says
Oct 31 - Mongabay - Conservationists look to defy gloomy outlook for Borneo’s sun bears
Oct 30 - Mongabay - Myanmar’s primates and their guardians need more support, study says
Oct 5 - Mongabay - World Bank still backs coal in Asia, despite climate claims, report reveals
Sep 21 - Mongabay - For Vietnam’s rare reptiles, lack of captive populations may spell doom
Sep 20 - Mongabay - EU deforestation-free rule ‘highly challenging’ for SE Asia smallholders, experts say
Sep 15 - Mongabay - Protected areas a boon for vertebrate diversity in wider landscape, study shows
Aug 9 - Mongabay - Asian elephants’ picky diet helps shape their forest home, study shows
Aug 7 - Mongabay - Oil palms may be magnet for macaques, boars, at expense of other biodiversity
Jul 21 - Mongabay - Airport proposal for Malaysian island doesn’t fly with conservationists
Jul 7 - Mongabay - Degraded, but not defunct: Modified land still has wildlife value, study says
Jun 27 - Mongabay - When “cute” is cruel: Social media videos stoke loris pet trade, study says
Jun 6 - Mongabay - Citizens demand sustainable solution to haze crisis in northern Thailand
May 26 - Mongabay - Flooding for hydropower dams hits forest-reliant bats hard, study shows
May 22 - Mongabay - U.S. traders flouting sanctions on buying Myanmar teak, report says
May 15 - Mongabay - Award-winning, Indigenous peace park dragged into fierce conflict in Myanmar
May 9 - Mongabay - ‘Chasing giants’: Q&A with megafish biologist and author Zeb Hogan
Apr 24 - Mongabay - The more degraded a forest, the quieter its wildlife, new study shows
Mar 30 - Mongabay - Robust river governance key to restoring Mekong River vitality in face of dams
Mar 29 - Mongabay - As hydropower dams quell the Mekong’s life force, what are the costs?
Mar 1 - Mongabay - Reef ruckus: Fish fights erupt after mass coral bleaching, study finds
Jan 25 - Mongabay - Even in recovery, previously logged tropical forests are carbon sources: Study
2022
Dec 14 - Mongabay - Lianas affect forest carbon uptake differently by region, study shows
Nov 23 - Mongabay - Probe finds Vietnam faltering in bid to curb wildlife trade, animal suffering
Nov 17 - Mongabay - Myanmar communities decry disempowerment as forest guardians since 2021 coup
Oct 11 - Mongabay - The slow, toxic and sleepy life of lorises is coded in their genes
Sep 19 - Mongabay - New tech aims to track carbon in every tree, boost carbon market integrity
Sep 6 - Mongabay - Southeast Asia’s big cats like their prey rare — as in really elusive
Aug 12 - Mongabay - Toxic rare earth mines fuel deforestation, rights abuses in Myanmar, report says
Jul 18 - Mongabay - Turtle DNA database traces illegal shell trade to poaching hotspots
Jul 14 - Mongabay - Small mammals stranded by hydropower dams die out surprisingly fast: Study
Jul 7 - Mongabay - Myanmar wildlife trade remains opaque, despite focus on border hubs
Jun 21 - Mongabay - Giant stingray caught in Cambodia is world’s largest freshwater fish
Jun 17 - Mongabay - Indigenous knowledge settles question of a Bornean tree species: Study
Jun 13 - Mongabay - Overexploited and underprotected: Study urges action on Asia’s rosewoods
Jun 9 - Mongabay - New near-real-time tool reveals Earth’s land cover in more detail than ever before
Jun 6 - Mongabay - Common goals ensure forest restoration success in northern Thailand
May 27 - Mongabay - Indigenous community mounts legal challenge to Thai coal mine development
May 24 - Mongabay - In the Mekong’s murky depths, giants abound, new expedition finds
May 6 - Mongabay - For more fish and healthier coral in Bali, focus on communities and connectivity: Study
Apr 26 - Mongabay - Asia’s troubled trees need better conservation to reach restoration goals: Study
Apr 21 - Mongabay - Warming could nip Southeast Asian forests’ mass flowering in the bud, study finds
Apr 15 - Mongabay - Oceans conference comes up with $16b in pledges to safeguard marine health
Apr 14 - Mongabay - Death of last river dolphin in Laos rings alarm bells for Mekong population
Apr 7 - Mongabay - Countries that sanctioned Myanmar’s junta are still buying their timber: Report
Apr 4 - Mongabay - ‘A risky business’: Online illegal wildlife trade continues to soar in Myanmar
Mar 30 - Mongabay - Rare mammals caught on camera highlight value of Annamite Mountains
Mar 22 - Mongabay - Cambodian project aims to revive flagging fish populations in Tonle Sap Lake
Mar 15 - Mongabay - Thai tourism elephants are ‘far better off’ in forests: Q&A with photographer Adam Oswell
Mar 10 - Mongabay - Tiger and bear rescue spotlights captive wildlife tourism woes in Thailand
Feb 21 - Mongabay - One fish, two fish: New goby species described from the Philippines
Feb 17 - Mongabay - Bringing back large mammals boosts restoration of entire ecosystems: Study
Feb 11 - Mongabay - Winds of change: Detecting species from airborne DNA just got real
Feb 4 - Mongabay - Gulf of Thailand oil pipeline leak threatens reef-rich marine park
Feb 2 - Mongabay - New study highlights hidden scale of U.S. illegal tiger trade
Feb 2 - Mongabay - Vietnam’s timber legality program not making a dent in risky wood imports
Jan 18 - Mongabay - ‘Huge blow’ for tiger conservation as two of the big cats killed in Thailand
Jan 17 - Mongabay - Greater Mekong primates struggle to cling on amid persistent threats: Report
Jan 10 - Mongabay - Wild release marks return of giant forest tortoises to Bangladesh hills
2021
Dec 29 - Mongabay - Tiger farms doing little to end wild poaching, Vietnam consumer study shows
Dec 17 - Mongabay - Scientists on a quest to map worldwide web of fungi beneath our feet
Dec 9 - Mongabay - Tigers, jaguars under threat from tropical hydropower projects: Study
Dec 6 - Mongabay - Between land and sea: Agrobiodiversity holds key to health for Melanesian tribes
Dec 2 - Mongabay - Amid a furniture boom, timber certification is just a start, say experts
Nov 29 - Mongabay - Newly released Cambodian activists honored among Front Line Defenders awardees
Nov 22 - Mongabay - With La Niña conditions back, is it good news for tropical forests?
Nov 12 - Mongabay - You can move an elephant to the jungle, but it won’t stay there, study says
Nov 5 - Mongabay - Study shines a light on Indonesia’s murky shark fishery and trade
Nov 1 - Mongabay - One of world’s last two northern white rhinos withdrawn from breeding program
Oct 29 - Mongabay - Pingers on fishing nets found to save river dolphins in Indonesian Borneo
Oct 12 - Mongabay - Fire and forest loss ignite concern for Brazilian Amazon’s jaguars
Oct 11 - Mongabay - In a sea of oil palms, even monitor lizards need islands of natural forest
Oct 5 - Mongabay - On islands that inspired theory of evolution, deforestation cuts uneven path
Sep 29 - Mongabay - Malaysian hornbill bust reveals live trafficking trend in Southeast Asia
Sep 24 - Mongabay - Snapshot of hatchlings raises hopes for Siamese crocs in northeast Cambodia
Sep 20 - Mongabay - Domestic bushmeat consumption an “urgent” threat to migratory mammals, U.N. says
Sep 17 - Mongabay - Scientists look to chimps’ past to gauge their future under climate change
Sep 13 - Mongabay - Myanmar’s snowcapped north is a haven for large mammals, new study finds
Sep 8 - Mongabay - The first complete map of the world’s shallow tropical coral reefs is here
Sep 3 - Mongabay - Not just sea life: Migratory fish, birds and mammals also fall foul of plastic
Aug 31 - Mongabay - Low genetic diversity is part of rhinos’ long-term history, study says
Aug 27 - Mongabay - With Myanmar’s press muzzled, experts warn of surge in environmental crimes
Aug 23 - Mongabay - Deforestation surge continues amid deepening uncertainty in Myanmar
Aug 18 - Mongabay - Cambodian dam a ‘disaster’ for local communities, rights group says
Aug 11 - Mongabay - Seagrass-grazing dugongs and green sea turtles supercharge the seeds they eat
Aug 9 - Mongabay - Maleos bounce back in Sulawesi after villagers resolve to protect their eggs
Aug 4 - Mongabay - In the Borneo canopy, life thrives in surprising ways, camera-trap study shows
Jul 30 - Mongabay - Arboreal camera traps add ‘tons of value’ to forest canopy research
Jul 29 - Mongabay - Southeast Asia losing tigers as deadline looms to double population by 2022
Jul 23 - Mongabay - Better logging regulations ‘last best hope’ for Solomon Islands, study says
Jul 21 - Mongabay - For monitoring mammals, eDNA boasts ‘killer feature’ over other methods
Jul 14 - Mongabay - Philippines’ rich bird life is more threatened than we thought, study says
Jul 9 - Mongabay - Green peafowl flourish in Thailand’s northern forests, but conflict looms
Jun 30 - Mongabay - Cambodia’s first giant muntjac sighting highlights key mountain habitat
Jun 28 - Mongabay - Forest loss in mountains of Southeast Asia accelerates at ‘shocking’ pace
Jun 23 - Mongabay - Rights groups demand end to Cambodia’s persecution of green activists
Jun 21 - Mongabay - Researchers look to locals to fill knowledge gap on Philippine tarsier
Jun 18 - Mongabay - Myanmar junta’s growing reliance on extractives for cash raises concerns
Jun 14 - Mongabay - Irrigation dams threaten Thailand’s tiger forests, say conservationists
Jun 10 - Audubon Magazine - Do Birds Hide From Predators Even From Inside an Egg?
Jun 1 - BBC Wildlife Magazine - The Bee Hitting the Big Time [Also in print]
Apr 29 - Mongabay - Sumatran rhinos show low inbreeding — but when it happens, collapse is quick
Apr 21 - Mongabay - Environmental art initiative aims to help paint a better future for Southeast Asia
Apr 1 - Mongabay - Mixed fates for captive elephants sent back to villages amid Thai tourism collapse
Feb 18 - Smithsonian Magazine - How the Rice’s Whale Became a New Species
Feb 3 - Mongabay - For border-crossing Thai tigers, the forest on the other side isn’t as green
Jan 14 - Hakai Magazine - Salish Sea Killer Whales Have a Surprising New Way of Hunting
Jan 11 - Mongabay - Award-winning Thai community continues the fight to save its wetland forest
2020
Dec 29 - Hakai Magazine - Gannets: The Honeybees of the Sea
Dec 2 - Mongabay - Dolphins face growing pressure as development eats into Borneo’s interior
Nov 9 - Smithsonian Magazine - Vaquita Genome Offers Hope for Species’ Survival
May 14 - Southeast Asia Globe - How protecting forests and their communities can prevent the next outbreak
Apr 8 - Southeast Asia Globe - As Thailand’s tourism plunges, elephants suffer