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An ‘infrastructure tsunami’ for Asia: Q&A with researcher William Laurance

Smuggled to death: how loopholes and lax enforcement have sealed the fate of Siamese rosewood

French bank backs out of financing Indonesian coal plant

No let-up in Thailand’s relentless, violent Siamese rosewood poaching

Papua New Guinea’s oil and gas boom – blessing or curse?

Stone, Sand, Water: the key ingredients changing the Salween landscape

Lessons from the $2 billion coal mining lawsuit against Indonesia

Karen people call for a peace park instead of big hydropower in their homeland

Nepal’s extraordinary devotion to preserving its rhinos

Expedition finds serious damage to Southeast Sulawesi’s marine ecosystem

Reports that wild Sumatran rhinos may survive in Malaysia prompt hope, skepticism

‘My spirit is there’: life in the shadow of the Mong Ton dam

Land reclamation in Malaysia puts environment, endangered turtle at risk

Fire on the Salween: Dams in conflict zones could threaten Myanmar’s fragile peace process

Cash-strapped rhino groups turn to crowdfunding, with little success

Damming the Salween: what next for Southeast Asia’s last great free-flowing river?

The Javan rhino: protected and threatened by a volcano

Deep sea mining plans for Papua New Guinea raise alarm

The Philippines’ Mindanao is a treasure trove of reptile and amphibian diversity

Public hearing concludes Vietnam fails to crack down on wildlife trafficking

Nepal goes high-tech in its fight against rhino poachers

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

Controversial Jakarta land reclamation project gets legal go-ahead

From Ohio to Indonesia: captive-bred Sumatran rhinos may be the species’ only hope for a future

Massive hydroelectricity project planned for Indonesian Borneo

From Indonesia to Ohio: the struggle to breed Sumatran rhinos in captivity

Pledging to reduce emissions while expanding its power grid, Indonesia walks a fine line

Rhino killed in India’s Kaziranga Park, highlighting the ever-present threat of poachers

World Bank money is helping to finance Asia’s coal boom: report

Struggle against mining on Bangka Island continues despite wins in court

Laws alone don’t stop companies from abandoning deadly mine pits in Indonesia

Efforts to conserve Asia’s rhinos meet successes, setbacks

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