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At the ‘Biodiversity Olympics,’ scientists work to democratize rainforest tech

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 Aug 2024
Coffee bean harvesting in Yangambi DRC. Image courtesy of Axel Fassio/CIFOR_ICRAF

Study highlights environmental and economic benefits of agroforestry for DRC coffee crops

Elizabeth Fitt 9 Aug 2024
From left: Florinda Zurdo, Silvia Salina and Patricia Mendoza stand in a plot of land near ASASTRAN’s site in Lajero where traditional medicine is cultivated.

Indigenous midwives in Panama strive to preserve traditional medicine for maternal health

Adam D. Williams 25 Jul 2024
Camera trap training in the DRC.

Regions with highest risks to wildlife have fewest camera traps, study finds

Spoorthy Raman 15 Jul 2024

Frog ‘saunas’ may help threatened frogs fight off deadly fungus

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jul 2024
Significant deforestation was linked to the Lower Russei Chrum dam, which has been operational in Koh Kong province since 2015. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Hydropower dams further undermine REDD+ efforts in Cambodia

Gerald Flynn & Vutha Srey 28 Jun 2024

#AllEyesonPapua goes viral to highlight threat to Indigenous forests from palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jun 2024

Study challenges use of charismatic wildlife as umbrella species for conservation

Basten Gokkon 20 Apr 2024
Two male proboscis monkeys in Malaysian Borneo.

Indonesian capital project finally gets guidelines to avoid harm to biodiversity

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Apr 2024
In the heart of the Cardamom Mountains, new hydropower dams threaten both protected forest and REDD+ projects. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Protected areas bear the brunt as forest loss continues across Cambodia

Gerald Flynn 17 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

Colombia adds hundreds of species to list of threatened flora and fauna

Maxwell Radwin 22 Feb 2024
A Geoffroy's spider monkey

Tech to recover rainforest: Interview with Osa Conservation’s Carolina Pinto & Paulina Rodriguez

Abhishyant Kidangoor 21 Feb 2024
A female western hoolock gibbon with its baby.

Herbicide used in Bangladesh tea production threatens biodiversity & health

Farhana Parvin 19 Feb 2024

In PNG, researchers record 9 new species of predatory hermaphroditic land snails

Spoorthy Raman 24 Jan 2024
A logger carries his chainsaw through the forest of the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia. He will sell the timber to garment factories.

Shrinking civil space and persistent logging: 2023 in review in Southeast Asia

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 28 Dec 2023
Anoriental pied hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris)

Study: Singapore biodiversity loss is bad — but not as bad as previous estimate

Spoorthy Raman 22 Dec 2023

Iconic Indonesian raptor still threatened by habitat degradation, isolation

Basten Gokkon 12 Dec 2023
Borneo forest

Forest restoration to boost biomass doesn’t have to sacrifice tree diversity

Carolyn Cowan 28 Nov 2023

Collaboration key to rediscovery of egg-laying mammal in Papua’s Cyclops Mountains

Basten Gokkon 28 Nov 2023
The platforms can carry environmental sensors and could be useful tools to disperse sensors in far-flung areas.

Origami-inspired sensor platforms tumble like leaves to study forests

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Oct 2023
Mushrooms

Gone before we know them? Kew’s ‘State of the World’s Plants and Fungi’ report warns of extinctions

Liz Kimbrough 10 Oct 2023
A dismembered tree in Chhaeb-Preah Roka Wildlife Sanctuary documented in April 2023. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Communities track a path of destruction through a Cambodian wildlife sanctuary

Gerald Flynn | Andy Ball | Meng Kroypunlok 9 Oct 2023

Restoring degraded forests may be key for climate, study says

Liz Kimbrough 6 Oct 2023

Frogs in the pot: Two in five amphibian species at risk amid climate crisis

Liz Kimbrough 5 Oct 2023
An aerial view of a new road that leads from Think Biotech’s concession into the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary where illegal logging is taking place. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Logging route cut into Cambodia’s Prey Lang from Think Biotech’s concession

Gerald Flynn | Andy Ball | Meng Kroypunlok 5 Oct 2023
A tenkile (Dendrolagus scottae)

Defending a forest for tree kangaroos and people: Q&A with Fidelis Nick

John Cannon 4 Oct 2023
Jan Gogarten and Christina Lynggaard

Swab a leaf and find a species. Or 50, thanks to eDNA

Abhishyant Kidangoor 3 Oct 2023
An oriental pied hornbill in Sabah's rainforest.

Forest restoration can fare better with human helping hand, study shows

Jeremy Hance 28 Sep 2023
Asian elephant

Protected areas a boon for vertebrate diversity in wider landscape, study shows

Carolyn Cowan 15 Sep 2023
A rescued falcon, likely a peregrine

Falcon trafficking soars in Middle East, fueled by conflict and poverty

Lyse Mauvais 10 Aug 2023
John Lyakurwa poses at Bondwa Peak while doing research in the Uluguru mountains, another massif within the Eastern Arc Mountains.

The value of mountains: Q&A with Tanzanian herpetologist John Lyakurwa

Ryan Truscott 18 Jul 2023

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