As Vietnam races to track down the origin of its first SARS-CoV-2 community transmission in almost 100 days, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued a sweeping directive aimed at wiping out almost all vestiges […]
A recent World Wildlife Fund (WWF) for Nature Cambodia report has documented the alarming rate of wildlife slaughter for the illicit bushmeat trade, raising concerns of the risk of a home-grown zoonotic crossover event similar […]
One of the world’s leading conservation biologists has warned that without greater cooperation between Malaysia and Indonesia the Sumatran rhinoceros will become extinct. The call for increased urgency follows the death last week of Malaysia’s […]
Teetering between life and death as a species, Sumatra’s recently discovered Tapanuli orangutans are facing constant threat of habitat loss, and survival. Comprising just 800, they are the world’s rarest species of great ape. To […]
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A petition imploring Indonesia President Joko Widodo and Minister of Environment and Forestry, Siti Nurbaya Bakar, to shut down the Bandung Zoo on Change.com has so far garnered more than 704,900 signatures. The petition was started after video […]
More often than not these days when wild animals stray into the path of humans it is the animal that ends up worse off. Some good news out of Thailand today where video showing the […]
One of the world’s great rivers, the Mekong winds its way through the steaming jungles and historic heartlands of Southeast Asia, boasting an ecosystem whose natural wealth is rivalled only by the almighty Amazon. Perhaps […]