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How environmental change is shaping Southeast Asia.
By Govi Snell • Feb 18, 2021
At the age of 24, Hong Hoang became the first Vietnamese to visit Antarctica, in a trip that would set her on a path to establishing her own environmental NGO. Today, through CHANGE, she battles intimidation and apathy to promote wildlife conservation across Vietnam
By Elizabeth Sinclair • Feb 08, 2021
The pandemic has seen monkeys overrun cities in India and Thailand in search of food as tourism comes to a halt. But in Ubud, the macaques of Monkey Forest are adapting well to this new reality, with local residents seeing less aggressive and destructive behaviour
By Lam Anh and Hoang Chien • Jan 25, 2021
The reporters go international in the second instalment of an investigative project infiltrating illegal tiger trafficking networks, visiting tiger farms in Laos and South Africa where they bread the animals to meet a taste for bone glue among wealthy Vietnamese consumers
By Dene-Hern Chen and Pitcha Dangprasith/AFP • Jan 22, 2021
Underwater divers in plastic-choked waters off the coast of Thailand are snipping through discarded nets tangled around reefs in a new initiative helping protect marine life and aid the fight against coronavirus
As Covid-19 has swept the globe, international tourists to Vietnam have dropped sharply. But Son Doong cave, among the world's largest, has weathered the crisis thanks to a boost in visitors among Vietnam's fast-growing middle class
By Nhac Nguyen/AFP • Jan 20, 2021
Environmental conservation and indigenous rights are often natural bedfellows – but what happens when the two are at odds? In Thailand's Kaeng Krachan Forest, Karen communities battle to secure ancestral land rights, as officials strive for world heritage status
By Wanpen Pajai • Jan 19, 2021
As global corporations, looking to offset their own emissions, pour money into eco-friendly projects in Cambodia as part of the carbon credits scheme, lurking beneath this seemingly positive initiative is corruption, rights abuses and violence says Dr Sarah Milne
By Dr Sarah Milne • Jan 15, 2021
The trading of tigers and tiger products such as bone glue, claws, skin, bones and fangs in any form is prohibited under Vietnamese law. But in black markets, trade activities are thriving, as reporters found out when infiltrating Vietnam's trafficking rings
By Lam Anh and Hoang Chien • Jan 13, 2021
Famed for its nudist colony and banana plantations, Banana Island is little more than a punchline for many Hanoians. But for the small community living there, a cycle of proposed housing developments, and even foresting projects, has left their livelihoods in doubt
By Ashley Lampard • Jan 05, 2021
For the second time in recent months, the United States has banned imports from a Malaysian palm oil giant over concerns that its workers face a litany of abuse, including sexual and physical violence, withholding of wages and restrictions on movement
By Agence France-Presse • Dec 31, 2020
Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen has announced that the Kingdom has extracted its first drop of crude oil from its waters, in what is a long-awaited milestone for one of Southeast Asia's poorest nations
By Agence France-Presse • Dec 29, 2020
While many still invoke romanticised notions of the human-elephant relationship throughout the centuries, today interactions are defined by captive elephant tourism. Sonakshi Srivastava asks, is it still appropriate to use history to justify this industry today?
By Sonakshi Srivastava • Dec 28, 2020