Nature

Nature • STORY OF THE DAY • Jan 20, 2016 • 8 min read

Orangutan Extinction Habitat destroyed

By Amanda Saxton • Jan 20, 2016
As their rainforest habitat disappears from North Sumatra, endangered orangutans are being driven out of the trees and into the crosshairs of enraged villagers

Nature • STORY OF THE DAY • Jul 03, 2015 • 1 min read

Aerial photography A region in view

By Southeast Asia Globe editorial • Jul 03, 2015
Google Earth celebrated its tenth birthday by uploading some fantastic ariel shots of the planet, including this selection from Southeast Asia

Nature • STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 01, 2014 • 7 min read

Vietnam Time to eat dog!

By Amanda Saxton • Nov 01, 2014
The taste for dog meat has long been a contentious issue for outsiders. But now the battle has been taken up

Nature • Dec 23, 2013 • 9 min read
Environment

Trapped by change

The impending Don Sahong dam has the potential to cause environmental catastrophe and destroy the livelihoods of the area’s daredevil fishermen
By Written by DENISE HRUBY, Photos by THOMAS CRISTOFOLETTI • Dec 23, 2013

Nature • Nov 19, 2013 • 3 min read

Skin and bone

Once a key supplier for the wildlife trafficking trade, Southeast Asia is becoming a major destination for this bloody business as well
By Frédéric Janssens • Nov 19, 2013

Nature • Nov 13, 2013 • 4 min read
Wildlife

Caught on camera: 'Asia's unicorn'

The critically endangered saola - known as the Asian unicorn - captured on camera for the first time in 15 years
By Southeast Asia Globe • Nov 13, 2013

Nature • Oct 31, 2012 • 3 min read
Working Elephants

With a heavy heart

In a sad twist of fate, elephants are forced to fuel an insatiable logging industry that contributes to the slow demise of their species
By Brent Lewin • Oct 31, 2012

Nature • Oct 04, 2012 • 10 min read
Cambodia Wildlife

Hunters and hunted

Patrolling Cambodia’s southern Cardamom Mountains with Wildlife Alliance and the rangers of Stung Proat 
By Daniel Otis • Oct 04, 2012

Nature • May 16, 2012 • 2 min read
Wildlife Trade

The killers

For more than 10 years, photographer Patrick Brown and author Ben Davies have followed the global wildlife trade and its gruesome pursuit of profits
By Navet Tab • May 16, 2012

Nature • Feb 09, 2011 • 9 min read
Ring of fire

Superstition to science

From reverence to fear to curiosity, these monsters of nature have proven to be a constant source of fascination. Southeast Asia Globe investigates how mankind’s relationship with volcanoes has evolved over the centuries
By Laura J Snook • Feb 09, 2011