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Nature • STORY OF THE DAY • Sep 15, 2017 • 5 min read

Elephant Tourism A cruel world

By Jan Schmidt-Burbach • Sep 15, 2017
Since 2015, World Animal Protection has visited 220 venues across Asia that use elephants to entertain tourists. The findings were worrying, but better informed tourists can be part of a crucial change, argues World Animal Protection advisor Jan Schmidt-Burbach 

Nature • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 07, 2017 • 10 min read

Cambodia The less forests, the more floods

By Euan Black • Jun 07, 2017
Massive deforestation is playing a crucial role in the droughts that are devastating Cambodia. But despite an official ban on timber exports, forests continue to be cut down at a record rate

Nature • STORY OF THE DAY • Jan 31, 2017 • 7 min read

Cambodia The rain gamblers

By Paul Millar • Jan 31, 2017
Climate change could spell the end for Cambodia’s high-stakes habit of betting on the weather

Nature • STORY OF THE DAY • Dec 12, 2016 • 7 min read

Laos The future is underground

By Jennifer Meszaros • Dec 12, 2016
Home to some of the most complex rock formations in Southeast Asia, Laos looks to cash in on cave tourism

Nature • Jan 20, 2016 • 8 min read
Orangutan Extinction

Habitat destroyed

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

Nature • Nov 13, 2015 • 7 min read
Plastic pollution

Can Southeast Asia stop dumping waste in our oceans?

New research shows that plastic waste in our oceans is far worse than previously thought, and Southeast Asian nations are among the worst offenders
By Logan Connor

Nature • Nov 01, 2014 • 7 min read
Vietnam

Time to eat dog!

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

Nature • Jul 15, 2013 • 12 min read
White elephants

In the abode of kings

From our print archive: For centuries, Southeast Asian monarchs have coveted white elephants as symbols of divine rule. Under the Burmese junta, they live their lives in chains
By Daniel Otis

FROM THE PRINT ARCHIVE
Nature • Nov 05, 2012 • 6 min read
Wildlife Photography

Game, set and trap

Camera traps are crucial tools for better understanding the composition and populations of wildlife in the region. They also tell us what is being lost
By Jeremy Holden

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

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

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

The killers

For more than 10 years, photographer Patrick Brown and Ben Davies have followed the global wildlife trade and its gruesome pursuit of profits
By Ben Davies