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By Jeremy Holden • Oct 04, 2019
From our print archive: At first glance, Cambodia’s rainforests may seem bereft of wildlife, but a closer looks reveals a profusion of tiny and often unique creatures
By Simon Roughneen • Sep 27, 2019
Last year’s tragedies forced authorities to better prepare for the disasters that are inevitable across the seismically hyperactive, drought and flood-prone archipelago
By Claire Baker-Munton • Sep 04, 2019
For over a century, elephants were Southeast Asia’s workhorses, used to pull logs razed from their forest homes. But what happens to those elephants when the logging stops?
By Tabitha Payne • Aug 29, 2019
Landgrabs, deforestation and an increasingly-globalised Khmer culture are encroaching deep into the lands and lore of Cambodia's indigenous Bunong people
From our print archive: A few unsung heroes try to stem a trade that begins in the forests of Asia and then spans the restaurants and pet shops of the world
By Ben Davies • Jul 03, 2019
Traditional Chinese Medicine is a flagship of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. But scientists say demand for medicine containing animal parts could push tigers, bears, rhinos and pangolins to the brink of extinction
By Claire Baker-Munton • Jun 26, 2019
Scientists are rapidly developing new DNA-methods to identify what kind of life is present in rivers, lakes and the ocean. Advocates of the method claim that it has the potential to revolutionise the way environmental monitoring is done
By Uffe Wilken • Feb 15, 2019
Cambodia is playing a growing role in the international illegal ivory trade
By Claire Baker-Munton • Jan 24, 2019
A Singaporean schoolteacher-turned-social entrepreneur is fighting to save sharks from extinction in a unique way: by working with the shark hunters
By Lily Hess • Nov 30, 2018
Thailand has been named as one of the best countries for wildlife travel in the world, according to a ranking system created by a global travel consultant company
By Lily Hess • Oct 24, 2018
In a region where so much of life and livelihood relies on a healthy coastline, the efforts of marine biologists to protect, preserve and educate are especially needed. Thepsuda Loyjiw uses her position as a corporate social responsibility (CSR) manager at Banyan Tree resort in Koh Samui, Thailand, to introduce tourists and locals to the area’s aquatic wonders and to spread the word on how to sustain them for the next generation
By Janelle Retka • Oct 23, 2018
Vietnam performed the best of 151 countries in a study that assessed quality of life versus environmental sustainability
By Michael Tatarski • Oct 11, 2018