📢 A new study from Cornell University & New York University debunks leather tanneries’ claims that their sector has no direct impact on deforestation. Researchers found hides make up 8% of a cow’s value at the slaughterhouse level – which can be instrumental to profitability when margins are tight.

Climate change and dams on the Mekong are slowly killing the Tonle Sap, the world's largest inland fishery. But changing the way dams operate could reverse some of the damage. ✍️ @vantha.bsky.social 📷 @rounry.bsky.social for @mekongindependent.bsky.social mekongindependent.com/2026/08/floa... 🌏

Floating houses stuck aground as climate change takes hold

Cambodia’s monsoon is weakening, and dams are siphoning water away, researchers say. Residents who fish the Tonle Sap lake’s floodwaters are struggling to survive.

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Cambodia's wildlife trade: traffickers raising lions, tigers & primates on their properties, supplying anything from elephants, rhino horns and pangolins, to corals, bears and sea turtles, sourcing from suppliers in Africa, Europe, Russia and South Asia 🌏 Must read news.mongabay.com/2026/07/repo...

Report reveals Cambodia’s appetite for tigers, rhinos and other endangered wildlife

Tiger bone wines in exquisite bottles. Tiger cubs sold alive as pets or served as a culinary delicacy alongside pangolin and cobra meat at exclusive restaurants. Rooms filled with rhino horns and elep...

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Thailand has delisted Red-whiskered bulbuls in order to please voters & the captive breeding industry. This is sure to increase laundering of wild birds in the caged bird trade, and poaching in countries like Cambodia & Laos where enforcement is lax. 📷 RWB escapee nesting in Phnom Penh 🌏 #birds

It won't save them overnight, but we could have birds on future Euro banknotes. Vote at the link below! And maybe that makes sense given the EU Bird Directive is a strong piece of legislation protecting birds from whatever environmental backtracking member states try to do 🌏 #birds

BirdLife Europe & Central Asia@birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 2w ago

Birds on the € notes!? You can make it happen! 🐦✨ Vote now for your favourite design! www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknot... The European Central Bank is redesigning the euro banknotes and is asking the public for feedback. And one of the themes is birds and rivers...😈

A network of well-guarded shops selling pangolins, ivory and rhino horns in Laos has nearly doubled in size since last year, according to @geraldrflynn.bsky.social and undercover Chinese investigators, with local law enforcement not even making a dent. news.mongabay.com/2026/07/laos...

Laos’s illegal wildlife shops keep growing despite enforcement, investigators find

BANGKOK — Schemes funneling Chinese tour groups through illegal wildlife shopping sites in Laos appear to be persisting and even expanding in spite of some law enforcement action by authorities, Monga...

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If you're an EU citizen, you can request the European Commission to fully suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement and stop supporting a State that commits war crimes and crimes against humanity. Sign here eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

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petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/... Pétition contre la loi sur le site de l'assemblée nationale.

Amnesty International France@amnestyfrance.bsky.social · last mo.

En France, le gouvernement s’apprête à donner un «permis de tuer» aux policiers. Le 7 juillet, l’Assemblée nationale doit voter une loi qui considèrerait légal TOUT TIR de policier ou gendarme. Ce serait une bascule historique. Voici en 5 points ce que cette loi changerait.👇

A report by several NGOs released Monday accuses Meta of hosting the world's "largest single known illegal wildlife trade market" and effectively encouraging the trade by sharing advertising revenues with users and allowing them subscription models. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

For sale on Facebook: monkeys, rhino horn and dead pangolins

The ghostly white creature curled up on a weighing scale is almost unrecognisable in the Facebook post offering it for sale. Only closer inspection reveals it to be a dead pangolin.

france24.com

Edge of Armageddon: why does one of the world’s top thinkers believe we’re nearing nuclear apocalypse?

Edge of Armageddon: why does one of the world’s top thinkers believe we’re nearing nuclear apocalypse?

In a chilling new book, theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli says we’re back on the brink – and this time, leaders chronically lack the nous of Kennedy and Khrushchev. So why is he against rearming?

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Migratory feeding grounds critical for the survival of critically endangered Spoon-billed sandpipers are at risk from a proposed oil refinery and powerplant in Thailand www.birdlife.org/news/2026/06... (petition to sign) #birds 🌏

Protecting Pak Thale for the Future of the Flyway

Thousands of birds depend on this site, but now it’s in danger. Your voice can help.

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Follow the new @mekongindependent.bsky.social media for investigative stories from the Greater Mekong

@mekongindependent.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We at Mekong Independent are trying out a new format, where we publish original features & updates every two weeks like an online magazine. We start w shorter story updates & one feature, & on the 1st we’ll post a bigger series. Check out our June updates: mekongindependent.com

A year-long undercover investigation by Earth League International alleges that Cambodia has become a major hub for the trafficking, sale and consumption of endangered wildlife products, linking criminal networks involved in wildlife crime, online scams, drug trafficking and corruption across the...

Cambodia Named Key Hub in Major Southeast Asian Wildlife Trafficking Network

A year-long undercover investigation by Earth League International alleges that Cambodia has become a major hub for the trafficking, sale and consumption of endangered wildlife products, linking criminal networks involved in wildlife crime, online scams, drug trafficking and corruption across the...

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Phnom Penh is the Southeast Asian capital city with the least public space per person. Parks are near inexistents and surrounding #wetlands are filled in at a steady pace. Checking a few spots last weekend with people supporting 'urban wetland parks' for both people and wildlife 🐦🐢🌏

It's almost a month now since I read this EXCELLENT piece by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social, and I still can't get it out of my head. In fact, I probably never will, it explains so much about the times we're living through. That's a mark of the very best journalism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly | Jonathan Watts

China is dominating the energy transition with astonishing results, while fossil fuel fascists in the US try to turn back the clock

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(1/3) Where the most gruesome wildlife trade takes place: a few drone stills I shot last year in Sihanoukville for Wildlight & Earth League International for a video highlighting their undercover investigation into wildlife trade networks in Cambodia 🌏

Is it too early to reintroduce #tigers in Cambodia? “It’s ironic that we are sending one of the most protected animals in India — our flagship species — into a country with one of the worst records of wildlife protection, rampant snaring, and wildlife trade” news.mongabay.com/2026/06/beng... 🌏

Bengal tigers in Cambodia? Reintroduction plan raises questions

Sat Born, 56, recalls freezing at the forest’s entrance when he first saw it. “Its head was this big,” he says, wide-eyed, spreading his hands to show the animal’s size. Recollecting that eventful mor...

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Fab news from China! Congrats to citizens & scientists who saved a key Spoon-billed Sandpiper wintering site, shared with 20,000 waterbirds of 46 species, from a new highway in Guangxi! Thanks Beijing for halting it & local government for seeking alternatives. www.sixthtone.com/news/1018593 #birds

How a Rare Bird Stopped a Highway Project in South China

The road was planned to cut through a critical spoon-billed sandpiper habitat. By first organizing online, and then taking action offline, amateur activists halted its construction.

sixthtone.com

“Half the people we work with, they eat orangutans. Orangutans eat your fruit. They steal from your gardens.” 'Now ... observers can sit back, take a photo and make some money.' Interesting new conservation idea, though it does feel there's room for many things to go wrong 🌏

Mongabay@mongabay.com · 4mo ago

Can paying people to photograph wildlife save species? KehatiKu, a program in Indonesian Borneo, is testing this model by paying citizens to log sightings. While the app has collected 175,000 records in its first year, experts question if financial incentives can sustain long-term conservation.

'climate eclipsed other environmental concerns such as land, water, wildlife, and local pollution; “climate” conceptually swallowed “environment.”' So many good points in this commentary that retrace 30 years of narrative drift in the environmental movement 🌏

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 3mo ago

The environmental movement today is ill-equipped to respond to President Trump—and if the movement “ever hopes to regain the power and purpose it once had,” its followers need to find nature again, John W. Reid argues.

Conservation rules, tourism and the disappearance of nomadism may paradoxically increase human-bear conflicts in Tibet. A level of nuance and balance rarely found in articles on conservation, by 猫盟 (Chinese Felid Conservation Alliance/CFCA) mp.weixin.qq.com/s/NT9ox6_6YF... (use auto-translate) 🌏

藏马熊的问题是一个共性的问题|论被忽视的藏地新旧秩序的失衡的问题

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“Once they got faith in us, we couldn’t get rid of them. I mean, they just would not stop killing.” magazine.atavist.com/2026/san-lui...

The Undercover Agent Who Posed as a Taxidermist to Bust Colorado's Worst Poachers

The San Luis Valley was a wildlife poacher’s paradise. Then George Morrison arrived.

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A MUST READ: "..Images now move fluidly across platforms and contexts that the photographer may never have anticipated.. Ethical responsibility does not end at publication; it evolves as images continue to circulate.” institute.aljazeera.net/en/ajr/artic...

The Afterlife of an Image: How Photojournalism Contests Shape Visibility and Responsibility

As photojournalism contests elevate certain images to global prominence, they also influence how violence, dignity, and memory are constructed in the public imagination.

institute.aljazeera.net

Another bird species, the Timor green pigeon, is at risk of going extinct due to hunting, with less than 500 individuals remaining. phys.org/news/2026-05... 📷 Remains of a different green pigeon found hunted in Phnom Kulen NP, Cambodia 🌏 #birds

"Journalists cited risks including intimidation, restricted access to information and reporting sites, legal threats, online harassment and physical violence. Many linked these risks to coverage of sensitive topics such as deforestation, land conflicts, climate issues and Indigenous rights."

CamboJA News (ខេមបូចា ព័ត៌មាន)@cambojanews.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Most journalists surveyed in Cambodia who cover environmental issues feel unsafe and fear intimidation, a report by the Cambodian Journalists Alliance Association (CamboJA) said on Thursday.

98% of all recent environmental claims and commitments from the world’s largest meat and dairy companies can be categorized as “greenwashing”, or intentionally misleading. www.eurekalert.org/news-release... 🌎

The manospere hates tofu www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

Women are testing men's tofu tolerance. Here's why

Hate tofu? Some women think it's a sign of toxic masculinity.

usatoday.com

"killing wolves in Alaska leads to increased numbers of moose, who then eat greater numbers of deciduous plants that are replaced by flammable conifers, leading to bigger and hotter fires" Quick & neat read on the complex interplay of species through chemicals www.lukasguides.com/the-phytoche... 🌎

The Phytochemical Landscape

We are all just repackaged plant chemistry

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This hidden tragedy can be prevented. If you care about marine life, join the record against the needless loss of life caused by non-selective fishing:

Take a stand against destructive bycatch: Join now.

I just supported ClientEarth's campaign to stop the needless loss of life caused by non-selective fishing. Together, we can use the law to stand against destructive bycatch. Will you join me?

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⚠️We're taking France to court to protect seabirds from unselective fishing. Every year, 30-40,000 birds are caught in fishing gear and discarded into the ocean. We think that French authorities failed to monitor and protect them - breaching multiple EU laws, like the Birds and Habitats Directives.