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Isabel Esterman

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Isabel Esterman

    Philippine eagle habitat study maps mining risks and conservation priorities (opens the original)

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    A new study mapping the likely nesting habitats of the iconic Philippine eagle in its main stronghold warns that the threat of habitat loss — a key driver of its disappearance across much of its range — still looms large for the critically endangered species. The study, published in Bird Conservation International, shows that approved mining concessions overlap with 41% of highly suitable nesting habitat and 65% of its core areas in eastern Mindanao, the Philippines’ southernmost and second-larg

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Isabel Esterman

    Despite a drop in deforestation in 2025, forest losses pile up in the Mekong (opens the original)

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    BANGKOK — Over the course of 2025, the Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost a combined 746,168 hectares (1.8 million acres) of tree cover, an area roughly equivalent to the size of the Bangkok Metropolitan Area, according to Mongabay’s analysis*. Data published by the Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) laboratory at the […]

  3. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Isabel Esterman

    Planned US tech hub in Philippines hit over environmental and Indigenous land concerns (opens the original)

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    MANILA — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. arrived at the Grand Hyatt Manila on Sept. 10 to address hundreds of foreign business representatives assembled for the Luzon Economic Corridor investors’ forum. Outside the hotel, hundreds of demonstrators had also gathered, carrying signs that read “No to Pax Silica!” The scene reflected both the government’s ambitious plans to ride the artificial intelligence wave, and deep ambivalence in civil society. Police confronted the crowd, shoving th

  4. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Isabel Esterman

    Logging still threatens Bornean forest once envisioned as an Indigenous-led peace park (opens the original)

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    A conservation park that Indigenous communities from the Malaysian state of Sarawak believed they could co-manage and self-govern has been transformed into a timber concession and stripped of critical tree cover, according to a recently published report. A group of civil society organizations based in Malaysia and abroad launched the report, “Plundering the Baram Peace Park,” with a press conference in Kuala Lumpur on Aug. 27, calling on other NGOs and the Malaysian government to recognize the l

  5. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · Isabel Esterman

    A rare slow loris may have a much larger population in China than scientists thought (opens the original)

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    Plump, fuzzy and venomous, with wide eyes, a button nose and sharp teeth, northern pygmy slow lorises were thought to reside almost exclusively in Vietnam and Laos. However, new research has documented 98 of the endangered primates in Guangxi, China, in what could be the country’s largest known population of the species. The finding, published in the journal Integrative Zoology by researchers at Guangxi Normal University, expands the known range of the nocturnal primate and suggests that a subst

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