Authorities say loss of livelihoods and diverted attention led to a surge in illegal activities during the pandemic-induced lockdown

African Swine Flu, highly contagious, with no vaccine, no cure, and has decimated pig populations in East and Southeast Asia has reached India’s northeast, possibly through carcasses floating down from China

Countries along the Bay of Bengal have finalised their EEZs, but in the absence of active cooperation, fishers continue to be jailed in other countries while overfishing continues

Fisheries markets collapsed in the first days of the lockdown, impoverishing hundreds of thousands of small fishers, and recovery is nowhere in sight

Through conservation efforts and the promotion of aviculture in Pakistan, Asia’s largest pheasantry is successfully rearing endangered species of pheasants

If authorities do not act fast, the Indus delta will cease to exist, spurring mass migration and huge ecological consequences

Evidence from western China’s Sichuan province shows people protected local biodiversity by keeping forests mixed and meadows open

Two researchers who walked along a 270-km stretch of the Betwa river found that, despite promises of rehabilitation, nearby villagers have lost agricultural livelihood due to the construction of dams

Farmers in Pakistan’s Hazara belt suffer huge losses as wild boars, migrating due to warmer weather, eat their way through cultivated crop and uproot vegetation

Despite limited facilities in Nepal’s only zoo, authorities are refusing to send a rescued sloth bear to India, citing the ‘nationality’ of the bear