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A camera-trap study in one of Laos’s best-known ecotourism areas found fewer mammals beside the trekking routes. Here is what the evidence does and does not show, and what to look for in a trek operator. Nam Ha National Protected Area in northern Laos has run community-led treks and kayaking trips since the nineties, and
A practical guide to George Town, the clan jetties and Penang Hill, with current prices, transport and the one development worth watching. National Geographic has named Penang one of the 25 best places to travel to in 2027. According to Malay Mail, the state’s tourism committee says it is the only Southeast Asian entry on
The 2026 quota ran out in August, you must now enter on the date printed on your e-ticket, and walking in without one costs five times the normal fee. Planning to see the dragons before the year ends? Then the first thing you need is not a boat. It is a ticket for a named
The park reopened on 15 October after five months shut. The ticket, the sunscreen law and the choice of island all matter more than the choice of boat. More than 400,000 people visited the Similan Islands last season, and over 90% of them came from abroad. Tourism there brought in more than 215 million baht
A country-by-country guide to travelling the region from October to December, from the flooded central coast of Vietnam to Timor-Leste’s whale season Bangkok is wet again. This week the city’s drainage department reported standing water on five main road sections, and the Thai Meteorological Department expects isolated heavy to very heavy rain across the central
Thailand’s first national park has just hosted the launch of a hiking school programme built around leaving nothing behind. Here is what it means for your visit: which trails you can walk alone, how to behave around wild elephants, and when to go. Khao Yai will not let you walk four of its seven nature
The Lao capital is planning new routes, night-time shows and a city pass to turn a one-night stopover into a proper stay. Some of it you can use now. Some of it is still on paper. Updated 25 September 2026. This article was first published in December 2024, the week the Vientiane Heritage Route launched.
A third of the Javan rhino’s population disappeared from Ujung Kulon National Park before anyone noticed. Here’s the fuller story, and what’s actually left to protect. This month’s Anak Krakatau eruption made headlines for grounding flights and stranding travellers across Indonesia. A few kilometres across the Sunda Strait, it also drew attention back to Ujung
Six new ASEAN Heritage Parks were declared this week. What happens to them next depends on money nobody has fully worked out how to raise. There is a particular kind of conservation news that reads as an unambiguous win right up until you ask the second question. The first question, the one that made headlines
A new EU law bans vague sustainability claims from 27 September, applies to Southeast Asian hotels marketing to Europeans, and already has a real court case behind it. From 27 September, hotels marketing to European travellers can be fined for making sustainability claims they can’t back up. It’s a new EU law, the Empowering Consumers
A banned trade, a protected river, and the ambitious reclamation plan quietly depending on both. The Trapeang Rung River isn’t somewhere most people have heard of. It flows through Koh Kong province in southwest Cambodia, past mangroves and lowland forest, home to one of the world’s least understood otter species, the endangered hairy-nosed otter, before
A new certification scheme wants to separate genuine sustainability from the towel-reuse card on your pillow. I went looking for the detail behind the headline. [COVER IMAGE GOES HERE – set as WordPress Featured Image only, not embedded in body. Description: Dragon Bridge in Da Nang lit up at night during a fireworks display, editor-owned
