Virunga national park, situated in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo is home to half of all of the species found on the African continent. It is also one of the last remaining strongholds of the mountain gorilla, containing around 200 of the 800 or so mountain […]
A bit of a bumble into the world of fiction. In 2015, in the build-up to the Paris Climate Summit, I wrote a short story. It ended up winning the Booker Prize Foundation Universities Initiative Short Story Prize, which I remember being pretty chuffed about back at the time, […]
This book is an eye-opener. It tracks the tale of how the former governor of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, Taib, built up a family empire rooted in the destruction of rainforests. As the kingpin of the timber mafia, the book discusses how Taib and his family have profiteered to […]
In Indonesia and Malaysia, hungrily expanding oil-palm plantations are swallowing pristine jungles. In the Brazilian Amazon, cattle-ranching has chewed up an area of forest the size of Italy in just 22 years. In Madagascar, an explosion in sapphire mining is nibbling away at natural treasures. Now, we can pinpoint with increasing certainty a […]