When we think of wars or political volatility, we understandably think of the immediate toll this has on humans. Wildlife conservation, on the other hand, is easier to think of as a separate sphere of activities, concerned with planting nice trees or picking up beach-side plastic. But this is not […]
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 […]
About me: I am a conservation scientist and writer particularly interested in how we can navigate growing consumption with the protection of wildlife and wild places around the world. My fieldwork has mostly taken place in tropical rainforests, from the Colombian Andes to the lowland rainforests of Borneo. In early […]