Environment
The New Black Gold
Farmers eagerly host these furry guests in their orchards and collect their excrement – Cambodia’s answer to manure
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Environment
Grub’s Up!
Insects have been eaten throughout Asia for thousands of years. Now, environmentalists are hoping that entomophagy goes global.
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Environment
To Feed or Not to Feed?
As another whale-shark-feeding destination crops up, we explore this controversial industry that brings fishermen jobs but puts the sharks at risk.
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Environment
Unfinished Business
With an estimated 100 million sharks slaughtered every year, we take a look at how countries’ practices and policies are impacting the shark fin trade in Asia.
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Care, Environment
A Sustainable Safety Net
Net-Works is an innovative initiative that empowers people in coastal communities to collect and sell discarded nylon fishing nets – with fantastic environmental benefits
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Culture, Environment
Ghost Nets of the Ocean
Huge fishing vessels pipe through the Torres Strait every day, casting their nets and reeling in the bounty. But yet more net drifts along the coast, forgotten but for the animals that become ensnared in it, and the islanders whose paradise wanes with the ocean’s suffering. Rising to the call, these ambassadors have woven their message of conservation into stunning works of art.
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Environment
The Change Makers
Explorer Tim Jarvis recalls getting lost in the bush in Malaysia at the age of 12, and finding his way home by walking east towards the coast. “I always carried a compass with me. I remember finding my way through a section of jungle in Johor, and it gave me a real sense of satisfaction having done that. That feeling of resourcefulness that you can negotiate the outdoors with a bit of skill and self-reliance really stuck with me.”
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Care, Environment
The Elephant in the Room
The size of the human population – currently at an estimated 7.4 billion people – sets the scale of human behaviour and its concomitant environmental impact. According to a United Nations report, the human population could reach 9.7 billion by 2050, and over 11 billion by 2100, but it could be anywhere between 6.7 billion at the low end, and over 16 billion at the high end.
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