Conservation Captive elephant tourism in Asia: Hope for Asian elephants or a threat? December 10, 2019 0 Image Credit: Thai Elephant, Dave Bezaire Flickr; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 Written by Jan Schmidt-Burbach. Malee, a 25-year-old female Asian elephant, is using her trunk…
Climate Change The effects of tourism on animal welfare in Asia November 4, 2019 0 Image Credit: Bear and elephant show, Malingering /Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NV-ND 2.0 Written by David Fennell. Scholars estimate that there are 120 billion animals that…
Conservation Deforestation, climate change and indigenous people October 2, 2019 0 Image credit:fuel wood-charcoal by rosamariavidal/Flickr, Licence:CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 . Written by Patricia Blazey Addressing climate change is a complex problem that does not just depend…
Burma/Myanmar The deforestation dilemma in Myanmar September 30, 2019 0 Image credit: inle_lake_049 by WorldSketchingTour/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Win Myo Thu. Deforestation is a widely discussed topic in Myanmar, although it is not…
Asia The dull edge of extinction: Dholes as an absent presence in Jehirul Hussain’s ‘Raang Kukuror Tupi’ June 27, 2019 0 ‘…it is not only species that are becoming extinct but also the words, phrases, and gestures of human solidarity.’ Félix Guattari in The Three Ecologies…
Business Patterns in politics on palm oil June 7, 2019 0 Written by Otto Hospes. Image Credit: Oil palm by CIFOR/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The recent controversy between Indonesia and the EU over the revised EU Renewable Energy Directive…
Business Reconciling conflicting visions of ‘sustainable palm oil’ June 6, 2019 0 Written by Rory Padfield. Image Credit: Truck filled with oil palm by CIFOR/Flickr, licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Diplomatic relations between the EU and the major…
Conservation Palm Oil Futures: Youth Perceptions in Indonesia June 5, 2019 1 Written by Ratih Indraswari, Stanislaus Risadi Apresian, Adam Tyson, Helena Varkkey and Shofwan Al Banna Choiruzzad. Image Credit to the authors. In 2006 Indonesia became…
Conservation The complex socioeconomic impacts of the oil palm expansion in Indonesia June 4, 2019 0 Written by Christoph Kubitza. Image Credit: Oil palm harvesting by CIFOR/Flickr, licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The global demand for palm oil over the last few…
China How the grassroots initiatives will shape Taiwan’s environmental future April 24, 2018 0 Written by Ming-sho Ho. Since taking office in May 2016, Tsai Ing-wen has launched an ambitious campaign to restructure Taiwan’s energy portfolio for the dual…
