

CITES Standing Committee 66, Geneva
(Photo Credit: Simon Chew) Sophie and I travelled to Geneva for the 66th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee, where dozens of country...
Fully funded PhD opportunity
What are the conservation and livelihood impacts of wildlife farming? PhD scholarship to explore illegal wildlife trade and suplly-side...


New home at the Lancaster Environment Centre
Following a few years in Indonesia, and 7 in Southeast Asia, I've made the transition to the Lancaster Environment Centre. I am really...
Perceptions of Indonesian peatland fires & haze
Presentation of early results from our collaborative project with Rachel Carmenta, Willy Daeli (CIFOR) and Aiora Zabala (Cambridge) on...


TRAFFIC Report "A blooming trade" makes policy recommendations for Asian orchid conservati
A Blooming Trade: Illegal trade of ornamental orchids in mainland Southeast Asia, was just released by TRAFFIC and the Center for...


Evaluating the conservation outcomes of wildlife farming: Your help collecting case studies and grey
Some proposals have suggested that wildlife farming, including the cultivation domestication and ranching of wild plants and animals, can...


Editorial in Indonesia's Kompas: Tackle transnational environmental crime
Opini saya di Koran Kompas PDF My editorial to Indonesia's Kompas newspaper, reproduced in English below (similar but not identical to...


Free trade and biodiversity
The past two decades have experienced a boom in trade deregulation. This year will see some of the largest such agreements, including...


Peatland fires and transboudnary haze
Part of CIFOR's ongoing work on peatland fires, Rachel Carmenta and I are leading part of the DFID-supported project, "Political...


New species in BBC, Guardian, Daily Mail....
WWF's Annual Magical Mekong Report features 139 new species descriptions from across the Greater Mekong Region, including 90 new plant...