

Workshop on illegal wildlife trade typologies
Duan Biggs (U Queensland and author of the controversial call to legalise African rhino horn trade) and Ted Webb (Natl. U Singapore)...


Illegal trade finds 2 new orchid species
Never before known to science, we recently found 2 new orchid species hidden amongst Thailand's illegal wild plant markets. Following...


Collaboration with Environmental Law Institute
Is anyone financially liable for the damages that result from illegal deforestation? I spent a week with Jay Pendergrass (law) and Carol...


SCB Asia 2014
The Society for Conservation Biology - Asia Section recently met for a conference in Melaka, Malaysia (19-22 Aug), which included talks...


Asia Pacific Centre for International Law, Singapore
The Asia-Pacific Center for International Law at the National University of Singpaore kindly hosted me for a discussion about...


Workshop on "Merging the ecosystem services framework and the sustainability paradigm towards a
I attended a workshop organised by Unai Pascual of the Basque Center for Climate Change (BC3) and Cambridge University on "Merging the...


Release of the first "State of the Tropics" report
My good friend and co-author, Dr. Dan Friess from the National University of Singapore and I attended the launch of the State of the...


Wang Gungwu Medal And Prize
I was awarded the 2014 Wang Gungyu Medal for best Ph.D. thesis in the natural sciences. My thesis involved multidisciplinary work on the...
Forest carbon, biodiversity and the promise of a green economy
I gave a Science@10 talk at CIFOR's headquarters in Bogor, Indonesia. Following the Forest Asia Summit, I questioned emerging optimism...
Interview with Pavan Sukhdev on forests and the green economy
During the Forest Asia Sumit in Jakarta, Indonesia, I had the opportunity to interview with Pavan Sukhdev. The CEO of GIST Advisory and...