Articles by Tom Fawthrop
A London-born author, journalist and film-maker, Tom Fawthrop has extensively covered the developing world during the last three decades and lived mostly in South-East Asia. He has been a regular SE Asia contributor for the Guardian/the Economist in the UK & many online media during his 30 + years living in Phnom Penh, Manila and Chiang Mai Thailand. In East Timor in 1999, he witnessed the burning and pillaging of the capital Dili, after a referendum that bravely voted for independence from Indonesia’s annexation reporting for the Guardian UK, DPA German news agency and the Melbourne Age. His films on Mekong include “Where Have All the Fish Gone?’2013 & “Killing the Mekong Dam by Dam.” 2018 (All his films are available as DVDs from [email protected]) The co-author of one of the first books about the region’s first international justice tribunal here in Cambodia titled ‘Getting away with Genocide? Elusive Justice & the Khmer Rouge Tribunal” (Pluto Press UK), it was published in 2004. In 1989 he produced and directed a documentary for the Channel 4 in the UK Dreams & Nightmares –filmed inside Cambodia ten Years after the ouster of the Pol Pot regime. His environmental work has prompted to many invitations to deliver lectures and film screenings from universities and colleges in the region including Panasastra University Phnom Penh, NUS Singapore, Tu Duc University Ho Chi Minh City, Chulalungkorn /CMU universities in Thailand, East Anglia and Kings College London Universities in the UK.Tom Fawthrop can be contacted email:[email protected]
In Laos, a ‘very dangerous dam’ threatens an ancient world heritage site
Special series
Forest Trackers
- ‘We just want to be left in peace’: In Brazil’s Amazon, soy ambitions loom over Indigenous land
- Deforestation continues in Kenya’s largest water capturing forest, satellites show
- Drug trafficking imperils national park and Indigenous reserves in the Peruvian Amazon
- Indonesia’s besieged Tesso Nilo National Park hit hard by yet more deforestation, satellites show
Oceans
- Lethal or not? Australia’s beaches are a crucible for shark control methods
- Is ocean iron fertilization back from the dead as a CO₂ removal tool?
- Dominica set to open world’s first reserve centered around sperm whales
- ‘Very good progress’ but nothing firm as deep-sea mining rules are hashed out
Amazon Conservation
- Study links pesticides to child cancer deaths in Brazilian Amazon & Cerrado
- Amazon drought: Much damage still to come (commentary)
- Amazon recovery offers hope of big rewards but poses equally big challenges
- The Amazon’s archaeology of hope: Q&A with anthropologist Michael Heckenberger
Land rights and extractives
- Australia crackdown on climate protesters grows amid fight against gas project
- Study: Despite armed conflicts, Indigenous lands have better environment quality
- Indigenous community fighting a mine in Palawan wins a milestone legal verdict
- Son of slain Quilombola leader will still strive for community’s rights
Endangered Environmentalists
- Vietnamese environmentalist sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion
- Son of slain Quilombola leader will still strive for community’s rights
- Video: Five Tembé Indigenous activists shot in Amazonian ‘palm oil war’
- Indigenous activists demand justice after 5 shot in Amazonian ‘palm oil war’
Indonesia's Forest Guardians
- In Borneo, the ‘Power of Mama’ fight Indonesia’s wildfires with all-woman crew
- Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesia’s Gorontalo
- After 20 years and thousands of trees planted, Kalimantan’s veteran forester persists
- Aziil Anwar, Indonesian coral-based mangrove grower, dies at 64
Conservation Effectiveness
- Forest restoration can fare better with human helping hand, study shows
- From rat-ridden to reserve, Redonda is an island restoration role model
- Video: Rice as a peace offering in India’s human-elephant conflict capital
- Group certification helps Malaysia’s Sabah aim for palm oil sustainability
Southeast Asian infrastructure
- Indonesia’s new capital ‘won’t sacrifice the environment’: Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri
- Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation rules
- To build its ‘green’ capital city, Indonesia runs a road through a biodiverse forest
- Robust river governance key to restoring Mekong River vitality in face of dams