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Recent Posts
- I’ve moved!
- The last of the Greater Patagonian Trail update.
- Part 3: Puerto Ibañez to El Chaltén – Heading south in search of Mount Fitzroy
- Part 2: El Bolsón to Puerto Ibañez – hitching down the Carretera Austral, Patagonia proper & experiencing English weather
- Part 1: Coñaripe to El Bolsón – when we came close to starvation and started changing our plans
- The end of our expedition
- A month on trail
- Rekindling natural curiosities
Tag Archives: Biodiversity
What is a forest?
It’s such a simple question, everyone knows what a forest is. Or do they? I thought I knew, until I started my masters project. It is on deforestation hotspots, using a global satellite-derived dataset available from Google Earth. Unsurprisingly, I came across … Continue reading
Posted in Fact, Natural history, Opinion
Tagged Biodiversity, coding, computational, Conservation, Fieldwork, forests, MRes
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Keeping hopes high -valuing Singapore’s nature reserves over more infrastructure
It’s been 4 years since I left home to further my studies in the UK, and if I’m honest, I can feel the emotional connection to the place I call home getting weaker every year. In spite of advances in … Continue reading
Putting a value on the invaluable
Conservation, which I take to mean saving species from extinction (in the wild?), in its earliest earliest form involved protecting wild areas, usually from people (e.g. Yellowstone National Park). As we realised some really amazing and magnificent species were declining, we … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion
Tagged Biodiversity, Bukit Brown, Conservation, ecosystem services, valuing nature
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Looking for the past in the future?
After spending many years of saying I want to work in conservation and that I care about nature and wildlife, and the past year in Part II Zoology here, I think I finally got it clear in my head what … Continue reading
“Biodetrimentology” – the study of biodiversity loss
I think the word ‘conservation’ is too broad and means too many different things. Conservation is the act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; wise use. Conservation may refer to: Main usage: Conservation (ethic) of biodiversity, environment, and natural resources, including protection … Continue reading
Nature in Singapore
It’s the official opening of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in Singapore tomorrow (18 April 2015)! The first and only natural history museum in Singapore, I’m gutted I won’t be around/be able to visit till many months later, … Continue reading
Posted in Natural history, Opinion, Talk
Tagged ACRES, activism, Animals, AVA, Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecolit, Education, Governance, JGIS, LKCNHM, Macritchie, NParks, Outreach, RMBR, Singapore, Team Seagrass, Toddycats, UK
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Sunset over Selungo: A film about the rainforest and the people
The Cambridge University Southeast Asian Forum (which I was on the committee for the past 1.5 years) hosted a film screening today, of a film titled Sunset over Selungo. Sunset over Selungo is set in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, … Continue reading
Posted in Talk
Tagged activism, Animals, Biodiversity, community, film, Malaysia, people, rainforest
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Tales from rocks.
Note: this is an edited version of a piece I wrote for a writing competition earlier. Comments/critiques welcome! One of the earliest known writing is the Sumerian cuneiform, dated about 3000 BC. The ancient Sumer civilisation was possibly the first … Continue reading
Posted in Fact, Natural history
Tagged Animals, Biodiversity, environment, extinction, geology, writing
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Spending summer vacation in the New World Tropics
Or, what you probably don’t want to do in your penultimate year vacation if you’re interested in a research career. I’m going into my third and final year in Natural Sciences (going to be specialising in Zoology) here in the … Continue reading
Posted in Natural history, Opinion, Outdoor activities, Walk
Tagged Animals, Bilsa, Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecology, Ecuador, Education, Fieldwork, Peru, Plants, South America, Villa Carmen, wildlife
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If we re-started time…
Note: This is a mild deviation from my usual posts (on nature and conservation). Was writing a geology essay entitled “Bivalves and brachiopods: ships that passed in the night. Discuss…” and so I thought why not blog about it as well. I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Natural history
Tagged Animals, Biodiversity, deep time, extinction, geology, Marine environment
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Nature rambles. 