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Philip Jacobson

Chiang Mai

Investigative Journalist at Mongabay

Journalist @mongabay. Covering the global shark trade under a @pulitzercenter fellowship in 2023-24. Lived in Indonesia for a while, now based in Thailand.

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  • 1 month ago | news.mongabay.com | Philip Jacobson

    Indonesian conservationist Rahayu Oktaviani, known for her work with Java’s silvery gibbon, received this year’s Whitley Award for achievements in grassroots conservation. The 50,000 British pound ($67,000) prize will be used to expand her foundation’s work carried out local communities near Gunung Halimun-Salak National Park in West Java province. Halimun-Salak is where up to half of the 4,000-4,500 silvery gibbons estimated to exist in the wild remain.

  • 2 months ago | news.mongabay.com | Philip Jacobson

    Environmental science and conservation news

  • 2 months ago | southafricatoday.net | Philip Jacobson

    A joint venture between Indonesia and state-owned Malaysia companies is constructing a network of dams in the Bulungan and Malinau districts of North Kalimantan, a sparsely populated Bornean province bordering the Malaysian state of Sarawak. The dams will generate 9,000 megawatts to power industry in the under-construction Kalimantan Industrial Park Indonesia in Bulungan district, a site the government hopes will be a global hub of solar panel and battery manufacture.

  • 2 months ago | news.mongabay.com | Philip Jacobson

    Southeast Asia’s clean-energy startups like Vietnam’s SmartSolar and Indonesia’s Swap Energi are expanding but face growing challenges due to waning government support and shifting global investment trends. U.S. and regional funding cuts, along with economic uncertainty and geopolitical shifts, are making it harder for renewable startups to secure long-term financing and scale their operations.

  • 2 months ago | southafricatoday.net | IQ Score |Philip Jacobson

    Police in Indonesia charged at least 11 people in the month of March with wildlife crimes after a tiger was butchered in Riau province and alleged traffickers were found with body parts in the semiautonomous province of Aceh. In West Sumatra province, conservation officials successfully trapped a young female tiger whose leg had previously been amputated, likely in a snare trap. Sumatran tigers are a critically endangered subspecies of tiger and fewer than 400 are believed to remain in the wild.

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Philip Jacobson
Philip Jacobson @philjacobius
22 Sep 24

File under: anonymously owned companies as a tool for corruption #Mauritius https://t.co/Au5vsiBjUb

Philip Jacobson
Philip Jacobson @philjacobius
25 Jun 24

25 years of Mongabay - we've grown from around 10 staff members when I joined in 2015 to more than 100 today. Not something a lot of news outlets these days can say https://t.co/kVVVi0GqbU

Philip Jacobson
Philip Jacobson @philjacobius
12 Jun 24

Electric fences an emerging threat to Sumatra's dwindling wild elephant population, @MongabayID's Teguh Suprayitno reports https://t.co/fYtbt07AzE