By Bhavani Prakash Update to this article on 4th March 2011. Based on the responses by readers and those whose opinions I have sought, I would advise readers to read the original blog entry below in the context of the next post: ”Responses: How effective are Garbage Enzymes?” where I make the introduction based on [...]
We split this blogpost into two parts. In the first part, Prerna Singh Bindra, well known conservationist from India talks about the politics and economics of saving the endangered tiger. The second part shows a behind-the-scenes video on the political haggling over endangered species at the CITES meeting in Doha, Qatar last year. Part I: [...]
by Bhavani Prakash Shailendra Yashwant is Campaign Director of Greenpeace Southeast Asia and founding member of the Greenpeace offices in India and Southeast Asia. The Southeast Asia office manages about 120 staff including campaigners and fund raisers. Based in Bangkok, Yashwant currently oversees a range of campaigns including climate change, renewable energy, forests, clean water [...]
by Bhavani Prakash It is not every day that one bumps into a polar explorer in sunny, tropical Singapore. Pen Hadow, Project Leader of the Catlin Arctic Survey team was in town recently as a speaker, at the first ever Climate Change Seminar for the Asian Insurance Industry. He talked about how the rapidly disappearing Arctic sea [...]
