Philip Jacobson

Scores of Indonesians have been criminally prosecuted for slash-and-burn farming in the past few years, according to this new article I worked on based on a review of online court records and interviews across the island of Borneo. Check it out here: news.mongabay.com/2023/12/tradit…

For years, schools in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, have been serving an endangered shark species to their students. @Ocean_ORN Fellow @philjacobius and @Rainforest_RIN Fellow @nandawenzel uncover how this happened. Learn more in this story for #Mongabay. bit.ly/3Hwc6zF

Brazil is serving shark meat in thousands of schools, hospitals, prisons and other institutions, raising serious concerns. A report by @Ocean_ORN Fellow @philjacobius, @Rainforest_RIN Fellow @karlamendes and Pulitzer Center's @kuangkeng for #Mongabay. bit.ly/40EuQ6E

File under: anonymously owned companies as a tool for corruption #Mauritius theguardian.com/news/2024/sep/…

Check out Gerry and Andy's stories here: news.mongabay.com/2023/07/forest… And the Indonesia fires piece, done with @aseantypahlevi, @hans_nich, Yusie Marie and M Rahim Arza, here: news.mongabay.com/2023/12/tradit…

Nice to see Mongabay get a de facto honorable mention from the 2024 Osborn Elliott Prize. We submitted my colleague @geraldrflynn's/@andyball's exposé of illegal logging in Cambodia's garment sector and an investigation I worked on about fires in Indonesia asiasociety.org/outlaw-ocean-p…

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 news.mongabay.com/2024/06/mongab…

@AnthonyIrwinLA These guys aren't journalists, they're information mercenaries

The reality is, neither Shams or Woj's stories really make sense. Woj saying it was always Hurley didn't track because the Lakers wouldn't have waited a month to finally interview a candidate of that importance. Shams now saying it's always only been between JJ and Borrego doesn't make sense because the Lakers literally flew Hurley out and made him an offer. The reality is, JJ was seen as the favorite initially but had to wait until after the Finals. In the time that they had to wait, the Lakers made a run at Hurley. It didn't work out and now they're picking the conversation back up with Redick.

Electric fences an emerging threat to Sumatra's dwindling wild elephant population, @MongabayID's Teguh Suprayitno reports news.mongabay.com/2024/06/death-…

A few months back, we rode #Mexico's #TrenMaya in search of deforestation and other environmental harm. Check out our video to see what we found. @MongabayOrg youtube.com/watch?v=RMeui4…

We basically stole @ejfoundation's investigative methodology to do this investigation, worked like a charm 😀

Next Tuesday, learn how to gain leads, use platforms, and structure your IUU fishing reporting with @Ocean_ORN Fellow @philjacobius, @ejfoundation's @steventrent, and @GlobalFishWatch experts @SBladen & Adel Heenan. Still time to register 👉 bit.ly/3RcmkHh

Haven't read this yet, but an extensive new report on threats to environmental journalists around the world ipi.media/new-ipi-report…

Eat, pray, love.... money launder? abc.net.au/news/2024-02-1…

The cost of an Indonesian presidential campaign is estimated at $190m yet the three campaigns claim to have received just $11m, $1.9m and $250k - useful roundup of the business interests (and presumed dark money financiers) behind them by @marcustantau: indonesiaweekly.substack.com/p/indonesian-p…

In this piece by @philjacobius, he reveals that scores of Indonesians have been criminally prosecuted for slash-and-burn farming in the past few years, based on a review of online court records and interviews across the island of Borneo. buff.ly/4arWzKU

Video profile of Sarijan, one of the small farmers highlighted in our piece about Indonesia's crackdown on slash-and-burn agriculture: news.mongabay.com/2023/12/video-…

@jokowi @MongabayID There's a lot more in the article - infographics, photos, you can review all the cases in our data. Check it out here: news.mongabay.com/2023/12/tradit…

@jokowi @MongabayID The fires are genuinely terrible and Indonesia is right to try to suppress them. But experts we interviewed called for a more targeted fire policy that differentiates between kinds of actors and helps traditional farmers find alternatives to burning rather than locking them up.

Scores of Indonesians have been criminally prosecuted for slash-and-burn farming in the past few years, according to this new article I worked on based on a review of online court records and interviews across the island of Borneo. Check it out here: news.mongabay.com/2023/12/tradit…