Articles by Ashley Stumvoll
Ashley is a recent graduate of University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana Fellowship in Global Journalism. After finishing her Master of Research in Tropical Forest Ecology at Imperial College London, she realized that she preferred amplifying the reach of conservation through writing to conducting on-the-ground research. Ashley had fallen in love with the tropics as a young teen when she was given the chance to travel to the Peruvian Amazon, and has since been taking every opportunity to venture closer to the equator. Her time as an undergraduate at Emory University took her back to the same location in Peru and solidified her interest in tropical conservation. Her academic career took her around the globe to countries like Trinidad and Tobago, Panama, Malaysia and Madagascar. As a fledgling journalist, Ashley now hopes to bring others to these places through her work and to help readers reach a greater understanding of the environmental issues facing our world. Ashley is equally passionate about conservation in her native ecosystem in the Piedmont region and has a special affinity for native salamanders and oak trees. At her home in North Carolina, she enjoys trying new scone recipes, reading most of one book and then starting another one, and getting distracted from work by the bird feeder outside her office window.
Creation of three new northern white rhinos embryos may indicate hope for other rhino species
Swarm technology: Researchers experiment with drones to battle crop pests
Shift to renewable energy could have biodiversity cost, researchers caution
How climate change could throw Māori culture off-balance
Radio drama encourages Belizean fishers to follow the rules
Deforested habitats leave migratory birds ill-prepared for journey north
Fishery on the brink: The fight to save the Nassau grouper
Grasshoppers: They come, they eat, they … pollinate?
Special series
Forest Trackers
- Bolivia’s El Curichi Las Garzas protected area taken over by land-grabbers
- Authorities struggle to protect Bolivian national park from drug-fueled deforestation
- Poverty and plantations: Nigerian reserve struggles against the odds
- Logging, road construction continue to fuel forest loss in Papua New Guinea
Oceans
- Fewer fish and more rules lead to illegal catches, Italian fishers say
- Fishing by dodgy fleets hurts economies, jobs in developing countries: Report
- Warming seas push India’s fishers into distant, and more dangerous, waters
- No protection from bottom trawling for seamount chain in northern Pacific
Amazon Conservation
- Deforestation haunts top Peruvian reserve and its Indigenous communities
- Amid record-high fires across the Amazon, Brazil loses primary forests
- A web of front people conceals environmental offenders in the Amazon
- Brazil boosts protection of Amazon mangroves with new reserves in Pará state
Land rights and extractives
- Women weave a culture of resistance and agroecology in Ecuador’s Intag Valley
- Hyundai ends aluminum deal with Adaro Minerals following K-pop protest
- Brazil’s illegal gold trade takes a hammering, but persists underground
- Maluku bone collector unearths troubling consequence of coastal abrasion
Endangered Environmentalists
- Indonesian activists face jail over FB posts flagging damage to marine park
- 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’
Indonesia's Forest Guardians
- Fenced in by Sulawesi national park, Indigenous women make forestry breakout
- 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
Conservation Effectiveness
- The conservation sector must communicate better (commentary)
- Thailand tries nature-based water management to adapt to climate change
- Forest restoration to boost biomass doesn’t have to sacrifice tree diversity
- How scientists and a community are bringing a Bornean river corridor back to life
Southeast Asian infrastructure
- Study: Indonesia’s new capital city threatens stable proboscis monkey population
- 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