Claire Turrell

Claire Turrell

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Claire Turrell is a freelance journalist based in Singapore. Her work has been published by US News, National Geographic, Harper's BAZAAR and the BBC. Find her latest articles and thoughts on Twitter via @turrell_claire.

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The StAR Project, which has been breeding and releasing Indo-Pacific leopard sharks in Indonesia, has now opened a nursery in Phuket.

Conservationists raise sharks to restore reefs in waters around Thailand

Claire Turrell 18 Jul 2025
The Paduka community cooking for visitors.

Villagers in Sumatra bring ancient forest flavors back to the table

Claire Turrell 5 Jun 2025
Fish in Samoa.

Samoa’s new marine spatial plan protects 30% of the country’s ocean

Claire Turrell 4 Jun 2025

Singapore biobank offers backup plan for pangolins

Claire Turrell 10 Apr 2025
Conservationist Wayan Wardika in the farm.

A Bali farm lights up the night with a one-of-a-kind firefly lab

Claire Turrell 23 Dec 2024
Nets, ropes, buoys and other bits of fishing equipment bursting out of decaying bags.

Startups replace plastics with mushrooms in the seafood industry

Claire Turrell 29 Oct 2024
Benjakitti Forest Park

Bangkok turns to urban forests to beat worsening floods

Claire Turrell 10 Sep 2024
A rainbow lorikeet

Indigenous people and NGO grow a wildlife corridor in the world’s oldest rainforest

Claire Turrell 30 May 2024
A blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus).

The ex-shark fishermen teaching schoolkids how to protect the environment

Claire Turrell 15 Dec 2023
A farmer in a rice paddy field.

Bali rice experiment cuts greenhouse gas emissions and increases yields

Claire Turrell 11 Aug 2023
A dog from the K9 Unit undergoing training with test bags that resemble luggage bags on a conveyer belt.

In Singapore, a forensics lab wields CSI-like tech against wildlife traffickers

Claire Turrell 20 May 2022
Wild bison, taking over Europe and North America, will once again roam England

Wild bison, taking over Europe and North America, will once again roam England

Claire Turrell 31 Mar 2022

From the ocean floor, a startup livestreams the rise of coral cities

Claire Turrell 10 Nov 2021
Grey-headed fish eagle. Image by David Li.

Singapore embarks on a million-tree planting spree to protect its future

Claire Turrell 9 Oct 2020

On a mega reserve in Laos, rescued moon bears find a new home

Claire Turrell 7 Apr 2020

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Gold mine in the Dimonika Biosphere Reserve, the Republic of the Congo
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