Michael Standaert is a writer and journalist based in Shenzhen, China where he works as a correspondent for Bloomberg Environment. Besides Mongabay, he has also recently contributed to YaleEnvironment360, MIT Technology Review, Al Jazeera and The Guardian. He has been living in China since 2007 and has covered stories here and throughout Southeast Asia.
‘Not a pretty picture’: South China’s forests vanish as tree farms move in
The low rolling hills west of Nanning are almost entirely covered with eucalyptus plantations. The airy trees, like large arrows stuck into the earth, seem to go on forever, snaking…
