Michael Tatarski

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Michael Tatarski is a freelance journalist based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has covered travel, society, culture, tech and the environment for a variety of publications. Find him on Twitter @miketatarski

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Saltwater crocodile

Tien Hai reserve saved from development in win for nature in Vietnam

Michael Tatarski 11 Mar 2024

An ‘aquatic moonshot’ in Vietnam aims to fight livestock methane with seaweed

Michael Tatarski 11 Oct 2023
A black-headed ibis

Tien Hai Nature Reserve latest battleground in Vietnam’s push for development

Michael Tatarski 22 Sep 2023

New study finds that minority of animals host majority of zoonotic viruses

Michael Tatarski 5 Aug 2021

Camera trap pics of rare species in Vietnam raise conservation hopes

Michael Tatarski 24 Jun 2021

‘Drastic forest development’: Vietnam to plant 1 billion trees — but how?

Michael Tatarski 20 May 2021

At Vietnam’s southern tip, mangroves defend the land from the encroaching sea

Michael Tatarski 28 Apr 2021
A small village nestled in the Ha Giang province in Vietnam near the border with China. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Sexual harassment rife in Vietnam’s conservation sector, survey reveals

Michael Tatarski 25 Nov 2020

Vietnam conservation regulations improving, but much work remains

Michael Tatarski 7 Oct 2020

Vietnam creates new nature reserve, possible home to elusive ‘Asian unicorn’

Michael Tatarski 29 Sep 2020

Discovery of threatened species drives bid to protect Vietnam forest

Michael Tatarski 1 Sep 2020

Anticipated new restrictions on wildlife trade in Vietnam fall short of a ban

Michael Tatarski 30 Jul 2020

Vietnamese agribusiness firm HAGL accused of clearing indigenous land in Cambodia

Michael Tatarski 15 Jun 2020

Vietnam wildlife trade ban appears to flounder amid coronavirus success

Michael Tatarski 25 May 2020

China held water back from drought-stricken Mekong countries, report says

Michael Tatarski 30 Apr 2020

Campaigners call for transparency in Myanmar timber trade after 850 tons of wood seized

Michael Tatarski 28 Apr 2020

A vital mangrove forest hidden in Vietnam’s largest city could be at risk

Michael Tatarski 21 Apr 2020
Part of anti-trafficking campaign in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Vietnam considers wildlife trade ban in response to coronavirus pandemic

Michael Tatarski 18 Mar 2020

Coronavirus outbreak hits Vietnam’s timber sector

Michael Tatarski 24 Feb 2020
Experts fear that international markets will close their doors to Peru due to illegal timber. Photo courtesy of the Environmental Research Agency (EIA).

U.S. lumber company found importing high-risk Peruvian timber

Michael Tatarski 23 Jan 2020

From scorpion skewers to cricket flour, bug protein is becoming big business

Michael Tatarski 3 Jan 2020
Part of anti-trafficking campaign in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

The challenges of campaigning against wildlife trafficking in Vietnam

Michael Tatarski 1 Aug 2019
Mekong River landscape. Image by WWF-Cambodia.

As Cambodia swelters, climate-change suspicion falls on deforestation

Michael Tatarski 17 Jun 2019
Ca phe sua da on sale for 65 cents from a cart on the side of the road near Ho Chi Minh City's downtown. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Innovative methods could transform Vietnam’s robusta farms into carbon sinks

Michael Tatarski 13 Jun 2019
The youngest Cat Ba langur, which was recorded last week, sits with its mother atop a limestone tower, while a juvenile langur climbs nearby. Photo by Neahga Leonard for the Cat Ba Langur Conservation Project.

On one island, a microcosm of Vietnam’s environmental challenges

Michael Tatarski 22 Apr 2019
A butterfly in the forests of Vietnam. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Questions remain as Vietnam reaches major REDD+ milestone

Michael Tatarski 1 Apr 2019
Hiking through the tiny village of Doong in central Vietnam's Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Vietnam a challenging yet rewarding country for environmental reporting (insider)

Michael Tatarski 17 Mar 2019
Anti-wildlife-trafficking statues at Minh Dang Quang Buddhist Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, one of the pagodas included in the campaign. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Graphic anti-wildlife-trafficking campaign tackles Vietnam’s pangolin problem

Michael Tatarski 14 Feb 2019
Hiking through the tiny village of Doong in central Vietnam's Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Current threats and future hopes for the greater Mekong’s mangroves

Michael Tatarski 30 Jan 2019

Vietnam-EU legal timber agreement signed, but much work remains

Michael Tatarski 13 Nov 2018
Duong Le feeds shrimp on his intensive shrimp farm in Long An Province, Vietnam. Image by Zoe Osborne for Mongabay.

New climate change report highlights grave dangers for Vietnam

Michael Tatarski 30 Oct 2018
A flower in Vietnam. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Vietnamese environmental blogger ‘Mother Mushroom’ suddenly released from prison

Michael Tatarski 18 Oct 2018

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