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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A flowering tea plant in Vietnam. Photo via Pixabay.

New tea plant discoveries in Vietnam highlight vitality of protected areas

Michael Tatarski 3 Aug 2018
Khanh Nguy Thi. Photo courtesy Goldman Environmental Prize.

Vietnam’s first Goldman Prize winner pushes for energy conservation

Michael Tatarski 29 May 2018
A farmer feeds elephant grass to his horses in Cao Bang Province, planted so farmers don't send their livestock to graze inside a nearby protected forest. Photo by Michael Tatarski/Mongabay.

Environmental reporting in Vietnam often a comedy of errors

Michael Tatarski 30 Jan 2018
A fish die off from chemical spill in Vietnam in 2016. Photo via Maisondelinspir.

Citizen journalist jailed 7 years for reporting environmental disaster in Vietnam

Michael Tatarski 1 Dec 2017
A mushroom in China. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Harsh sentence for blogger may haunt Vietnam’s environmental movement

Michael Tatarski 3 Aug 2017
A sign directs logging trucks to timber depots set up along the Vietnamese border with Cambodia. Photo courtesy of EIA.

Vietnam pledges to investigate massive illegal logging violations as international pressure grows

Michael Tatarski 31 May 2017
Maps and charts display information for teams to use as they plan the route of a new road. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Experts explore sustainable infrastructure amid major development needs

Michael Tatarski 23 May 2017
Trekkers don headlamps and helmets at one of Hang En's entrances. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Son Doong Cave: Tourism and conservation coexist in one of Vietnam’s largest national parks

Michael Tatarski 16 May 2017
Arevs in O'Tabok, Virachey National Park, Cambodia Feb 2017. Photo courtesy of EIA.

New report details enormous corruption, illegal logging along Vietnamese border with Cambodia

Michael Tatarski 8 May 2017
A passerby looks at a picture that is part of a campaign to save the rhino in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Graffiti campaign brings rhino conservation message to urban Vietnam

Michael Tatarski 12 Apr 2017
A tea kettle boils atop a TK90 stove provided by FFI Vietnam. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay

Efficient stoves and elephant grass aid primate conservation in northern Vietnam

Michael Tatarski 9 Feb 2017
Carved rosewood furniture. Photo by Jane Tan Kok/Pixabay

Vietnamese luxury wooden furniture makers feel pain of regulations and deforestation

Michael Tatarski 26 Jan 2017
A small village nestled in the Ha Giang province in Vietnam near the border with China. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Enforcement, development and education define efforts to save Vietnam’s rare primates

Michael Tatarski 15 Jan 2017
A Son Tra banyan tree in Vietnam. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Vietnam’s forests on the upswing after years of recovery

Michael Tatarski, Shanti Johnson 11 Dec 2016
Typical landscape in Vietnam that's suitable for growing Coffea canephora. Photo by Michael Tatarski

Vietnam faces dilemma on forests as climate change threatens coffee crops

Michael Tatarski 1 Dec 2016

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