Philip Jacobson

Philip Jacobson

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Philip Jacobson is a senior editor and award-winning investigative journalist with Mongabay, where he has been on staff since 2015. Based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, he recently investigated the global shark trade as part of a yearlong Pulitzer Center fellowship on ocean journalism. Read his full bio here.

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Apay Janggut, also known as 'Bandi', and Kudi in the rumah betang or longhouse at Sungai Utik. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

New Indonesian law may make it harder to punish firms for haze-causing fires

Philip Jacobson 9 Oct 2020

Meet Indonesia’s go-to expert witness against haze-causing plantation firms

Philip Jacobson 23 Apr 2019

Revealed: Paper giant’s ex-staff say it used their names for secret company in Borneo

Philip Jacobson 10 Jul 2018

UN’s Tauli-Corpuz, accused of terrorism in her native Philippines, plans to keep investigating ‘atrocities’ against indigenous peoples at home

Philip Jacobson 20 Mar 2018

The military family that kept a pet orangutan in Indonesia

Philip Jacobson 29 Mar 2017

Q&A with Abdon Nababan, outgoing head of Indonesia’s indigenous peoples alliance

Philip Jacobson 13 Mar 2017

Airbus to marshal its satellites against deforestation

Philip Jacobson 12 Oct 2016

Revealed: Australian miner used arbitration threat to upend Indonesian environmental law

Philip Jacobson 15 Sep 2016
Illegal forest clearingfor oil palm in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

How is Indonesian president Jokowi doing on environmental issues?

Philip Jacobson 12 Jun 2016

Inside Indonesia’s highest-profile land conflict

Philip Jacobson 7 Dec 2015

Norway’s wealth fund expels POSCO, Daewoo Int’l over palm oil holdings

Philip Jacobson 18 Aug 2015

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Yo Yaj at Songkhla Lake, Thailand
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A man fishes in the Niger Delta near the village of Diebu, Nigeria, Saturday, May 18, 2013. Image by Jon Gambrell / AP Photo.
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Creek in the Colombian Amazon. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.
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