Tom Vater

I was in Tubbataha in 1994. I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. I watched hundreds of sharks pooling around coral ledges at 35 meters, so many they kept bumping into me. I watched giant tuna glitter in the dark 30 meters below me, leading tens of thousands of giant barracuda through the depths. I [...]

April 16th, 2013 | Tags: ADB, Asia, Asian government, Australia, belligerence, Bladerunner, Boston, business, China, Chinese, Chinese environmental crime, Chinese vandalism, Chinese vessel on Philippine coral reef caught with illegal pangolin meat, coral reef, corruption, crime, cronyism, Diving, endangered species, environmental destruction, EU, exploitation, greed, human flashpoint, ignorance, IMF, lies, Margaret Thatcher, murder, national park, pangolin, protection, rape, shark, Thatcher, the big picture, The Guardian, The Philippines, threat to wildlife, Tubbataha, UNESCO, United Nations, US, USA, wildlife, World Bank, WWF | Category: The Philippines | Leave a comment

Mai 31st, 2012 | Tags: accident, business, China, climbing, consumerism, danger, death, disaster, Everest, exploitation, greed, Mount Everest, Nepal, over crowding, Ralf Dujmovits, Tom Vater | Category: Nepal | Leave a comment

Mai 11th, 2012 | Tags: development, economy, Everest, exploitation, handy, mobile phone, Nepal, phone, porter, poverty, Solu Khumbu, technology, Tom Vater, trail, trek, Trekking | Category: Nepal | Leave a comment

September 5th, 2011 | Tags: Camera Camera, consumerism, documentary, documentation, exploitation, film, Laos, Malcolm Murray, orientalism, Tom Vater, tourism, travel, youth | Category: Laos | Leave a comment

Oktober 23rd, 2010 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Bunong, Cambodia, domestic elephants, elephant, elephants in cambodia, exploitation, Fauna and Flora International, FFI, Hill Tribe, human rights in Cambodia, indigenous miniority, minorities, minority rights, Mondulkiri, North East Cambodia, Phnong, Report, South East Asia, subsistence agriculture, swidden agriculture, The Asian Elephant, threat to minorities, Tom Vater, traditional lifestyle, wild elephants in asia | Category: Cambodia | Comments (2)

Oktober 18th, 2010 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Bunong, Cambodia, domestic elephants, elephant, elephants in cambodia, exploitation, Fauna and Flora International, FFI, Hill Tribe, human rights in Cambodia, indigenous miniority, minorities, minority rights, Mondulkiri, North East Cambodia, Phnong, Report, South East Asia, subsistence agriculture, swidden agriculture, The Asian Elephant, threat to minorities, Tom Vater, traditional lifestyle, wild elephants in asia | Category: Cambodia | Comments (6)

Oktober 14th, 2010 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Bunong, Cambodia, domestic elephants, elephant, elephants in cambodia, exploitation, Fauna and Flora International, FFI, Hill Tribe, human rights in Cambodia, indigenous miniority, minorities, minority rights, Mondulkiri, North East Cambodia, Phnong, Report, South East Asia, subsistence agriculture, swidden agriculture, The Asian Elephant, threat to minorities, Tom Vater, traditional lifestyle, wild elephants in asia | Category: Cambodia | Comments (1)

Oktober 13th, 2010 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Bunong, Cambodia, domestic elephants, elephant, elephants in cambodia, exploitation, Fauna and Flora International, FFI, Hill Tribe, human rights in Cambodia, indigenous miniority, minorities, minority rights, Mondulkiri, North East Cambodia, Phnong, Report, South East Asia, subsistence agriculture, swidden agriculture, threat to minorities, Tom Vater, traditional lifestyle, wild elephants in asia | Category: Cambodia | Comments (2)

Kampot, an der Südostküste Kambodschas. Heute nachmittag war ich einige Kilometer außerhalb der Stadt in den Salzfeldern der Gegend, wo Arbeiter für 6.000 Riel (knapp mehr als ein Euro) täglich zehn Stunden in der glühenden Sonne schuften. Die Felder werden mit Salzwasser vollgepumpt, das schnell verdunstet und Salz zurccklässt, das zusammengeschaufelt wird und dann in [...]

März 25th, 2010 | Tags: Arbeit, Arbeiter, Armut, Cambodia, economy, exploitation, farmer, field, heat, Hungerlohn, industry, irrigation, Kambodscha, Kampot, manual labour, photograph, photography, poverty, Salt, salt farm, salt flield, Salz, Schufterei, South East Asia, sun, Tom Vater, work, worker | Category: Cambodia | Leave a comment