nature – Tom Vater

Sale! The Green Panthers for 99 cents at Kobo this weekend!

February 16, 2024February 16, 2024tom

Over at Kobo, my new eco-thriller The Green Panthers is just 99 cents this weekend, through to Tuesday! Get your copy here!! Meet Clara Green, Emerald, Chartreuse, Olive, Hunter, Juniper and Forest. They are The Green Panthers: a privately sponsored, multi-national underground army, on a mission to hold corporate polluters to account. But SILEO is […]

A forest saved? – Cambodia’s Phnom Tamao Protected Forest escapes logging but faces an uncertain future, in Eco-Business

August 31, 2022August 31, 2022tom

A protected nature reserve was spared complete destruction when Cambodia’s prime minister stepped in after a public outcry. Replanting has begun to restore the forest – but with saplings that could be for a timber plantation. On 1 August, 2022, excavators began tearing down parts of the Phnom Tamao Protected Forest, an area of 2,300 hectares […]

Singapore startup seeks to preserve Papua New Guinea biodiversity – in Nikkei Asia

March 6, 2021June 13, 2021tomLeave a Comment

My latest story in Nikkei Asia is about Ecoshare, a company that uses a lease scheme to support local people and promote conservation in the face of rampant logging and destruction of biodiversity in one of the planet’s last great natural repositories. A Singapore-based startup is working with people in Papua New Guinea to help […]