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February 24 2016 · Ideas + Issues

The Most Life-Threatening Issues Facing ASEAN’s Oceans

Southeast Asia’s precious oceans are in the midst of a crisis. The region is home to one of the largest concentrations of marine biodiversity in the world. It houses the Coral Triangle, a marine region that includes Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The region contains over 500 species of reef-building corals, thousands of fish species, and six (of the world’s seven) marine turtle species. Four ASEAN countries are in the top 20 fishing economies, which produce over 15% of the world’s fish in the wild. Unfortunately, Southeast Asia has millions of humans impacting the environment. This anthropogenic activity is threatening many of its…

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February 17 2016 · Features

Why You Should Care About YSEALI Generation: Oceans

I have been asked why we are implementing the YSEALI Generation: Oceans workshop. YSEALI Generation: Oceans is a five-day workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia to educate and engage 64 rising Southeast Asian leaders on current issues in marine and coastal environments. I am very passionate about this program and excited to implement it with the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta. Here’s why this program matters for all of us.

February 12 2016 · Features

Why Environmentalism and Exchanges are a Perfect Match

In an era in which “all politics is local,” there is perhaps no issue that is more global than the environment. While pollution of the soil can be contained (to a point), water and air pollution are notoriously “cross-border” in nature. If we look at the world as a snow globe, 70% of which is a single interconnected ocean, perhaps we would be more cognizant of the way we interact with these critical elements. Young people have been keen (even “hip”?) to the way mankind has been, at worse, abusive, and at best, benign toward protection of the environment since…

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