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Green Echoes is an Asia-focused newsletter for reporters, editors, and supporters of environmentally focused investigative journalism.
We chose the name Green Echoes in memory of our colleague Anu Paul Nkeze in Cameroon, who passed away in December 2019. Paul had been passionate about environmental protection as a volunteer, advocate, freelance journalist, and public radio program producer.
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Green Echoes #1
Last week, several outlets, including The New York Times, reported on how dams built along the Mekong in China held back water, resulting in droughts downstream. The data for that piece came from this report by PACT, The Sustainable Infrastructure Partnership, and the Lower Mekong Initiative, and used a mix of satellite monitoring, software analysis, and other observational data to create a nearly three decade long data set on river flows.
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We want to build on what we accomplished with The Pangolin Reports and support more collaborative journalism projects across Asia, and beyond – something that is now more important than ever as evidence of the link between the illegal wildlife trade and the Covid-19 pandemic grows.