Philip Jacobson

Journalist @mongabay. Covering the global shark trade under a @pulitzercenter fellowship in 2023-24. Lived in Indonesia for a while, now based in Thailand.

[Philip Jacobson @philjacobius]

Scores of Indonesians have been criminally prosecuted for slash-and-burn farming in the past few years, according to this new article I worked on based on a review of online court records and interviews across the island of Borneo. Check it out here: https://t.co/aZQpJ3SgOM

[Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter]

For years, schools in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, have been serving an endangered shark species to their students.

@Ocean_ORN Fellow @philjacobius and @Rainforest_RIN Fellow @nandawenzel uncover how this happened.

Learn more in this story for #Mongabay. https://t.co/WqYeoq1ZcK

[Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter]

Brazil is serving shark meat in thousands of schools, hospitals, prisons and other institutions, raising serious concerns.

A report by @Ocean_ORN Fellow @philjacobius, @Rainforest_RIN Fellow @karlamendes and Pulitzer Center's @kuangkeng for #Mongabay. https://t.co/bi3zUnx2d8

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File under: anonymously owned companies as a tool for corruption #Mauritius https://t.co/Au5vsiBjUb

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Check out Gerry and Andy's stories here: https://t.co/BNcE0dE8dj

And the Indonesia fires piece, done with @aseantypahlevi, @hans_nich, Yusie Marie and M Rahim Arza, here: https://t.co/aZQpJ3RIZe

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Nice to see Mongabay get a de facto honorable mention from the 2024 Osborn Elliott Prize. We submitted my colleague @geraldrflynn's/@andyball's exposé of illegal logging in Cambodia's garment sector and an investigation I worked on about fires in Indonesia https://t.co/EM2JDLD8lU

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25 years of Mongabay - we've grown from around 10 staff members when I joined in 2015 to more than 100 today. Not something a lot of news outlets these days can say https://t.co/kVVVi0GqbU

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@AnthonyIrwinLA These guys aren't journalists, they're information mercenaries

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Electric fences an emerging threat to Sumatra's dwindling wild elephant population, @MongabayID's Teguh Suprayitno reports https://t.co/fYtbt07AzE

[Max Radwin @MaxRadwin]

A few months back, we rode #Mexico's #TrenMaya in search of deforestation and other environmental harm. Check out our video to see what we found. @MongabayOrg

https://t.co/dqLtcHA4Ai

[Philip Jacobson @philjacobius]

We basically stole @ejfoundation's investigative methodology to do this investigation, worked like a charm 😀

[Environmental Justice Foundation @ejfoundation]

@GlobalFishWatch @steventrent Mongabay's @philjacobius explained how journalists can fine-tune investigations to uncover widespread abuses.

Refining questions and speaking directly to crew is key: https://t.co/psCLjFTQ9C

[Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter]

Next Tuesday, learn how to gain leads, use platforms, and structure your IUU fishing reporting with @Ocean_ORN Fellow @philjacobius, @ejfoundation's @steventrent, and @GlobalFishWatch experts @SBladen & Adel Heenan.

Still time to register 👉 https://t.co/rRlaC1xe9g

[Philip Jacobson @philjacobius]

Haven't read this yet, but an extensive new report on threats to environmental journalists around the world https://t.co/nh6m3Id0Ji

[Philip Jacobson @philjacobius]

Eat, pray, love.... money launder? https://t.co/vrr2Pywexk

[Philip Jacobson @philjacobius]

The cost of an Indonesian presidential campaign is estimated at $190m yet the three campaigns claim to have received just $11m, $1.9m and $250k - useful roundup of the business interests (and presumed dark money financiers) behind them by @marcustantau: https://t.co/b6Sv1vRZjg

[Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn]

In this piece by @philjacobius, he reveals that scores of Indonesians have been criminally prosecuted for slash-and-burn farming in the past few years, based on a review of online court records and interviews across the island of Borneo. https://t.co/pgqdUjSXd8

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Video profile of Sarijan, one of the small farmers highlighted in our piece about Indonesia's crackdown on slash-and-burn agriculture: https://t.co/sVLJMx9Nok

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@jokowi @MongabayID There's a lot more in the article - infographics, photos, you can review all the cases in our data. Check it out here: https://t.co/aZQpJ3SgOM

[Philip Jacobson @philjacobius]

Scores of Indonesians have been criminally prosecuted for slash-and-burn farming in the past few years, according to this new article I worked on based on a review of online court records and interviews across the island of Borneo. Check it out here: https://t.co/aZQpJ3SgOM

[Philip Jacobson @philjacobius]

@jokowi @MongabayID The fires are genuinely terrible and Indonesia is right to try to suppress them. But experts we interviewed called for a more targeted fire policy that differentiates between kinds of actors and helps traditional farmers find alternatives to burning rather than locking them up.