Becky Kessler

Science & Environmental Journalist, Editor at

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Over 3 billion people depend on fish for 20% of their animal protein, meaning #oceans provide a vital source of nutrition worldwide.

However, oceans are in a state of decline. Let’s explore why & how humans are adapting.

A 🧵 by @apcwildlife. 👇

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New from @mongabay @philjacobius. Illegal #shark #finning is going to get most of the airtime from this important investigation, but there are many more layers to this story, and some of them are potentially even more worrying. 1/ https://t.co/8j1x4RYndp

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A journalist I've hired multiple times to cover stories in #Ethiopia for @mongabay charged during the unrest w/ “insulting the ruling party and having links w/ a terrorist organisation” & has been holding him incommunicado since.

@NationMediaGrp reports: https://t.co/Qi8aeONVNO

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🚨 NEW INVESTIGATION🚨

Today we publish an investigation into one of China’s largest tuna fishing companies, revealing widespread and systematic abuse of Indonesian and Filipino workers on its vessels. https://t.co/KLcJhY7Fcu

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An investigation by Mongabay, @tansa_english & @erc_earth revealed systematic abuses of workers across a Chinese tuna company’s fleet, not just the one infamous ship which saw 4 Indonesian deckhands die mysteriously last year: https://t.co/lUzAQHnVtN

[Malavika Vyawahare @MalavikaVy]

When you buy tuna, are you paying for this? My @mongabay series on how even as the world is trying to purge the oceans of plastics, the EU-dominated tuna fishery in the Indian Ocean dumps plastic waste with “impunity.” #BADFAD thread (1/8) @Reporterre https://t.co/tuHe3Vw2DS

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Brazil's official policy states that Amazon #palmoil is green, but is that true? My 18-month investigation for @mongabay showed the opposite, with impacts including #deforestation and water contamination affecting Indigenous people in Brazil’s Pará state: https://t.co/kWy4w3iIPh

[Becky Kessler @rkessl]

Mongabay is hiring a Southeast Asia staff writer! Please circulate. (Must be based in SE Asia, ideally with fluency in Burmese, Chinese, Khmer, Laotian, Thai, and/or Vietnamese.) https://t.co/4T24kU7lRF

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Our wonderful neighbors are leading this charge. Please consider contributing if you can. PPE for New England's Covid-19 Frontlines https://t.co/cu715EAzU0

[Becky Kessler @rkessl]

@TerriHansen Terri, it's been a long time but I want you to know you have love and support from near and far. I'm so sorry you're hurting. Thanks for the updates @jfk & @bohemianone.

[Becky Kessler @rkessl]

After 45 days detained, Mongabay journalist Phil Jacobson has been deported from Indonesia and is on his way home, with charges dropped. Hooray! Now, let's get him back to the country to continue his work. #freephiljacobson https://t.co/PHJEYqFGjA

[Becky Kessler @rkessl]

A seemingly positive development for my @mongabay colleague, editor Phil Jacobson, who is imprisoned in Indonesia on an alleged visa violation. #freephiljacobson

[Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono]

@mongabay @fjawards After meeting Ambassador Donovan, Coordinating Minister Mahfud MD indicated that he will order Phil Jacobson to be deported "... if he did only journalism, no other crime such as espionage, drugs smuggling ..." #FreePhilJacobson https://t.co/nQ4OihnAoB

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@mongabay @fjawards After meeting Ambassador Donovan, Coordinating Minister Mahfud MD indicated that he will order Phil Jacobson to be deported "... if he did only journalism, no other crime such as espionage, drugs smuggling ..." #FreePhilJacobson https://t.co/nQ4OihnAoB

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@_MartinHolland @mongabay Thanks for the offer, @_MartinHolland. We may be in touch.

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Quick vid featuring footage of my #Mongabay colleague Phil Jacobson from prison in Kalimantan, where he's being held over an alleged visa violation #freephiljacobson https://t.co/hIcw8ovBwQ