Conservation And Environmental Articles to Green-Up on the Issues

Keeping up with all the environmental news is tough.

These environmental articles aim to highlight some of the conservation and biodiversity issues that are at the heart of rainforest protection.

Other articles focus on interesting wildlife, the role of responsible tourism, profiles on science professionals, and travel experiences.

Most of these jungle essays accumulated over years of working with conservation organizations, visiting nature destinations and going in the jungle with wildlife researchers. I've been fortunate to see the jungle up-close and understand it through the eyes of passionate observers.

I've asked researchers and others to contribute also, to add some additional perspectives.

I trust you'll find some interesting insights, a little bit of humor, a concern for conservation issues and a fascination with what the rainforest beholds for everyone.

Categories For Environmental Articles

The following categories are just a way to guide you among the topics. Come back often to find more environmental articles of interest.

• Environment and Conservation Issues
• Biodiversity: Tropical Rainforest Animals and Plants
• Green Travel and Responsible Tourism
• Travel Destinations and Experiences
• Green Resources and Information

Environment and Conservation Issues

• I Brake 4 Endangered Rainforest Animals
• Separating Species Along the East-West Highway
• Tropic Islands: Earth's Evolutionary Guards
• Terrestrial Islands: Breaking Up The Rainforest Biome
• Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace: Discovering Islands and Life Origins
• Islands of Evolution: Animal Adaptations and Animal Extinction
• Banishing Bat Myths And Creepy Tales
• Setting A Bat Conservation Example For Species Survival
• Scientific Spell of the Snake Charmer
• Hatching a Hawksbill Turtle Revival in the Straits of Malacca

Biodiversity: Tropical Rainforest Animals and Plants

Reptile Series
• Flying Facts About Reptiles: Flights of Fancy or Survival? (Part I)
• How Tropical Flying Lizards Wing It (Part II)
• Flying Facts About Reptiles: Gliding Geckos and Snakes (Part III)
• Rainforest Tales of Reptile Adaptations
• Agamids - Malaysia's Magnificent Tree Lizard Species
• To Fear Or Not To Fear Snakes And Snake Bites

Women In Science Series
• Tackling Animal Conservation With Tiger Tenacity
• Flying Mammals: A Bat Habit to Follow
• Ground Truthing Tropical Animals: Biology Before Biotech
• Ms. MacGyver: The Making of a Malaysian Zoologist


• The Jungle Of Little Horrors: Better A Leech Bite Than ...
• Malaysia's Bat Species: A Global Center Of Diversity Under Threat
• The Misunderstood Treeshrews - Strange Animals Of The Rainforest
• Animal Predators Or Prey: Who's The Real Jungle Bait?

Green Travel and Responsible Tourism

• Green Travel: Good Lessons From Green Resorts In Asia
• A Smart Traveler Can Lead The Change To Responsible Tourism
• Green Travel Turns Empty Eco-Slogans Into Responsible Tourism

Travel Destinations and Experiences ...

• Did TV Kill Steve Irwin?
• Visiting Rainforest People: Ecotourism or Eco-Trespassing?
• Life Lessons From Rainforest People and Desert People
• Field Study Environment Of Dreams
• Luck Of The Asian Elephant
• A Happy Traveler Massages The World's Troubles Away
• Malaysia's Marine Turtles Hit The Beach
• Wetland Romps In The Setiu Swamp Ecosystem

Green Resources and Information

Tropical Rainforest Animals - Information on the current state of tropical rainforests with a special focus on global environmental issues affecting their ecology and wildlife.