Welcome back! This week, I surveyed 55* Singaporeans from outside the BES community. The age group of the respondents range from 13-60 years old. I…
Welcome back! For the past few weeks, we have been looking at the environmental crisis together with the countless obstacles indigenous people face in a…
Welcome back! I realised that I have not really written much about the indigenous people of South East Asia and so this post is dedicated…
Continue reading The plight of the indigenous people of Southeast Asia
Welcome back! This week’s topic is on environmental racism towards indigenous communities. Before that, let’s watch a trailer for the Netflix documentary titled “There is…
I have always been interested in the traditional practices of indigenous communities (probably due to my fascination with wilderness survival techniques) and in fact, that…
Conservation and pain are two words that most of us would not associate with one another. To some indigenous people however, these words may even…
Continue reading How conservation efforts may affect indigenous communities
It is unequivocal that climate change will affect us all. However, there are certain groups of people who are and will continue to be disproportionately…
Continue reading Disproportionate effects of climate change on indigenous people
Welcome back! In last week’s post we looked at Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and food security. This week let us explore more about TEK and…
Continue reading Indigenous communities and environmental conservation (part 2)
Many indigenous groups all over the world have continued to maintain their unwavering ties with the natural world; a connection so fragile in a world…
Continue reading Indigenous communities and environmental conservation (part 1)
Welcome to my blog! I am Divina, a year one environmental studies student in NUS. My interests lie in the great outdoors and in learning about wilderness/primitive…