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Environmental art initiative aims to help paint a better future for Southeast Asia by Carolyn Cowan on 21 April 2021 Supported by Wildlife Asia, the PARDICOLOR Creative Arts Fund subsidizes artists producing works that highlight environmental issues in Southeast Asia. The arts initiative is intended to complement conservation work in locations like Salween Peace Park in Myanmar and Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem. “If we can only create what we can imagine, then art and ideas are an integral part of creating an Earth that is sustainable and thriving with biodiversity,” says Pardicolor founder Demelza Stokes. Creativity is vital for the development of innovative solutions to conservation conundrums. ....
For border-crossing Thai tigers, the forest on the other side isn’t as green by Carolyn Cowan on 3 February 2021 Straddling the Myanmar-Thai border, the Dawna Tenasserim Landscape (DTL) is the intersection of four different biogeographic zones and consequently supports rich species diversity. The ecosystem is particularly important for the survival of Southeast Asia’s big cats, including the Indochinese tiger. Large, wide-ranging species like tigers require connected networks of forests to move and disperse through; the species cannot thrive in isolated pockets of protected forest. Efforts to protect tigers in the DTL highlight the need for cross-border efforts to maintain ecosystem connectivity. ....