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Capturing the Threads That Connect Us: Bricx Dumas, 2022 ACB Young ASEAN Storyteller

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Brikko Martillo Dumas, known as Bricx, is a 34-year-old Filipino artist, educator, and climate advocate. He was born in Leyte, in the Philippines’ Eastern Visayas region, and moved to Manila as a teenager. When Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Yolanda) devastated Leyte in 2013, Bricx returned home to bring his grandmother to safety and volunteer. … Capturing the Threads That Connect Us: Bricx Dumas, 2022 ACB Young ASEAN Storyteller

On Dolphins and Coastal Life in the Gulf of Mottama: Thae Eaindra Hsu, 2023 Youth Biodiversity Leader

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Twenty-five-year-old Thae Eaindra Hsu was born and raised in Mawlamyine, Mon State, Myanmar. Mawlamyine is known for its golden pagodas and its proximity to the Gulf of Mottama Ramsar site, a coastal wetland area recognised for its biodiversity and the communities that depend on it. Growing up near the coast drew her into conservation work. … On Dolphins and Coastal Life in the Gulf of Mottama: Thae Eaindra Hsu, 2023 Youth Biodiversity Leader

Sowing Seeds of Care: Mark Liao, 2019 ASEAN Youth Biodiversity Leader

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Mark Liao’s journey into biodiversity work began in 2017 when he joined the Borneo Eco-Warriors programme under the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI). He was 22 then when he latched onto this idea and, in the same year, established an environmental NGO that similarly focuses on community-oriented conservation.

Women-Led Mapping on Wakatobi’s Coast: Megawati, ENMAPS Programme Enumerator

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Thirty-four-year-old Megawati, a community worker based in Wangi-wangi Island in Wakatobi Regency, Southeast Sulawesi, joined the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity’s Effectively Managing Networks of Marine Protected Areas in Large Marine Ecosystems in the ASEAN Region (ENMAPS) Programme in 2025 at the start of its five-year implementation. Megawati is a perfect fit, having been born and … Women-Led Mapping on Wakatobi’s Coast: Megawati, ENMAPS Programme Enumerator

One Health Surveillance: Expanding the lens beyond human cases

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Zoonotic threats emerge where humans, animals, and the environment interact—through livestock production systems, wildlife interfaces, food chains, markets, and ecological conditions that shape exposure opportunities. That is why One Health surveillance is not an “add-on” to epidemic intelligence; it is the core operating model for detecting spillover early enough to prevent amplification.

The Nature of Health: Linking Biodiversity, Animal Habitat Loss, Human Illnesses and One Health in ASEAN

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Biodiversity is essential for sustaining the lives of people, animals, plants, and microorganisms, and for creating healthy ecosystems that provide clean air and food. However, biodiversity is under threat from human activities, including overfishing, overhunting, pollution, overdevelopment, and climate change. These disturbances can alter the abundance of organisms, population dynamics, and ecological interactions, thereby affecting … The Nature of Health: Linking Biodiversity, Animal Habitat Loss, Human Illnesses and One Health in ASEAN

Business Sector Responds to ASEAN’s Biodiversity Challenge

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In September 2023, the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) and the ASEAN Business Advisory Council established the ASEAN Business and Biodiversity Initiative (ABBI), a dynamic platform to accelerate progress in achieving biodiversity and climate goals across the region. This involves building partnerships with the business sector and expanding this network to integrate biodiversity considerations in … Business Sector Responds to ASEAN’s Biodiversity Challenge

Empowering Communities and Enhancing Biodiversity and Livelihoods through Small Grants

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Amid the coastal wetlands of Myanmar, villagers stand ankle-deep in sticky mud, relentlessly digging holes to plant the mangrove saplings they have nurtured for months. This scene has become a familiar sight in Bogale town, where local communities are at the forefront of restoring the once-dwindling mangrove forest in Meinmahla Kyun Wildlife Sanctuary (MKWS)—a Ramsar … Empowering Communities and Enhancing Biodiversity and Livelihoods through Small Grants