Yann Bigant

Hunting birds is rampant throughout Cambodia. w/ Vutha Srey, we joined hunters catching birds at night and dug into the reasons behind the trade for @dialogueearth.bsky.social With support from @anticorruption.bsky.social Cambodia dialogue.earth/en/nature/bi... #birds 🌏

"Local governments were instructed to promote immersive disaster education, instructing safety centres, museums and training bases to ... teach people how to respond in a real crisis." Feels really dystopian but also pretty useful these days www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Was just re-reading this incredible story featuring photos of Sebastiao Salgado's Amazonia project. arte.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/20... 🌎 Beautiful and sad, as Bruno Pereira has been killed in the meantime, and Indigenous territories may once again be invaded should Bolsonaro win the presidency.

WE WON. Lead in gunshot will finally be banned across the EU! Just now, the European Parliament approved in plenary the Commission's proposal to restrict lead in gunshot. This decision ends years of debate on one of Europe's most persistent forms of lead pollution.

Bird hunting is ubiquitous not only in Cambodia but all over Southeast Asia, killing millions of #birds every year - yet the issue flies mostly under the radar. Feature of my work documenting Cambodia's bird hunting crisis in @cambodianess.com cambodianess.com/article/awar... 🌏

"This vision of the future, in which as much work as possible is outsourced to AI, promises the ability to move faster, iterate more quickly & require less human staff. But nothing in life comes free." As with prior rounds of automation, the price is homogenization: www.noemamag.com/now-entering...

Hard to believe it's taken quite so long, but Cambodia's first Pied Avocet was photographed yesterday at Poipet by Sopheak Lim #ebird #shorebirds

Thanks @kiripost.bsky.social for shining some light on my photos and the silent crisis of bird hunting in Cambodia #birds

Opportunity is a key driver of wildlife crime: "40% of respondents said it was the driving factor in their involvement." Only 16% say circumstances were their main motivation, which questions the livelihoods argument as a poaching driver (without denying it). news.mongabay.com/2026/09/how-... 🌎

Meta, one of the world's largest wildlife market, settled for billions of dollars and agreed to change its apps for child safety. As Facebook provides all the key functions wildlife poachers and traders need, Meta should do the same for wildlife. gitoc.substack.com/p/metas-171-... 🌏

Bird hunting with mist nets is a serious threat to avian populations in Southeast Asia. 'Empty farmland and wetlands' loom, say conservationists. My work on mist net hunting was exhibited at the 2026 @deltabirdingfest.bsky.social - conservation story finalist @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social 🌏 #birds

“If you have seabirds, your atoll has a better chance of surviving projected sea level rise” But coconut farms not only mean fewer seabirds, they also prevent islands from naturally moving and growing - their natural defense against rising seas. Fascinating: civilbeat.org/2026/06/colo... #birds 🌏

In less than one year, Japan killed more than 14,000 bears. That amounts to one of, it not THE, largest cull of a large carnivore this century. And most were moon bears, a species deemed vulnerable to extinction. My latest feature for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Move to EuroSky and keep using BlueSky as before - just with European data protection and privacy laws. Migration takes a few minutes 👇

Banned from China, wildlife farms have moved to Southeast Asia where some of them supply both the pet trade and wild meat consumption (nice cognitive dissonance!) and risk triggering the next pandemic. @sneweyy.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt... 🌏

Apex predators save human lives by keeping deer on edge - and away from roads and cars. news.mongabay.com/2026/08/coug... @mongabay.com 🌎

"I don’t know what Ba makes of these converging lines of flight: our escape from Vietnam as political refugees over forty years ago, and our return to the country as birdwatching ecotourists." A tale of human & shorebirds migration: mekongreview.com/letter-from-... @mekongreview.com #birds

📢 A new study from Cornell University & New York University debunks leather tanneries’ claims that their sector has no direct impact on deforestation. Researchers found hides make up 8% of a cow’s value at the slaughterhouse level – which can be instrumental to profitability when margins are tight.

Climate change and dams on the Mekong are slowly killing the Tonle Sap, the world's largest inland fishery. But changing the way dams operate could reverse some of the damage. ✍️ @vantha.bsky.social 📷 @rounry.bsky.social for @mekongindependent.bsky.social mekongindependent.com/2026/08/floa... 🌏

Cambodia's wildlife trade: traffickers raising lions, tigers & primates on their properties, supplying anything from elephants, rhino horns and pangolins, to corals, bears and sea turtles, sourcing from suppliers in Africa, Europe, Russia and South Asia 🌏 Must read news.mongabay.com/2026/07/repo...

Thailand has delisted Red-whiskered bulbuls in order to please voters & the captive breeding industry. This is sure to increase laundering of wild birds in the caged bird trade, and poaching in countries like Cambodia & Laos where enforcement is lax. 📷 RWB escapee nesting in Phnom Penh 🌏 #birds

It won't save them overnight, but we could have birds on future Euro banknotes. Vote at the link below! And maybe that makes sense given the EU Bird Directive is a strong piece of legislation protecting birds from whatever environmental backtracking member states try to do 🌏 #birds

If you're an EU citizen, you can request the European Commission to fully suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement and stop supporting a State that commits war crimes and crimes against humanity. Sign here eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/

petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/... Pétition contre la loi sur le site de l'assemblée nationale.

A report by several NGOs released Monday accuses Meta of hosting the world's "largest single known illegal wildlife trade market" and effectively encouraging the trade by sharing advertising revenues with users and allowing them subscription models. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Edge of Armageddon: why does one of the world’s top thinkers believe we’re nearing nuclear apocalypse?

Follow the new @mekongindependent.bsky.social media for investigative stories from the Greater Mekong

A year-long undercover investigation by Earth League International alleges that Cambodia has become a major hub for the trafficking, sale and consumption of endangered wildlife products, linking criminal networks involved in wildlife crime, online scams, drug trafficking and corruption across the...

Phnom Penh is the Southeast Asian capital city with the least public space per person. Parks are near inexistents and surrounding #wetlands are filled in at a steady pace. Checking a few spots last weekend with people supporting 'urban wetland parks' for both people and wildlife 🐦🐢🌏

It's almost a month now since I read this EXCELLENT piece by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social, and I still can't get it out of my head. In fact, I probably never will, it explains so much about the times we're living through. That's a mark of the very best journalism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Is it too early to reintroduce #tigers in Cambodia? “It’s ironic that we are sending one of the most protected animals in India — our flagship species — into a country with one of the worst records of wildlife protection, rampant snaring, and wildlife trade” news.mongabay.com/2026/06/beng... 🌏

Fab news from China! Congrats to citizens & scientists who saved a key Spoon-billed Sandpiper wintering site, shared with 20,000 waterbirds of 46 species, from a new highway in Guangxi! Thanks Beijing for halting it & local government for seeking alternatives. www.sixthtone.com/news/1018593 #birds