Part of the work I’m doing in Vietnam for the World Wildlife Fund includes documenting the booming furniture manufacturing industry. In the last two weeks we have toured four very large scale manufacturing plants and I’ve seen more deck chairs than I could have imagined.
All these chairs are made of wood– some of which has [...]

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Vietnamese shrimp farmer’s son holding lunch.
Looking at the schedule I have five more days here in Vietnam. If you told me that yesterday as we hiked through a cocoa plantation in the mid-day heat it would have sounded like an unbearable sweat sentence. This morning however, as I sit on the deck of our hotel [...]

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It’s true!
Iliamna Lake is home to one of two known freshwater seal colonies in the world. The only other documented seals living in freshwater are in Lake Baikal, Russia.
**Update: Since posting I’ve found reference to two other unique seals living in freshwater - Ladoga Seal and the Saimaa Ringed Seal.
The photo above was taken on [...]

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