Solar Mamas
WWF France invited me to write and photograph stories in Madagascar about female empowerment project in the mangroves. Here in a remote fishing village, nested among sprawling mangroves that naturally barricade the land from the sea, four women have stepped up to lead a revolution to electrify their communities. They have harnessed a resource Madagascar enjoys in abundance, the sun. I produced various text and photo stories for internal and external use to show WWF's commitment to protect fragile environments.
Publications
After completing the stories for WWF, I promoted the stories to the international media, which published them extensively.
Rebirth along the Yangtze
WWF US commissioned me to travel along China's greatest river to capture the story of environmental destruction and rehabilitation. From its source on the icy Tibetan plateau to its glittering delta on the East China Sea near Shanghai, Asia's greatest river connects China’s disparate landscapes and propels economic growth. To narrate a story that stretches such a length, we follow the endangered finless porpoise as it struggles against shrinking habitat.
The Yangtze finless porpoise is rotund, and its mouth is fixed in a permanent, cartoonish grin. In 1991, China counted around 2,500 these smiling porpoises in the Yangtze. Now, just under 1,000 of them remain - a population smaller than that of the giant panda. Without direct intervention, they might vanish in a few years.
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Thirst for Life
I helped Oxfam GB raise global awareness of a drought across Zimbabwe. I traveled across the scorched country with the support of the local staff.