Gaia Discovery

18/03/2024

Readers and writers, heads up, this short story panel will be packed with useful insights on short story writing. Plus, it is also a book launch--Forty South Short Story Anthology. I'll be in conversation with the finalists and winner of the anthology story writers. Happening this Sat at Hadley's Orient Hotel, Hobart, 3.45-4.45 pm. See you there?

Forty South presents public interest journalism that explores the wilderness and wildlife, economy, industry, culture, epicure, history and people of Tasmania.

15/03/2024

On Sat 23 March, I'll be part of the Tasmania Reads Week (jointly organised by TasWriters the Tasmanian Writers Centre and Libraries Tasmania). I'll be talking about my books at noon. Probably talk about adaptation of stories with complex issues for different audiences. Then, at 3.45pm, I'll be in conversation with the winning writers of Forty South Short Story Anthology 2023. I was one of the three judges (the other two were Amanda Lohrey and Rayne Allinson) of the 200++ submissions to Forty South's annual anthology, so I'm thrilled to be given the opportunity to talk about short story writing with these writers from other parts of Australia.

Join me there, and here's the full program. My talk at noon is free and the short story panel is $15. Get tics today for both, and see you the following Saturday (23 March) at Hadley's Orient Hotel, Hobart. Pradyumna Kiran Cameron Hindrum Kim Nielsen-Creeley Marilyn Arnold Penelope Layland Esther Ottaway, Poet Yvonne Gluyas Mallika The Writer Forty South Tasmania

Encouraging, supporting and promoting Tasmanian writers and stories. Welcome to TasWriters, where writers connect for the latest information on Tasmania’s literary scene, get updates on events and find support. We are here to help, whatever your query. TasWriters: Supports, develops and promotes T...

25/12/2023

Season's greetings everyone! Wishing you healthy, happy and love-filled moments.

26/01/2023

Iceberg roughly the size of London breaks off in Antarctica. But the reasons behind that may not be what you think. Understand the science.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/world/antarctica-brunt-iceberg-climate/index.html

Scientists in Antarctica first discovered significant cracks in the Brunt Ice Shelf a decade ago, but in the last two years there have been two major breaks.

23/12/2022

You're a STAR...
for having persevered through hardships;
for protecting yourself and loved ones from the pandemic;
for putting in extra effort to make the world a better place.

Season holiday greetings, everyone, from Gaia Discovery team. Have a wonderful year ahead! See you in 2023.

07/11/2022

COP27 is also taking place against the backdrop of inadequate ambition to curb greenhouse gas emissions. According to the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, CO2 emissions need to be cut 45% by 2030, compared to 2010 levels to meet the central Paris Agreement goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of this century. This is crucial to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, including more frequent and severe droughts, heatwaves and rainfall.

What should our response be to limit the temperature rise?

“With the Paris Rulebook essentially concluded thanks to COP26 in Glasgow last year, the litmus test of this and every future COP is how far deliberations are accompanied by action. Everybody, every single day, everywhere in the world, needs to do everything they possibly can to avert the climate crisis,” said UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell. “COP27 sets out a new direction for a new era of implementation: where outcomes from the formal and informal process truly begin to come together to drive greater climate progress — and accountability for that progress,” Mr. Stiell said.

In his opening address, the UN Climate Change Executive Secretary asked governments to focus on three critical areas at COP27. The first is a transformational shift to implementation of the Paris Agreement and putting negotiations into concrete actions.

The second is cementing progress on the critical workstreams of mitigation, adaptation, finance and loss and damage, while stepping up finance notably to tackle the impacts of climate change.

The third is enhancing the delivery of the principles of transparency and accountability throughout the UN Climate Change process.

Full media release can be read from this link.

https://unfccc.int/news/cop27-in-sharm-el-sheikh-to-focus-on-delivering-on-the-promises-of-paris

06/10/2022

We are excited to be part of Tasmania's Ocean Youth conservation program. Mallika Naguran, founder of Gaia Discovery, will conduct a digital storytelling workshop in Launceston for youths tomorrow, giving them the skills to be environmental reporters and film makers. Ocean Youth

16/09/2022

Singapore Design Week : N*thing is Possible begins today with a focus on waste solutions. Three month long exhibition and activities. Presenting their perspective to waste are the creators of the world-famous Desa Potato Head creative and sustainable village, Potato Head. Tomorrow, styrofoam recycling workshop by award-winning industrial designer, Andreu Carulla.
https://www.gaiadiscovery.com/arts-music-festivals/singapore-design-week-nthing-is-possible

This year’s design festival celebrates waste solution. Singapore Design Week takes place at the National Design Centre, from 16 September to 25 December 2022. Presenting their perspective to waste are the creators of the world-famous Desa Potato Head creative and sustainable village, Potato He

13/09/2022

New award launched by Asian Ecotourism Network. Destination, accommodation, communities, why not share your best practices to gain recognition and marketing support?

http://ow.ly/5q7c50KHCz0

19/08/2022

From the editor of Gaia Discovery: In this Now Boarding travel podcast hosted by Payal Nayar, I shared why I founded Gaia Discovery in 2008, how ecotourism carves strategic changes for the better: for people, their livelihoods and the environment. In particular, I highlighted Malaysian (Borneo Eco Tours) and Indonesian examples (Misool ) where conservation of wildlife is being boosted through ecotourism. And let's not get confused between nature tourism and ecotourism! Shared too what Asian Ecotourism Network (AEN)Network is doing for the industry, especially with the creation of ecotourism accommodation standards for benchmarking. Put on your headphones and click the link below! (On Google Podcast, Apple Podcast and Spotify.)


https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/now-boarding-by-melting-pot/id1612784427?i=1000576218129

‎Show Now Boarding By Melting Pot, Ep How to be a Conscious Traveler with Mallika Naguran - Aug 15, 2022

18/08/2022

How to be a conscious traveller? Mallika Naguran, editor of Gaia Discovery shares her views on what motivates people to lean towards ecotourism, and to do the right thing. Listen to the Now Boarding Podcast

https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChUMsTdAWTI/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

nowboarding.podcast • Original audio

09/08/2022

Beautiful woman, thank you for the years of film and music. We know you from the movie Grease, but your commitment to preserve the forest by growing trees over decades has touched our hearts. We take inspiration from you fighting for your life as you battled with cancer. We take inspiration from you for standing up for fragile earth, through Jon Dee's Planet Ark. We take inspiration that you stood up and voiced out for the wildlife that didn't have a voice of their own. Let's continue where you have left, the inimitable Olivia Newton-John (Born 26 September 1948. Passed on 9 August 2022). RIP.

https://youtu.be/slSqtMpIMU4

Olivia Newton- John fue la encargada de inaugurar la noche “anglo” en la 4º jornada del Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar 2017. La cantant...

01/06/2022

Have a quote to add to these in the lead up to World Environment Day this Sunday?

https://youtu.be/g-JfPduVFhM

Best Environment Day Quotes 2022 - World Environment Day Quotes 2022 - Save Environment QuotesIn this video we covered following topics related content.1- En...

22/04/2022

Happy Earth Day! Mallika Naguran, our founder, will talk about the importance of ecosystem through storytelling in Tasmania's age old forest up in kunanyi or Mt Wellington tomorrow at 3 pm. She'll be reading from her book She Never Looks Quite Back, published by Penguin Random House SEA.

07/04/2022

Cigarette butts everywhere! Such stinky pollution. In one town, smart Swedish crows are helping to clean butts up. Yes, crows! Read this article and watch the vid on the page too.

https://www.gaiadiscovery.com/planet/crows-solving-litter-problem

Crows trained to pick up cigarette butts

09/02/2022

Read about... Zero-waste champ Pradhan | Plastic tape in treks | Fag-end crows - https://mailchi.mp/b41c8324ce0d/new-ecotourism-australia-ceo-plastic-tape-in-forests-8978055

In this 95th Gaia Discovery enewsletter issue, we profile Abishek Pradhan who is passionate about getting rid of waste in the Himalaya. Plus other stories!

09/02/2022

Just out... Gaia Discovery Issue 95: Read about the new CEO for Ecotourism Australia | Plastic tape in Tassie forest | Fag-end crows - https://mailchi.mp/e2f08e078e49/new-ecotourism-australia-ceo-plastic-tape-in-forests

Gaia Discovery is a sustainability advisory and communications firm based in Singapore and Australia. This eNewsletter reaches thousands of consumers, travellers and businesses worldwide. So send us your press releases. Advertise or partner us for greater visibility. Invite us to speak or to moderat...

08/02/2022

Read about Elissa Keenan, the next CEO of Ecotourism Australia.
http://ow.ly/mAZT50HOYlU

Elissa Keenan has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of Ecotourism Australia

05/01/2022

Here's our wish for you this year - https://mailchi.mp/9e8bd73a47ad/new-year-2022-greetings-7932431

29/12/2021

Calling youths in Tasmania to participate in this exciting Ocean Youth programme, from 13 Jan... do share! Gaia Discovery is proud to be trainers at the digital storytelling workshop!

08/12/2021

Out now - latest issue features these articles:
Rob Pennicott on regenerative mode | Whoa! Fish migrating 🐟 | Climate change survivor Easter Island - https://mailchi.mp/5bc4b3881d59/robert-pennicott-on-regenerative-mode-whoa-fish-migrating-climate-change-survivor-easter-island

Gaia Discovery is a sustainability advisory and communications firm based in Singapore and Australia. This eNewsletter reaches thousands of consumers, travellers and businesses worldwide. So send us your press releases. Advertise or partner us for greater visibility. Invite us to speak or to moderat...

04/12/2021

Robert Pennicott has seen more rats, feral cats and dead birds in his lifetime. And he managed to breathe new life into the conservation of wildlife on Tasmania's breathtaking islands. Here's a Gaia Discovery interview with the founder of award-winning Pennicott Wilderness Journeys.

https://www.gaiadiscovery.com/latest-people/pennicott-journeys-a-regenerative-kind-of-tourism

An interview with Tasmania’s Robert Pennicott of Pennicott Wilderness Journeys on conservation activities and his views on regenerative tourism, sustainable tourism and ecotourism.

23/11/2021

An interesting article on an island surviving drought using ancient wisdom... and drones.

https://www.gaiadiscovery.com/latest-places/easter-island-climate-change

Pacific island climate change

08/11/2021

Fancy wearing a pineapple? At least, a T-shirt made from its waste? Who thinks this is cool?

https://www.gaiadiscovery.com/planet/pineapple-agri-waste-solution

pineapple leaf fibres circular economy

24/09/2021

Calling out to book lovers, writers and authors, the Ubud festival is back....

https://www.gaiadiscovery.com/arts-music-festivals/ubud

2021 Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) Mulat Sarira

07/09/2021

How is it that the increase in sea temperature affects creatures that live in them, even when they are cold blooded? Yes, it’s true - fish are emigrating. Where are they headed and how does that make a splash on fishery?

https://www.gaiadiscovery.com/planet/warm-seas-migrating-fish

oceans are warming species are moving from threats

03/08/2021

Listen to this free webinar this Thursday on improving comms with customers during the pandemic. Speaker: Mallika Naguran, founder of Gaia Discovery.

https://event.webinarjam.com/register/162/okpkkap0?fbclid=IwAR02ABEZurYufF7ApVAGgEqDIDF8UOCfdMei78qvE5jHiC2hZeC_52HaXVI

Asian Ecotourism Network helps travel fraternity and ecotourists dive deep into the realm of conservation travel, ecotourism and sustainable tourism.

06/07/2021

I'm a plogga. What about you?

https://www.gaiadiscovery.com/planet/plogging-the-new-jogging

Plogga jogging rubbish picking

17/06/2021

Gaia Discovery's latest articles are out: Meet kitchen missionaries Gede and Ayu | Bali escape | Sweat power | The not car! - https://mailchi.mp/db5c9e3fdad7/soil-your-undies-the-not-car-eco-chanel-7911679