I may yet post some reflections on my newsletter Movable Worlds in the near future—but for now, you can follow https://instagram.com/emilydingwrites to see the photo journal I am sharing of my reporting trip.

Start here: https://instagram.com/p/CrNlh91pa2t

These two photos were taken at my first stop: the village of Mumiang.

#Kinabatangan #Sabah #Malaysia #Borneo #wetlands #mangroves

I'm drawn to places I don’t know much about and on which there isn't too much online. #Sabah has #Malaysia’s largest expanse of #mangroves and the Lower #Kinabatangan-Segama #Wetlands forms the largest contiguous tract in the southern Sulu Sea, but I had never heard of it before. I was only familiar with the Kinabatangan tourists visit for wildlife-spotting river cruises. So my curiosity started from a very basic place: What does this place look like? How do the people there live?

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Here is my multimedia longread for Between The Lines, a Malaysian newsletter run by the indefatigable Darsh Kanda, with edits also by Edward Gomez.

Unlike Wen's, this story explores how we could practice proactive, not just reactive, stewardship. So often, news stories hinge on disasters that have happened, when it is often too late. The Lower #Kinabatangan Segama Wetlands may not be facing an immediately dire threat, but there are threats all the same.

https://betweenthelines.my/sabahs-custodians-of-the-mangrove-forests-between-land-and-sea/

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What the future holds: Sabah’s custodians of the forests between land and sea

Writer Emily Ding speaks with fisherfolk along Sabah’s Lower Kinabatangan-Segama Wetlands on climate change, the link between the communities there and Malaysia’s mangrove forest, and why it needs preserving.

^{Emily Ding (Michael Pixl)}