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Every year, the news tells us it will be the hottest summer ever. Entering June, catastrophic disasters strike us almost every week: flooding in Guangxi, China; typhoons passing through the Philippines again; scorching heatwaves choking cities across Europe; burning fires swallowing forests in Canada. As these deadlines blur together, I am left to wonder: at […]

The past two months have been a blur of flights for me and Yunzhu. We started in Singapore for our own forum, then returned for Ecosperity and the Philanthropy Asia Summit – circling the same question: how do we move community conservation projects from grant‑dependent philanthropy to investment‑ready reality? Blending catalytic capital with patient, place‑based

It has been a relatively quiet and relaxing two-month period for Give to Nature—largely thanks to the Chinese New Year lull, which makes this newsletter feel a bit less eventful than usual. But if I had to highlight one meaningful moment, it would be a storytelling workshop in Malaysia. There, I learned that stories told

As the new year unfolds, we find ourselves navigating between worlds—from the lingering winter of Beijing to the historic crossroads of Samarkand, from the community-led rhythms of Krabi to the restorative shorelines of Shenzhen. This issue is shaped by that movement, and by the questions that travel with us. It holds reflections from Uzbekistan’s CITES