🧵1/Hiking across #Myanmar on the Out of Eden Walk, I met a warm people who welcomed me to their villages, fields & forests. A military coup has since smeared the nation in blood. And now, the US government axed its aid. Here’s the human toll of that policy. betterburma.org/donation

2/Some context: In 2021, after decades of thuggish military rule, #Myanmar was clawing its way back to democracy. But the potbellied generals were losing their privileges. So they ousted the elected government & began shooting protestors in the streets. betterburma.org/donation

3/Today, 53,000 are dead & 6 million are uprooted as a result of #Myanmar’s civil war. The violence is mostly unseen because few media cover it. The demolition of #USAID has deprived 100,000s of basic survival aid. In short: a tragedy atop catastrophe. betterburma.org/donation

4/One of millions of #Myanmar migrants who escaped to #Thailand, Si Thu Aung lost his #USAID scholarship & can’t continue his medical studies to help those fleeing war. ‘Many people I serve are living with the threat of airstrikes, artillery, &landmines.’ betterburma.org/donation

5/‘In this life & death situation, I just wish that you see us humans.’ Su Thway Ni, a women’s rights worker, is on the junta’s hit list. Her family fled into the jungle. Her husband died there. Her temporary shelter in #Thailand just lost #USAID funding. betterburma.org/donation

7/Countless other lives are teetering as the richest nation in human history snatches back the 1.2% of its wealth earmarked to aid the world’s weak & at risk. Help us fill the gap in #Myanmar. Give to betterburma.org/donation. To help those in this thread, write in ‘Fill the Gap.’

8/Many thanks to Eaint Thiri Thu & Eugene Sein for reporting among the #Myanmar refugee community in #Thailand. Better Burma To end your hand to victims of mass violence in & outside Myanmar: betterburma.org/donation Photo: Pacing off the Irrawaddy in more peaceful times.

“‘I don’t like this place,’ announces Jang Yikweon. We’re hiking in a pretty little valley in rural South Korea, Jang & I, traversing a storybook landscape of electric green rice paddies, cozy farming hamlets, mossy hill forests.” — Paul Salopek Read more: outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2025-…

NEW DISPATCH: Frogs are in trouble worldwide. 200 species have gone extinct from habitat loss, pollution & disease die-offs. In South #Korea, Jang Yikweon is studying how #frogs & humans can better coexist-in rice paddies. A journey into midnight mud. outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2025-…

SILENCE OF THE FROGS: South Korea’s natural wetlands are almost gone—not at all good for frogs. Their last bastion in the country: rice fields. Zoologist Jang Yikweon is studying how frogs and humans interact in a world increasingly hostile to amphibians. outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2025-…

🎙️“Keep Myanmar in your heart, keep it in front of your eyes. Do whatever you can to help the people of Myanmar.” — Paul Salopek Paul recently joined the Insight Myanmar Podcast Podcast. Listen to the conversation at the link below. #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

APEX BUSINESS MODEL: combo burger-joint-cum-workout-gym in Daegu, South #Korea. #EdenWalk

"He talks about frogs and to frogs all the time. He picks frogs up and holds them delicately in his palm. He worries about their fate. " Paul Salopek writes endearingly of zoologist Jang's love for a species that can no longer survive human selfishness. outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2025-…

📰An immersive article on the longest seawall in the world. 🌎Journalist Paul Salopek delves into the environmental devastation caused by the Saemangeum reclamation project in South Korea, where vast mudflats have been drained for development. 🔗: bit.ly/4iajei8

And so it drops: Episode 1 of From the Marginlands, a fortnightly podcast on the environment, climate change, and all matters related, hosted by Arati Kumar-Rao and me. Our featured guest in the first episode: Paul Salopek of Out of Eden Walk 👇 youtu.be/I_xqxD5splo?si…

A clip from our first episode of the From The Marginlands podcast, where Paul Salopek talks of our disconnect from nature:

Reposting this because on top of a brutal civil war, #Myanmar is now grappling with the heart-crushing fallout of a 7.7 earthquake. At least 1000 dead. Probably many more. Please lend a hand with a donation for food, shelter & meds. A reputable aid group: gofundme.com/f/emergency-re…

Walking across the world you hit coastlines. So you hop cargo ships. And on these vessels you meet characters. Like Jamal Osili, an engineer on the Red Sea who swoons over recorded birdsongs. Or 27 tipsy Turkish truckers floating in the Caspian. The World theworld.org/segments/2025/…

Walking across #Kazakhstan on the Out of Eden Walk, I befriended the archeologist Andrey Astafyev. Astafyev & his family helped me plant caches of food & water across a vast & desolately beautiful grasslands called #Mangystau. Today, he’s stumbled across a ‘lost city’ there. 1/