As Swedish teenage environmentalist Greta Thunberg’s advocacy has echoed around the globe in the past year – culminating in the 17-year-old being named Time Magazine’s 2019 ‘Person of the Year’, as well as being nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 and 2020 – she has shown the world just how big an impact one young activist can have on political discourse.
In Southeast Asia, environmental activism remains a small but burgeoning field, with several lesser-known activists and organisations working tirelessly across the region in the face of a culture of entrenched seniority hierarchies, as well as the looming threat of violence and arrest by less-than tolerant authorities with much to lose.
Remaining largely unknown to the general public, these are some of the individuals and organisations fighting the green fight across Southeast Asia.
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