The Tao of Saigon Horn:Part Two
Region: Australia
But Ellis says it is “not the use of animal parts per se that is the problem – it is the slaughter of animals for what might be specious applications, or worse, the slaughter of critically endangered species&rd... more
Views: 972The Tao of Saigon Horn: Part One
Region: Australia
‘Rhino horn has the medicinal benefit of chewing your fingernails’. The phrase is meant to be off-putting, a layman’s interpretation of the results of scientific tests. It is a key state... more
Views: 2214Cage diving does good PR for great white sharks
Region: South Africa
The Great White Shark Project boat rocks heavily in the Atlantic swell. The stink of chum made of fermented tuna and anchovy oil combines with pungent wafts of excrement from the seal colony that the boat is anchored next... more
Views: 1341Southbound humpback whales sing along on Gold Coast
Region: Australia
By Michael S. Smith I’d never heard anything like it. Monolithic sounds blasted and bubbled between silent spaces. Slow rhythms and themes, notes like obsidian ocean swells and the ... more
Views: 2322The Saigon Horn : Part 2
Region: Viet Nam
Don’t believe everything you download “Rhino horn with wine is the alcoholic drink of millionaires,” said the vietbao.com article. Anninhthudo.com said it is “like a luxury car”... more
Views: 6432The Saigon Horn : Part 1
Region: Viet Nam
I was having coffee at Vasco’s with Phung the husband of an English friend of mine in the quiet backbar. Live music played in the background, but it was still too early in the evening for the club in down... more
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Member Since: February 2012
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Michael Smith is an Australian writer with a Masters in Journalism and a background in performance poetry, theatre, community radio journalism and newspapers. An animal lover, he studied veterinary science at Queensland University after he left school. When in Vietnam he steered his writing towards wildlife conservation, writing articles on doucs, gibbons, sea turtles, wild elephants and Vietnam’s last rhino. He is now tutoring broadcast journalism at Griffith University in Queensland.
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