Hello, fellow forest enthusiast!

Hope you enjoyed reading this blog! I am Ming Yang, a current first-year Ph.D. graduate student at the Asian School of the Environment in NTU, Singapore. My work revolves around tree roots and soils in the Southeast Asian tropics to understand how plants cope with nutrient limitation and global changes through belowground processes. I enjoy dancing and hiking through natural environments of all kinds, but the forests have a special place in my heart!

I made this blog as a means to inform the public of the need to put forest communities first when it comes to forest conservation in the tropics. Because my work revolves around forests similar to Indonesia’s, I am keen to see how we can better advance conservation efforts by considering the social and psychological needs of forest communities in this region.