Journalist Yao-Hua Law Will Discuss Deforestation During Davidson Visit

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Journalist Yao-Hua Law will visit Campus Consortium partner Davidson College in North Carolina to discuss his environmental and science reporting, in particular issues of deforestation as forest reserves are replaced by gold mines and palm oil plantations. 

Law will give a lecture at Semans Hall on November 19, titled “The Drivers of Deforestation: Reporting on People, Plants, and Animals in Malaysia.” His visit will also include meetings with students, campus media members, and faculty.

Law, a science and environment journalist based in Malaysia, is a 2026 Nieman Fellow. In 2021 and 2022, he was a Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Fellow.

In 2019, he co-founded Macaranga, an environmental journalism portal focused on Malaysia. His reporting has appeared on BBC and in Science News, Science, and Nature, among others. He has also produced radio documentaries. Law is an insect ecologist.

Davidson College is part of the Pulitzer Center’s Campus Consortium network.