I am a freelance journalist & non-fiction author reporting from around the world about environment, women, travel and life issues.

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Photography: Mélanie Wenger - Inland Stories

DEFORESTATION IN GHANA — Forest robbery for Europe’s consumption

The European Union wants to use the new regulation on supply chains to prevent forests that are worth protecting from being cut. But it doesn’t really work.

BOOKS

 

LETTING LIVE – About the courage to let go and discover the world as a family

Whilst Katharina Finke is travelling through Southeast Asia, she finds out that she is pregnant. Despite all the joy, she and her boyfriend David ask themselves: Is parenting compatible with a life on the move and cutting consumption? What does it mean to give up your own freedom and enter into the strongest of all possible bonds?

 
Katharina Finke – Loslassen

LETTING GO – How I Discovered the World and learned How to Do Without

From shopping queen to travelling minimalist: living out of a suitcase is Katharina Finke’s daily life for years as she likes discovering foreign countries and people. Whilst doing so she learns to trust her impulses and explore her fears. She discovers that radical freedom makes you both deliriously happy and deeply lonely. This is a book about what it means to let go – and what it’s worth keeping hold of.

 
Katharina Finke – Mit dem Herzen einer Tigerin

With the Heart of a Tigress

Without suspecting the nightmare in store for her, Amila’s parents send her to New Delhi at the age of nine. A mediator is to introduce her to a wealthy man. But fate does not mean well with her: after two years as a slave she is forced to marry a much older man. Amila is now 24 years old and the mother of five children – hard physical work, sex on command and being beaten arepart of her daily routine. But she won’t give up.

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