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23 Asia Pac. J. Envtl. L. 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/apjel23 and id is 1 raw text is: Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 23 No. 1, 2020, pp. 1-5 Editorial Anthropogenic marine impacts, reform of environmental governance in China, and biopiracy in Southeast Asia 1 APJEL IN THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION This is the first issue of APJEL in the 2020 volume, and it features articles on environ- mental subjects relevant both to particular states and to the Asia Pacific region generally. The three articles in this issue follow the 13 in the 2019 volume, which concerned a range of individual jurisdictions and comparative articles addressing Australia, Australia and China, Bangladesh, Bangladesh and China, Indonesia, the Maldives, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the South China Sea region, and Thailand as well as a jurisprudential contribution relevant to the region. That there is increasing scholarly interest in environmental law and policy in the Asia Pacific region is clear. Our 2018 volume included articles on Australia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, Solomon Islands, and Thailand. Before that, our 2017 volume included articles on aspects of environmental law in Australia, China, India, Japan, and The Republic of Korea as well as on general issues affecting environmental governance in the Asia Pacific region. We trust that APJEL continues to make a strong contribution toward advanced environmental law scholarship in the region. We welcome both submissions of general environmental relevance and submissions on specific, focused issues, if both are of relevance to the Asia Pacific. APJEL's goal remains the publication of insightful research on a broad range of environmental law issues across the Asia Pacific, believing that much can be learned from comparisons and contrasts with and between states and regions facing similar realities, constraints, and opportunities. The real core of quality scholarship is to be found in deep analysis of specific environmental law developments in specific jurisdictions, and the articles we seek to publish will always demonstrate this. 2 THE ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE 2.1 Anthropogenic underwater noise pollution Three decades ago, in Last Chance to See,' Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine recorded their trip to China to attempt to see the Yangtze river dolphin2 or baiji. After explaining that the Yangtze is a turbid river and that the baiji had evolved to rely on acute hearing and echolocation to find prey and communicate, they described the volume of noise in the Yangtze today - stemming especially from 'the engines of rusty old tramp steamers, container ships, giant ferries, passenger liners and barges'3 - and explained that 1. Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine, Last Chance to See (Heinemann, 1990). 2. Lipotes vexillifer. 3. Adams and Carwardine (n 1) 148. © 2020 The Author Journal compilation © 2020 Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Lypiatts, 15 Lansdown Road, Cheltenham, Glos GL50 2JA, UK and The William Pratt House, 9 Dewey Court, Northampton MA 01060-3815, USA

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