Denise Hruby

@nisnis

Journalist. Bylines , , , . Explorer + IWMF Fellow. Previously in China + SE Asia. Native Austrian, can't jodel.

Vienna, via Shanghai
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Joined March 2011
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    28 Nov 2020

    His professed love for birds is how he rationalizes smuggling them. And though he ridicules drug lords — he says trafficking endangered species is far more lucrative — he just wanted to own the birds. My story on a career that spanned decades & continents:

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  2. May 12

    It wasn’t me!

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  3. May 9

    The lesson? I'm not sure. But I'm always amazed at how easy it is to steal art.

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  4. May 9

    Now when police raid his place, they find much more than the vessel. He also stashed works by Klimt and Schiele in his parents' attic and his apartment as he was unable to "acquire what he was passionate about in a legal way," police told me. His sentence: 2 years on parole.

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  5. May 9

    But years later, our thief wants to sell the vessel. He's asked about its provenance and checks if Art Loss Register, a database of stolen art, knows about it. They do. The inquiry (from an unheard-of client in Austria, where the vessel was stolen) seems very dodgy.

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  6. May 9

    So, in 2012/13, he takes some of the stuff (like this vessel). Nobody notices. UNTIL 2 auction houses sell some of it, realize they shouldn't have because it's gone, and report it stolen to claim the insurance. That could have been the end of the story.

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  7. May 9

    A little art heist story: An Austrian logistics company worker is "passionate" about art, but (like most of us) he can't afford the really good stuff. Luckily, his company rents storage space to another company that moves and stores the really good stuff. And he's got a key.

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  8. May 9

    Pretty little villages + and hills covered in Christmas trees 💚

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  9. May 9

    Headed to beautiful Styria for an NYT story 💚

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  10. Apr 22

    Today, a grassroots organization filed a petition of 170,000 people who oppose creating a new mega ski resort, which would require blowing up part of the Alps. I covered the pushback for Nat Geo two years ago:

    Im Sommer 2018 schleppt mich ein Landschaftsökologe & damaliger Kollege beim auf einen schmalen Berggrat und zeigt auf das Panorama gegenüber. „Dort wird ein Speicherteich hinaspaltiert. Dort kommen Liftstützen rein. Das dort wird weggesprengt.“
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  11. Apr 16

    Easter traditions in the Austrian countryside 🔥

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  12. Retweeted
    Apr 9

    “If journalism is [democracy’s] vaccine, you can improve it. We can learn from the failures of previous vaccines and create a stronger one that goes deeper into the bloodstream and lasts longer.” Jonathan Heawood

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  13. Apr 7

    If you speak Spanish, here’s the translation of the big feature on “Saving Winter” I wrote for with the great ’s photography:

    Salvar el invierno por Denise Hruby para
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  14. Apr 7

    . makes a very good point: You wouldn’t put “sports” in a headline on a sports story - so why would you put “climate” in there? It’s too general, and the story needs to be interesting in itself. (Plus: “climate” headlines don’t do well!)

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  15. Apr 7

    “At the end of the day, the solution is holistic,” says , climate editor . But ultimately, “the change has to come from people in power. And your role and my role is to demand that change from them.”

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  16. Apr 7

    “We try to write in a way that people can relate,” says who covers the climate crisis in India, “so they can think: Ok, this is happening in my backyard.”

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  17. Apr 7

    “Every story has a climate angle now,” says at the panel on how to keep our coverage on the climate crisis engaging

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    Apr 3

    Mood at the opposition results night party

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  19. Retweeted
    Mar 28

    This is very sad news!

    Novaya Gazeta, the last of the free media in Russia, will suspend its operations. The Kremlin put a lot of pressure on the newspaper and they had no other choice. This is a kleptocratic regime fighting against the truth.
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  20. Retweeted
    Mar 27

    Hamm, Germany: the world’s biggest reptile fair is also a hub for wildlife traffickers, as reported for us in 2019:

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  21. Mar 25

    Please enjoy these gorgeous egrets nesting in Vienna ❤️

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