Jonathan Watts is a former East Asia correspondent for The Guardian, who specialized in environment and development issues in China and the wider region during his time in Beijing from 2003 to 2012. He is the author of the eco-travelogue When a Billion Chinese Jump: Voices from the Frontline of Climate Change and became closely involved in media freedom issues during a spell as President of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China. A former Tokyo correspondent (1996-2003), he has also covered events in Mongolia and on the Korean peninsula, as well as reporting on the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, and the 2011 tsunami in Japan. Watts is currently based in Rio de Janeiro and working as Latin American correspondent for The Guardian. He is a self-proclaimed amateur llamologist.