Biography

Jhesset Thrina Enano is a journalist based in Manila, Philippines. She is currently the environment reporter for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, where she writes breaking news, investigative reports and feature stories on the climate crisis, biodiversity and the interactions between humans and the natural environment.

She has been recognized for her reports on wildlife trafficking and the illegal wildlife trade in the Philippines. In 2019, she received a grant from the Earth Journalism Network to produce a series of stories exploring the impact of the climate crisis on the mental health of Filipinos through the stories of the survivors of Supertyphoon Haiyan.

In 2018, she reported on the United Nations climate change conference in Poland as the lone Filipino recipient of a reporting fellowship from Climate Tracker. She studied journalism at the University of the Philippines and in the University of the Mississippi, the latter as a recipient of the US Global Undergraduate Exchange Program scholarship.