Articles by David Klinges
David began writing for Mongabay in July 2018. Driven by a life-long passion for ecology and wildlife, he graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in Biology and strives to enact positive change in conservation through research and science communication. After conducting fieldwork in Honduras, Costa Rica, Peru and other Neotropical locales, David has gained a special affinity for tropical rainforests, and strives to understand and work with the wildlife and communities of these amazing landscapes. David’s recent series of appointments at the Smithsonian has provided him fresh exposure to the potential of cutting-edge technology in conservation, from using drones to record land use change and track animal movement to constructing web-based tools that share data and facilitate collaboration between scientists. His zeal for the environment has also manifested in a variety of multimedia pursuits, including a publicly broadcasted documentary and generating social media content for academic and non-profit institutions. Understanding that the impact of research is limited without adequate publicity, David has embraced journalism as a powerful means to both herald the breakthroughs in conservation science as well as warn of the threats to our planet’s wildlife and wildlands. After years of reading Mongabay as his goto source for environmental news, it is a dream come true to contribute to this amazing publication.
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Drone 3D models help assess risk of turtle nesting beaches to sea level rise
Photos highlight evolving roles of AI, citizen science in species research
Hackathon enlightens coders and conservationists alike
Identifying Zika-transmitting mosquito fast, cheaply, and on the go
A new dimension to marine restoration: 3D printing coral reefs
Fire, more than logging, drives Amazon forest degradation, study finds
Special series
Forest Trackers
- Bolivia’s El Curichi Las Garzas protected area taken over by land-grabbers
- Authorities struggle to protect Bolivian national park from drug-fueled deforestation
- Poverty and plantations: Nigerian reserve struggles against the odds
- Logging, road construction continue to fuel forest loss in Papua New Guinea
Oceans
- Fewer fish and more rules lead to illegal catches, Italian fishers say
- Fishing by dodgy fleets hurts economies, jobs in developing countries: Report
- Warming seas push India’s fishers into distant, and more dangerous, waters
- No protection from bottom trawling for seamount chain in northern Pacific
Amazon Conservation
- Deforestation haunts top Peruvian reserve and its Indigenous communities
- Amid record-high fires across the Amazon, Brazil loses primary forests
- A web of front people conceals environmental offenders in the Amazon
- Brazil boosts protection of Amazon mangroves with new reserves in Pará state
Land rights and extractives
- Women weave a culture of resistance and agroecology in Ecuador’s Intag Valley
- Hyundai ends aluminum deal with Adaro Minerals following K-pop protest
- Brazil’s illegal gold trade takes a hammering, but persists underground
- Maluku bone collector unearths troubling consequence of coastal abrasion
Endangered Environmentalists
- Indonesian activists face jail over FB posts flagging damage to marine park
- Vietnamese environmentalist sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion
- Son of slain Quilombola leader will still strive for community’s rights
- Video: Five Tembé Indigenous activists shot in Amazonian ‘palm oil war’
Indonesia's Forest Guardians
- Fenced in by Sulawesi national park, Indigenous women make forestry breakout
- In Borneo, the ‘Power of Mama’ fight Indonesia’s wildfires with all-woman crew
- Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesia’s Gorontalo
- After 20 years and thousands of trees planted, Kalimantan’s veteran forester persists
Conservation Effectiveness
- The conservation sector must communicate better (commentary)
- Thailand tries nature-based water management to adapt to climate change
- Forest restoration to boost biomass doesn’t have to sacrifice tree diversity
- How scientists and a community are bringing a Bornean river corridor back to life
Southeast Asian infrastructure
- Study: Indonesia’s new capital city threatens stable proboscis monkey population
- Indonesia’s new capital ‘won’t sacrifice the environment’: Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri
- Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation rules
- To build its ‘green’ capital city, Indonesia runs a road through a biodiverse forest