Mike DiGirolamo

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Mike DiGirolamo is a host and producer at Mongabay based in Sydney. He edits, produces and hosts The Mongabay Newscast, the flagship podcast for the Global Bureau. He specializes in interviews with scientists, conservationists, journalists, authors, politicians and activists. He commonly examines topics related to climate change, human equity, biodiversity, and conservation at a global level.

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A customary longhouse in Sungai Utik.

Indigenous activist Kynan Tegar on Indonesia’s fires, and defending the Earth

Mike DiGirolamo, Basten Gokkon 6 Oct 2026

Iwi and community-led effort return kiwi to Wellington for first time in over a century

Mike DiGirolamo 29 Sep 2026

The Home Planet Fund succeeds by giving directly to local communities

Mike DiGirolamo 22 Sep 2026

‘Big Cats’ highlights the remarkable power of photojournalism

Mike DiGirolamo 15 Sep 2026

San Mateo village, one of 29 Matsés communities in Peru, on the banks of the Gálvez River. Image by Aimee Gabay/Mongabay.

A health crisis for Peru’s recently contacted people brings planetary health to the fore

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Sep 2026

Sunrise over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Christiana Figueres & Garik Israelian on Jane Goodall’s legacy and the search for truth

Mike DiGirolamo 1 Sep 2026

A chorten at a rice field in Bhutan.

In Bhutan, a philosophy of happiness guides a push for food self-sufficiency

Mike DiGirolamo 25 Aug 2026

‘Remembering Wildlife’ shines a spotlight on the species we risk losing forever

Mike DiGirolamo 18 Aug 2026

Forest fires likely to continue to burn twice as much without ‘serious action’ on climate change

Mike DiGirolamo 11 Aug 2026

‘My Wild City’ reminds us why cities need nature

Mike DiGirolamo 4 Aug 2026

A young cacao tree in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Forests in Liberia are falling to cocoa, in half a year the EU could ban imports

Mike DiGirolamo 28 Jul 2026

A man fishes in the Niger Delta near the village of Diebu, Nigeria, Saturday, May 18, 2013. Image by Jon Gambrell / AP Photo.

Oil has harmed the nature and people of the Niger Delta; human rights may save it

Mike DiGirolamo 21 Jul 2026

Mediterranean coast.

The unsung biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea needs urgent protection

Mike DiGirolamo 15 Jul 2026

The first wildlife bridge in Brazil is connecting habitat across the coastal four-lane BR-101 highway.

The growing global popularity of wildlife crossings

Mike DiGirolamo 7 Jul 2026

Bay near Pulai Rayo, Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett Butler.

The blueprint for building a fairer world without breaking the planet

Mike DiGirolamo 30 Jun 2026

The Bougainville community in Panguna wants justice for mining’s ‘toxic legacy’

Mike DiGirolamo 16 Jun 2026

Climate Wayfinding with a design background. Image by Amerpsand. Courtesy of Katharine Wilkinson.

‘Climate Wayfinding’ can help you unpack the overwhelm of our ecological problems

Mike DiGirolamo 9 Jun 2026

Creek in the Colombian Amazon. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

From pledges to road maps, nations organize around fossil fuel phaseout

Mike DiGirolamo 2 Jun 2026

Black-flanked Rock Wallaby (Petrogale lateralis) in Cape Range National Park, Western Australia, Australia. The Australian Government has classed this wallaby as endangered under the EPBC Act. Image by Dsyzdek (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Australia is failing to meet its environment targets, argues ecologist

Mike DiGirolamo 26 May 2026

Measures must be taken now to prevent pandemics at the source, says epidemiologist

Mike DiGirolamo 19 May 2026

Photographer Jonathan Bachman was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for capturing a photograph of Ieshia Evans being arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was Ieshia Evans first protest, and Bachman’s first time covering one. The photo was included in The New York Times’ “The Year in Pictures 2016,” among other honors. jonathan bachman / reuters. Shepard Fairey—a prolific artist and activist who often addresses social and political issues in his work—was invited by the authors of ‘Protest’ to interpret Bachman’s photograph for the book. Image credit to Shepard Fairey. Image Courtesy of Patagonia Books.

Protest works, but is under attack and needs your help, veteran activists say

Mike DiGirolamo 12 May 2026

[DO NOT REUSE] Image by Ben Cherry. Courtesy of Netflix/Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.

A new documentary film captures rare mountain gorilla behavior

Mike DiGirolamo 5 May 2026

Goose Island Archipelago is a cluster of tree-covered islands with wild, rocky beaches located off the central coast of British Columbia.

Reciprocity, not extraction: Centering an Indigenous approach to forestry

Mike DiGirolamo 28 Apr 2026

Antipodean albatross (Diomedea antipodensis antipodensis) offshore from Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. Photo by Oscar Thomas (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How marine flyways could help save the world’s declining seabird population

Mike DiGirolamo 21 Apr 2026

A coyote in Chicago. Image courtesy of Cook County Coyote Project.

Coexisting with America’s growing urban coyote population is easier than you think

Mike DiGirolamo 14 Apr 2026

Starting out as a terrestrial ecologist and environmental educator, Jessie Panazzolo is a proud carer of people who care for Mother Earth. In 2019, she founded the global community, Lonely Conservationists, a pioneering platform that provides resources, advocacy, and a voice to budding and burnt-out environmentalists. Advocating for the need to provide care to members of an often forgotten care-based industry, Jessie's websites, books, podcasts, and workshops are used to help budding and burnt-out conservationists around the world.

The ‘unfair’ job of being a conservationist in a world working against nature

Mike DiGirolamo 7 Apr 2026

Wallace's Passage between Gam and Waigeo islands in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Meaningful conservation demands truth, not just facts, says political ecologist

Mike DiGirolamo 31 Mar 2026

The WeMUNIZE program in Nigeria, significantly disrupted by aid cuts, used digital record keeping and community engagement to increase early childhood immunizations. Image by KC Nwakalor for USAID/Digital Development Communications via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

‘We will not know what we lost’: Conservation fallout a year after USAID shutdown

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Mar 2026

Tiger

By protecting tigers ‘we save so much more,’ says Debbie Banks

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Mar 2026

How elephants experience time, and what this tells us about protecting them

Mike DiGirolamo 10 Mar 2026

Mt. Taranaki, New Zealand, captured March 16, 2022. Image courtesy of Planet Labs PBC.

How the ‘wrong story’ ends up harming nature, and how we can change it

Mike DiGirolamo 3 Mar 2026

Bringing Mongabay’s Amazon narco airstrip exposé to the stage

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Feb 2026

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