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					<title>Environmental crimes don’t stop at borders. Neither can the reporting</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/environmental-crimes-dont-stop-at-borders-neither-can-the-reporting/</link>
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					<pubDate>31 Aug 2026 15:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Colombia, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Interviews, Interviews With Environmental Journalists, and Journalism]]>
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							<![CDATA[High gold prices have fueled illegal mining across the Amazon. As Brazil tightened controls on the trade, criminal groups found another route through Venezuela, where it could be laundered and then exported overseas, according to a Mongabay investigation published last year. Documenting the trade required journalists in three countries to work together—an approach Daniela Quintero [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[High gold prices have fueled illegal mining across the Amazon. As Brazil tightened controls on the trade, criminal groups found another route through Venezuela, where it could be laundered and then exported overseas, according to a Mongabay investigation published last year. Documenting the trade required journalists in three countries to work together—an approach Daniela Quintero considers essential because environmental crimes rarely respect national borders. Near the Mavicure Hills with residents of the El Venado Indigenous Reserve. Credit: Rhett A. Butler As investigations editor at Mongabay Latam, Bogotá-based Quintero develops projects that combine field reporting with official records, satellite imagery, scientific papers, and legal documents. She also coordinates Mongabay’s Nature Crimes Fellowship, working with journalists from Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru on investigations in the Amazon and the Pacific. Quintero previously covered environmental issues and worked in the investigative unit at El Espectador before joining Mongabay in early 2025. Her reporting has ranged from glass-eel fisheries in the Dominican Republic to the gold smuggling story. Ahead of Mongabay Latam’s PUMA FEST in July, I traveled with Quintero to Colombia’s Guainía department, where I interviewed her about her work and her path into environmental journalism. Daniela Quintero Diaz An interview with Daniela Quintero &nbsp; Mongabay: Can you introduce yourself? Daniela Quintero: I&#8217;m a Colombian journalist and sociologist based in Bogotá. I&#8217;m an investigations editor at Mongabay Latam, where I develop and edit cross-border investigations into nature crimes and environmental issues across Latin America. Mongabay: What does a normal day at Mongabay look like&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/environmental-crimes-dont-stop-at-borders-neither-can-the-reporting/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-327670</doi>				</item>
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					<title>PUMA FEST and the community Mongabay Latam has helped build</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/puma-fest-and-the-community-mongabay-latam-has-helped-build/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/puma-fest-and-the-community-mongabay-latam-has-helped-build/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>03 Aug 2026 09:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Founder's briefs]]>
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							<![CDATA[Colombia, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Journalism and Media]]>
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							<![CDATA[Founder&#8217;s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. When Mongabay Latam began publishing in 2016, the aim was to establish a sustained environmental news service for Spanish-speaking Latin America. The newsroom would be led by editors in the region, work with journalists who understood the places [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Founder&#8217;s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. When Mongabay Latam began publishing in 2016, the aim was to establish a sustained environmental news service for Spanish-speaking Latin America. The newsroom would be led by editors in the region, work with journalists who understood the places they covered, and develop its own editorial priorities in response to local conditions. Over the decade that followed, Mongabay Latam’s staff and contributors built that newsroom. They developed a daily news service covering forests, oceans, wildlife, science, Indigenous rights, environmental crime, and the people responding to ecological change. They formed more than 90 partnerships with national newspapers, regional publications, and independent media, allowing stories to reach audiences far beyond Mongabay’s own platforms. Photo by Mongabay Latam. Mongabay Latam team at Puma Fest. Photo by Mongabay Latam. The team also built the relationships and expertise required for more ambitious investigations. Working with organizations including CLIP, Animal Político, Rutas del Conflicto, Plaza Pública, and El Espectador, Mongabay Latam has investigated illegal mining, land grabbing, wildlife trafficking, deforestation, and the role of organized crime in some of the region’s most threatened landscapes. Last month in Bogotá, the strength of what the team has created was visible in another form. To mark its tenth anniversary, Mongabay Latam hosted PUMA FEST, a gathering organized with Fundación Gabo ahead of the 14th Gabo Festival. Around 700 people registered, and 400 attended in person. Journalists, editors, Indigenous communicators, students, scientists, and other&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/puma-fest-and-the-community-mongabay-latam-has-helped-build/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-325115</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Ten years of Mongabay Latam</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/ten-years-of-mongabay-latam/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Jul 2026 15:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Founder's briefs]]>
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							<![CDATA[Latin America and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environment, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Journalism, and Media]]>
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							<![CDATA[&#160; When Mongabay Latam began publishing in 2016, the decision felt like a logical next step. Mongabay Indonesia, launched four years earlier, had shown that a locally led, local-language newsroom could build an audience for sustained environmental reporting. Spanish offered the chance to apply that approach across a region extending from Mexico through Central America [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[&nbsp; When Mongabay Latam began publishing in 2016, the decision felt like a logical next step. Mongabay Indonesia, launched four years earlier, had shown that a locally led, local-language newsroom could build an audience for sustained environmental reporting. Spanish offered the chance to apply that approach across a region extending from Mexico through Central America and the Andes to Chile and Argentina. The political and ecological conditions varied widely, but the need was similar: important environmental stories were going unreported, or receiving attention only after a crisis became difficult to ignore. Latin America and the Caribbean are the most biologically diverse region on Earth, holding nearly half of the world’s tropical forests and unusually large shares of its mammals, birds, fish, insects, reptiles, amphibians, and plants. The Spanish-speaking countries in Mongabay Latam’s coverage area include some of the richest parts of the Amazon rainforest, the tropical Andes, Mesoamerica, the Chocó, and the eastern Pacific. These landscapes face growing pressure from mining, agriculture, infrastructure, organized crime, and climate change. Macaws in Peru. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay. I was also drawn to the region’s cultural and intellectual range. Latin America has produced many responses to these pressures, including Indigenous territorial governance, community forestry, new legal approaches to nature, and locally designed conservation programs. A regional news service could document environmental damage while also examining how people were responding to it. Mongabay Latam’s staff and contributors built the newsroom that followed. Editors developed the judgment, relationships, and institutional memory needed to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/ten-years-of-mongabay-latam/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>At 100, David Attenborough’s message is no longer just about wonder</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/at-100-david-attenboroughs-message-is-no-longer-just-about-wonder/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/at-100-david-attenboroughs-message-is-no-longer-just-about-wonder/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>05 May 2026 00:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Communication, Conservation, Environment, Green, Journalism, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[As his 100th birthday approaches, David Attenborough occupies an unusual place in public life: not a practicing scientist, not quite a conventional journalist, and no longer only a broadcaster. His voice, familiar from decades of natural history programming, has become one of the most recognizable ways the public hears about the state of the living [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As his 100th birthday approaches, David Attenborough occupies an unusual place in public life: not a practicing scientist, not quite a conventional journalist, and no longer only a broadcaster. His voice, familiar from decades of natural history programming, has become one of the most recognizable ways the public hears about the state of the living world. That was not always the role he played. When Attenborough began his career at the BBC in the 1950s, the task was more modest. Television was still finding its footing, and natural history programming largely meant showing audiences what they could not otherwise see. Early series such as Zoo Quest were shaped by that spirit. They were exploratory, sometimes improvised, and often framed around the thrill of encountering unfamiliar species. The tone was one of discovery. The unspoken assumption was that the natural world, vast and varied, would endure. Attenborough in Borneo, 1982. Photo by Rex Features As his work evolved, so did the technology that made it possible. Color film, lightweight cameras and, later, digital imaging expanded what could be captured. Attenborough used those tools with unusual patience. His programs lingered on behavior as much as spectacle. Courtship rituals, feeding strategies, and migrations were given time to unfold. His programs did more than show animals; they asked viewers to notice how they lived. This attention to detail became one of his signatures. It reflected a view that understanding begins with careful seeing. Attenborough rarely made himself the story. His narration was measured and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/at-100-david-attenboroughs-message-is-no-longer-just-about-wonder/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>RJ Nichole Ledesma, chronicler of unsettled ground on Negros Island, was killed last month. He was 30.</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/rj-nichole-ledesma-chronicler-of-unsettled-ground-on-negros-island-was-killed-last-month-he-was-30/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 May 2026 15:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Philippines, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Endangered Environmentalists, Human Rights, Journalism, Murdered Journalists, Obituary, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[RJ Nichole Ledesma’s journalism returned again and again to land: who worked it, who owned it, who was pushed from it, and what happened when projects planned elsewhere arrived in villages with little warning. In Negros, an island shaped by sugar plantations, labor struggles and long conflict, he reported from places where environmental change was [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[RJ Nichole Ledesma’s journalism returned again and again to land: who worked it, who owned it, who was pushed from it, and what happened when projects planned elsewhere arrived in villages with little warning. In Negros, an island shaped by sugar plantations, labor struggles and long conflict, he reported from places where environmental change was not an abstraction. It appeared as proposed energy projects on agricultural land, a hydropower venture, a palm-oil plantation, or reclamation along a coast where fisherfolk made their living. He was 30 when he was killed on April 19th during a Philippine Army operation in Toboso, Negros Occidental. The military said the operation targeted suspected rebels of the New People’s Army and left 19 people dead. The Committee to Protect Journalists, citing news reports and the Altermidya Network, said Ledesma was a writer and editor at Paghimutad-Negros and had been reporting on the effects of renewable-energy projects. Altermidya and Human Rights Advocates Negros said he was not at the initial clash site, but in a separate community during a military pursuit operation. The army disputed accounts that some of those killed were civilians. The circumstances of his death remain contested. The shape of his work is easier to see. RJ Ledesma. Photo via Altermidya Ledesma came to journalism through campus reporting at the University of St. La Salle in Bacolod, where he studied psychology and became editor-in-chief of The Spectrum. There he learned the practical habits of reporting: listening, checking, documenting, and standing by a story&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/rj-nichole-ledesma-chronicler-of-unsettled-ground-on-negros-island-was-killed-last-month-he-was-30/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-318634</doi>				</item>
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					<title>How Spoorthy Raman tells the world’s wildlife stories from a desk in the middle of the Atlantic</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/how-spoorthy-raman-tells-the-worlds-wildlife-stories-from-a-desk-in-the-middle-of-the-atlantic/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 May 2026 10:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo]]>
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						<![CDATA[Alejandroprescottcornejo]]>
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							<![CDATA[Canada and Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Human-wildlife Conflict, Interviews, Interviews With Environmental Journalists, Journalism, Wildlife, and Wildlife Trade]]>
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							<![CDATA[“Sitting at my desk on an island in the Atlantic, I can speak to some of the best scientists, conservationists and people invested in protecting the planet across the world,” says Mongabay staff writer Spoorthy Raman. From her home in St. John’s, Newfoundland, on Canada’s east coast, she gathers perspectives on the state of nature [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[“Sitting at my desk on an island in the Atlantic, I can speak to some of the best scientists, conservationists and people invested in protecting the planet across the world,” says Mongabay staff writer Spoorthy Raman. From her home in St. John’s, Newfoundland, on Canada’s east coast, she gathers perspectives on the state of nature that span countries, cultures and ecosystems. Raman’s journey at Mongabay began with an internship in 2022, following a stint as a science communicator. This then led to bylines in outlets like Hakai, Audubon, BioScience and Nature, and to recognition, including the Sustainability, Environmental Achievement &amp; Leadership award and a Digital Publishing Award in 2024. Now a full-time member of Mongabay’s Wildlife Desk, she reports on a range of issues related to biodiversity, with specializations in animal behavior and the complex worlds of the wildlife trade and poaching. These last two areas can be particularly grim, yet serve as a poignant reminder of why the work matters. “With every image of dead wildlife I see as part of my work, I am reminded of the enormous biodiversity loss this is contributing to,” Raman says. Across the more than 100 stories she has produced at Mongabay, a few projects have been especially meaningful. One is her reporting on wild rice restoration by Indigenous peoples across the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States. Another is about the thriving illegal wildlife trade in California, driven by the pet trade. She’s especially proud of her ongoing series&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/how-spoorthy-raman-tells-the-worlds-wildlife-stories-from-a-desk-in-the-middle-of-the-atlantic/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-318511</doi>				</item>
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					<title>From the Atlantic Forest to the Amazon: Alexandre de Santi on camaraderie and uncovering hidden truths in Brazil</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/from-the-atlantic-forest-to-the-amazon-alexandre-de-santi-on-camaraderie-and-uncovering-hidden-truths-in-brazil/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Apr 2026 18:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alana Linderoth]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate, Conservation, Interviews, Interviews With Environmental Journalists, and Journalism]]>
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							<![CDATA[When telling stories about nature, Alexandre de Santi’s interest stems from the climate. “Climate collapse is the greatest challenge of my generation,” he says. Before joining Mongabay, Santi began his career as a reporter in 1999. His trajectory included founding the editorial studio Fronteira, contributing as a founding associate of Porto Alegre-based news nonprofit Matinal, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When telling stories about nature, Alexandre de Santi’s interest stems from the climate. “Climate collapse is the greatest challenge of my generation,” he says. Before joining Mongabay, Santi began his career as a reporter in 1999. His trajectory included founding the editorial studio Fronteira, contributing as a founding associate of Porto Alegre-based news nonprofit Matinal, and serving as deputy editor at The Intercept Brazil, where he played a key role in major investigations, including the Vaza Jato scandal that led to political turmoil in Brazil. Santi joined Mongabay in 2022 and became managing editor for Brazil in 2025. He has always lived in the country’s urban landscapes where the Atlantic Forest once stood. Today, less than 24% of it remains. “It always struck me how the forest is always trying to regain its space in the urban concrete,” he says. For Santi, Brazil’s urban expansion stands in stark contrast to the nature and communities that predate it. He says Indigenous peoples have long understood how to coexist with the natural world rather than oppose it. While fully adopting traditional lifestyles is unrealistic today, drawing inspiration from “many of those concepts” could guide Brazil and other rapidly growing countries toward an alternative development model, he says. Santi sees reasons to hope for the future. “There’s too much potential and an opportunity to make things better.” One of his proudest achievements at Mongabay was editing an investigation into Brazil’s carbon credit market that exposed a timber laundering scam. “We revealed something truly&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/from-the-atlantic-forest-to-the-amazon-alexandre-de-santi-on-camaraderie-and-uncovering-hidden-truths-in-brazil/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Tracking environmental crime in the Amazon: A conversation with Alexa Vélez</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/tracking-environmental-crime-in-the-amazon-a-conversation-with-alexa-velez/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/tracking-environmental-crime-in-the-amazon-a-conversation-with-alexa-velez/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>09 Apr 2026 01:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conversations with Mongabay leaders]]>
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							<![CDATA[Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Crime, Environment, Interviews, Interviews With Environmental Journalists, Journalism, and Satellite Imagery]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environmental crimes rarely occur in isolation. A road cut into a forest may appear first as a faint line in satellite imagery. Months later it becomes a corridor for timber, wildlife, and sometimes cocaine. The early stages often unfold far from capitals and rarely attract immediate scrutiny. When the evidence does emerge, it tends to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environmental crimes rarely occur in isolation. A road cut into a forest may appear first as a faint line in satellite imagery. Months later it becomes a corridor for timber, wildlife, and sometimes cocaine. The early stages often unfold far from capitals and rarely attract immediate scrutiny. When the evidence does emerge, it tends to arrive through a patchwork of sources: scientists sharing coordinates, local communities describing unfamiliar aircraft, or reporters willing to spend months tracing how a clearing became a network. Environmental journalism in Latin America has grown around precisely these kinds of fragments. The region contains some of the world’s most biodiverse landscapes and some of its most persistent environmental activities. Illegal mining, wildlife trafficking, and forest clearing often intersect with organized crime and political interests. Yet sustained reporting on these issues has historically been limited. Many large news organizations treat the environment as an occasional beat rather than a structural concern. Investigative work requires time, technical expertise, and sometimes the willingness to operate in difficult or dangerous conditions. In recent years the practice has begun to change. Satellite imagery, open databases, and new mapping tools allow reporters to track environmental change with greater precision than was possible even a decade ago. A clearing detected in a remote basin can be compared against historical imagery, connected to land concessions, and matched with field reporting. What once depended largely on eyewitness accounts now involves a blend of remote sensing, traditional reporting, and collaboration across borders. Those collaborations have become&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/tracking-environmental-crime-in-the-amazon-a-conversation-with-alexa-velez/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Why conservation needs stories of progress</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/why-conservation-needs-stories-of-progress/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/why-conservation-needs-stories-of-progress/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>07 Apr 2026 14:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Founder's briefs]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Central Africa, Central African Republic, and Congo Basin]]>
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							<![CDATA[Commentary, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Hope and optimism, Journalism, Nature-based climate solutions, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[I’m writing this from deep in the Congo rainforest after a day spent observing elephants and gorillas. The presence of such magnificent creatures is both invigorating and a reminder of how much still endures. Yet the pressures are visible, too. Logging roads push deeper each year. Poaching still threatens wildlife that once seemed unassailable. Industrial [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[I’m writing this from deep in the Congo rainforest after a day spent observing elephants and gorillas. The presence of such magnificent creatures is both invigorating and a reminder of how much still endures. Yet the pressures are visible, too. Logging roads push deeper each year. Poaching still threatens wildlife that once seemed unassailable. Industrial agriculture and mining concessions hover at the edges of protected areas. In parts of this region, violence and instability make conservation work extraordinarily difficult. The challenges are real, and far from abstract. What strikes me most, though, is something else: the persistence of the people who continue to protect these places despite such constraints. Rangers working with modest equipment and salaries. Communities experimenting with ways to sustain forests while supporting their families. Researchers and local leaders documenting wildlife populations and defending the conditions that allow them to recover. Many of these efforts operate with limited funding and little recognition. Yet over time, they accumulate into something meaningful. Conservation often advances this way. Not through singular breakthroughs, but through patient work carried out in difficult circumstances. In the Congo Basin, there are landscapes where wildlife populations have stabilized or begun to recover because people refused to accept decline as inevitable. These examples rarely make headlines. They unfold slowly and unevenly. But they demonstrate something important: when knowledge, commitment and collaboration come together, progress remains possible. Broadening the story of conservation This is the spirit behind the launch of Mongabay’s Solutions Desk. For years, environmental reporting has&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/why-conservation-needs-stories-of-progress/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Mongabay launches Solutions Desk to track what works for the planet</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/mongabay-launches-solutions-desk-to-track-what-works-for-the-planet/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Apr 2026 14:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alejandroprescottcornejo]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agroforestry, Bioenergy, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Indigenous Peoples, Journalism, Small Cats, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[Think environmental news, and the headlines tend to be bleak: extinctions, habitat loss, unrelenting emissions. And often what gets lost in all the doom and gloom is the potential for solutions to emerge — solutions that, in many cases, hold the promise of hope. Across environmental and climate actions, a wide range of stakeholders — [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Think environmental news, and the headlines tend to be bleak: extinctions, habitat loss, unrelenting emissions. And often what gets lost in all the doom and gloom is the potential for solutions to emerge — solutions that, in many cases, hold the promise of hope. Across environmental and climate actions, a wide range of stakeholders — from local communities to governments to organizations — are working to address the challenges facing nature. Yet, understanding whether these approaches actually work remains a persistent gap. In response, Mongabay has launched a new Solutions Desk to explore how people are working to address environmental problems and reveal insights into the effectiveness of practices across contexts. This new desk adopts solutions journalism, focusing on responses to complex problems, assessing evidence of outcomes, and identifying what works and what doesn’t, so that others can learn, iterate and improve. In other words, it highlights how people and institutions respond to problems about nature, rather than spotlighting solely the problems themselves. “Years of grim headlines have revealed an uncomfortable truth: when people are offered only catastrophe, many disengage. They stop reading, stop caring, and, in some cases, stop believing that anything meaningful can still be done,” says Rhett Ayers Butler, Mongabay founder and CEO. “By launching a dedicated Solutions Desk, Mongabay aims to rigorously document what’s working in conservation and climate, offering readers a sense of agency and grounded inspiration at a time when the challenges can feel overwhelming.” School of hammerhead sharks in Mikimoto, Japan. Image courtesy&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/mongabay-launches-solutions-desk-to-track-what-works-for-the-planet/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Banned but not silenced: Gerry Flynn’s commitment to uncovering the truth across the Mekong</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/banned-but-not-silenced-gerry-flynns-commitment-to-uncovering-the-truth-across-the-mekong/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Apr 2026 18:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alana Linderoth]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Cambodia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Illegal Logging, Interviews With Environmental Journalists, Journalism, and Logging]]>
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							<![CDATA[In a region where independent environmental journalism is often unwelcome, one Mongabay journalist has made a career of tackling often inconvenient truths while accepting personal risks as a necessary part of the work. Gerald “Gerry” Flynn has been based in Southeast Asia since 2017, reporting largely from Cambodia on the intersection of human rights, ecosystems [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In a region where independent environmental journalism is often unwelcome, one Mongabay journalist has made a career of tackling often inconvenient truths while accepting personal risks as a necessary part of the work. Gerald “Gerry” Flynn has been based in Southeast Asia since 2017, reporting largely from Cambodia on the intersection of human rights, ecosystems and natural resource governance. Flynn joined Mongabay as a features writer in 2023, following a Rainforest Investigations Network Fellowship with the Pulitzer Center from 2022 to 2023, during which he investigated illegal logging networks across Cambodia, with a focus on the Cardamom Mountains. Upon joining the team, he continued to investigate illegal logging, fishing, mining and land grabs. “These stories are what drew me to environmental journalism,” he says. “Getting on the ground, holding the powerful accountable, and giving voices to those who put their own lives and liberty on the line to protect their natural resources.” However, in January 2025, Flynn was denied entry and banned from Cambodia, a move seemingly in retaliation for his reporting — a setback that only cemented his confidence in evidence-based reporting as fundamental for revealing infractions against nature in autocratic societies. “The violence of the response to environmental reporting in authoritarian jurisdictions only serves to highlight the importance and value of dragging environmental crimes out of the shadows and into the cold, harsh light of public scrutiny,” he says. An investigation into a senior Cambodian official’s illegal logging operation meant taking to the waters of the Sekong River&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/banned-but-not-silenced-gerry-flynns-commitment-to-uncovering-the-truth-across-the-mekong/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How underinvesting in information threatens our collective well-being</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/how-underinvesting-in-information-threatens-our-collective-well-being/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/how-underinvesting-in-information-threatens-our-collective-well-being/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>02 Apr 2026 14:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Founder's briefs]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Commentary, Environment, information ecosystem, Journalism, and philanthropy]]>
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							<![CDATA[This essay is adapted from the article, &#8220;Information as Civic Infrastructure—and How Philanthropy Can Support the Ecosystem,&#8221; which was originally published in Nonprofit Quarterly on March 3, 2026. Philanthropy has grown accustomed to funding the &#8220;final&#8221; solution. It is comfortable buying land, backing new technologies, and underwriting the services or policies that address urgent problems. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This essay is adapted from the article, &#8220;Information as Civic Infrastructure—and How Philanthropy Can Support the Ecosystem,&#8221; which was originally published in Nonprofit Quarterly on March 3, 2026. Philanthropy has grown accustomed to funding the &#8220;final&#8221; solution. It is comfortable buying land, backing new technologies, and underwriting the services or policies that address urgent problems. Yet, it often overlooks the very social foundation those solutions stand on: a shared, reliable information environment. Today, that foundation is cracking. This fragility extends beyond the spread of falsehoods. It appears as indifference to accuracy, fatigue from complexity, and a growing difficulty in judging what deserves attention. In many places, facts still exist, but they travel poorly. They arrive late and out of context, their credibility stripped away before they even reach the public. The result is not always disagreement; more often it is disengagement. For donors concerned with climate change, biodiversity loss, public health, or democratic governance, this crumbling foundation puts even the best-funded programs at risk—a blind spot many donors haven&#8217;t yet addressed. Programs may be well designed and generously funded, yet fail to gain traction because the informational terrain beneath them has shifted. Projects that rely on public oversight, regulatory follow-through, or market response depend on the availability of trusted, usable information. Environmental harm offers a clear illustration. Deforestation, overfishing, and illegal mining tend to accelerate where monitoring is weak and scrutiny sporadic. This is not because laws do not exist, but because violations go unrecorded or unnoticed. When documentation does&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/how-underinvesting-in-information-threatens-our-collective-well-being/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Linda Dakin-Grimm and Geo Chen join Mongabay&#8217;s board as it expands global coverage</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/linda-dakin-grimm-and-geo-chen-join-mongabays-board-as-it-expands-global-coverage/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Apr 2026 00:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environment, Journalism, and Mongabay.org]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay is pleased to announce that Linda Dakin-Grimm and Geo Chen have joined its board of directors, strengthening its capacity to advance its mission of producing high-impact environmental journalism. Dakin-Grimm joins the board following a distinguished legal career as a senior consulting partner at Milbank LLP, where she handled complex litigation across U.S. courts before [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay is pleased to announce that Linda Dakin-Grimm and Geo Chen have joined its board of directors, strengthening its capacity to advance its mission of producing high-impact environmental journalism. Dakin-Grimm joins the board following a distinguished legal career as a senior consulting partner at Milbank LLP, where she handled complex litigation across U.S. courts before focusing on pro bono immigration work. Her experience navigating legal systems and public-interest issues aligns with Mongabay’s role in supporting transparency, accountability and informed governance. “At this moment in history, I cannot imagine a more important mission than Mongabay’s journalism, informing the public and raising awareness worldwide about conservation of ecosystems and wildlife,” Dakin-Grimm said. “I am honored to be part of this board.” Chen brings experience at the intersection of philanthropy, finance and impact investing. He is principal of the Huang Chen Foundation and his family office, Three Quays Holdings, where he supports initiatives in conservation, climate and humanitarian response, alongside investments across global markets. His perspective reflects a growing recognition among investors that credible, independent information is essential to effective decision-making in an era of environmental risk. “I deeply admire Mongabay’s work and have been impressed by their ability to grow their audience and their impact,” Chen said. “I’m excited to support them as they continue to scale and innovate!” Their appointments come at a time of continued growth for Mongabay. “We are building on an excellent group of board advisors, now covering more deeply our global footprint” said Holt Thrasher, Mongabay’s Board&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/linda-dakin-grimm-and-geo-chen-join-mongabays-board-as-it-expands-global-coverage/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Juliette Chapalain on building networks and nurturing talent to tell Africa’s environmental stories</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/juliette-chapalain-on-building-networks-and-nurturing-talent-to-tell-africas-environmental-stories/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Mar 2026 19:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alana Linderoth]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Interviews, Interviews With Environmental Journalists, and Journalism]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2023, Mongabay expanded its coverage of environmental news in Africa by launching a new bureau, Mongabay Africa, to address news for the continent multilingually, beginning with French and English. This expansion identified a need for multimedia journalists with real-world experience on the continent in its main languages in priority areas. Having carved out a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2023, Mongabay expanded its coverage of environmental news in Africa by launching a new bureau, Mongabay Africa, to address news for the continent multilingually, beginning with French and English. This expansion identified a need for multimedia journalists with real-world experience on the continent in its main languages in priority areas. Having carved out a journalism career spanning more than a decade with a focus on African economic, social and environmental issues, which included stints in Côte d’Ivoire and Togo, for Juliette Chapalain, the opportunity to join Mongabay as fellowship and multimedia editor made perfect sense. Throughout her years, she gained versatile experience as a reporter, writer, videojournalist, producer, and director with notable French-language media outlets such as TV5 Monde, Arte, France 2, TF1, Mediapart and Libération, and later at BBC News in London. Now, Chapalain splits her time between leading the Africa bureau’s multimedia team and guiding environmental journalists through the French-language fellowship program. “What I love about my work is that it’s editorial, creative, and also very entrepreneurial at the same time,” she says. Chapalain (top row, second left) with the third cohort, &#8220;Plumes vertes de l&#8217;espoir,&#8221; of the African French-language fellowship program, during an online workshop in 2025. Image courtesy of Juliette Chapalain. Through the fellowship, Chapalain also works to build a global network of highly skilled journalists focused on finding impactful stories. She has learned several lessons that she transmits to the fellows under her care: “Build and expand a trustful network of solid and diverse&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/juliette-chapalain-on-building-networks-and-nurturing-talent-to-tell-africas-environmental-stories/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bringing storytelling to science: John Cannon’s approach to reporting on nature</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/bringing-storytelling-to-science-john-cannons-approach-to-reporting-on-nature/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/bringing-storytelling-to-science-john-cannons-approach-to-reporting-on-nature/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>05 Mar 2026 17:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo]]>
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						<![CDATA[Alana Linderoth]]>
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							<![CDATA[For John Cannon, reporting on nature begins with a story grounded in the truth. “Evidence-based reporting [is] at the heart of what we do at Mongabay,” he says. “I believe it’s perhaps the most profound way we can contribute to making things better.” With a biology degree from Ohio State University and a graduate degree [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For John Cannon, reporting on nature begins with a story grounded in the truth. “Evidence-based reporting [is] at the heart of what we do at Mongabay,” he says. “I believe it’s perhaps the most profound way we can contribute to making things better.” With a biology degree from Ohio State University and a graduate degree in science writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz, Cannon has dedicated himself to this belief, reporting from around the world, including several countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. He also was a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger. That background fuels Cannon’s curiosity as a journalist. “I find science’s disentangling of life’s mysteries on Earth incredibly inspiring, especially as we try to find our way out of the crises of climate change and biodiversity loss,” he says. Ultimately, his time is spent “connecting conservation science with the daily lives of people affected by the problems that face us today” as well as “finding ways to illustrate how interconnected we all are.” Cannon hiking through Dogon country in Mali, 2011. Image courtesy of Anne-Claire Benoit. Today, based in California with his wife and two cats adopted while living in Gaza, Cannon balances his work at Mongabay with a love of mountain biking, skiing and hiking, including taking on Spain’s Camino de Santiago and the Pacific Crest Trail across the U.S. and Canada. Cannon began writing for Mongabay as a correspondent in 2014, joined full-time in 2016, and is now a staff features writer. His&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/bringing-storytelling-to-science-john-cannons-approach-to-reporting-on-nature/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Who actually uses environmental journalism — and why it matters</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/who-actually-uses-environmental-journalism-and-why-it-matters/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/who-actually-uses-environmental-journalism-and-why-it-matters/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>27 Feb 2026 00:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Analysis, Environment, Journalism, and Mongabay.org]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2025, Mongabay recorded 111 million unique visitors to its websites, a 46% increase on the year before. Pageviews rose by 72%. Those figures capture direct readership only. They exclude circulation through newsletters, messaging apps and social platforms, as well as republication by more than 100 partner outlets. Yet volume is not the metric we [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2025, Mongabay recorded 111 million unique visitors to its websites, a 46% increase on the year before. Pageviews rose by 72%. Those figures capture direct readership only. They exclude circulation through newsletters, messaging apps and social platforms, as well as republication by more than 100 partner outlets. Yet volume is not the metric we care about most. For our purposes, scale is most meaningful when considered alongside use and influence. Mongabay is not built primarily to maximize general-audience traffic. Pageviews indicate that a page was opened, but on their own they reveal little about whether it informed a decision or changed a course of action. The question I return to is simple: who used the reporting, and for what purpose? Mongabay’s theory of change rests on a different premise: journalism matters when it shapes decisions. What matters most is who reads a story and whether they are in a position to act. Much of our journalism is designed for practitioners, policymakers, researchers, advocates, journalists, and others whose choices shape environmental outcomes. This focus reflects how environmental governance typically operates—through interconnected networks of public agencies, companies, investors, media, non-profit and civil-society groups, researchers, conservation practitioners, courts, and community organizations. The most consequential reader is rarely the most casual one. The geographic distribution of our audience hints at how this works in practice. Asia and the Americas each accounted for more than 46 million unique visitors. In absolute terms, those regions dominate. In per capita terms, the story differs, and that&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/who-actually-uses-environmental-journalism-and-why-it-matters/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>What is lost when environmental coverage is cut</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/what-is-lost-when-environmental-coverage-is-cut/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Feb 2026 17:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Commentary, Environment, Green, information ecosystem, and Journalism]]>
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							<![CDATA[Word that the Washington Post would be cutting roughly one-third of its staff spread quickly this week. Among those affected were at least a dozen reporters, editors, and visual journalists covering climate and the environment. The cuts will materially reduce the Post’s climate coverage. They come just over three years after the paper significantly expanded [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Word that the Washington Post would be cutting roughly one-third of its staff spread quickly this week. Among those affected were at least a dozen reporters, editors, and visual journalists covering climate and the environment. The cuts will materially reduce the Post’s climate coverage. They come just over three years after the paper significantly expanded that desk, nearly tripling its size and describing climate change as “perhaps the century’s biggest story.” At the time, then–executive editor Sally Buzbee framed the investment not as a specialty beat, but as a recognition that climate touches nearly every domain the newsroom covers. What has changed is not the scale of the problem, but the political, economic, and institutional context in which it is reported. The layoffs were first reported by the New York Times as part of a broader retrenchment that will see more than 300 journalists lose their jobs. After the cuts, the Post’s climate desk is expected to retain only a handful of reporters. This is not simply a story about one newsroom. It reflects a wider weakening of the institutions responsible for producing and maintaining a shared factual record, particularly on subjects that are politically contested and structurally complex. Under ordinary conditions, information performs an underappreciated coordinating function. It allows people to orient themselves, to understand what is happening, and to trace responsibility across systems that are otherwise hard to see. When it works, it often recedes into the background. Its absence becomes evident only when facts arrive late, circulate&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/what-is-lost-when-environmental-coverage-is-cut/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>From Kigali to the Congo Basin: Aimable Twahirwa’s path in environmental journalism</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/from-kigali-to-the-congo-basin-aimable-twahirwas-path-in-environmental-journalism/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Feb 2026 01:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alana Linderoth]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, and Rwanda]]>
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							<![CDATA[Interviews, Interviews With Environmental Journalists, and Journalism]]>
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							<![CDATA[As Mongabay deepens its reporting across Africa’s biodiversity and climate challenges, award-winning senior science journalist Aimable Twahirwa is bringing his decades of experience to ensure the region’s stories reach international audiences. For Twahirwa, journalism serves as a tool to not only report on facts, but strengthen general audiences and the media’s resilience. “Countering misinformation and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As Mongabay deepens its reporting across Africa’s biodiversity and climate challenges, award-winning senior science journalist Aimable Twahirwa is bringing his decades of experience to ensure the region’s stories reach international audiences. For Twahirwa, journalism serves as a tool to not only report on facts, but strengthen general audiences and the media’s resilience. “Countering misinformation and science denial is critical to bolster public trust and fortify the news ecosystem against manipulation,” Twahirwa says. Based in Kigali, Rwanda, Twahirwa draws on 25 years of science and environmental journalism experience for his role as a Central and West Africa staff writer at Mongabay. In that time, he’s covered a wide range of development-related issues in Rwanda, Central Africa and East Africa, with a growing interest in wildlife, biodiversity and nature. At its core, his day-to-day reporting is inspired by the potential to drive change. “I like telling impact stories covering topics that call for action, which can then be shared with those who are in a position to do something about it,” he says. Before joining Mongabay in September 2024, Twahirwa published in-depth feature stories for regional and international media outlets and global news agencies. His work has appeared in Nature, Inter Press Service, AllAfrica, Thomson Reuters Foundation (formerly known as AlertNet), SciDev.Net and many other platforms, where he has contributed to long-term reporting projects across multimedia formats. Twahirwa at Rwanda’s flagship Gorilla Naming Ceremony, at the foothills of Volcanoes National Park in the village of Kinigi in northern Rwanda. Image courtesy of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/from-kigali-to-the-congo-basin-aimable-twahirwas-path-in-environmental-journalism/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>On Mongabay’s legacy</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/on-mongabays-legacy/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Jan 2026 19:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Commentary, Environment, information ecosystem, Journalism, and Mongabay.org]]>
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							<![CDATA[I am often asked what Mongabay’s legacy is, or what it might turn out to be. The question usually comes with an assumption that a quarter-century of publishing should yield a tidy answer. It does not. Mongabay did not begin with a theory of media change, nor with an ambition to redefine environmental journalism. It [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[I am often asked what Mongabay’s legacy is, or what it might turn out to be. The question usually comes with an assumption that a quarter-century of publishing should yield a tidy answer. It does not. Mongabay did not begin with a theory of media change, nor with an ambition to redefine environmental journalism. It began with a website, a fascination with tropical forests, and a sense that large parts of the world’s environmental story were being poorly covered or not covered at all. Environmental journalism long predates Mongabay. It has roots in natural history writing, investigative reporting, and advocacy journalism, each with its own traditions and strengths. Mongabay did not invent the field. What it did do, gradually and sometimes unintentionally, was to occupy a space that many larger outlets were leaving behind: sustained, detailed reporting on ecosystems and communities far from centers of power, produced with the assumption that these places mattered in their own right. For much of its existence, Mongabay has focused on what happens at the margins of global attention. Tropical forests, coral reefs, small island fisheries, Indigenous territories, and remote mining frontiers rarely compete well with elections, wars, or financial crises. Yet these places often sit at the center of planetary risk. Covering them well requires time, local knowledge, and a tolerance for stories that do not resolve neatly. Baobab tree in Western Madagascar. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler. One element of Mongabay’s legacy lies in persistence. Many news organizations cover environmental issues episodically,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/on-mongabays-legacy/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Wildlife attacks and strange animal behavior — fake images spark conservation concerns</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/wildlife-attacks-and-strange-animal-behavior-fake-images-spark-conservation-concerns/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/wildlife-attacks-and-strange-animal-behavior-fake-images-spark-conservation-concerns/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>28 Jan 2026 11:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sean Mowbray]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Biodiversity, Conservation, Environment, Journalism, Photos, Social Media, Technology, Videos, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[When Houssein Rayaleh received a WhatsApp message from a local ecotourism guide showing footage of a lioness in Djibouti, he was excited. The video showed the big cat running directly in front of a moving vehicle along Route Nationale 11, a road that Rayaleh knows well. This was shocking. Lions are officially extinct here: There [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When Houssein Rayaleh received a WhatsApp message from a local ecotourism guide showing footage of a lioness in Djibouti, he was excited. The video showed the big cat running directly in front of a moving vehicle along Route Nationale 11, a road that Rayaleh knows well. This was shocking. Lions are officially extinct here: There are no records of Panthera leo in this Horn of Africa country. “I said whoa, we have a lion in Djibouti,” says Rayaleh, the CEO and founder of the NGO Djibouti Nature. So he forwarded the video on to the Cat Specialist Group at the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority. “As it happened, it was a fake,” Rayaleh says. Certain details spring out in the video identifying it as an AI-generated video, says Urs Breitenmoser, co-chair of the group. “The lion behaves very strangely and there are also a few sequences where you can actually see that it is morphologically not quite correct.” https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2026/01/26153828/AI-generatedVideo_1.mp4 This  video of a lion sighting in Djibouti was debunked, created using AI. Lions are locally extinct there. Video courtesy of Houssein Rayaleh. Creator unknown. Luke Hunter, executive director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s big cats program, described the video as “obviously very fake” after viewing it. But to the untrained eye, these details are nearly impossible to spot, and some damage may already be done, Rayaleh says. It may have spread far and wide across the country via WhatsApp and social media channels. He received messages, including questions from&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/wildlife-attacks-and-strange-animal-behavior-fake-images-spark-conservation-concerns/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Staying with the story: Isabel Esterman on long-term nature reporting in Southeast Asia</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/staying-with-the-story-isabel-esterman-on-long-term-nature-reporting-in-southeast-asia/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Jan 2026 16:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo]]>
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						<![CDATA[Alejandroprescottcornejo]]>
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							<![CDATA[Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Environment, Interviews, Interviews With Environmental Journalists, and Journalism]]>
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							<![CDATA[For Isabel Esterman, impact in her journalism doesn’t come from a single ground-breaking story, but from several years of sustained reporting that gradually reshape global understanding. “What I think about is the topics we’ve really stayed on and broken ground on that have changed the way people think and talk about issues,” she says. “It’s [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For Isabel Esterman, impact in her journalism doesn’t come from a single ground-breaking story, but from several years of sustained reporting that gradually reshape global understanding. “What I think about is the topics we’ve really stayed on and broken ground on that have changed the way people think and talk about issues,” she says. “It’s not one story, but this collective body of reporting, and staying on it has been significant.” This long-term approach has yielded tangible outcomes from many of Esterman’s projects, from scrutinizing carbon credit land deals in Malaysia to raising awareness about ritual use as a previously overlooked driver of ape trafficking in Africa. A major example is Mongabay’s reporting on the Sumatran rhino. When Esterman and her team began covering the species, official estimates suggested more than 100 remained. But Mongabay’s investigations indicated numbers closer to 30 in the wild. Thanks to this breadth of coverage, today’s official estimates now reflect this reality. ”Being able to have a more realistic figure to work with makes a big difference for conservation,” she says. Since joining Mongabay in 2016, Esterman has become one of the organization’s longest-tenured staff, and now serves as managing editor for Southeast Asia. Her work involves navigating shrinking press freedoms and safety risks that shape what can be reported and how. When working with local journalists in Southeast Asia, risk assessment is essential to ensuring environmental stories are covered safely and responsibly. “That means responsibility to our reporters — almost all are based in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/staying-with-the-story-isabel-esterman-on-long-term-nature-reporting-in-southeast-asia/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Mongabay launches Newswire Desk to deliver bite-sized, accessible news on nature to diverse audiences</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/mongabay-launches-newswire-desk-to-deliver-bite-sized-accessible-news-on-nature-to-diverse-audiences/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Jan 2026 12:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alejandroprescottcornejo]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environment and Journalism]]>
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							<![CDATA[With information moving faster than ever, the public’s need for credible, accessible environmental reporting has never been greater. In response, Mongabay has launched its Newswire Desk, specializing in short, written and multimedia content that brings news from nature’s frontline to non-specialist audiences. “Improving access to information isn’t only accomplished by publishing online for free. It’s [&#8230;]]]>
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					<title>Tatiana Schlossberg, environmental journalist, has died, aged 35</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/tatiana-schlossberg-environmental-journalist-has-died-aged-35/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Dec 2025 22:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[She wrote about damage that accumulated slowly, in places most people did not look, and about the systems that allowed it to be ignored. When her own life was overtaken by illness, she approached that, too, as a problem to be understood rather than transcended. She died today, aged 35, after a year and a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[She wrote about damage that accumulated slowly, in places most people did not look, and about the systems that allowed it to be ignored. When her own life was overtaken by illness, she approached that, too, as a problem to be understood rather than transcended. She died today, aged 35, after a year and a half spent moving between hospital rooms and home, and between reporting and waiting. For much of her career she worked as an environmental journalist, explaining climate change and biodiversity loss without relying on apocalyptic framing. Her reporting for The New York Times favored mechanisms over exhortation. She was interested in how harm became normalized: how energy use hid inside data centers, how consumption displaced pollution elsewhere, how environmental cost was made abstract enough to live with. She resisted the consolations of individual virtue, arguing instead that climate change was sustained by systems that rewarded convenience and obscured responsibility. That reporter was Tatiana Schlossberg. In 2019 she published Inconspicuous Consumption, a book that traced the environmental consequences of ordinary life, not to assign blame but to show how difficult it had become to opt out of damage once it was built into infrastructure and supply chains. That same method shaped the essay she published in The New Yorker in November 2025, announcing that she had terminal cancer. The diagnosis came hours after the birth of her second child in May 2024, when a routine blood test showed a white-cell count that could not be dismissed. The&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/tatiana-schlossberg-environmental-journalist-has-died-aged-35/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>2025: A year of consequence for Mongabay’s journalism</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/2025-a-year-of-consequence-for-mongabays-journalism/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Dec 2025 01:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Environment, Journalism, and Mongabay.org]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2025, environmental journalism faced a familiar paradox. The evidence was clearer than ever, but attention was harder to hold. Governments softened commitments and cut funding for programs many hold dear. Corporate language grew smoother as obligations narrowed. Public fatigue was real, shaped by anxiety over the state of the planet, political polarization, a deteriorating [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2025, environmental journalism faced a familiar paradox. The evidence was clearer than ever, but attention was harder to hold. Governments softened commitments and cut funding for programs many hold dear. Corporate language grew smoother as obligations narrowed. Public fatigue was real, shaped by anxiety over the state of the planet, political polarization, a deteriorating information environment, and pressure on democratic institutions and press freedom. Yet decisions with long tails were still being made—often discreetly, locally, and with incomplete information. This was the context in which Mongabay worked. 2025 also brought losses that landed close to home, including the deaths of Ochieng Ogodo, Mongabay’s East Africa editor, and Jane Goodall, a longtime Advisory Council member whose work reshaped how the world understands and values animals. Their passing sits within a broader year of loss for environmental defenders and conservation practitioners. Mongabay marked many of these lives through dozens of tributes, aiming to honor individuals by making their work visible beyond their immediate circles, so others could carry it forward. That approach reflects Mongabay’s growing emphasis on solutions reporting as a way to show where progress is possible, even when the odds seem long. As an organization, Mongabay will publish more than 7,300 stories across eight languages in 2025. Two of those—Swahili and Bengali—were new this year. Traffic is not impact in itself. But reach matters when it puts information in the hands of people who can use it. We expect website readership to exceed 110 million unique visitors in 2025,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/2025-a-year-of-consequence-for-mongabays-journalism/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>The top 10 most listened-to podcasts of 2025 from Mongabay</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/the-top-10-most-listened-to-podcasts-of-2025-from-mongabay/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Dec 2025 22:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mike DiGirolamo]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[With 2025 drawing to a close, Mongabay’s flagship podcast has added more than 40 episodes over the course of the year. From professors and authors to Mongabay staffers, conservationists and advocates, we’ve hosted a diverse group of individuals, detailing their investigations, research, advocacy philosophy — all in service to shining a light on the existential [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[With 2025 drawing to a close, Mongabay’s flagship podcast has added more than 40 episodes over the course of the year. From professors and authors to Mongabay staffers, conservationists and advocates, we’ve hosted a diverse group of individuals, detailing their investigations, research, advocacy philosophy — all in service to shining a light on the existential and environmental threats humanity faces The following are the top 10 interviews listeners stayed with the longest. These audience favorites are also among my own, so if you want to hear some of the best conversations from 2025, start here. As Africa eyes protected areas expansion of 1 million square miles, concerns over enforcement persist In one of the most listened-to episodes of the year, Mongabay features writer Ashoka Mukpo takes the audience to Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda, where park rangers are alleged to have carried out extrajudicial killings of suspected bushmeat poachers. With an additional million square miles of protected land to be established across Africa, “the amount [of] violence and aggressive enforcement” has “led to a lot of mistrust,” Mukpo says. Listen: What environmental history reveals about our current ‘planetary risk’ Sunil Amrith, professor of history at Yale University, explains the planetary risks posed by the current global political landscape and what history has to teach us about it. Amrith offers listeners a glimpse into the past and the unique urgency humanity faces in this moment. Listen: Listening to whales is key to their conservation How does listening to extremely low&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/the-top-10-most-listened-to-podcasts-of-2025-from-mongabay/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Rethinking how we talk about conservation—and why it matters</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/rethinking-how-we-talk-about-conservation-and-why-it-matters/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Dec 2025 21:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Analysis, Conservation, Environment, Forests, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Health, Hope and optimism, information ecosystem, Journalism, Planetary Health, Remote Sensing, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Founder&#8217;s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For a movement so often framed by loss—and confronting a particularly difficult moment—conservation is relearning how to talk about itself. This shift may signal something deeper than messaging: a recalibration of what persuades people to care, to fund, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Founder&#8217;s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For a movement so often framed by loss—and confronting a particularly difficult moment—conservation is relearning how to talk about itself. This shift may signal something deeper than messaging: a recalibration of what persuades people to care, to fund, and to act, especially as the world edges toward 2030 amid ecological strain, political volatility, and thinning public trust. A few months ago, I put out an invitation to the conservation sector: share how you are navigating this moment, which many have described as a period of crisis. That invitation resurfaced recently when Crystal DiMiceli referenced it during a fireside chat with me at the Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leaders’ 20th anniversary event in Washington, D.C. DiMiceli asked what lessons are emerging so far. One of the most consistent responses has centered on communication: “Less crisis, more agency.” Not because the crisis has abated, but because alarm on its own no longer mobilizes as reliably as it once did. If anything, it exhausts. Years of grim headlines have revealed an uncomfortable truth: when people are offered only catastrophe, many disengage. They stop reading, stop caring, and, in some cases, stop believing that anything meaningful can still be done. What seems to be gaining ground instead is a focus on success—often partial, sometimes fragile, but demonstrable. Not triumphalism, but optimism grounded in evidence. Conservation framed as something people actively do, rather than something that merely happens to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/rethinking-how-we-talk-about-conservation-and-why-it-matters/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>The value of journalism in the AI era</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/the-value-of-journalism-in-the-ai-era/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Dec 2025 23:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence, Environment, Green, information ecosystem, Journalism, Mongabay.org, and Technology]]>
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							<![CDATA[The arrival of generative artificial intelligence has unsettled journalism in familiar ways. Traffic models look fragile. Copyright is contested. The marginal cost of producing words has collapsed. It is tempting to conclude that news is becoming less valuable just as machines become more fluent. So far for Mongabay, the opposite is happening. AI systems are [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The arrival of generative artificial intelligence has unsettled journalism in familiar ways. Traffic models look fragile. Copyright is contested. The marginal cost of producing words has collapsed. It is tempting to conclude that news is becoming less valuable just as machines become more fluent. So far for Mongabay, the opposite is happening. AI systems are adept at rearranging existing information. They summarize, paraphrase, and answer questions at speed. What they cannot do is observe the world directly, make accountable judgments, or create new facts. Those limits are not incidental. They are built in. And they place journalism in a more central position than before. This has become clearer to me in an unexpected way. At Mongabay, a nonprofit newsroom focused on environmental reporting, we chose not to block generative AI systems from accessing our work. Many publishers have done the opposite, citing copyright concerns, energy use, or fear of disintermediation. Those concerns are understandable, especially for commercial outlets whose business models rely on restricting access. But as a nonprofit focused on impact, our calculus is different. We already allow other outlets to republish our reporting as part of our impact strategy. If AI tools were going to answer questions about forests, fisheries, conservation, or biodiversity, it seemed better that those answers be informed by reported journalism than by thinner sources. I assumed this would reduce traffic. If people could get what they needed from an AI interface, why would they click through? That is not what happened. According to our&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/the-value-of-journalism-in-the-ai-era/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Mongabay Latam wins the Global Shining Light Award for investigative journalism</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/mongabay-latam-wins-the-global-shining-light-award-for-investigative-journalism/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Nov 2025 15:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Founder&#8217;s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Few newsrooms venture far into the darker corners of the Amazon. Fewer still return with evidence detailed enough to shift policy. Mongabay Latam managed both, and the feat has now earned the outlet a Global Shining Light Award [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Founder&#8217;s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Few newsrooms venture far into the darker corners of the Amazon. Fewer still return with evidence detailed enough to shift policy. Mongabay Latam managed both, and the feat has now earned the outlet a Global Shining Light Award in the Large Newsroom category at the Global Investigative Journalism Network&#8217;s bi-annual conference (GIJC) in Kuala Lumpur. Investigations from Nigeria, Egypt, Peru, and Mexico were recognized at the Global Shining Light Award ceremony at GIJC25. Image: Suzanne Lee, Alt Studio for GIJN The prize honors reporting done under genuine threat. And in this case, the danger was not abstract. The project took shape in regions where reporters think twice before lingering, where a wrong turn can bring you face to face with the emissaries of a drug economy that has seeped into Indigenous territories. Mongabay Latam’s team spent a full year mapping a network of clandestine airstrips cut into remote forests in Peru, areas where organized crime has expanded its reach and where Indigenous leaders have been killed for resisting it. Fifteen such leaders have been murdered in recent years; dozens more live under threat. What the journalists uncovered was bigger than local rumor. After a long phase of information requests, travel, and interviews with more than 60 sources, they identified 67 illegal runways in three regions: Ucayali, Huánuco, and Pasco. Thirty of the strips lie inside Indigenous territories. One cluster in Atalaya, a province&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/mongabay-latam-wins-the-global-shining-light-award-for-investigative-journalism/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bearing witness to Indonesia’s environmental challenges: Sapariah Saturi</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/bearing-witness-to-indonesias-environmental-challenges-sapariah-saturi/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Nov 2025 20:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesia’s environmental issues often feel too vast to take in at once. A nation said to have more than 17,000 islands, it contains the world’s third-largest tropical rainforest and one of its busiest commodity frontiers. For many Indonesians, the story of modern development is told not in charts but in the air they breathe. Some [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesia’s environmental issues often feel too vast to take in at once. A nation said to have more than 17,000 islands, it contains the world’s third-largest tropical rainforest and one of its busiest commodity frontiers. For many Indonesians, the story of modern development is told not in charts but in the air they breathe. Some remember childhoods spent under yellowed skies, the sting of peat-fire smoke seeping through school windows, the sweet-acrid smell that clings to clothes long after the fires fade. Others know the slow rise of the sea by the way the ground squelches underfoot in places where it didn’t use to. Or the way Jakarta’s air tastes metallic on mornings when the pollution monitors glow red. For Sapariah “Arie” Saturi, these scenes are not abstractions. They are a biography. She grew up along the Kapuas River in West Kalimantan, a region shaped by the uneasy coexistence of forest, peatland, and the ambitions of logging firms, palm-oil giants, and mining companies. Fires arrived each dry season in the 1990s, and with them the haze: darkened skies, eyes that burned after a few minutes outdoors, a kind of muffled stillness that settles over the landscape when the smoke grows dense enough to dull sound and color alike. Masks were rare then. Children simply endured. Sapariah Saturi. Photo courtesy of Saturi. Today Arie lives in Jakarta, where the problems are different but no less tangible. The capital sinks a little each year, traffic is a consistent source of frustration, and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/bearing-witness-to-indonesias-environmental-challenges-sapariah-saturi/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>The secret to building a global newsroom? Lead with impact, says Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/the-secret-to-building-a-global-newsroom-lead-with-impact-says-mongabay-founder-rhett-ayers-butler/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Nov 2025 15:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Alejandro Prescott-CornejoRhett Ayers Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[“We only get so much time on this planet, and I want to make the most of it.” That sense of urgency has driven Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett Ayers Butler since his teens, when he visited a rainforest in Borneo. Later on, he learned that what had once been a teeming ecosystem full of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[“We only get so much time on this planet, and I want to make the most of it.” That sense of urgency has driven Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett Ayers Butler since his teens, when he visited a rainforest in Borneo. Later on, he learned that what had once been a teeming ecosystem full of the sounds of orangutans and hornbills had been completely destroyed. This experience marked a turning point that led him to establish Mongabay in 1999. “I wanted to help people see the connection between their own lives and what was happening in faraway forests, and to do it through credible information rather than advocacy,” he says. Butler envisioned Mongabay as more than a news outlet, but as a tool for protecting nature. “The idea was to make knowledge accessible and free, and to show that credible reporting could be a form of conservation in itself,” he says. In 2025, Butler received two honors for his work at Mongabay. First, a place on the Forbes Sustainability Leaders list – which honors 50 global leaders working to combat the climate crisis, alongside figures such as naturalist David Attenborough, Brazilian environment minister Marina Silva and Kenyan climate leader Wanjira Mathai. And second, the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Henry Shaw Medal, one of the oldest and most prestigious awards to recognize significant contributions to botanical research, horticulture and conservation. Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees chair Michael Stern, left, and president and director Dr. Lúcia G. Lohmann, right, presenting Butler with&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/the-secret-to-building-a-global-newsroom-lead-with-impact-says-mongabay-founder-rhett-ayers-butler/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Early-career journalists join the next wave of environmental reporting (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/early-career-journalists-join-the-next-wave-of-environmental-reporting-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Nov 2025 15:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Shradha Triveni]]>
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						<![CDATA[Karen Coates]]>
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							<![CDATA[Letters to the Future]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, India, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Air Pollution, Journalism, Media, Pollution, and Social Media]]>
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							<![CDATA[&#160; English poet Thomas Gray famously wrote, “where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise.” He wasn’t particularly speaking of journalists or of Earth’s precarious future. I believe that ignorance is the enemy of journalism, it is no bliss, but the very thing we are meant to expose. Perhaps ignorance is an ally of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In this series, Our Letters to the Future, the sixth cohort of Mongabay’s Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellows share their views on environmental journalism, conservation and the future for their generation, amid multiple planetary crises. Each commentary is a personal reflection, based on individual fellows’ experiences in their home communities and the insights gained through the past six months of the fellowship. The series spans the Global South — Malaysia, India, Colombia, Brazil, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo — showcasing a broad diversity of ideas and the common ground these young environmental journalists share as they embark on their careers. &nbsp; English poet Thomas Gray famously wrote, “where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise.” He wasn’t particularly speaking of journalists or of Earth’s precarious future. I believe that ignorance is the enemy of journalism, it is no bliss, but the very thing we are meant to expose. Perhaps ignorance is an ally of politics and the greatest of all blisses for capitalists. As I write this, Delhi gasps for breath. How can one ignore that? Delhi, one of the world’s most polluted cities in the world’s most populous nation, and a mirror to our collective neglect. This is just an isolated example. There’s more to the story of global environmental crises. But the question I’m most often asked by friends and family isn’t, “What will you do about it?” but “Why do you care?” . People do yoga early morning at the Lodhi garden as&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/early-career-journalists-join-the-next-wave-of-environmental-reporting-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Strong ethics set journalists apart in a changing information landscape (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/ethics-are-what-set-journalists-apart-in-a-changing-information-landscape-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Nov 2025 14:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Lee Kwai Han]]>
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						<![CDATA[Karen Coates]]>
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							<![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Journalism, and Media]]>
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							<![CDATA[&#160; “What‘s wrong with the media?” I texted a friend on WhatsApp in July 2021. That was during the COVID-19 pandemic, when we were constantly flooded with information about infection cases around us, changes in movement restriction rules and vaccination plans. However, we were both getting frustrated with the false information and sensational headlines that [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In this series, Our Letters to the Future, the sixth cohort of Mongabay’s Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellows share their views on environmental journalism, conservation and the future for their generation, amid multiple planetary crises. Each commentary is a personal reflection, based on individual fellows’ experiences in their home communities and the insights gained through the past six months of the fellowship. The series spans the Global South — Malaysia, India, Colombia, Brazil, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo — showcasing a broad diversity of ideas and the common ground these young environmental journalists share as they embark on their careers. &nbsp; “What‘s wrong with the media?” I texted a friend on WhatsApp in July 2021. That was during the COVID-19 pandemic, when we were constantly flooded with information about infection cases around us, changes in movement restriction rules and vaccination plans. However, we were both getting frustrated with the false information and sensational headlines that we encountered frequently. At that time, I was not a journalist and never had I thought of becoming one. But now, I strive to be the journalist that I once longed for to help me make sense of the confusing world. Yet, who are journalists? The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a journalist as “a person employed by a newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station to gather, write, or report news.” Searching on other online dictionaries yields similar results. But in the digital age, anyone can gather and publish information online, in text,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/ethics-are-what-set-journalists-apart-in-a-changing-information-landscape-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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