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People in the Amazon rainforest understory. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

A blueprint for communicating about the Amazon rainforest (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Nov 2025
Mountain gorillas by Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo for Mongabay.

Mongabay staffer shares the joy and impact of wildlife photography

Mike DiGirolamo 30 Sep 2025
Lolita Cabrera (Maya K’iche’), an Indigenous rights activist from Guatemala. Photo by Jamie Malcom-Brown/ Cultural Survival.

Bridging Indigenous and Western knowledge with science and radio

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 24 Sep 2025
Kavantissa, a regal tusker considered Sri Lanka’s largest elephant, stands more than 3 meters (10 feet) in height. He faces the risk of being killed due to his habit of roaming close to human settlements. Image courtesy of Gimantha.

It’s time to update the language of human-wildlife interactions (commentary)

Tracie McKinney 14 Aug 2025
Emergent tree in the Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

To change the environment, change the narrative

Mike DiGirolamo 15 Jul 2025
Sumaco volcano in Ecuador at sunset. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Rethinking carbon: The climate movement needs to be a human one, says Paul Hawken

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 1 Apr 2025
A captive Sumatran tiger.

Volunteer radio station brings old media to remote Sumatran tiger habitat

Suryadi 18 Feb 2025
As he stepped carefully along the seafloor in the warm shallows of French Polynesia, I could hardly tell where the boy ended and the sea began. The pink whiptail ray swooped playfully around him and for a moment I could see clearly the path to coexistence between humanity and all the denizens of the sea.

How conservation photographer Cristina Mittermeier uses visual storytelling to inspire action

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2024

Project retraces Darwin’s voyage, educating young conservation leaders

Beatriz Santomauro 11 Mar 2024
Vintage telephones by Pavan Trikutam via Unsplash.

The conservation sector must communicate better (commentary)

Tania Paschen 22 Jan 2024
Indigenous conservationist Juan Julio Durand is a local leader and one of the founding members of Junglekeepers, his vision set in motion the protection of 50,000 acres of the Amazon Rainforest. Photo by Mohsin Kazmi.

How creative & emotive communication conserved 55,000 acres of Peru’s Amazon

Mike DiGirolamo 5 Dec 2023
Reserva Narupa in Ecuador. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Mongabay CEO discusses slowdown in Amazon loss and other positive news

Mike DiGirolamo 21 Nov 2023
Macaws flying over the rainforest.

Mongabay wins prestigious 2023 Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2023
Greenpeace activists built a carbon bomb to protest Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage at a protest in Germany. Image courtesy of Karsten Smid / Greenpeace Media Library.

Beyond ‘no,’ more positive visions for conservation need communication (commentary)

Rachael Garrett 12 Oct 2023
Dax Dasilva. Photo credit: Monique Weston

We need to show that planetary wins are possible, says Dax Dasilva

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Apr 2023

Will shipping noise nudge Africa’s only penguin toward extinction?

Leonie Joubert 21 Nov 2022

Tuning in to the world of nonhuman sound: Q&A with author Karen Bakker

John Cannon 18 Oct 2022
Mangrove whiprays (Urogymnus granulatus)

Stingrays can ‘talk’ when they get riled up, new study suggests

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Jul 2022
Himalayan musk deer

Himalayan musk deer talk to each other through poop, but poachers are also listening

Abhaya Raj Joshi 10 May 2022
Jane Goodall interviewing Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett Ayers Butler for her Hopecast podcast.

Jane Goodall’s Hopecast podcast features Mongabay founder

Mongabay.com 3 Nov 2021

Project maps soundscape of human noise in northern Adriatic and impact on marine life

Francesco Martinelli 19 Oct 2021

The queen sets the tone: Deciphering the dialects of naked mole-rats

Romi Castagnino 8 Feb 2021

Well, hello there: Glass frogs ‘wave’ to communicate near noisy waterfalls

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jan 2021

Bringing color to conservation: a conversation with wildlife artist Morgan Richardson

Dave Martin, Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Jan 2021
A Punta Fuego voice actor reads off the script. Photo by J. Sanchez for WCS.

Radio drama encourages Belizean fishers to follow the rules

Ashley Stumvoll 6 May 2019

Virtual Reality 360-degree video: An “empathy-generating machine” for conservation outreach?

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 11 Apr 2019

Gorilla radio: Sending a conservation message in Nigeria

Linus Unah 6 Feb 2019

A monitoring network in the Amazon captures a flood of data

Elizabeth Oliveira 11 Dec 2018

The iNaturalist species data sharing platform reaches one million users

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 19 Oct 2018

Managing the data deluge: Twitter as a tool for ecological research

Marianne Messina 1 Oct 2018

‘Better and better’: Thermal cameras turn up the heat on poachers

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 9 Jul 2018

New study provides blueprint to translate satellite data into conservation action

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 21 Jun 2018

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