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Award-winning film highlights lasting damage from X-Press Pearl disaster in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 11 Apr 2025

In ‘The Battle for Laikipia,’ the human face of resource conflict in Kenya

Ashoka Mukpo 24 Mar 2025
A still from Turtle Walker.

How one researcher walked thousands of miles along India’s shores to conserve sea turtles

Priyanka Shankar 20 Mar 2025
Plastic People film poster.

Microplastic within humans now a health crisis: Interview with ‘Plastic People’ filmmakers

Liz Kimbrough 19 Mar 2025
A collared wolf from the Druid pack

How one woman’s wolf ‘moon shot’ changed Yellowstone forever: Interview with director Tom Winston

Jeremy Hance 11 Mar 2025
Eunice Paiva (L, on the sofa) and Rubens Paiva (on her left) surrounded by their children and an unknown person.

‘I’m Still Here’ Eunice Paiva’s pivotal role in Brazil’s Indigenous & environmental rights

Luiz Antônio Araujo 13 Feb 2025

Innovative Nepali PSA seeks emotional connection to save red pandas

Abhaya Raj Joshi 24 May 2024
A framed photo of Ari Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau

Grassroots efforts and an Emmy-winning film help Indigenous fight in Brazil

Sarah Brown 29 Jan 2024

Indigenous women filmmakers form collective, using cameras to fight for rights

Matheus Lopes Quirino 23 Jan 2024

Bringing back the buffalo with director Ken Burns | Mongabay Sessions

Romi Castagnino 19 Dec 2023
The search for the Kanoê brothers produced impressive footage

The coveted legacy of the ‘Man of the Hole’ and his cultivated Amazon forest

Fabio Zuker 22 Nov 2023

‘There’s hope’ for North Atlantic right whales: Q&A with filmmaker Nadine Pequeneza

John Cannon 16 Feb 2022

‘Thousands of trees’ burned and logged in Cambodia: Q&A with filmmaker Sean Gallagher

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Dec 2021

In rural Nigeria, the magic of cinema builds support for ape conservation

Orji Sunday 15 Nov 2021

New Attenborough film sounds alarm on planetary boundaries, but offers hope

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2021
Construction on the Pan Borneo Highway in northern Sabah. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Activists in Malaysia call on road planners to learn the lessons of history

John Cannon 13 Nov 2020

David Attenborough’s ‘witness statement’ for the planet (commentary)

Matt Hayward 27 Oct 2020

Research behind award-winning documentary film reveals new species

Mongabay.com 3 Sep 2020

New road cutting into Manu Biosphere Reserve in Peruvian Amazon sparks debate, fears and a film

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2020

‘New’ footage released of the last Tasmanian tiger

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 26 May 2020

‘Hummingbird’ spy creature films millions of monarchs taking flight

Liz Kimbrough 1 May 2020

New film details wrenching impact of illegal rhino horn trade on families

John Cannon 27 Jun 2019

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

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 11 Apr 2019

Those kicks were fast as lightning: Kangaroo rats evade deadly snake strikes

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 4 Apr 2019

Indigenous-made film explores traditional textile making in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Taran Volckhausen 28 Feb 2019

Short film celebrates community forest titles in DRC

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2019

In India, indigenous youths are filming their own forests and communities

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Dec 2018

Documenting the African elephant’s ‘last stand’: Q&A with filmmakers Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson

John Cannon 21 May 2018

Orangutan culture in focus in ‘Person of the Forest’: Q&A with researchers Cheryl Knott and Robert Rodriguez Suro

John Cannon 23 Feb 2018

‘Adaptation Bangladesh: Sea Level Rise’ film shows how farmers are fighting climate change

Mongabay.com 22 Feb 2018

‘Photo Ark’ a quest to document global biodiversity: Q&A with photographer Joel Sartore and director Chun-Wei Yi

Mongabay.com 21 Feb 2018

Films celebrate big cats on World Wildlife Day

Erik Hoffner 19 Feb 2018

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