JAKARTA — “It was heaven,” says Indonesian fisheries scientist Alyssa “Elle” Wibisono, describing her first ever scuba diving experience in the Komodo Islands when she was a high school student.…
Ocean Revolution Mozambique (ORM) was one of the winners of the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Equator Prize for 2022, awarded to recognize community-led efforts in conservation and sustainability that…
Eliupendo Laltaika spent much of his childhood in the village of Nainokanoka, in the northern part of Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area, herding cattle with his older brother. Sometimes they would…
The plant Roussea simplex, usually referred to by its scientific name, is one of a kind. It grows only in the mountains of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius; it’s…
Few plants capture the imagination quite like orchids. When orchid fever gripped England in the early 1800s, wealthy aristocrats sent out orchid hunters to forests around the world in search…
In January this year, scientists described a new species of ape – a white-browed gibbon that lives in the remote forests of the Gaoligong Mountains on the border of China…
In May 2011, two volunteer researchers had an unexpected visitor at the El Dorado Nature Reserve Ecotourism lodge in northwestern Colombia. A rare, tiny rodent called the Santa Marta Toro or the Santa Marta…
by 1 December 2015
An interview with Matthew Luskin, a part of our on-going Interviews with Young Scientists series. The direct impacts of converting rainforests and peatlands to industrial oil palm plantations are clear…
Conservation strategist Lucy Dablin shares her experiences in the Amazon and her thoughts on how to preserve it.
An interview with Zuzana Burivalova, a part of our on-going Interviews with Young Scientists series. The path to finding a career often involves twists and turns. Serendipity is important —…
An interview with Brian Machovina, a part of our on-going Interviews with Young Scientists series. Brian Machovina and one of his drones, which he flew over banana plantations to study…
An interview with Christopher Jordan, a part of our on-going Interviews with Young Scientists series. Baird's tapir caught on camera trap in Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast. Photo courtesy of: Christopher Jordan.…
An interview with Nurzahafarina Othman, a part of our on-going Interviews with Young Scientists series. Bornean elephants tussling on the Kinabatangan River. Photo courtesy of: Nurzahafarina Othman. In the Malaysian…
An interview with Claire Varian-Ramos, a part of our on-going Interviews with Young Scientists series. Birds aren't that different from people. We learn from our parents, just like zebra finches…
An interview with Karimeh Moukaddem, a part of our on-going Interviews with Young Scientists series. Typical farmhouse outside of Parauapebas. Photo by: Karimeh Moukaddem. The city of Parauapebas, Brazil is…
An interview with Jodi Rowley, a part of our on-going Interviews with Young Scientists series. One of Jodi Rowley's new discoveries: the vampire flying frog (Rhacophorus vampyrus). Photo by: Jodi…
An interview with Kara Moses, a part of our on-going Interviews with Young Scientists series. Kara Moses with the ruffed lemurs at Dudley Zoo, conducting undergraduate research. Kara Moses may…
An interview with Laila Bahaa-el-din, a part of our on-going Interviews with Young Scientists series. African golden cat in Precious Woods Gabon logging concession. Photo by: Laila Bahaa-el-din/Panthera. Africa is…
Tigress photo captured at Nagarahole National park by camera trap. Copyright: K Ullas Karanth/WCS. An interview with Krithi Karanth, a part of our Interviews with Young Scientists series. Krithi Karanth…
The fossa. Photo © Nick Garbutt . An interview with Mia-Lana Lührs, a part of our Interviews with Young Scientists series. Madagascar is a land of wonders: dancing lemurs, thumbnail-sized…
Paul Rosolie leads volunteer expeditions into the Peruvian rainforest with an aim towards education and grassroots conservation. Mongabay.com's eighth in its series of interviews with 'Young Scientists'. At twenty-two Paul…
A recent PhD graduate of Ohio State University, Sarah Lehnen studies America's birds with a particular focus on migrating shorebirds. Mongabay.com's seventh in a series of interviews with 'Young Scientists'.…
A doctoral student with the Max Planck Institute, Bryson Voirin studies sloths and other species at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Mongabay.com's sixth in a series of interviews with 'Young…
Reuben Clements is the species conservation manager for WWF-Malaysia's Malayan tiger and Sumatran rhino projects. Mongabay.com's fifth in a series of interviews with 'Young Scientists'. And second in a series…
Maya deVries is a graduate student studying integrative biology at Berkeley. Mongabay.com's fourth in a new series of interviews with 'Young Scientists'.
An interview with Sasha Wright, a graduate student studying plant ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Mongabay.com's third in a new series of interviews with 'Young Scientists'.
An Interview with Katrina Fellerman of the Zoological Society of London's (ZSL) Evolutionarily Distinct & Globally Endangered Program. Mongabay.com's second in a new series of interviews with 'Young Scientists'.
Mongabay.com announces new series of interviews with young scientists
