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

John Cannon 16 Feb 2022
Guests awaken on the sky deck of the home Ken and Cynthia within the KampOng Campus for Ecoliteracy & Change. Image credit: Ken Wilson

Journeying in biocultural diversity and conservation philanthropy: Q&A with Ken Wilson

Rhett A. Butler 8 Feb 2022
Mark Plotkin with an Embera shaman in the Darien on the Colombia-Panama. Photo credit: Amazon Conservation Team

Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin: Indigenous knowledge serves as a ‘connective tissue’ between nature and human well-being

Rhett A. Butler 31 Jan 2022

Fighting a Chile mining project with science: Q&A with biologist Maritza Sepúlveda

Michelle Carrere 10 Jan 2022

Getting African grasslands right, for people and wildlife alike: Q&A with Susanne Vetter

Kang-Chun Cheng 31 Dec 2021

‘We scientists engage in soft diplomacy’: Q&A with Christine Wilkinson

Caitlin Looby 23 Dec 2021
Fighting the flames on the Deepwater Horizon drill platform in 2010. Image credit: NOAA.

‘Everyone is capable’ of climate action, say Kevin Patel and Julia Jackson

Rhett A. Butler 17 Dec 2021
Sara Beery observes elephants in the field at Mara North Conservancy in Kenya with the Mara Elephant Project’s long-term monitoring team. The tuskless mother elephant is known as ID129. Image courtesy of Chags Photography for the Mara Elephant Project.

Boosting human and machine expertise with conservation tech: Q&A with Sara Beery

Caitlin Looby 13 Dec 2021
Long-house at Sungai Utik, an Iban community in West Kalimantan that has successfully defended its customary forests against loggers. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

Climate efforts won’t succeed without secure community rights, says Nonette Royo

Rhett A. Butler 13 Dec 2021
A Rainforest Alliance / UTZ Program that provides training of tea farmers in climate smart agriculture methods, which are designed to help farmers adapt to and prepare for the impacts of climate change. Photo credit: Giuseppe Cipriani

‘Collaboration is key’ to address big environmental challenges, says Daniel Katz

Rhett A. Butler 8 Dec 2021

‘Superstitious belief kills pangolins’: Q&A with biologist Elisa Panjang

Caitlin Looby 16 Nov 2021

‘A leap of faith’: Q&A with Robin Radcliffe on airlifting rhinos upside down

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Nov 2021
WCS President and CEO Dr. Cristián Samper observes forest elephants from an observation tower at the Dzanga Bai research site in the Central African Republic. Photo: Elizabeth Bennett/WCS.

Achieving a ‘nature positive future’: an interview with Cristián Samper

Rhett A. Butler 3 Nov 2021
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

‘To change policies, insert yourself in them’: Q&A with biologist Liliana Dávalos

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 29 Oct 2021
Sea turtle swimming under sunset.

Half-Earth, conservation, and hope: An interview with E.O. Wilson, Paula Ehrlich and Sir Tim Smit    

Liz Kimbrough 20 Oct 2021
Tense and Mulunesh, members of the women-led Nano Hena savings and credit cooperative, pick coffee beans during harvesting season in Illubabor Zone, Ethiopia. The cooperative is supported by Population, Health, and Environment Ethiopia Consortium and Ethio Wetlands and Natural Resources Association, partners working to improve biodiversity and increase resilience in communities in Southwestern Ethiopia. Photo credit: Maheder Haileselassie, Getty Images

Supporting more holistic approaches to conservation: an interview with Kai Carter

Rhett A. Butler 20 Oct 2021
El Cono in Sierra Del Divisor National Park, Peru. Photo credit: Diego Perez / CEDIA

Conservation will only scale when non-conservationists see its value, says James Deutsch

Rhett A. Butler 12 Oct 2021
Myrna Cunningham

For some Indigenous, COVID presents possibility of cultural extinction, says Myrna Cunningham

Rhett A. Butler 11 Oct 2021

Empowering Indigenous youths with tradition and tech: Q&A with Dawn Martin-Hill

Caitlin Looby 8 Oct 2021
Clouded leopard in India. Photo credit: Steve Winter/National Geographic

Small cats should be a conservation priority, says Panthera’s new board chair Jonathan Ayers

Rhett A. Butler 20 Sep 2021
Photo credit: Samantha du Toit

‘Conservation should be seen as what communities have always done’, says John Kamanga

Rhett A. Butler 20 Sep 2021

When COVID shut Broadway, award-winning actress Jane Alexander went birding

Rhett A. Butler 14 Sep 2021

Seeing the maligned urban rat in a new light: Q&A with Michael Parsons

Jansen Baier 9 Sep 2021
Logging concession in Indonesia. Photo credit: Yudhi Mahendra / Mighty Earth

Fomenting a “Perfect Storm” to push companies to change: Q&A with Glenn Hurowitz

Rhett A. Butler 9 Sep 2021
Pine forest in California's Sierra Nevada. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Climate philanthropy’s opportunity for impact: Q&A with Bridgespan’s Sonali Patel

Rhett A. Butler 7 Sep 2021
In Hebei province, smoke billows from chimneys from the steel plants in 2014. Photo © Lu Guang / Greenpeace

There is no climate solution without China and America, says Li Shuo

Rhett A. Butler 2 Sep 2021
Ivindo River in Gabon. Photo credit: ZB

Building the Campaign for Nature: Q&A with Brian O’Donnell

Rhett A. Butler 31 Aug 2021
Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak

Conservation needs more women, says Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak

Rhett A. Butler 30 Aug 2021
Photo credit: Felipe Rodriguez

It’s time to scrutinize who’s in the room when conservation decisions are made, says Laly Lichtenfeld

Rhett A. Butler 25 Aug 2021
Hammerheads. Photo credit: Yves Lefèvre

Protecting Colombia’s shark paradise: Q&A with Sandra Bessudo

Rhett A. Butler 9 Aug 2021

Ending Amazon deforestation a top priority on Colombian minister’s D.C. visit

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 2 Aug 2021

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