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Mongabay’s ‘must listen’ podcast list for 2022

Mike DiGirolamo 22 Dec 2022

‘It was a shark operation’: Q&A with Indonesian crew abused on Chinese shark-finning boat

Philip Jacobson, Basten Gokkon 2 Dec 2022

New app transforms data gathering for wildlife in Papua New Guinea

Abhishyant Kidangoor 24 Nov 2022
Black-naped Pheasant-Pigeon caught on camera, likely a second individual. Photo: Doka Nason/American Bird Conservancy

In PNG, researchers find a large pigeon lost to science for 140 years

Liz Kimbrough 21 Nov 2022
Jayna DeVore and Simon Ducatez approaching Hiraanae motu.

Rat killers in paradise: An eradication program remakes a tropical atoll

David Helvarg 10 Nov 2022

A flying robot swoops in via Quebec to save endangered plants in Hawai‘i

Abhishyant Kidangoor 9 Nov 2022
A sea snake.

Small island, big ocean: Niue makes its entire EEZ a marine park

Monica Evans 3 Nov 2022
A New Zealand deep sea trawler.

New Zealand convicts company of illegal trawling in high seas restricted area

Edward Carver 31 Oct 2022
Goatfish in a coral reef.

To boost fish catches, try banning fishing, new study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Oct 2022
Plastic pieces found inside a dead shearwater.

Plastic impacts a grossly underestimated ‘one-two punch’ for seabirds: Study

Sean Mowbray 20 Oct 2022
small reef fish

A ‘super reef’ recovery raises hopes — but also questions about its resilience

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Oct 2022
Lowland tropical rainforest

Protecting global forests with a limited budget? New study shows where and when to start

Liz Kimbrough 31 Aug 2022
Mbah Gimbal

In Indonesian Papua, a one-time gun trafficker now preaches permaculture

Tantowi Djauhari 30 Aug 2022
A healthy coral reef in Tahiti.

Scientists develop AI that can listen to the pulse of a reef being restored

Cassie Freund 25 Aug 2022
Loggers cut down a tree with a chainsaw.

Australian miner threatens lawsuit against PNG for scrapping carbon scheme

Rachel Donald 15 Aug 2022
Artist's impression of the Nombe kangaroo.

Giant kangaroo fossil points to previously unknown species in New Guinea

Jim Tan 27 Jul 2022
Debbie Ngawera-Packer.

‘The sea means everything’: Q&A with deep-sea mining opponent Debbie Ngarewa-Packer

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jul 2022
Hawksbill turtle

Turtle DNA database traces illegal shell trade to poaching hotspots

Carolyn Cowan 18 Jul 2022

Study: Climate impacts to disproportionately hurt tropical fishers, farmers

Basten Gokkon 15 Jul 2022
Diver towing a string of taramea.

Young Māori divers hunt invasive crown-of-thorns starfish to save coral reefs

Monica Evans 15 Jul 2022
Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera)

Scientists strive to restore world’s embattled kelp forests

Elizabeth Devitt 6 Jul 2022
Raphael Mapou, Kanak leader who established the environmental organization Rhéébù Nùù. Image courtesy of Lachie Carracher.

Nickel, Tesla and two decades of environmental activism: Q&A with leader Raphaël Mapou

Nick Rodway 22 Jun 2022
The Goro Mine in southern New Caledonia. Image courtesy of Lachie Carracher.

All eyes on Tesla as it invests in a troubled nickel mine

Nick Rodway 22 Jun 2022
A northern cassowary (Casuarius unappendiculatus).

Proposed copper and gold mine threatens the world’s ‘second Amazon’ in PNG

John Cannon 13 Jun 2022

Ray care center: Indonesia’s Raja Ampat a key nursery for young reef mantas

Basten Gokkon 9 Jun 2022
Green-lipped mussels. Image courtesy of Adrian Midgley via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Indigenous, ingenious and sustainable aquaculture from the distant past to today

Mike Gaworecki 2 Jun 2022

Fisher groups are the marine militia in Indonesia’s war on illegal fishing

Basten Gokkon 6 May 2022
Fishermen in a small boat at sea in Koror, Palau.

Scaling Palauan tradition to regional fisheries: Q&A with Noah Idechong

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Apr 2022

Community empowerment and forest conservation grow from the galip nut in Papua New Guinea

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Apr 2022
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Oceans conference comes up with $16b in pledges to safeguard marine health

Carolyn Cowan 15 Apr 2022

Who owns the companies destroying rainforests in the heart of New Guinea?

Mike DiGirolamo 13 Apr 2022

‘A huge mistake’: Concerns rise as deep-sea mining negotiations progress

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Apr 2022

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