Audio: Technologies that boost conservation efforts right now and in the future
On this episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we take a look at the role technology is playing — and might play in the future — in conservation efforts. Our first…
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Audio: A rare earth mine in Madagascar triggers concerns for locals and lemurs
On this episode of the Mongabay Newscast we discuss a proposed rare earth mining project in Madagascar that worries both lemurs and locals, and we also speak with a researcher…
Audio: Katharine Hayhoe on how to talk about climate change: ‘Share from the heart and then the head’
“It was a complete breakthrough for me to realize that sharing from the heart, which is the opposite of what we’re taught to do as scientists, was the way for…
Audio: Global megadam activism and the sounds of nature in Taiwan
On this episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we talk to Sarah Bardeen, the communications director for Berkeley, California-based NGO International Rivers. Bardeen wrote a commentary for Mongabay earlier this year…
Audio: DJ remixes the sounds of birds, lemurs, and more to inspire conservation
On this episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we take a break from our usual science reporting to look at some of the ways nature inspires people to create art —…
Audio: The fight to save Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem
On this episode, we welcome Gemma Tillack, agribusiness campaign director of the Rainforest Action Network, an NGO based in San Francisco and a group that has been very active in…
Audio: Activists determined to protect newly discovered Amazon Reef from oil drilling
On this episode, we welcome marine biologist and director of Greenpeace USA’s oceans campaigns John Hocevar. When the Greenpeace ship Esperanza embarked on an expedition earlier this year to document…
Audio: Frances Seymour on why rich nations need to start paying up to protect the world’s tropical forests
On this episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we speak with Frances Seymour, a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C. and the lead author of a…
Audio: Bill Laurance on the “infrastructure tsunami” sweeping the planet
In this episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we feature Bill Laurance, a Distinguished Research Professor at James Cook University in Cairns, Australia as well as the founder and director of…
Audio: A deep dive into the study of marine wildlife through bioacoustics
On this episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we speak with Leah Barclay, a sound artist, acoustic ecologist, and researcher with Griffith University in South East Queensland, Australia, for our latest…
Audio: Crystal Davis, director of Global Forest Watch, on conservation and Big Data
On today’s program we speak with Crystal Davis, the director of Global Forest Watch, a near-real-time forest monitoring system created by the World Resources Institute. Mongabay has partnered with Global…
Audio: WildTech covers the high- and low-tech solutions making conservation more effective
On today’s episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we welcome Sue Palminteri, editor of Mongabay’s WildTech site as well as a scientist and director of the biodiversity and wildlife solutions program…
Audio: Paul Simon on his new tour in support of E.O. Wilson’s Half-Earth initiative
On this episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we’re thrilled to feature a conversation with the one and only Paul Simon, who's just announced he's going to tour in support of the…
Audio: Meet the ‘Almost Famous Animals’ that deserve more conservation recognition
On this episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we welcome Mongabay contributing editor Glenn Scherer to the program. Glenn is responsible for Mongabay’s “Almost Famous Animals” series, which just wrapped up…
Audio: Naomi Oreskes on what stories we can’t let get lost in the noise of 2017 and why scientists should speak up
Normally we’re focused on international conservation and environmental science news here at the Mongabay Newscast, just as our reporting on Mongabay.com is. But because there's so much uncertainty around the…
Audio: An in-depth look at Mongabay’s collaboration with The Intercept Brasil
On the latest episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we welcome journalist Sue Branford, a regular contributor to Mongabay who has been reporting from Brazil since 1979 when she was with…
Audio: E.O. Wilson talks about Half-Earth, Trump, and more
On this episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we’re featuring highlights from a conversation with author and biologist E.O. Wilson, one of the greatest scientists of the last 100 years. Wilson…
Newscast #9: Joel Berger on overlooked ‘edge species’ that deserve conservation
Happy New Year to all of our faithful listeners! On the first episode of 2017, we’re joined by Joel Berger, a professor at Colorado State University and a senior scientist…
Newscast #8: Top new species discoveries of 2016, and how fig trees can save rainforests
This being the last Mongabay Newscast of the year, we’re doing it a little different. Instead of the top news, we’re bringing you the top new species discoveries of the…
Newscast #7: Undiscovered Sumatran rhinos in the wild in Malaysia? Maybe, maybe not.
On episode seven of the Newscast we talk with Mongabay contributing editor for Southeast Asia Isabel Esterman, who is based in Cairo, Egypt, about the plight of Asian rhinos. Potential…
Special series
Endangered environmentalists
- Jackson Hole Film Festival finalist Q&A: “Yasuni Man”
- Leading ivory trade investigator slain in Tanzania
- 2016 was even deadlier for environmental and indigenous activists than 2015
Global forest reporting network
- Communities struggle to save Sabah’s shrinking mangroves
- Saving the Serranía de San Lucas, a vital link in the ‘jaguar corridor’
- Monkey rediscovered in Brazil after 80 years
Amazon infrastructure
- Amazon dam defeats Brazil’s environment agency (commentary)
- Andes dams could threaten food security for millions in Amazon basin
- Belo Monte dam installation license suspended, housing inadequacy cited
Asian rhinos
- Javan rhinos face human incursions into their last remaining habitat
- India and Nepal team up to rescue flooded rhinos
- Rhino horn confiscated, three alleged traffickers arrested in Sumatra
