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Consent and costs are key questions on extraction of ‘energy transition’ minerals
Resource wars and the geopolitics behind climate-fueled conflicts
Effective climate activism requires honest conversations about its challenges
Jane Goodall at 90: On fame, hope, and empathy
How effective are giant funding pledges by major conservation donors?
Why language is central to the survival of cultures and communities
Rewilding Ireland: ‘Undoing the damage’ from a history of deforestation
Can ecotourism protect Raja Ampat, the ‘Crown Jewel’ of New Guinea?
HEATED: Challenging objectivity in climate journalism
Can ‘degrowth’ solve our ecological, social & economic problems?
‘Not the End of the World’ book assumptions & omissions spark debate
How independent journalism uncovered a massive crime against people and planet
Wild by nature: Ecological restoration brings humanity and biodiversity together
How creative & emotive communication conserved 55,000 acres of Peru’s Amazon
Climate loss & damage fund ‘the furthest thing imaginable from a success’
Mongabay CEO discusses slowdown in Amazon loss and other positive news
Forest elephants are the ‘glue’ holding Congo rainforests together
With record ocean temps, is the Great Barrier Reef facing catastrophe?
How nonprofit journalism revealed many problems with the UN’s climate neutrality claims
Barely making it: A conversation with ‘Eight Bears’ author Gloria Dickie
Can ‘road ecology’ save millions of animals?
‘In business to save the planet,’ Patagonia says people & planet should be the priority of corporations
What would it cost to protect the Congo Rainforest?
Protecting the Amazon requires fresh thinking, veteran ecologist argues
XPRIZE Rainforest finalists named for top conservation technology award
A just energy transition requires better governance & equity in the DRC
Biological field stations: Indispensable but ‘invisible’
Big potential and immense challenges for great ape conservation in the Congo Basin, experts say
‘A psychedelic renaissance’: How hallucinogens can aid conservation
Climate change is no joke for Australians, says award-winning comedian Dan Ilic
Congo Basin communities left out by ‘fortress conservation’ fight for a way back in
Mongabay Explores the Congo Basin: The ‘heart of the world’ is at a turning point
Guyana gets ‘Drilled’: Weighing South America’s latest oil boom with Amy Westervelt
As conservation technology grows, so does Mongabay’s coverage
Can we fix our failing food systems? Agroecology has answers
What Indigenous knowledge can teach the world about saving biodiversity
Podcast: Goodbye to blue skies? The trouble with engineered solutions
Podcast: Moths vs. mines in Ecuador’s astounding biodiversity hotspot
Podcast: Botanists are disappearing at a critical time
Podcast: At COP 15, biodiversity finance, Indigenous rights, and corporate influence
Podcast: A bittersweet bioacoustics bonanza
Podcast: Into the Wasteland, part 3: Buried in Europe’s recycling
Podcast: Is waste crime ‘the new narcotics’ in the U.K.? Into the Wasteland, part 2
Podcast: True eco-crime in the U.K., ‘Into the Wasteland’
Podcast: How reporters uncovered a massive illegal shark finning operation
Podcast: Escape into nature’s soundscapes
Podcast: How the Indigenous Shuar regained their ancestral forest
Podcast: Science that saves free-flowing rivers & rich biodiversity
Podcast: ‘Destructive & flawed’: Claire Nouvian on bottom trawling’s many impacts
Podcast: Could Brazil’s election decide the fate of the Amazon?
Podcast: With less than 10 years to save Sumatran elephants, what’s being done?
Podcast: Top wildlife photography requires ethics, patience, and kindness
Podcast: Blockchain for conservation? Maybe, but leave the crypto out
Podcast: Mexico’s Maya Train chugs forward, but at what cost to habitats and communities?
Podcast: ‘Water always wins,’ so why are we fighting it?
Podcast: How marine conservation benefits from combining Indigenous knowledge and Western science
Podcast: New whale calls and dolphin behaviors discovered with bioacoustics
Podcast: Indigenous, ingenious and sustainable aquaculture from the distant past to today
Podcast: Vandana Shiva on the agroecology solution for the climate, biodiversity crisis and hunger
Podcast: She’s here! Rare Sumatran rhino calf born at rhino sanctuary
Podcast: Wonder on wings: The fierce nature and enduring beauty of birds
Podcast: Community empowerment and forest conservation grow from the galip nut in Papua New Guinea
Podcast: Convention on Biological Diversity: progress, hope and hard work ahead
Podcast: Who owns the companies destroying rainforests in the heart of New Guinea?
Podcast: Afield at last, researchers head out for a new season
Podcast: Crucial to conservation, Indigenous communities’ environmental leadership endures
Podcast: Tree kangaroos may be key to New Guinea forest conservation
Podcast: Are ‘nature based solutions’ the best fix for climate change?
Podcast: The Trans-Papua Highway could lose billions and deforest millions of hectares
Podcast: Hippos, manatees, and how the sounds of African wildlife aid their conservation
Podcast: Protecting New Guinea’s forests with birds-of-paradise and ecotourism
Podcast: Kelp, condors and Indigenous conservation
Podcast: ‘Carbon cowboys’ and illegal logging
Podcast: The 411 on forests and reforestation for 2022
Podcast: With the passing of two icons, who will lead the conservation movement?
Podcast: Exploring New Guinea’s extraordinary natural and cultural richness
Podcast: In search of wild spectacles and river journeys
Podcast: What do two giant land deals mean for the future of Southeast Asia’s forests?
Podcast: Bill McKibben and Trebbe Johnson on action and ‘radical joy’ after COP26 climate summit failure
Podcast: Natural forest regeneration’s critical role in reforestation goals
Podcast: Indigenous bioacoustics listens to the land for conservation and tradition
Podcast: Who benefits from resource extraction in the DRC?
Podcast: Indigenous rights and the future of biodiversity conservation
Podcast: Are tuna doing as well as latest extinction risk assessments suggest? It’s complicated
Podcast: Examining ‘What Works In Conservation’
Podcast: What can seashells tell us about the health of the oceans?
Podcast: ‘Stubborn optimism’ for elephants fuels Indigenous conservation effort
Podcast: Reforestation done right, from Haiti to Honduras and Ho Chi Minh City
Podcast: Connecting kids and ourselves to nature
Podcast: It’s an ‘incredibly exciting’ time for the field of bioacoustics
Podcast: Can Biden’s 30×30 plan put U.S. on a positive conservation track?
Podcast: Reforestation is booming, but deforestation rose last year
Podcast: Two tunas and a tale of managed extinction
Podcast: Though humanity exceeds key ‘planetary boundaries’ there are many solutions
Podcast: Palm oil plantations and their impacts have arrived in the Amazon
Podcast: Sumatran conservation solutions that empower kids, women and communities
Podcast: Can agroecology feed the world?
Podcast: Restoration for peat’s sake
Podcast: Is ecosystem restoration our last/best hope for a sustainable future?
Podcast: Where oh where are the Sumatran rhinos?
Podcast: Are biomass and hydropower ‘false’ climate solutions?
Podcast: Omens and optimism for Sumatran orangutans
Podcast: Agroforestry, an ancient climate solution that boosts food production and biodiversity
Podcast: With just 10 years left to save Sumatran elephants, what can be done now?
Podcast: What are the tropical forest storylines to watch in 2021?
Podcast: New innovations to clean up the impacts of mining
Podcast: Tiger on the highway
Podcast: Is Brazil’s biodiverse savanna getting the attention it deserves, finally?
Podcast: Will a newly discovered ape species face a dammed future?
Podcast: Indigenous land rights and the global push for land privatization
Podcast: Sumatra’s deforestation demystified
Podcast: Lemur love and award-winning plant passion in Madagascar
Podcast: Saving the singing rhino
Podcast: New Latin American treaty could help protect women conservation leaders — and all environment defenders
Podcast: Mongabay explores Sumatra, a land like no other
Podcast: A radio program is helping save critically endangered gorillas in Nigeria
Podcast: Can the planet support a clean energy transition?
Podcast: Great ape ‘forest gardeners of Africa’ benefit from conservation victory
Podcast: In the Amazon, women are key to forest conservation
Podcast: Singing and whistling cetaceans of southern Africa revealed by bioacoustics
Podcast: From parks to payments, which conservation strategies work best?
Podcast: Hellbenders, super-spreaders, and other salamanders face uncertain futures
Podcast: Finding nature in cities
Podcast: Can policy prevent a North American salamander pandemic?
Podcast: Five years after the death of Cecil the Lion, trophy hunting debate rages on
Podcast: International task force unites North America to protect salamander diversity
Podcast: Animals have culture, too, and for some it’s crucial to their survival and conservation
Audio: Will U.S. scientists find a silent salamander killer in time?
Audio: Conservationists find opportunity and community amidst current crises
Audio: Why are salamanders so diverse in North America?
Podcast: Listening to elephants to protect Central Africa’s tropical forests
Audio: North America’s looming salamander pandemic: Is the U.S. ready?
Audio: What can we expect from tropical fire season 2020?
Audio: How to be an ethical wildlife photographer, and why it’s necessary
Audio: Celebrating the 50th Earth Day amidst a global pandemic
Audio: The links between COVID-19, wildlife trade, and destruction of nature with John Vidal
Audio: Songs and sounds of Bering Sea whales and seals reveal a story of change
Audio: Shah Selbe on how open source technology is creating new opportunities for conservation
Audio: Fred Swaniker on conservation as an economic growth opportunity for Africa
Audio: Galina Angarova on the indigenous relationship to land, conservation, and the sacred feminine
Audio: The sounds of tropical katydids and how they can benefit conservation
Audio: Ami Vitale on how meeting Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, changed her life
Audio: The best animal calls featured on the Mongabay Newscast in 2019
Audio: Mongabay investigation reveals large-scale land invasion in Peruvian Amazon
Audio: How listening to individual gibbons can benefit conservation
Audio: Damian Aspinall on why he’s calling for zoos to be phased out within the next three decades
Audio: Reporter Katie Baker details Buzzfeed’s explosive investigation of WWF
Audio: Exploring the deep sea with biologist Diva Amon
Audio: Traveling the Pan Borneo Highway with Mongabay’s John Cannon
Audio: Humpback whales across the Pacific Ocean are singing the same song
Audio: Rev. Lennox Yearwood on why he’s ‘excited’ about the urgency and energy behind climate action
Audio: The superb lyrebird’s song, dance and incredible vocal mimicry
Audio: Environmental justice and urban rat infestations
Audio: David Quammen on ecological restoration, emerging diseases, evolutionary science, and more
Audio: Listen to the first-ever recordings of right whales breaking into song
Audio: New CITES head on next COP, reining in online wildlife trafficking, and more
Audio: Bronx Zoo director says zoos are more relevant to conservation than ever
Audio: Chatty river dolphins in Brazil might help us understand evolution of marine mammal communication
Audio: Exploring a hidden rainforest on an isolated mountain in Mozambique
Audio: Saving forests and biodiversity by providing affordable healthcare
Audio: Tool-using, ground-nesting chimp culture discovered in DR Congo
Audio: Debunking myths about sloths is crucial to stopping the sloth crisis
Audio: What underwater sounds can tell us about Indian Ocean humpback dolphins
Audio: Scott Wallace on the importance of protecting uncontacted indigenous groups in the Amazon
Audio: The sounds of a rare New Zealand bird reintroduced to its native habitat
Audio: Good news from Mexico monarch reserve despite looming deforestation, mine threat
Audio: IUCN’s Inger Andersen: “Women represent 3.5 billion solutions”
Audio: Rhett Butler on how sound can save forests and top rainforest storylines to watch in 2019
Audio: The best wildlife calls featured on the Mongabay Newscast in 2018
Audio: The true story of how 96 critically endangered sea turtle hatchlings survived New York City
Audio: Bill McKibben on the climate movements that give him hope
Audio: A Half-Earth progress report from E.O. Wilson
Audio: Documenting emperor penguin populations, a dispatch from Antarctica
Audio: Racing to save the world’s amazing frogs with Jonathan Kolby
Audio: How an African bat might help us prevent future Ebola outbreaks
Audio: How the social sciences can help conservationists save species
Audio: The ‘Godfather of Biodiversity’ on why it’s time to manage Earth as a system
Audio: The superb mimicry skills of an Australian songbird
Podcast: Beavers matter more than you think
Audio: Shadow companies and the Indonesian land crisis
Audio: How to use drones without stressing wildlife
Audio: The dialogue between science and indigenous knowledge
Audio: How soundscapes are helping us better understand animal behavior and landscape ecology
Audio: Mexico’s ejidos find sustainability by including women and youth
Audio: Sylvia Earle on why we must act now to save the oceans
Audio: Seabird secrets revealed by bioacoustics in New Zealand
Audio: Impacts of agriculture on Brazil’s Cerrado region
Audio: Maroon 5’s James Valentine on why he’s working to stop illegal logging
Audio: Exploring humanity’s deep connection to water, plus the sounds of the Sandhill crane migration
Audio: How effective is environmental restoration?
Audio: Exploring the minds and inner lives of animals
Audio: The cutting-edge technologies allowing us to monitor ecosystems like never before
Audio: David Suzuki on why indigenous knowledge is critical for human survival
Audio: Lessons from indigenous peoples about coping with climate change, plus the call of the night parrot
The top 6 moments from the Mongabay Newscast in 2017
Audio: Amazon tribe’s traditional medicine encyclopedia gets an update, and conservation effectiveness in Madagascar examined
Audio: Margaret Atwood on her conservation-themed graphic novel, dystopian futures, and how not to despair
Audio: Dr. Jane Goodall on being proven right about animals having personalities, plus updates direct from COP23
Audio: Impacts of gas drilling on wildlife in Peru and a Goldman Prize winner on mercury contamination
Audio: Indonesian rainforests for sale and bat calls of the Amazon