Mongabay Explores
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A podcast about the world's unique places and species – from areas of amazing natural heritage to environmental challenges and conservation solutions – hear inspiring conversations with experts, scientists, authors, and activists on Mongabay Explores.
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- Circular Economy, Pt 3: Are there circular solutions for global housing unaffordability and climate change? · 47 min · Season 5 Episode 3According to UN-Habitat, a global housing affordability crisis is underway, with 1.6 billion people currently in need of adequate, affordable homes. That number could rise to…
- Circular Economy, Pt 2: How Finland is leading the world in circular economy planning · 38 min · Season 5 Episode 2In 2016, Finland became the first nation to design a circular economy roadmap, in an effort to design goods to be less resource-intensive, from their manufacture to disposal and…
- Circular Economy, Pt 1: EV issues are about 'more than just cars' · 37 min · Season 5 Episode 1The fifth season of Mongabay Explores dives into the circular economy: the effort to design goods to be less resource intensive, from their manufacture to disposal and recycling…
- Congo Basin, Bonus: Pollution & impunity in the DRC · 12 min · Season 4 Episode 7In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), pollution from extracting minerals commonly used in the energy transition like cobalt and copper is on the rise, and miners generally…
- Congo Basin, Part 6: How the Congo Rainforest is shaped by elephants · 38 min · Season 4 Episode 6The African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) plays a critical role in shaping the Congo rainforest, experts say. Though they represent incalculable and intrinsic value, there…
- Congo Basin, Part 5: Where's the money for Congo Basin conservation? · 1 h 9 min · Season 4 Episode 5How much does it cost to protect the Congo Rainforest? The world's second-largest rainforest provides critical ecological services that millions of people and myriad species rely…
- Congo Basin, Part 4: A 'just energy transition' requires justice in the DRC · 49 min · Season 4 Episode 4The global 'just energy transition' has increased demand for critical minerals – such as cobalt and copper – for products like lithium-ion batteries, solar panels, and other…
- Congo Basin, Part 3: Big challenges and potential for ape conservation · 1 h 13 min · Season 4 Episode 3Recent research shows that great apes of the Congo Basin stand to lose up to 94% of their habitat due to climate change. In the world's only habitat of bonobos and mountain…
- Congo Basin, Part 2: Can we right the wrongs of fortress conservation? · 1 h 8 min · Season 4 Episode 2The debate about how to best protect the Congo Basin's rainforest increasingly finds experts and Indigenous leaders arguing that it's time for a change, one that brings local and…
- Congo Basin, Part 1: Second-largest rainforest in the world at a turning point · 1 h 0 min · Season 4 Episode 1The Congo Basin contains the world's second-largest rainforest, a staggering 178 million hectares: containing myriad wildlife and giant trees plus numerous human communities, it…
- Sumatra, Bonus: Can young Indonesians help their iconic elephants survive? · 23 min · Season 3 Episode 9Leif Cocks returns to the podcast to discuss the status of the Sumatran elephant, a critically endangered species that we discussed with him in season 2, which is estimated to…
- Sumatra, Bonus Ep: She's here! Rare Sumatran rhino calf born · 16 min · Season 3 Episode 8Indonesia's Ministry of Environment and Forestry recently announced the birth of an incredibly rare Sumatran rhino calf at a captive breeding facility at Way Kambas National Park…
- New Guinea, Part 7: Galip nut drives community empowerment and forest conservation · 48 min · Season 3 Episode 7By 2025 the global, edible nut industry will be worth an estimated $2 billion. In Papua New Guinea (PNG), the traditional and plentiful staple, the galip nut (Canarium indicum)…
- New Guinea, Part 6: Who is destroying these rainforests? The Tanah Merah mystery. · 48 min · Season 3 Episode 6The Tanah Merah project sits in the heart of New Guinea covering 2,800 square kilometers (1,100 square miles). Roughly twice the size of Greater London, it threatens not only…
- New Guinea, Part 5: 'Ghosts of the rainforest' · 58 min · Season 3 Episode 5New Guinea's dense tropical montane forests are home to 12 of 14 tree kangaroo species. Over the past couple of decades, conservationists have leveraged these charismatic…
- New Guinea, Part 4: A long and winding road · 46 min · Season 3 Episode 4Spanning over 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) and being built over the course of decades, the Trans-Papua Highway cuts across the entire length of Indonesian New Guinea's two…
- New Guinea, Part 3: Defending paradise · 52 min · Season 3 Episode 3New Guinea is home to the third-largest tropical rainforest in the world—of which 80% is still intact. The two-nation island also contains 44 species of unique birds-of-paradise…
- New Guinea, Part 2: 'Carbon cowboys' and illegal logging · 54 min · Season 3 Episode 2Since 2014, Papua New Guinea has been the world's largest tropical timber exporter: more than 70% of that is considered illegal. Timber companies continue to possess land…
- New Guinea, Part 1: Protecting unparalleled biodiversity · 1 h 15 min · Season 3 Episode 1New Guinea is one of the most most biodiverse regions on the planet and also the world's largest tropical island. It makes up less than 0.5% of the world's landmass, but is…
- Sumatra, Part 10: Solutions and optimism that drive conservation · 1 h 11 min · Season 2 Episode 10'I'm amazed how resilient, adaptable and optimistic the people of Sumatra are,' conservationist and HAkA Sumatra founder Farwiza Farhan says in the first moments of this episode…
