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- Competing US claims raise legal questions over Pacific deep-sea mining · 30 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 317A recent Mongabay investigation by Elizabeth Claire Alberts and Andrés Alegría reveals that the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean, a swath of deep sea regulated by the…
- As Europe's wolf populations recover, coexistence calls for a holistic approach · 45 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 316For a time during the 19th and 20th centuries, gray wolves were practically extinct across Western and Central Europe. Now, thanks to strict protection measures in countries…
- Persian leopards hang on in the Caucasus despite landmines · 34 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 315There have been few sightings of the endangered Persian leopard in the Caucasus region over the past 20 years: just three in Georgia and 10 in Armenia. But scientists and…
- The Indigenous Desert Alliance is restoring biodiversity across the Australian desert · 36 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 314This week on the Mongabay Newscast, Samantha Murray, CEO of the Indigenous Desert Alliance, joins the program to discuss the IDA's recent nomination for an Earthshot Prize. The…
- The exotic pet trade fuels biodiversity and disease risks. Here's how to curb it · 36 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 313The global pet trade, particularly in exotic reptiles and amphibians, poses significant biodiversity and potential human health risks, scientists say; yet compared to other…
- Kynan Tegar wants 'a future that exists' for Indonesia's Indigenous communities · 39 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 312Indigenous activist and filmmaker Kynan Tegar joins the Mongabay Newscast this week to discuss the impacts of the fires devastating Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of the…
- Iwi and communities bring kiwi back to Wellington after 150 years · 57 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 311For the first time in 150 years, kiwi once again live in the hills surrounding Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. More than 250 manu ("birds" in the Māori language) were…
- Home Planet Fund succeeds in conservation by investing in local knowledge · 52 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 310This week on the Newscast, we're joined by Dilafruz Khonikboyeva, the founder of the Home Planet Fund, an independent, Indigenous-led nonprofit that provides funding for local…
- 'Big Cats' highlights the remarkable power of photojournalism · 48 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 309Jeff Sikich, the biologist for the National Park Service in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, thought that Steve Winter "was crazy" for wanting to capture a photograph of a mountain…
- A health crisis for Peru's recently contacted people brings planetary health to the fore · 39 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 308Mongabay staff writer Aimee Gabay joins the Newscast this week to discuss her reporting trip to the Peruvian Amazon, where she spoke with the Indigenous Matsés community. She…
- Christiana Figueres and Garik Israelian on Jane Goodall's legacy and the search for truth · 51 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 307A new award has been created in honor of late conservation icon Jane Goodall by the board of the Starmus Festival, an international gathering of scientists and artists to be held…
- In Bhutan, the pursuit of happiness extends to the food system · 33 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 306Bhutan is a Himalayan kingdom sandwiched between China and India. Forty percent of its 800,000 citizens work in the agriculture sector. The mountainous country is famous for its…
- 'Remembering Wildlife' before it goes extinct · 47 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 305British wildlife photographer Margot Raggett says she created the book Remembering Elephants after she heard David Attenborough say, "The question is, are we happy to suppose…
- Historic fire seasons are the 'new normal' without 'serious action' on climate change · 29 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 304Elizabeth Goldman is a co-director of Global Nature Watch, previously known as Global Forest Watch, a database measuring forest loss that's frequently cited in Mongabay…
- The 'quiet revolution' inspired by Delhi's urban wildlife · 54 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 303In her upcoming book, My Wild City: Finding Nature, Meaning, and Hope in India's Capital, conservation biologist Neha Sinha takes readers to the hidden and not-so-hidden…
- Why are forests in Liberia disappearing? · 38 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 302On this week's episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we speak with features writer Ashoka Mukpo, who traveled to southeastern Liberia to investigate what satellite images indicated…
- Oil has brought destruction to the Niger Delta; women and human rights may save it · 42 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 301On this week's episode of the Mongabay Newscast, I speak with travel writer Noo Saro-Wiwa. She has documented the violence and natural destruction that the presence of oil…
- The Mediterranean Sea's beauty hides an ecosystem under pressure · 34 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 300The Mediterranean Sea accounts for less than 1% of the world's ocean surface water, but it contains roughly 18% of global marine biodiversity. It is home to 150 million people…
- Wildlife crossings are having a moment · 37 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 299Nearly three years ago, Newscast guest, author and journalist Ben Goldfarb discussed his book Crossings, which is about wildlife crossings and road ecology. Wildlife crossings…
- The radical plan to rethink work, wealth and planetary well-being · 53 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 298A group of more than 40 researchers spent 20 months devising a plan for the world to achieve ecological sustainability within planetary boundaries, all while seeing incomes rise…
- Addressing the 'toxic legacy' of mining in Bougainville · 34 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 297Theonila Roka Matbob grew up next to what was — at the time — the world's largest open-pit mine in Bougainville, an autonomous island in Papua New Guinea, operated by a…
- Healing the planet requires healing ourselves, says Katharine Wilkinson · 46 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 296Katharine Wilkinson has a Ph.D. in geography and the environment, is well known for being a co-author of the book Drawdown and co-founder of The All We Can Save Project. She…
- A 'coalition of the willing' to urge the world to drop fossil fuels · 34 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 295A group of 57 nations mostly from the Global South, describing themselves as "coalition of the willing" intent on making the Transition Away From Fossil Fuels, or TAFF, convened…
- Australia claims it's 'on track' to meet its environment targets. Scientists disagree · 42 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 294Australia is one of 17 "megadiverse" countries that account for 70% of Earth's biodiversity. However, Australia is unique in having the highest mammalian extinction rate in the…
- The world must address pandemic threats urgently, says former CDC officer · 36 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 293"[The]cruel irony here [is] that the world cannot get its act together to address these threats … people are dying, animals are suffering, we're losing rainforest … these are all…
- Protest works, but it needs your help now more than ever, veteran activists say · 51 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 292"We are experiencing what some people call sort of a shutdown of the public square in the United States and around the world," says veteran environmental activist André…
- A new Netflix documentary captures rare mountain gorilla behavior · 39 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 291"That might be something that you see in a decade, not in two years of filming," Tara Stoinksi, CEO of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, tells me. The behavior she's referring to…
- Centering an Indigenous approach to forestry through reciprocity, not extraction · 41 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 290Forester and scientist Suzanne Simard is well known for her landmark 1997 paper, which demonstrated that two distinct species of trees could share resources. At the time, it…
- Across oceans, seabird flyways gain recognition — and a chance at protection · 28 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 289The routes taken by migratory birds, known as flyways, often cross vast expanses of ocean. Six of these marine flyways have now been formally recognized by the U.N.'s Convention…
- The coyotes next door: What we get wrong about America's 'song dog' · 45 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 288Coyotes are now present in almost every major urban-metropolitan area in the United States, yet conflicts between the canines and humans are exceptionally low. Between 1960 and…
- The 'lonely conservationist' advocating for better care of workers · 46 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 287Jessie Panazzolo was given a stuffed gorilla when she was 3, and from then on, she always wanted to be a conservationist. But a reasonable career track of being gainfully…
- The conservation sector must speak truth to power, says political ecologist · 1 ώ. 0 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 286The people and policies that control how humans treat the natural world are increasingly dominated by a small class of elite political entities and corporations, argues our…
- A year after the shuttering of USAID conservation projects fight to stay afloat · 49 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 285When then-U.S. president John F . Kennedy created the United States Agency for International Development in 1961, it was meant primarily to administer health and food aid around…
- Save a tiger, save an ecosystem: Why protecting the big cats is a biodiversity boon · 50 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 284Tiger populations have risen in some countries, such as Bhutan, Nepal and India, but the global population of the big cat species remains critically endangered, says Debbie…
- Understanding how elephants experience time might change how we protect them · 48 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 283Khatijah Rahmat, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Germany, says she's trying to build legitimacy around the concept of animal…
- Tyson Yunkaporta on how the 'wrong story' harms nature, and how we can change it · 1 ώ. 0 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 282Indigenous scholar Tyson Yunkaporta (Apalech clan (Wik) Lostmob Nungar) joins the Mongabay Newscast to detail the Aboriginal perspectives behind his latest book, Right Story…
- Live theater tells the story of how Mongabay detected narco airstrips in the Amazon · 58 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 281Mongabay Latam's multiyear, *award-winning **investigation that uncovered 67 clandestine airstrips in the Peruvian Amazon used for drug trafficking sent waves across the local…
- Kiliii Yüyan details 'Guardians of Life' and how we can learn from them · 54 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 280National Geographic photographer Kiliii Yuyän returns to the Mongabay Newscast to share his experience creating his new book, Guardians of Life: Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous…
- Lessons from 60 years of USAID development projects have been saved by this company · 39 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 279A year ago, U.S. President Donald Trump shut down public access to the Development Experience Clearinghouse, a $30 billion database holding 60 years' worth of institutional…
- Writer Megan Mayhew Bergman on the lessons and moral clarity of 'Silent Spring' · 48 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 278It's been more than half a century since the publication of Silent Spring by the scientist and creative writer Rachel Carson. The seminal volume caught the attention of U.S…
- Massive decline of European olive groves harms nature and culture, but solutions exist · 30 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 277Across Mediterranean Europe, olive groves are in decline from a range of factors, from disease to depopulation. In Italy alone, there are roughly 440 million abandoned olive…
- Joy is a winning environmental strategy for drag artist Pattie Gonia · 40 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 276Professional drag artist and environmental activist Pattie Gonia has more than 2 million followers on Instagram and has raised $1.2 million for environmental nonprofits by hiking…
- On plastic pollution, we have all the evidence — and solutions — we need · 51 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 275Judith Enck is a former regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, appointed by President Barack Obama, and the founder of Beyond Plastics, an…
- How outdoor adventurers are collecting crucial conservation data · 52 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 274Gregg Treinish didn't start out as an outdoor enthusiast, but found solace and purpose in nature during his youth. After years of enjoying the outdoors, he was left feeling a…
- Shark is on the menu for millions of Brazilians, but few know · 41 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 273Mongabay senior editor Philip Jacobson joins Mongabay's podcast to discuss a two-part investigation about how state governments in Brazil have been procuring shark meat — which…
- Russ Feingold on the nonpartisan nature of conservation · 38 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 272Bill Gates recently claimed that protecting nature or improving human health is an either-or choice, but former national leaders like Russ Feingold, a retired U.S. Senator, and…
- Freeing ourselves from cars is simpler (and healthier) than we may think · 42 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 271Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon and Aaron Naparstek realized that no one was discussing the many cultural factors that have played a role in humanity's car dependency, or the…
- Indigenous and local communities regain millions of hectares of land via successful legal effort · 39 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 270Nonette Royo is a lawyer from the Philippines and executive director of The Tenure Facility, a group of "barefoot lawyers" working to secure land tenure for Indigenous, local and…
- Madagascar conservation successes hinge on public education and health, famed primatologist says · 53 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 269Patricia Wright, a pioneering primatologist who established the Centre ValBio research station in Madagascar, began her work there in 1986. As the person who first described the…
- Mongabay founder reflects on success, Jane Goodall, and more · 38 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 268Hello listeners. This week on the Mongabay Newscast, we ask that you take a few minutes to fill out a brief survey to let us know what you think of our audio reporting, which you…
