The Indigenous Desert Alliance is restoring biodiversity across the Australian desert
This week on the Mongabay Newscast, Samantha Murray, CEO of the Indigenous Desert Alliance, joins the program to discuss the IDA's recent no...
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The exotic pet trade fuels biodiversity and disease risks. Here's how to curb it
The global pet trade, particularly in exotic reptiles and amphibians, poses significant biodiversity and potential human health risks, scien...
Kynan Tegar wants 'a future that exists' for Indonesia's Indigenous communities
Indigenous activist and filmmaker Kynan Tegar joins the Mongabay Newscast this week to discuss the impacts of the fires devastating Kalimant...
Iwi and communities bring kiwi back to Wellington after 150 years
For the first time in 150 years, kiwi once again live in the hills surrounding Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. More than 250 manu ("birds"...
Home Planet Fund succeeds in conservation by investing in local knowledge
This week on the Newscast, we're joined by Dilafruz Khonikboyeva, the founder of the Home Planet Fund, an independent, Indigenous-led nonpro...
'Big Cats' highlights the remarkable power of photojournalism
Jeff Sikich, the biologist for the National Park Service in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, thought that Steve Winter "was crazy" for wanting to...
A health crisis for Peru's recently contacted people brings planetary health to the fore
Mongabay staff writer Aimee Gabay joins the Newscast this week to discuss her reporting trip to the Peruvian Amazon, where she spoke with th...
Christiana Figueres and Garik Israelian on Jane Goodall's legacy and the search for truth
A new award has been created in honor of late conservation icon Jane Goodall by the board of the Starmus Festival , an international gatheri...
In Bhutan, the pursuit of happiness extends to the food system
Bhutan is a Himalayan kingdom sandwiched between China and India. Forty percent of its 800,000 citizens work in the agriculture sector. The...
'Remembering Wildlife' before it goes extinct
British wildlife photographer Margot Raggett says she created the book Remembering Elephants after she heard David Attenborough say, "The qu...
Historic fire seasons are the 'new normal' without 'serious action' on climate change
Elizabeth Goldman is a co-director of Global Nature Watch , previously known as Global Forest Watch, a database measuring forest loss that's...
The 'quiet revolution' inspired by Delhi's urban wildlife
In her upcoming book, My Wild City: Finding Nature, Meaning, and Hope in India ' s Capital , conservation biologist Neha Sinha takes readers...
Why are forests in Liberia disappearing?
On this week's episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we speak with features writer Ashoka Mukpo, who traveled to southeastern Liberia to investi...
Oil has brought destruction to the Niger Delta; women and human rights may save it
On this week's episode of the Mongabay Newscast, I speak with travel writer Noo Saro-Wiwa . She has documented the violence and natural dest...
The Mediterranean Sea's beauty hides an ecosystem under pressure
The Mediterranean Sea accounts for less than 1% of the world's ocean surface water, but it contains roughly 18% of global marine biodiversit...
Wildlife crossings are having a moment
Nearly three years ago, Newscast guest, author and journalist Ben Goldfarb discussed his book Crossings , which is about wildlife crossings...
The radical plan to rethink work, wealth and planetary well-being
A group of more than 40 researchers spent 20 months devising a plan for the world to achieve ecological sustainability within planetary boun...
Addressing the 'toxic legacy' of mining in Bougainville
Theonila Roka Matbob grew up next to what was — at the time — the world's largest open-pit mine in Bougainville, an autonomous island in Pap...
Healing the planet requires healing ourselves, says Katharine Wilkinson
Katharine 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...
A 'coalition of the willing' to urge the world to drop fossil fuels
A group of 57 nations mostly from the Global South, describing themselves as "coalition of the willing" intent on making the Transition Away...