XPRIZE-Rainforest finalists for $10m conservation tech award announced
Conservation technology such as drones, remote sensing, and machine learning plays a critical role in supporting conservation scientists and aiding policymakers in making well-informed decisions for b...
25 Jul 202326min
Biological field stations are key to conservation but often 'invisible'
Field research stations are vital to rewilding and conservation efforts yet they're often absent from global environmental policy, a Nature paper argues. Despite this lack of visibility and funding ch...
11 Jul 202333min
Big problems and potential for great ape conservation
Great apes are facing a concerning future. If humans neglect to address climate change, they could lose up to 94% of their range by 2050. In the Congo Basin, a stronghold for great ape species, severa...
4 Jul 20231h 14min
Can the boom in psychedelics boost Amazon conservation?
Famed ethnobotanist and conservation advocate, Mark Plotkin, joins the Mongabay Newscast to discuss traditional ecological knowledge about the increasingly popular psychedelic and medicinal plants and...
20 Jun 202334min
The Boom: Amy Westervelt examines Guyana's massive oil project on 'Drilled'
"Drilled" is a true-crime podcast series from Critical Frequency and journalist, Amy Westervelt, examining the back-door dealings and environmental impacts of major fossil fuel projects. The latest s...
13 Jun 202330min
Mongabay Reports: Solutions abound for staying within this planetary boundary
"The planetary boundaries" is a concept that measures the point at which human impact on our Earth's natural systems goes beyond "safe operating grounds." Trespass that boundary, and we risk destabili...
6 Jun 202318min
Can we right the wrongs of 'fortress conservation?'
Since the colonization of the Congo Basin by Europeans, many Indigenous communities have been denied land they once relied on in the name of conservation under a contentious conservation model. The ce...
30 Mai 20231h 9min
Climate change is no joke for Australians
Australia suffered catastrophic bushfires in 2019 - 2020, followed by intense rain and flooding from an ensuing La Niña which experts say may be linked to those bushfires. Despite the pleas of scienti...
23 Mai 202340min
