The 'lonely conservationist' advocating for better care of workers
Jessie 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 employed or on a livable wage...
7 Apr 45min
The conservation sector must speak truth to power, says political ecologist
The 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 guest, political ecologist ...
31 Mar 1h
A year after the shuttering of USAID conservation projects fight to stay afloat
When 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 the world. In the deca...
24 Mar 49min
Save a tiger, save an ecosystem: Why protecting the big cats is a biodiversity boon
Tiger 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 Banks, campaign lead for t...
17 Mar 49min
Understanding how elephants experience time might change how we protect them
Khatijah 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 temporality — the abili...
10 Mar 47min
Tyson Yunkaporta on how the 'wrong story' harms nature, and how we can change it
Indigenous scholar Tyson Yunkaporta (Apalech clan (Wik) Lostmob Nungar) joins the Mongabay Newscast to detail the Aboriginal perspectives behind his latest book, Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures ...
3 Mar 1h
Live theater tells the story of how Mongabay detected narco airstrips in the Amazon
Mongabay Latam's multiyear, *award-winning **investigation that uncovered 67 clandestine airstrips in the Peruvian Amazon used for drug trafficking sent waves across the local media landscape. It drew...
24 Feb 58min
Kiliii Yüyan details 'Guardians of Life' and how we can learn from them
National Geographic photographer Kiliii Yuyän returns to the Mongabay Newscast to share his experience creating his new book, Guardians of Life: Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Science, and Restoring...
17 Feb 54min
