An escape into soundscapes
Healthy ecosystems are often noisy: from reefs to grasslands and forests, these are sonically rich places, thanks to all the species defending territories, finding mates, locating prey, socializing or...
16 Nov 202246min
Mongabay Reports: Sky Bridges for Sloth Safety
On Costa Rica's Carribbean coast, sloths are losing their habitat to houses and roads, forcing them to cross between forest patches on the ground, making them vulnerable to traffic incidents and dog a...
8 Nov 202210min
How the Indigenous Shuar regained their ancestral forest
"Ecuador had not declared community protected area management by Indigenous peoples until Tiwi Nunka Forest. This area is the first of its kind in Ecuador, and one of the few in the entire Amazon," sa...
2 Nov 202243min
Mongabay Reports: Spectacular fish is the first named by a Maldivian scientist
Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa is a spectacular new-to-science fish species and the first that has been named by a Maldivian scientist. Ahmed Najeeb, a biologist from the Maldives Marine Research Institute, ...
25 Okt 20224min
Science that saves the biodiversity of free-flowing rivers
"It might be the highest density of trout species on Earth," our guest Ulrich Eichelmann says of a suite of European rivers slated for damming to generate electricity – rivers which also host a vast w...
19 Okt 202244min
Mongabay Reports: A "game changing" ecological restoration playbook
Nine leading forest and climate experts defined 10 principles for equitable and transformative landscapes in a "playbook" for ecosystem restoration. The playbook authors say these steps could be game ...
11 Okt 20227min
Bottom trawling strips the sea of life, but activism is slowing the damage
In a historic move, The European Commission recently announced the protection of an area half the size of Belgium in the North Atlantic from bottom trawling, a fishing practice widely known as being t...
4 Okt 202237min
Mongabay Reports: Agroforestry is climate-positive and profitable, investors say
What's a climate-friendly and profitable way to farm? Some investors (and many farmers) say it's agroforestry, which combines trees & shrubs with annual crops for mutual benefits: shade-grown coffee o...
27 Sep 202212min
