Cerrado solutions: Creative conservation for Brazil's massive savanna
On this episode we look at how the largest and most biodiverse tropical savanna on Earth, Brazil's Cerrado, may finally be getting the conservation attention it needs. We're joined by Mariana Siqueira...
9 Des 202057min
Mongabay Explores Sumatra: Will the world's newest great ape species face a dammed future?
North Sumatra is home to 1 of only 8 known great ape species in the world, the newly described Tapanuli orangutan, first classified in 2017 after its habits and DNA proved them to be unique. As with m...
3 Des 202044min
Land rights, and wrongs: How Indigenous and local communities are fighting to gain title to their territories
We're taking a look at the importance of securing Indigenous & local communities' land rights -- and the global push for privatization that can deprive such people access to their territories -- with ...
25 Nov 202047min
Mongabay Explores Sumatra: Deforestation demystified
Sumatra contains some of the largest tracts of intact rainforest left in the world, but it's at the center of a complicated web of deforestation drivers, many of which began during the Dutch colonial ...
18 Nov 202047min
In Madagascar, award-winning plant passion & lemur love
We have amazing recordings of indri lemur songs (click for the choruses, stay for the roars) and the award-winning architect of protected areas that house Madagascar's rich plant life on this episode ...
11 Nov 202043min
Mongabay Explores Sumatra: Saving the singing rhino
Sumatran rhinos are unlike anything else in this world: small in stature and docile by nature, they sport a coat of fur and sing songs reminiscent of a dolphin. In other words, this ancient species su...
5 Nov 202054min
Amazon defenders, especially women, are set to get new protections
Women are key leaders in Amazon conservation, and we're taking another look at this issue with a discussion of an international agreement that could help protect environmental defenders — of all gende...
28 Okt 202037min
Mongabay Explores Sumatra, Episode 1: A land like no other
"Sumatra is like a fossil relic of rare species...a giant, rhino horn-shaped island blanketed in the richest rainforest you can imagine...there's nothing like it," one of our guests declares. The 6th ...
22 Okt 202048min
