Mongabay Explores Sumatra: Restoration for peat's sake
Once drained for palm oil or other agricultural uses, Indonesia's peatlands become very fire prone, putting people and rich flora and fauna--from orchids to orangutans--at risk. Over a million hectare...
3 Mar 202148min
Rewilding, restoration, and real hope for the future
Landscape rewilding and ecosystem restoration are likely our last/best chances to maintain life on Earth as we know it, the guests on this week's show argue. The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration jus...
24 Feb 20211h 4min
Mongabay Explores Sumatra: where are the rhinos?
The Sumatran rhino is a ridiculously cute but cryptic species that teeters on the brink: with an estimated 80 individuals left in the wilds of its super dense rainforest home, experts are also divided...
17 Feb 202125min
Biomass and hydropower: climate solutions or delusions?
Two technologies being promoted as climate solutions, biomass and hydropower, actually have big environmental consequences and might not be sustainable at all. Can we burn and dam our way out of the c...
10 Feb 202148min
Mongabay Explores Sumatra: Omens and optimism for orangutans
The Sumatran orangutan is a lowland species that has adapted to life among this Indonesian island's highlands, as it has lost favored habitat to an array of forces like deforestation, road projects, p...
2 Feb 202148min
Agroforestry: the most climate-friendly and biodiversity-positive agriculture technique is growing
Ever drink 'shade grown' coffee or eat 'bird friendly' chocolate? Then you've enjoyed the fruits of agroforestry, an ancient agricultural technique practiced on a huge scale across the world which als...
27 Jan 20211h 6min
Mongabay Explores Sumatra: Elephants and eternity
The Sumatran elephant is a small species of Asian elephant whose numbers are dwindling as their lowland forest habitats are converted to crops like oil palms. Experts say that Indonesia has 10 years t...
21 Jan 202142min
What's in store for the world's forests in 2021?
From fires to COVID, 2020 was a *bit* of a rough year for forest conservation efforts. But what's in store, and hopeful, for 2021? On this episode, we catch up with Mongabay's founder and CEO Rhett Bu...
13 Jan 202155min
