New conservation tech to clean up mining sector
Valuable minerals are regularly dug out of sensitive ecological areas like rainforests, and a growing slice of this mining is of the small, "artisanal," and unregulated kind. The result is often a moo...
23 Des 202039min
Mongabay Explores Sumatra: Tiger on the highway
The wildlife rich island of Sumatra is experiencing a road building boom, causing some of its iconic creatures to be seen by construction workers: a photo of a Sumatran tiger crossing a highway work-s...
16 Des 202043min
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
