Mongabay Newscast trailer
Top scientists, authors, and activists appear on the Mongabay Newscast to discuss their latest research, describe new solutions for tough challenges, or to share their views on conservation and the en...
10 Feb 202026s
Galina Angarova on the indigenous relationship to land, conservation, and the sacred feminine
'Without the land, indigenous people cannot exist' the new leader of Cultural Survival, Galina Angarova, tells host Mike G. in this new episode. Raised in a Buryat community in Siberia, she's had a nu...
5 Feb 202025min
How the sweet sounds of tropical katydids can benefit rainforest conservation
Laurel Symes is a biologist who uses bioacoustics to study tropical katydids in Central America, and she joins us to play some of her hypnotic rainforest recordings and say how tracking these insects'...
22 Jan 202028min
Top conservation photographer Ami Vitale discusses rhinos, pandas, hope and more
Ami Vitale is an award-winning war correspondent turned conservation photographer, and her iconic images of animals like Sudan the Rhino adorn the pages of National Geographic and other top outlets of...
7 Jan 202040min
Best animal calls and songs of 2019
For this last episode of 2019, we take a look back at some favorite bioacoustics recordings featured here on the Mongabay Newscast and play them for you. As regular listeners will know, bioacoustics i...
23 Des 201927min
Cleared for coca: Chris Fagan on his new investigation from Peru's rainforest
We speak with National Geographic writer Chris Fagan about the investigative report he just filed for Mongabay revealing a massive invasion of national parks in the Peruvian Amazon, in an area relied ...
12 Des 201939min
How haunting gibbon songs can aid their conservation
Dena Clink is a primatologist studying individuality and variation in Bornean gibbon calls, which she says could aid these primates' conservation. She joins this episode to play some recordings of the...
26 Nov 201944min
All zoos should put themselves out of business, Damian Aspinall argues
Damian Aspinall is chairman of the Aspinall Foundation, a UK charity that works to conserve endangered animals and return them to the wild. Despite his foundation operating two zoos, he's a vocal crit...
13 Nov 201934min
