E.O. Wilson talks about global biodiversity, Trump, Half-Earth, and hope
On this episode, we feature excerpts from a conversation with author and biologist E.O. Wilson, one of the greatest scientists of the last 100 years, who was recently interviewed by Mongabay senior c...
24 Jan 201740min
Yaks, curassows, and other cool species overlooked by conservation efforts
This week we're joined by Joel Berger, a professor at Colorado State University and a senior scientist with the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society, who recently wrote a commentary for Mongab...
10 Jan 201741min
Top new species discoveries of 2016, and how fig trees can save rainforests
This being the last Mongabay Newscast of 2016, we're bringing you the top new species discoveries of the year. Here at Mongabay we report on a lot of environmental science and conservation news. It's ...
27 Des 201624min
Undiscovered Sumatran rhinos in the wilds of Malaysia? Maybe, or maybe not.
On episode seven of the Newscast we talk with Mongabay contributing editor for Southeast Asia Isabel Esterman, who is based in Cairo, Egypt, about the plight of Asian rhinos. Potential new evidence re...
13 Des 201651min
Carl Safina discusses marine conservation under a Trump administration, and Rhett Butler shares the origins of Mongabay
Noted ecologist and author Carl Safina appears on this episode of the Mongabay Newscast to discuss the current state of marine conservation and its future under the Trump presidency. His latest book i...
29 Nov 201636min
Report from the Climate Talks in Marrakesh and Salamander Conservation in Michoacan, Mexico
On this week's Newscast we hear from writer Justin Catanoso who's at the COP22 climate talks in Marrakech, Morocco filing reports for Mongabay.com. He shares his latest observations from this importan...
15 Nov 201626min
Andrea Crosta of Elephant Action League on "The Ivory Game" and orangutans under threat in Indonesia
Andrea Crosta of the Elephant Action League (EAL), one of the stars of the new Netflix documentary The Ivory Game, discusses how Chinese demand is driving the multi-billion dollar trade in ivory, as w...
1 Nov 201636min
Crucial conservation votes at CITES and the future of socio-ecological research
Mongabay's India-based staff writer Shreya Dasgupta appears on this episode of the Newscast to discuss key votes held at the seventeenth congress of the parties to the Convention on International Trad...
18 Okt 201632min
