Are botanists disappearing just when we need them the most?
A decline in botany degree programs, paired with a growing lack of general plant awareness, has scientists concerned about society's ability to tackle existential threats like biodiversity loss and cl...
24 Jan 202327min
Mongabay Reports: Amazon's tallest tree threatened by deforestation
The Paru State Forest is the world's 3rd-largest sustainable-use tropical forest reserve, and is home to a tree standing 30 stories tall. But in October of last year, its home state of Pará was the 5t...
16 Jan 20238min
UN Biodiversity Conference an 'important step' toward conserving nature
In December, Mongabay's Montreal-based editor Latoya Abulu attended the 15th meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity, where the historic Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Framework was signed by...
11 Jan 202324min
Mongabay Reports: Anteaters lead the way for species reintroductions
Reintroducing rescued anteaters from hunters in northern Argentina into the country's Iberá reserve is no small task. However, In 2007, the first pair was reintroduced by the Conservation Land Trust (...
2 Jan 202314min
A bittersweet bioacoustics bonanza
After 6 years and nearly 160 episodes, podcast host Mike Gaworecki is putting his microphone down. The show will go on, but we will miss his expertise and command of conservation science's myriad face...
27 Dec 202244min
Into the Wasteland, 3: Buried in Europe's Recycling
We all send our recycling somewhere for proper handling, but the operations of one such handling center in Poland makes one ask, is it being done right, or at all? The European Commission estimates t...
20 Dec 202213min
Into the Wasteland, 2: The New Narcotics
The U.K.'s Environment Agency calls waste crime — where instead of delivering recycling or rubbish for proper disposal, companies simply dump it in the countryside — "the new narcotics" because it's s...
13 Dec 202212min
Into the Wasteland: The true crime of the UK's waste mountain
The British countryside is increasingly under siege from a scourge of illegal waste dumping – polluting both water and air – but one man is bravely taking the criminals on, staking out their sites wit...
6 Dec 202214min
