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Centering an Indigenous approach to forestry through reciprocity, not extraction
Episode 290
Forester and scientist Suzanne Simard is well known for her landmark 1997 paper, which demonstrated that two distinct species of trees could share re…
17 hours ago
Across oceans, seabird flyways gain recognition — and a chance at protection
Episode 289
The routes taken by migratory birds, known as flyways, often cross vast expanses of ocean. Six of these marine flyways have now been formally recogn…
1 week ago
The coyotes next door: What we get wrong about America's 'song dog'
Episode 288
Coyotes are now present in almost every major urban-metropolitan area in the United States, yet conflicts between the canines and humans are excepti…
2 weeks ago
The 'lonely conservationist' advocating for better care of workers
Episode 287
Jessie Panazzolo was given a stuffed gorilla when she was 3, and from then on, she always wanted to be a conservationist. But a reasonable career tra…
3 weeks ago
The conservation sector must speak truth to power, says political ecologist
Episode 286
The people and policies that control how humans treat the natural world are increasingly dominated by a small class of elite political entities and c…
4 weeks ago
A year after the shuttering of USAID conservation projects fight to stay afloat
Episode 285
When then-U.S. president John F . Kennedy created the United States Agency for International Development in 1961, it was meant primarily to administe…
1 month ago
Save a tiger, save an ecosystem: Why protecting the big cats is a biodiversity boon
Episode 284
Tiger populations have risen in some countries, such as Bhutan, Nepal and India, but the global population of the big cat species remains critically…
1 month, 1 week ago
Understanding how elephants experience time might change how we protect them
Episode 283
Khatijah Rahmat, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Germany, says she's trying to build legitimacy a…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Tyson Yunkaporta on how the 'wrong story' harms nature, and how we can change it
Episode 282
Indigenous scholar Tyson Yunkaporta (Apalech clan (Wik) Lostmob Nungar) joins the Mongabay Newscast to detail the Aboriginal perspectives behind his …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Live theater tells the story of how Mongabay detected narco airstrips in the Amazon
Episode 281
Mongabay Latam's multiyear, *award-winning **investigation that uncovered 67 clandestine airstrips in the Peruvian Amazon used for drug trafficking s…
2 months ago