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Mongabay Reports: Monarchs make a comeback
Episode 164
In 2022, the population of western monarch butterflies reached its highest number in decades, 335,000, according to the annual Western Monarch Count …
3 years, 1 month ago
Indigenous ecological knowledge: National Geographic photographer Kiliii Yuyan talks TEK
Episode 164
This podcast episode won a 2024 Indigenous Media Award.
National Geographic photographer Kiliii Yuyan joins the show to discuss his visits to five …
3 years, 1 month ago
Mongabay Reports: Can you fund reforestation by cutting trees down?
Episode 163
As the world pursues reforestation on an expanding scale, a recurring question is: how do we pay for it? One emerging solution is to grow and harvest…
3 years, 2 months ago
Geoengineering and other 'solution problems': Discussion with author Elizabeth Kolbert
Episode 163
Modern society is constantly crafting mega solutions to problems it has created, many of which come with even more problems, and no guarantee of solv…
3 years, 2 months ago
Mongabay Reports: Cheetahs bring vultures back from the brink in Malawi
Episode 162
In a national park in southern Malawi, the reintroduction of cheetahs (and lions) is bringing four critically endangered vulture species back to the …
3 years, 2 months ago
Epic struggle for Ecuador's biodiversity is having success
Episode 162
The Intag Valley in Ecuador is one of the world's most biodiverse places, its dense cloud forests bursting with plant and animal species.
But the wo…
3 years, 2 months ago
Mongabay Reports: Protecting forests on a budget? Here's how.
Episode 161
It's tough to fund conservation, and deciding exactly how (and where) funding gets used is even trickier. However, researchers recently identified wh…
3 years, 2 months ago
Are botanists disappearing just when we need them the most?
Episode 161
A decline in botany degree programs, paired with a growing lack of general plant awareness, has scientists concerned about society's ability to tackl…
3 years, 3 months ago
Mongabay Reports: Amazon's tallest tree threatened by deforestation
Episode 160
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 Octo…
3 years, 3 months ago
UN Biodiversity Conference an 'important step' toward conserving nature
Episode 160
In December, Mongabay's Montreal-based editor Latoya Abulu attended the 15th meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity, where the historic Ku…
3 years, 3 months ago