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Agroforestry: the most climate-friendly and biodiversity-positive agriculture technique is growing
Episode 112
Ever drink 'shade grown' coffee or eat 'bird friendly' chocolate? Then you've enjoyed the fruits of agroforestry, an ancient agricultural technique p…
5 years, 3 months ago
Mongabay Explores Sumatra: Elephants and eternity
Episode 111
The Sumatran elephant is a small species of Asian elephant whose numbers are dwindling as their lowland forest habitats are converted to crops like o…
5 years, 3 months ago
What's in store for the world's forests in 2021?
Episode 111
From fires to COVID, 2020 was a *bit* of a rough year for forest conservation efforts. But what's in store, and hopeful, for 2021?
On this episode, w…
5 years, 3 months ago
New conservation tech to clean up mining sector
Episode 110
Valuable minerals are regularly dug out of sensitive ecological areas like rainforests, and a growing slice of this mining is of the small, "artisana…
5 years, 4 months ago
Mongabay Explores Sumatra: Tiger on the highway
Episode 109
The wildlife rich island of Sumatra is experiencing a road building boom, causing some of its iconic creatures to be seen by construction workers: a …
5 years, 4 months ago
Cerrado solutions: Creative conservation for Brazil's massive savanna
Episode 109
On this episode we look at how the largest and most biodiverse tropical savanna on Earth, Brazil's Cerrado, may finally be getting the conservation a…
5 years, 4 months ago
Mongabay Explores Sumatra: Will the world's newest great ape species face a dammed future?
Episode 108
North Sumatra is home to 1 of only 8 known great ape species in the world, the newly described Tapanuli orangutan, first classified in 2017 after its…
5 years, 4 months ago
Land rights, and wrongs: How Indigenous and local communities are fighting to gain title to their territories
Episode 108
We're taking a look at the importance of securing Indigenous & local communities' land rights -- and the global push for privatization that can depri…
5 years, 5 months ago
Mongabay Explores Sumatra: Deforestation demystified
Episode 107
Sumatra contains some of the largest tracts of intact rainforest left in the world, but it's at the center of a complicated web of deforestation driv…
5 years, 5 months ago
In Madagascar, award-winning plant passion & lemur love
Episode 107
We have amazing recordings of indri lemur songs (click for the choruses, stay for the roars) and the award-winning architect of protected areas that …
5 years, 5 months ago