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Top conservation photographer Ami Vitale discusses rhinos, pandas, hope, and more
Episode 85
Ami Vitale is an award-winning war correspondent turned conservation photographer, and her iconic images of animals like Sudan the Rhino adorn the pa…
6 years, 3 months ago
Best animal calls and songs of 2019
Episode 84
For this last episode of 2019, we take a look back at some favorite bioacoustics recordings featured here on the Mongabay Newscast and play them for …
6 years, 4 months ago
Cleared for coca: Chris Fagan on his new investigation from Peru's rainforest
Episode 83
We speak with National Geographic writer Chris Fagan about the investigative report he just filed for Mongabay revealing a massive invasion of nation…
6 years, 4 months ago
How haunting gibbon songs can aid their conservation
Episode 82
Dena Clink is a primatologist studying individuality and variation in Bornean gibbon calls, which she says could aid these primates' conservation. Sh…
6 years, 5 months ago
All zoos should put themselves out of business, Damian Aspinall argues
Episode 81
Damian Aspinall is chairman of the Aspinall Foundation, a UK charity that works to conserve endangered animals and return them to the wild. Despite h…
6 years, 5 months ago
Buzzfeed's Katie Baker details the explosive investigation of WWF
Episode 80
Katie Baker is a reporter for the Buzzfeed News team investigating human rights violations committed against local & indigenous people by park ranger…
6 years, 6 months ago
Deep sea diva: A dive to the ocean floor with biologist Diva Amon
Episode 79
Plans for ocean floor mining are moving forward globally -- especially around thermal vents that create deposits of metals like gold, silver, copper,…
6 years, 6 months ago
Hitting the highway in Borneo to assess diversity and development
Episode 78
Mongabay's adventurous Middle East-based staff writer John Cannon just traveled the length of the Pan Borneo Highway and shares what he discovered on…
6 years, 6 months ago
Are humpback whale groups sharing their songs?
Episode 77
For this episode we speak with Jim Darling, a marine biologist whose team found that the songs of different humpback whale groups can be so similar t…
6 years, 7 months ago
"I'm excited!" Climate action star Rev Yearwood on the UN, youth and women's leadership & more
Episode 76
On this episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we speak with Reverend Lennox Yearwood about the upcoming UN Climate Summit in New York City and what it's …
6 years, 7 months ago