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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, 6 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, 6 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, 7 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, 7 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 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, 9 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, 10 months ago
Return of the superb lyrebird
Episode 75
For an encore edition during this show's brief hiatus, we replay one of our most popular Field Notes interviews of all time, featuring Australian res…
6 years, 10 months ago