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The Mongabay Newscast is our free, biweekly podcast delivering news and inspiration from nature’s frontline. It features inspiring guests and deeper analysis of the global environmental issues explored every day by the Mongabay.com team, from climate change to biodiversity, tropical ecology, wildlife, and more. Listen to episodes below or subscribe to it wherever you get podcasts. We also offer a free app in the Apple App Store and in the Google Store for this show, download it for instant access to our latest episodes at your fingertips.

• Climate change is no joke for Australians, says award-winning comedian Dan Ilic

• Congo Basin communities left out by ‘fortress conservation’ fight for a way back in

• Mongabay Explores the Congo Basin: The ‘heart of the world’ is at a turning point

• Guyana gets ‘Drilled’: Weighing South America’s latest oil boom with Amy Westervelt

• As conservation technology grows, so does Mongabay’s coverage

• Can we fix our failing food systems? Agroecology has answers

• Podcast: What Indigenous knowledge can teach the world about saving biodiversity

• Podcast: Goodbye to blue skies? The trouble with engineered solutions

• Podcast: Moths vs. mines in Ecuador’s astounding biodiversity hotspot

• Podcast: Botanists are disappearing at a critical time

• Podcast: At COP 15, biodiversity finance, Indigenous rights, and corporate influence

• Podcast: A bittersweet bioacoustics bonanza

• Podcast: Into the Wasteland, part 3: Buried in Europe’s recycling

• Podcast: Is waste crime ‘the new narcotics’ in the U.K.? Into the Wasteland, part 2

• Podcast: True eco-crime in the U.K., ‘Into the Wasteland’ part 1

• Podcast: How reporters uncovered a massive illegal shark finning operation

• Podcast: Escape into nature’s soundscapes

• Podcast: How the Indigenous Shuar regained their ancestral forest

• Podcast: Science that saves free-flowing rivers & rich biodiversity

• Podcast: ‘Destructive & flawed’: Claire Nouvian on bottom trawling’s many impacts

• Podcast: Could Brazil’s election decide the fate of the Amazon?

• Podcast: With less than 10 years to save Sumatran elephants, what’s being done?

• Podcast: Top wildlife photography requires ethics, patience, and kindness

• Podcast: Blockchain for conservation? Maybe, but leave the crypto out

• Podcast: Mexico’s Maya Train chugs forward, but at what cost to habitats and communities?

• Podcast: ‘Water always wins,’ so why are we fighting it?

• Podcast: How marine conservation benefits from combining Indigenous knowledge and Western science

• Podcast: New whale calls and dolphin behaviors discovered with bioacoustics

• Podcast: Indigenous, ingenious and sustainable aquaculture from the distant past to today

• Podcast: Vandana Shiva on the agroecology solution for the climate, biodiversity crisis and hunger

• Podcast: She’s here! Rare Sumatran rhino calf born at rhino sanctuary

• Podcast: Wonder on wings: The fierce nature and enduring beauty of birds

• Podcast: Community empowerment and forest conservation grow from the galip nut in Papua New Guinea

• Podcast: Convention on Biological Diversity: progress, hope and hard work ahead

• Podcast: Who owns the companies destroying rainforests in the heart of New Guinea?

• Podcast: Afield at last, researchers head out for a new season

• Podcast: Crucial to conservation, Indigenous communities’ environmental leadership endures

• Podcast: Tree kangaroos may be key to New Guinea forest conservation

• Podcast: Are ‘nature based solutions’ the best fix for climate change?

• Podcast: The Trans-Papua Highway could lose billions and deforest millions of hectares

• Podcast: Hippos, manatees, and how the sounds of African wildlife aid their conservation

• Podcast: Protecting New Guinea’s forests with birds-of-paradise and ecotourism

• Podcast: Kelp, condors and Indigenous conservation

• Podcast: ‘Carbon cowboys’ and illegal logging

• Podcast: The 411 on forests and reforestation for 2022

• Podcast: With the passing of two icons, who will lead the conservation movement?

• Podcast: Exploring New Guinea’s extraordinary natural and cultural richness

• Podcast: In search of wild spectacles and river journeys

• Podcast: What do two giant land deals mean for the future of Southeast Asia’s forests?

• Podcast: Bill McKibben and Trebbe Johnson on action and ‘radical joy’ after COP26 climate summit failure

• Podcast: Natural forest regeneration’s critical role in reforestation goals

• Podcast: Indigenous bioacoustics listens to the land for conservation and tradition

• Podcast: Who benefits from resource extraction in the DRC?

• Podcast: Indigenous rights and the future of biodiversity conservation

• Podcast: Are tuna doing as well as latest extinction risk assessments suggest? It’s complicated

• Podcast: Examining ‘What Works In Conservation’

• Podcast: What can seashells tell us about the health of the oceans?

• Podcast: ‘Stubborn optimism’ for elephants fuels Indigenous conservation effort

• Podcast: Reforestation done right, from Haiti to Honduras and Ho Chi Minh City

• Podcast: Connecting kids and ourselves to nature

• Podcast: It’s an ‘incredibly exciting’ time for the field of bioacoustics

• Podcast: Can Biden’s 30×30 plan put U.S. on a positive conservation track?

• Podcast: Reforestation is booming, but deforestation rose last year

• Podcast: Two tunas and a tale of managed extinction

• Podcast: Though humanity exceeds key ‘planetary boundaries’ there are many solutions

• Podcast: Palm oil plantations and their impacts have arrived in the Amazon

• Podcast: Sumatran conservation solutions that empower kids, women and communities

• Podcast: Can agroecology feed the world?

• Podcast: Restoration for peat’s sake

• Podcast: Is ecosystem restoration our last/best hope for a sustainable future?

• Podcast: Where oh where are the Sumatran rhinos?

• Podcast: Are biomass and hydropower ‘false’ climate solutions?

• Podcast: Omens and optimism for Sumatran orangutans

• Podcast: Agroforestry, an ancient climate solution that boosts food production and biodiversity

• Podcast: With just 10 years left to save Sumatran elephants, what can be done now?

• Podcast: What are the tropical forest storylines to watch in 2021?

• Podcast: New innovations to clean up the impacts of mining

• Podcast: Tiger on the highway

• Podcast: Is Brazil’s biodiverse savanna getting the attention it deserves, finally?

• Podcast: Will a newly discovered ape species face a dammed future?

• Podcast: Indigenous land rights and the global push for land privatization

• Podcast: Sumatra’s deforestation demystified

• Podcast: Lemur love and award-winning plant passion in Madagascar

• Podcast: Saving the singing rhino

• Podcast: New Latin American treaty could help protect women conservation leaders — and all environment defenders

• Podcast: Mongabay explores Sumatra, a land like no other

• Podcast: A radio program is helping save critically endangered gorillas in Nigeria

• Podcast: Can the planet support a clean energy transition?

• Podcast: Great ape ‘forest gardeners of Africa’ benefit from conservation victory

• Podcast: In the Amazon, women are key to forest conservation

• Podcast: Singing and whistling cetaceans of southern Africa revealed by bioacoustics

• Podcast: From parks to payments, which conservation strategies work best?

• Podcast: Hellbenders, super-spreaders, and other salamanders face uncertain futures

• Podcast: Finding nature in cities

• Podcast: Can policy prevent a North American salamander pandemic?

• Podcast: Five years after the death of Cecil the Lion, trophy hunting debate rages on

• Podcast: International task force unites North America to protect salamander diversity

• Podcast: Animals have culture, too, and for some it’s crucial to their survival and conservation

• Audio: Will U.S. scientists find a silent salamander killer in time?

• Audio: Conservationists find opportunity and community amidst current crises

• Audio: Why are salamanders so diverse in North America?

• Podcast: Listening to elephants to protect Central Africa’s tropical forests

• Audio: North America’s looming salamander pandemic: Is the U.S. ready?

• Audio: What can we expect from tropical fire season 2020?

• Audio: How to be an ethical wildlife photographer, and why it’s necessary

• Audio: Celebrating the 50th Earth Day amidst a global pandemic

• Audio: The links between COVID-19, wildlife trade, and destruction of nature with John Vidal

• Audio: Songs and sounds of Bering Sea whales and seals reveal a story of change

• Audio: Shah Selbe on how open source technology is creating new opportunities for conservation

• Audio: Fred Swaniker on conservation as an economic growth opportunity for Africa

• Audio: Galina Angarova on the indigenous relationship to land, conservation, and the sacred feminine

• Audio: The sounds of tropical katydids and how they can benefit conservation

• Audio: Ami Vitale on how meeting Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, changed her life

• Audio: The best animal calls featured on the Mongabay Newscast in 2019

• Audio: Mongabay investigation reveals large-scale land invasion in Peruvian Amazon

• Audio: How listening to individual gibbons can benefit conservation

• Audio: Damian Aspinall on why he’s calling for zoos to be phased out within the next three decades

• Audio: Reporter Katie Baker details Buzzfeed’s explosive investigation of WWF

• Audio: Exploring the deep sea with biologist Diva Amon

• Audio: Traveling the Pan Borneo Highway with Mongabay’s John Cannon

• Audio: Humpback whales across the Pacific Ocean are singing the same song

• Audio: Rev. Lennox Yearwood on why he’s ‘excited’ about the urgency and energy behind climate action

• Audio: The superb lyrebird’s song, dance and incredible vocal mimicry

• Audio: Environmental justice and urban rat infestations

• Audio: David Quammen on ecological restoration, emerging diseases, evolutionary science, and more

• Audio: Listen to the first-ever recordings of right whales breaking into song

• Audio: New CITES head on next COP, reining in online wildlife trafficking, and more

• Audio: Bronx Zoo director says zoos are more relevant to conservation than ever

• Audio: Chatty river dolphins in Brazil might help us understand evolution of marine mammal communication

• Audio: Exploring a hidden rainforest on an isolated mountain in Mozambique

• Audio: Saving forests and biodiversity by providing affordable healthcare

• Audio: Tool-using, ground-nesting chimp culture discovered in DR Congo

• Audio: Debunking myths about sloths is crucial to stopping the sloth crisis

• Audio: What underwater sounds can tell us about Indian Ocean humpback dolphins

• Audio: Scott Wallace on the importance of protecting uncontacted indigenous groups in the Amazon

• Audio: The sounds of a rare New Zealand bird reintroduced to its native habitat

• Audio: Good news from Mexico monarch reserve despite looming deforestation, mine threat

• Audio: IUCN’s Inger Andersen: “Women represent 3.5 billion solutions”

• Audio: Rhett Butler on how sound can save forests and top rainforest storylines to watch in 2019

• Audio: The best wildlife calls featured on the Mongabay Newscast in 2018

• Audio: The true story of how 96 critically endangered sea turtle hatchlings survived New York City

• Audio: Bill McKibben on the climate movements that give him hope

• Audio: A Half-Earth progress report from E.O. Wilson

• Audio: Documenting emperor penguin populations, a dispatch from Antarctica

• Audio: Racing to save the world’s amazing frogs with Jonathan Kolby

• Audio: How an African bat might help us prevent future Ebola outbreaks

• Audio: How the social sciences can help conservationists save species

• Audio: The ‘Godfather of Biodiversity’ on why it’s time to manage Earth as a system

• Audio: The superb mimicry skills of an Australian songbird

• Audio: Beavers matter more than you think

• Audio: Shadow companies and the Indonesian land crisis

• Audio: How to use drones without stressing wildlife

• Audio: The dialogue between science and indigenous knowledge

• Audio: How soundscapes are helping us better understand animal behavior and landscape ecology

• Audio: Mexico’s ejidos find sustainability by including women and youth

• Audio: Sylvia Earle on why we must act now to save the oceans

• Audio: Seabird secrets revealed by bioacoustics in New Zealand

• Audio: Impacts of agriculture on Brazil’s Cerrado region

• Audio: Maroon 5’s James Valentine on why he’s working to stop illegal logging

• Audio: Exploring humanity’s deep connection to water, plus the sounds of the Sandhill crane migration

• Audio: How effective is environmental restoration?

• Audio: Exploring the minds and inner lives of animals

• Audio: The cutting-edge technologies allowing us to monitor ecosystems like never before

• Audio: David Suzuki on why indigenous knowledge is critical for human survival

• Audio: Lessons from indigenous peoples about coping with climate change, plus the call of the night parrot

• The top 6 moments from the Mongabay Newscast in 2017

• Audio: Amazon tribe’s traditional medicine encyclopedia gets an update, and conservation effectiveness in Madagascar examined

• Audio: Margaret Atwood on her conservation-themed graphic novel, dystopian futures, and how not to despair

• Audio: Dr. Jane Goodall on being proven right about animals having personalities, plus updates direct from COP23

• Audio: Impacts of gas drilling on wildlife in Peru and a Goldman Prize winner on mercury contamination

• Audio: Indonesian rainforests for sale and bat calls of the Amazon

• Audio: Is forest certification an effective strategy? Plus acoustic ecology of the Javan rhino

• Audio: Legendary musician Bruce Cockburn on music, activism, and hope

• Audio: Technologies that boost conservation efforts right now and in the future

• Audio: A rare earth mine in Madagascar triggers concerns for locals and lemurs

• Audio: Katharine Hayhoe on how to talk about climate change: ‘Share from the heart and then the head’

• Audio: Global megadam activism and the sounds of nature in Taiwan

• Audio: DJ remixes the sounds of birds, lemurs, and more to inspire conservation

• Audio: The fight to save Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

• Audio: Activists determined to protect newly discovered Amazon Reef from oil drilling

• Audio: Frances Seymour on why rich nations need to start paying up to protect the world’s tropical forests

• Audio: Bill Laurance on the “infrastructure tsunami” sweeping the planet

• Audio: A deep dive into the study of marine wildlife through bioacoustics

• Audio: Crystal Davis, director of Global Forest Watch, on conservation and Big Data

• Audio: WildTech covers the high- and low-tech solutions making conservation more effective

• Audio: Paul Simon on his new tour in support of E.O. Wilson’s Half-Earth initiative

• Audio: Meet the ‘Almost Famous Animals’ that deserve more conservation recognition

• Audio: Naomi Oreskes on what stories we can’t let get lost in the noise of 2017 and why scientists should speak up

• Audio: An in-depth look at Mongabay’s collaboration with The Intercept Brasil

• Audio: E.O. Wilson talks about Half-Earth, Trump, and more

• Newscast #9: Joel Berger on overlooked ‘edge species’ that deserve conservation

• Newscast #8: Top new species discoveries of 2016, and how fig trees can save rainforests

• Newscast #7: Undiscovered Sumatran rhinos in the wild in Malaysia? Maybe, maybe not.

• Newscast #6: Carl Safina on marine conservation and Trump

• Mongabay Newscast episode 5: UN Climate talks and the impending Trump presidency, conserving salamanders in Mexico, and more

• Mongabay Newscast episode 4: Inside scoop on new Netflix documentary “The Ivory Game;” orangutan habitat under threat in Indonesia

• Mongabay Newscast episode 3: Crucial conservation votes at CITES CoP17 and the future of socio-ecological research

• Mongabay Newscast episode 2: Earth’s most climate-sensitive river delta, conservation in conflict zones

• Introducing the Mongabay Newscast