Mongabay Newscast
Environmental journalism and interviews covering biodiversity, forests, wildlife, conservation and climate.
- Host
- Mike DiGirolamo
- Published by
- Mongabay
- Topic
- Nature & Biodiversity
- Format
- Interview
- Orientation
- Sustainability
- Themes
- Resilience, Nature Positive
- Made for
- Professional / Practitioner, General Public, Policymaker / Public Sector
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20 Oct 2026 · 36 min
The Indigenous Desert Alliance is restoring biodiversity across the Australian desert
This week on the Mongabay Newscast, Samantha Murray, CEO of the Indigenous Desert Alliance, joins the program to discuss the IDA's recent nomination for an Earthshot Prize . The alliance is a network of 70 ranger teams across the Australian desert, covering 270 million hectares (667 million acres), an area almost as large as Argentina. This makes it the largest Indigenous-led conservation corridor on the planet. Murray and her network of 885 rangers have helped restore biodiversity to 140 million hectares (346 million acres) of land over the past four years using the practice of cultural burni
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13 Oct 2026 · 36 min
The exotic pet trade fuels biodiversity and disease risks. Here's how to curb it
The global pet trade, particularly in exotic reptiles and amphibians, poses significant biodiversity and potential human health risks, scientists say; yet compared to other pressing crises like climate change, the solutions are relatively simple — if only governments would act on them. Susan Lieberman, vice president for international policy at the Wildlife Conservation Society, based in the U.S., and Sandra Altherr, co-founder and head of science at Pro Wildlife, in Germany, join the Mongabay Newscast this week to discuss these solutions, which they've outlined in a commentary published in th
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6 Oct 2026 · 39 min
Kynan Tegar wants 'a future that exists' for Indonesia's Indigenous communities
Indigenous activist and filmmaker Kynan Tegar joins the Mongabay Newscast this week to discuss the impacts of the fires devastating Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo. Some 48,000 hectares (about 119,000 acres) of land have burned so far this year; Kynan says these fires are intentional on the part of agricultural corporations. "The process that has gotten us to this point right now, where fires are raging through the island, it's a process that started maybe you can draw the line up to the 1970s, which was around the time where the Indonesian New Order period regime of