Mongabay Newscast
Environmental journalism and interviews covering biodiversity, forests, wildlife, conservation and climate.
- Host
- Mike DiGirolamo
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- Mongabay
- Topic
- Nature & Biodiversity
- Format
- Interview
- Orientation
- Sustainability
- Themes
- Resilience, Nature Positive
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- Professional / Practitioner, General Public, Policymaker / Public Sector
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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
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29 Sept 2026 · 57 min
Iwi and communities bring kiwi back to Wellington after 150 years
For the first time in 150 years, kiwi once again live in the hills surrounding Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. More than 250 manu ("birds" in the Māori language) were successfully translocated back to the region, thanks to the efforts of the iwi (nations of Aotearoa), community members, and landowners behind the Capital Kiwi Project . Paul Ward, the project lead and founder, joins the Mongabay Newscast this week to explain the yearslong effort to make this possible. "This is a relational project as much as it is what you might traditionally call a conservation project. And I think at a funda
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22 Sept 2026 · 52 min
Home Planet Fund succeeds in conservation by investing in local knowledge
This week on the Newscast, we're joined by Dilafruz Khonikboyeva, the founder of the Home Planet Fund, an independent, Indigenous-led nonprofit that provides funding for local and Indigenous communities and conservation projects around the world. Khonikboyeva, who is also the organization's executive director, speaks about the ethos of the Home Planet Fund and how it works. But I must emphasize that in my conversation with Khonikboyeva, what stands out most to me isn't just the fund's focus on Indigenous-led conversation and investing in local knowledge. It's the well of experience Khonikboyev