The end of 2024 was a busy time for the Mongabay team and highlights included a highly positive feature about our work in the Columbia Journalism Review, which is one of the very top media watching projects, and another university-linked media observer, Latam Journalism Review, which interviewed Mongabay Latam reporters about their work covering genetically modified cotton, at the same time as six million Americans heard three different Public News Service segments based on our solutions-oriented reporting, like this one which aired on 400 AM & FM stations across the country.
Top media outlets that relied on or cited our reporting in their own included The Hindu, Forbes, Reuters, Semafor, and Inside Climate News.
New accolades for the team included a Greenaccord Award for Mongabay-India, a Silver Award from the UN Correspondents Association for freelance reporter Rivonala Razafison, a SEAL Award for staff writer Spoorthy Raman, while features writer Karla Mendes’s “Palm oil war” series won a second place award from the prestigious Brazilian national federal prosecutors awards (ANPR), reporting fellow Mactilda Mbenywe’s story on Lake Victoria’s orphans was a finalist in the inaugural Save the Children Global Media Awards for reporting on child rights, and the University of British Columbia Global Reporting Program won second place in the academic category of the 29th Annual EPPY Awards for a series published by Mongabay on food security in Southeast Asia.
On the airwaves, features writer Gerry Flynn appeared in a special report about environmental issues in Cambodia aired by France 24 TV, while CEO Rhett Butler was interviewed by the Protect the World and Founder Spirit podcasts about journalism and conservation, freelance reporter Judith Schwartz read a version of her Mongabay commentary on air via NPR station New England Public Media, and the main source for a Mongabay article about living shorelines was interviewed about the report’s findings on Sea Change Radio, which is heard on 80+ radio stations across the U.S.
Authors of new studies and commentaries published by scientific journals also cited our reporting, including research added to the U.S. National Library of Medicine @NIH here & here, Nature Communications, PLOS One, Urban Ecosystems, Madagascar Conservation & Development, and International Journal of Population Studies. New books that cite Mongabay reporting include Conflict Minerals, Conflict Mines and Critical Minerals for War and a title on maritime security published by Springer, while civil society organizations Oxfam and IATP used our reports in their own.
Numerous media outlets from Eco-Business to Corporate Knights and Scroll also republished Mongabay articles in full, via our Creative Commons license, which other publishers are invited to do as well, more information about that can be found here.
Here’s a selection of where Mongabay reporting appeared during the latter stages of 2024:
ATC News, African Elephant Journal, Asia Sentinel, Britannica, Cambodia Daily, Carbon Brief, Christian Science Monitor, Coffee Cup News, Coffee Talk, Columbia Journalism Review, The Cool Down, Corporate Knights, Courrier International, The Crucial Years, Daily Climate, Daily Excelsior, Daily Kos, Daily Tribune, DeSmog, Dialogo Americas, Down to Earth, Earth Island Journal, Environmental Health News, Eco-Business, Forbes, France 24, Ground Report India, The Guardian, Guardian Post, Hakai, Himalayan Times, The Hindu, Hindu Post, IFL Science, Inside Climate News, International Journal of Population Studies, JSTOR Daily, KJAN-FM, KMAL-AM/FM, Latam Journalism Review, Latin America Bureau, Live Science, Madagascar Conservation & Development, The Maine Beacon, Malaysiakini, Maritime Security and Governance, Mexico Daily Post, Mining.com, Mother Jones, Nature Communications, New Republic, New Security Beat, New Zealand Herald, News9 Live, Newser, Nikkei Publishing, OCCRP, PLOS One, People Magazine, Public News Service, Radio Free Asia, Real Simple, Reuters, Scroll, Semafor, Solutions Journalism, Sea Change Radio, Undercurrent News, Urban Ecosystems, VOA-Khmer, Voce di New York, WXPR-FM, Wood Central, and Yahoo News.
Banner image: Green sea turtle in the Galapagos. Image by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.