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Balancing the Old World and the New
Special Reporting Initiatives Fellows Ruxandra Guidi and Bear Guerra reporting on the Balu Wala, or the Kuna ‘good life’: how […]
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Environmental Journalism and Education
Job Opportunity: Latin American Conservation Program Director
Nature and Culture International is seeking a Latin American Conservation Program Director to manage programs out of their San Diego […]
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ENSIA – A Model For Community-Managed Forests
Special Reporting Initiative Fellows Ruxandra Guidi and Bear Guerra report for environmental news magazine Ensia on the Guna Yala’s experience […]
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Why a tribe in Panama rejected pay for their forests
Mongabay Special Reporting Initiative Fellows Ruxandra Guidi and Bear Guerra report on Panama’s efforts to gain funding for standing forests […]
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SRI: Latin American Big Industry, Climate Change, and Biodiversity Conservation
OFFICIAL SRI TITLE: The Shifting Relationship Between Big Industry, Climate Change, and Biodiversity Conservation in Latin America Application Deadline: Sunday, […]
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A Conversation with an Illegal Logger
“I make six times the amount of money logging as I would working my small plot of land or even […]
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LUCKY PEACH – Why is shrimp so cheap? Answer: it’s not.
Of Prawns and Men on the Bali Strait. An in depth look at the shrimp farm industry in Indonesia and […]
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Mongabay-Indonesia journalists win reporting awards from indigenous peoples’ organization
Four journalists from Mongabay-Indonesia, Mongabay’s Indonesian-language environmental news service, won awards for their work on two stories. On August 9, […]
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Reporter’s Journal: A Glass & Wood View
Wood and glass goggles used by traditional divers throughout Sulawesi. Read more from SRI Fellow Melati Kaye’s experience reporting on […]
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Reporter’s Journal: A Bomb’s Harvest
Porters sort and tally a week’s worth of landings from a bomb fishing crew before carrying the catch to the […]
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Could the current Ebola strain have come from illegally-trafficked great apes?
Special Reporting Assignment fellow Daniel Stiles presents an analysis on the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa and its possible […]
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2 new SRIs launched, 2 winners announced
Mongabay.org’s Special Reporting Initiative (SRI) program has recently awarded two different reporting prizes to journalists to tackle these vital and […]
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The naïve chimps of the Ndoki Forest
Ndoki Forest, charmed or cursed? Conservationists admit sustainable logging wilting in naïve chimp habitat. Special Reporting Assignment Fellow Daniel Stiles […]
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Reporter’s Journal: Dark Times Ahead
SRI Fellows Ruxandra Guidi and Bear Guerra report on the effects of climate change on the Kuna people in Panama. […]
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Outside the Box: Experimental Fixes for Indonesian Fisheries
Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Melati Kaye with her final installment of her four-part series on the state of marine fisheries […]
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The connection between forest health and people’s livelihoods
SRI Fellow Wendee Nicole’s piece titled Ecotopia emerging: sustainable forests and healthy livelihoods go hand in hand discussing political scientist […]
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Reporter’s Journal: Fish As Currency
SRI Fellow Melati Kaye reports from the field in Indonesia. Read the full story here.
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Is there hope for Indonesian fisheries?
In the third installment of a hard-hitting and in-depth series, SRI Fellow Melati Kaye reviews the history of Indonesia’s young […]
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Two New SRI Reporting Opportunities Announced
Mongabay.org launched applications for two new Special Reporting Initiatives today. These reporting grants range from $15,000 – $27,000 in support […]
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Exploring the fragile state of Indonesia’s fisheries
Read SRI Fellow Melati Kaye’s second part of her four part series on the state of Indonesian fisheries.
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