John Cannon

John Cannon started with Mongabay as a correspondent in 2014 and became a staff writer in 2016 and a features writer in 2020. John’s reporting has appeared in New Scientist, Slate.com, Yale Environment 360, Pacific Standard and Science, among others. He has been a guest on the BBC and NPR’s All Things Considered and Living on Earth and has also had several short stories published in literary magazines. He studied biology as an undergraduate at the Ohio State University and has a graduate degree in science writing from UC Santa Cruz. John has reported from Brunei, Cambodia, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Peru, and Rwanda, and was a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger. He lives in California with his wife and two cats they adopted while living in Gaza. In 2024, they thru-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail (minus the cats).