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Mongabay is seeking a research associate to help evaluate conservation effectiveness
Mongabay is working on a reporting project that combines science and journalism to evaluate the effectiveness of different conservation strategies. […]
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Environmental Journalism and Education
Category: SPECIAL REPORTING INITIATIVES
New Reporting Opportunity – Conservation Effectiveness in Madagascar
Mongabay is excited to announce a new special reporting project that aims to explore the effectiveness of conservation spending and […]
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Report on Indonesian coal for Mongabay
Mongabay is excited to announce our new Indonesian coal reporting project under our Mongabay Reporting Network (MRN) program. The project […]
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New Reporting Opportunity – Global Forests
Mongabay is excited to announce our new Global Forests Mongabay Reporting Network (MRN), which aims to increase awareness surrounding the […]
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New Reporting Opportunity – Almost Famous Asian Animals
Mongabay is excited to announce our new Almost Famous Asian Animals Mongabay Reporting Network (MRN), which aims to publicize the plight […]
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New Reporting Opportunity – Great Apes & Industrial Agriculture
Mongabay is excited to announce our new Great Apes and Industrial Agriculture Mongabay Reporting Network (MRN), which will produce articles […]
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FOREIGN POLICY: If a Tree Falls…
… in a national park? Activists, journalists, and even Michael Bloomberg have been agitating for Peru to finally make Sierra […]
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TAKE PART: Africa’s Silent Scourge Is Wiping Out Crops
Farmers are going hungry because they lack ways of keeping food from rotting or being destroyed by pests after harvest. […]
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Mongabay Rhino Poaching Piece Nominated for Australian Journalism Award
Mic Smith’s Mongabay article titled Amid rhinoceros poaching frenzy, dark days for South African society has been nominated for Australia’s […]
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Mongabay has two new jobs & one new reporting opportunity
The new and improved Mongabay has some exciting new staff and reporting opportunities. LATIN AMERICA WRITER/EDITOR Mongabay.org is seeking a […]
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Into the great unknown: The ability of global forests to store carbon is at risk
Julian Smith, Special Reporting Initiatives Fellow reports for Mongabay on importance of carbon storage in global forests. Read the full […]
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Four Amazon nations, four approaches to reducing deforestation
Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Julian Smith reports on deforestation in the Amazon. Below is a summary of the piece that […]
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Corporations rush to make zero-deforestation commitments, but is it working?
Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Julian Smith reports on deforestation commitments from global corporations and their effectiveness. Read the full story […]
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SLATE – Bananal Islands: A conflict between the government and indigenous people threatens one of Brazil’s most unique national parks
Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Brendan Borrell reports one of Brazil’s most unique national parks and the debate between government and […]
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ROADS & KINGDOMS – Island in a Storm
Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Brendan Borrell reports on the conflict between the government and indigenous people threatening one of Brazil’s […]
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THE GUARDIAN – Peru planning to dam Amazon’s main source and displace 1000s
Mongabay Special Reporting Initiative Fellow David Hill reports on Peru’s dam plans for The Guardian. Read the full piece here.
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Cutting food waste in Africa would drive greater prosperity
In a piece for The New York Times, Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Rachel Cernansky explores how food waste undermines African […]
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TAKEPART – How a Cow can Help the Climate
Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Brendan Borrell reports for TakePart on how an agricultural method imported from New Zealand could be […]
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THE LAST WORD ON NOTHING: The Amazing Lives of Fan Li and Xi Shi
Special Reporting Initiative Fellows Erik Vance and Dominic Bracco II submit an interesting piece on the world’s first aquaculture textbook […]
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A Sticky Savior? Gum Arabic May Change How We Store Food Forever
Chances are, even if you’ve never heard of it, you use gum arabic every day. The dried tree sap is […]
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