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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Environmental Journalism and Education
Category: SRI REPORTING
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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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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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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Photo Essay: Geopolitical pawns, the fishermen of Lý Sơn, Vietnam
The island of Lý Sơn sits a few miles off shore of the city of Da Nang and halfway down […]
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Keeping up with the climate: efforts to reduce African crop losses face the extra hurdle of climate change
Farmers in tropical areas have long struggled to maximize their crop yields, but the strikes against them just continue to […]
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Empowering women in order to save the harvest
On a hot weekend in February, Shamim Daudi sits down with farmer after farmer near Babati, Tanzania, to talk with […]
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The crop-saving champion of Tanzania: Bertha Mjawa
In the late 1980s, Bertha Mjawa remembers seeing endless quantities of fruits and vegetables getting thrown out across Tanzania because […]
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Brazilian state won’t use new atlas to close Cerrado deforestation loophole
Farmers in north-central Brazil, where the savanna meets the Amazon rainforest, are clearing land at an unprecedented rate. The government […]
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Carbon storage goals and conservation collide in Brazilian Cerrado
Scientists are raising the alarm about the disparity between biodiversity goals and carbon goals in Brazil’s Cerrado. New research is […]
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New solutions aim to deliver more grain from farm to table in sub-Saharan Africa
Corn is an integral part of many meals in Tanzania and its neighboring East African countries. Ground, it makes a […]
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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN – Farmers Urge Return of Jaguars to Protect Crops
Scientific American has published Mongabay Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Brendan Borrell’s piece on big cats could returning to Brazil’s grassland.
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Combating food waste in sub-Saharan Africa
At the bustling Kilombero wholesale produce market in the town of Arusha, Tanzania, traders sort hundreds of pounds of mangos […]
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Brazilian Cerrado farmers urge return of big cats for crop protection from peccaries
“Every year the group gets bigger and bigger, and every year the damage to the crop is greater,” said Peixoto, […]
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Little Brazilian opossum potentially farmers’ helper
Mongabay Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Brendan Borrell reports from the Brazilian Cerrado. Read the full story here.
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Could inland aquaculture help save the oceans and feed the world?
Mark Kwok has always loved the ocean. An avid diver and spear fisherman, he has travelled the planet in search […]
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