Audio journalist @Mongabay. Runner. He/him. Born at 350ppm. 📍Gadigal Land. Fan of birds.
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Medical doctor and South African activist, Mamphela Ramphele, joins the podcast this week to explain the highlights from the First Conference on the Transition Away From Fossil Fuels (TAFF), which formed a coalition of 57 nations coordinating workstreams and roadmaps to phase out fossil fuels:
How is the Australian federal government doing at meeting its obligations under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework? "Terribly," says wildlife ecologist @euanritchie.bsky.social.
However, the government claims they are 'on track' on most of those targets.
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I joined @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social of @mongabay.com to discuss the awful hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks unfolding right now. Tragically, we keep re-learning the same lesson: our actions drive the increasing frequency of spillovers of viruses from animals to humans.
“[The]cruel irony here [is] that the world cannot get its act together to address these threats … people are dying, animals are suffering, we’re losing rainforest … these are all interconnected threats,” @conservationdoc.bsky.social tells me on the @mongabay.com Newscast, after an Ebola outbreak:
“That might be something that you see in a decade, not in two years of filming,” Dr. Tara Stoinksi, tells me.
She joins the Mongabay Newscast to discuss her role as a scientific adviser on the new Netflix documentary, A Gorilla Story, which captured rare gorilla behavior. Listen @mongabay.com:
Whaaaaat, @mongabay.com has a podcast?!
Great range of topics and guests on #conservation issues — science, policy, practice, threats, solutions, and more — from around the world.
This one is next for me. 💪🌍🧪
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Insightful, timely and beautifully articulated interview by Neil Vora, MD with @mongabay.com exploring pandemics, disease outbreaks, environmental degradation and the deep connections between nature, public health, equity and our collective livelihoods.
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"For Graham, fighting against logging has come at a huge personal cost. He said that he and his family have received verbal threats, warning him to be careful and to “mind his own business.” He’s been verbally abused by forestry workers in cafes, while driving his car and on his own property."
I spoke to Annie Leonard and André Carothers about their new book 'Protest' from @patagoniabooks.bsky.social on the Mongabay Newscast. Listen to it here:
"We are experiencing what some people call...a shutdown of the public square in the United States and around the world," says Carothers.
Every once in a while I come across a book that details the systems causing ecological breakdown, and concrete things we can do to turn it around. But I haven't yet encountered a book that nails the inner work we must do. That's 'Climate Wayfinding.' You should read it. @allwecansave.bsky.social
Australia is one of 17 “megadiverse” countries that account for 70% of Earth’s biodiversity. However, Australia is unique in having the highest mammalian extinction rate in the world. That makes conse...
