I'm the founder and CEO of Mongabay, a non-profit that covers issues at the intersection of people and nature via a global network of local reporters. I also write and take pictures.
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A lucky child: Mongabay’s origin story
I wasn’t able to finish the piece I’d planned to publish this week. Instead, here’s a shortened version of something I wrote in 2018 about Mongabay’s origin.
Nosy Mangabe shoreline
One of the few benefits of having a father who had to fly...
A year ago, Jane Goodall died at 91. Her message is more important than ever
I wasn’t able to produce a full-length feature the past few weeks, so here are three short pieces that are quite different from one another. I hope at least one resonates with you.
Jane Goodall in 2024. Courtesy of the Jane Goodall Institu...
Conservation is not a software problem
New York Climate Week was as busy as ever with more than 30 events and meetings over four-and-a-half days in the city. I did several talks. Here’s a recap of a few of them.
Elephants in Central African Republic’s Dzanga Bai. My photo
C...
What AI is doing to our web traffic
Last year I wrote a piece about how generative AI seemed to be affecting traffic to Mongabay’s news sites. I think it would be useful to provide an update, especially in light of recently unsealed court documents showing that employees at M...
A clownfish’s last stand
Twenty years ago, scientist and Mongabay board member Debby Ng joined a team documenting life at Terumbu Bayan, a coral reef south of Singapore that was about to be reclaimed.
There she encountered a pair of false clownfish living in an an...
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