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Mongabay journalist Gerry Flynn banned from Cambodia for reporting on illegal logging

On the evening of Jan. 5, Mongabay journalist Gerry Flynn was denied entry to Cambodia while returning from a vacation. Immigration officials at the airport told Flynn that he is “permanently banned” from Cambodia because there was “an error” on a document submitted as part of his last visa extension application. He was subsequently forced […]

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Talks

How science communication can impact tropical forest governance

Make deforestation newsworthy. That’s a core principle behind much of the work we do at Mongabay. We’re not as eye-catching as a Greenpeace protest, like that pictured above, but we persistently report on it. I highlighted this as one of our key strategies during a talk on Friday at the 31st Annual Conference of the […]

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The Business of Mongabay

73% of the articles funded by Mongabay would “probably” or “certainly” not have been written otherwise

I don’t get excited about independent evaluations. That’s what I used to think—until one conducted last year on our tropical forests reporting yielded some eye-opening findings. An independent evaluation recently reviewed our work on tropical forest reporting, interviewing 38 stakeholders and analyzing data from over 600 survey respondents. The results were compelling and reinforced the […]

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The Business of Mongabay

Getting environmental journalism funded: An example

Here’s an example of how we fund nature journalism. Mongabay is a nonprofit media outlet that relies on grants and donations, rather than advertising or a paywall, to bring our audience news and inspiration from nature’s frontline. I’m often asked how this works. The short answer is that we’re constantly pitching donors to secure support […]