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Causes: Environment, Forest Conservation
Mission: To raise awareness about social and environmental issues relating to tropical forests and other ecosystems, to wildlife, and to the important role that natural ecosystems play in maintaining critical services, including stabilizing the global climate system.
Programs: Mongabay english reporting -in 2017 mongabay continued to produce high-quality, timely, and original conservation and environmental science news across the globe. As a result, mongabay's global english reporting program was listed among the "best of nonprofit journalism of 2017" from the institute for nonprofit news. The combined effort of mongabay's talented team of editors, staff writers, and contributors, led to the creation of nearly 1300 stories, which reached millions of readers. Investments in special reporting projects enabled in-depth examinations of issues critical to mongabay's mission including: analysis of the effectiveness of various conservation strategies, the dealings of international agribusiness and, and the fundamental transformation of ecosystems currently driving existential threats to biodiversity. Continued growth in the english news program led to a focused increase in management capacity. This year, mongabay hired key staff to strengthen our internal capacity, including a program director to manage global content production; a copy editor to streamline the publishing process; and a grant writer to assist with donor prospecting, proposals and grant reports. Mongabay's reporting continued to enjoy a wide and growing distribution across many media platforms, with its features being referenced and republished in hundreds of publications from the guardian to pacific standard, and by new outlets ranging from niche publications like popular travel site roads and kingdoms to massive american outlets salon and also slate. Additionally, our writers and editors were invited onto an array of radio programs to discuss our reports, ranging from bbc world service to world radio switzerland, new york city's flagship news station wnyc, and the popular environmental news show living on earth, which is syndicated to 250 u. S. Radio stations.
mongabay-latam -during 2017, mongabay-latam made substantial progress expanding its network of contributors to 11 countries, strengthening its relationships with regional media outlets and reaching significant readership. The 41 on-the-ground correspondents of mongabay-latam enable broad and deep reporting on issues that dont get any media coverage with a special focus on deforestation, endangered environmentalists and wildlife conservation. In 2017, mongabay-latam produced 630 stories, averaging about 52 articles per month. Many of the mongabay-latam articles are also being translated in english for the main mongabay site, with its millions of readers, globalizing the reach of these stories. Readership grew rapidly, reaching 200,000 visitors monthly before our first year. From january to december, mongabay-latam's website reached more than 1. 5 million visitors, with 385% growth over 2016. Google analytics data points to a significant growth in the organic web site readership, thanks to the social media strategy and to our partnerships, who help us positioning our stories. Mongabay-latam's audience engagement has been growing along with traffic. Our facebook page have more than 90k fans and we achieved a reach of over 80,000 people for many stories. Our stories have been republished, quoted or used as a source 696 times by different media outlets and blogs from the entire region during 2017. In addition to the republishing partnerships, media outlets of all latin america interested on environmental issues and indigenous communities have replicated mongabay-latam content.
mongabay-indonesia -mongabay-indonesia, our oldest foreign-language bureau, celebrated its fifth year in 2017. Mongabay-indonesia deepened coverage of relevant environmental issues impacting the biodiversity hotspot country, increasingly becoming a go-to reference point for environmental information searches in indonesia. Some of mongabay-indonesia's trending topics coverage in 2017 included in-depth coverage of illegal land-clearing practices, various wildlife trade operations, indigenous / local forest and land management practices, infrastructure development in various parts of indonesia, fisheries management practices/overfishing, the impacts of power plant development, river and marine pollution, as well as news related to the use of renewable energy. Mongabay-indonesia also provided education for readers about indonesia's natural wealth. Several government ministries and state agencies are known to have used mongabay as a reference for policy-making referrals. Academics as well as students who are preparing theses and research also regularly cite mongabay-indonesia. We identified several publications, master theses, and doctoral theses from universities in indonesia using mongabay references. With the growing literacy culture in indonesia, mongabay-indonesia is becoming an increasingly important part of indonesia's environmental information resources providers in the future.
I first became aware of Mongabay in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when the site reported on developments at the city's aquarium. Since then, I've been a regular reader. When Mongabay became a non-profit, I decided it was my turn to pay something back, so I became a supporter.
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