Erik Hoffner
Award winning editor & podcast producer @ env’t news outlet Mongabay. Verified before Musk, member of Society of Env Journalists & VT Center for Photography
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1 day ago |
news.mongabay.com | Erik Hoffner
Carlos Mallo Molina has been awarded the 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize for protecting the marine biodiversity of Tenerife, the most populated of the Canary Islands. On this episode of Mongabay’s podcast, Molina explains what led him to quit his job as a civil engineer on a road project impacting the Teno-Rasca marine protected area (MPA) and his subsequent campaign to stop the port project it was planned to connect to, which would have impacted the biodiversity of the area.
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2 days ago |
news.mongabay.com | Erik Hoffner
Though anglers aren’t generally thought of as environmentalists, many people who fish are conservation minded, whether because it’s an outdoor pursuit, or because they wish to ensure future harvests. Whatever their reasons, there aren’t many groups that help anglers advocate for sustainable fishing regulations based on solid science, nor ones that also work to generate new data that helps them argue for better conservation.
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1 week ago |
news.mongabay.com | Erik Hoffner
Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. Dieter Hochuli: My broad issue philosophically is I think there the word is being misused. Extinction is forever. It’s irreversible. If there’s another term for recreating or resurrecting things. Yeah, I mean that’s, they’re probably a little bit, a little bit closer.
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2 weeks ago |
news.mongabay.com | Erik Hoffner
Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. John Ryan: Humpback whales, they’re an amazing story in their own right. They can produce songs that span more than nine, octas more than a piano, including song sounds that reach right down to the lower limit of our hearing, and even sounds that extend above the upper limit of human hearing. Humpback whales are just the most phenomenal composers I have could ever imagine.
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3 weeks ago |
news.mongabay.com | Erik Hoffner
Each year, the Goldman Environmental Prize honors grassroots activists from each of the six inhabited continental regions. The 2025 prize winners are Semia Gharbi from Tunisia, Batmunkh Luvsandash from Mongolia, Besjana Guri and Olsi Nika from Albania, Carlos Mallo Molina from the Canary Islands, Laurene Allen from the United States and Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari from Peru.
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