1. Articles on the site have sparked protests in Madagascar against a French shipping company transporting timber logged illegally from rainforest reserves and helped block destructive projects like a plan to log 70 percent of Woodlark Island off New Guinea for a giant oil palm plantation. Mongabay. com stories have influenced investment flows, including a decision to spare Cameroon’s rainforests from logging in order to win payments from the carbon market.
2. Stories and photos have even inspired art. In 2012 Mongabay. org was formed to facilitate the development of new education and journalism initiatives and leverage its existing network, traffic, and reputation. Mongabay. org aims to raise awareness about social and environmental issues relating to forests and other ecosystems.
3. Since then, Mongabay has grown into the world’s most popular rainforest information site and a well-known source of environmental news reporting and analysis.
4. Mongabay is also widely recognized as an accurate and trust-worthy source by civil society organizations as well as development agencies.
5. Today Mongabay draws more than 2. 5 million visitors per month and publishes stories in half a dozen languages.
6. Rhett A. Butler founded Mongabay. com in 1999 out of his passion for tropical forests.
7. He called the site Mongabay after an island in Madagascar.
8. It is commonly used as an information source by mainstream media, including The Economist, Bloomberg, National Geographic, and the Associated Press.
9. Over the years Mongabay’s impact has been substantial.
1. You could stand to make it more obvious on the app that you're funded by donations, for example a donate button at the end of each article or in the side section.Great layout and news, but could add a feature to select what type of news you want in your feed.
2. If only it were possible to enjoy them on the app, instead of having to Google the headline to actually read the articleFantastic content covering a wide range of conservation and environmental news topics.
3. It really ticks all the boxes! A 'must-have' for anyone involved or interested in conservation and environmental science.After an initial week of issues where after the app loaded it just went to a blank page and became unresponsive it now works.
4. Great intuitive app, and the new outlet has always been considered by me as the best place to go for important environmental news you can't always find anywhere else!Reading offline is the most missed feature.
5. Recommend for people interested in news about conservation or the environment in general.Love the app, until it recently became unusable.
6. I've seen instances where this app had a news story before the actual website (not sure if that was intentional).
7. If you try to open a story you have a 50/50 chance of the app crashing or getting a completely blank screen.
8. The app could have downloaded news while i was climbing a peak and save them (like localStorage in a browser).
9. Saves me going online and typing on the Google search window and getting lots of irrelevant stuff.
10. Easy and convient subject tabs and bookmarks make finding previous articles easy.
11. Here I know exactly what I get on whichever topic I'm interested in.Malfunctioning app! The settings screen keeps disappearing after less than a second.