With 2025 drawing to a close, Mongabay’s flagship podcast has added more than 40 episodes over the course of the year. From professors and authors to Mongabay staffers, conservationists and advocates, we’ve hosted a diverse group of individuals, detailing their investigations, research, advocacy philosophy — all in service to shining a light on the existential and environmental threats humanity faces The following are the top 10 interviews listeners stayed with the longest. These audience favorites are also among my own, so if you want to hear some of the best conversations from 2025, start here. As Africa eyes protected areas expansion of 1 million square miles, concerns over enforcement persist In one of the most listened-to episodes of the year, Mongabay features writer Ashoka Mukpo takes the audience to Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda, where park rangers are alleged to have carried out extrajudicial killings of suspected bushmeat poachers. With an additional million square miles of protected land to be established across Africa, “the amount [of] violence and aggressive enforcement” has “led to a lot of mistrust,” Mukpo says. Listen: What environmental history reveals about our current ‘planetary risk’ Sunil Amrith, professor of history at Yale University, explains the planetary risks posed by the current global political landscape and what history has to teach us about it. Amrith offers listeners a glimpse into the past and the unique urgency humanity faces in this moment. Listen: Listening to whales is key to their conservation How does listening to extremely low…This article was originally published on Mongabay

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