Erik Hoffner is an Editor and Podcast Producer at the environmental news outlet Mongabay. He focuses on themes related to climate change and the environment, including climate policy, forestry, and the environmental impacts of mining, while also exploring the intersections of culture and society. Erik's work has been featured in Mongabay and ENVIROLINK LIMITED.
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By: Erik Hoffner, Mike Digirolamo
Roughly a billion people enjoy coffee daily, and more than 100 million people rely on it for income. However, the coffee industry is the sixth-largest driver of deforestation and is also rife with human rights abuses, including the labor of enslaved persons and children. But it doesn’t have to be this way, says this guest […]
In a world full of bad news, there’s been good news in whale conservation. Many of the great whales are coming back. In fact, some populations have been recovering faster than anyone imagined they could, returning from near-obliteration by commercial whaling. Most of the humpback whales in the Southern Ocean and the Eastern Pacific gray […]
By: Melita Samoilys, Erik Hoffner
I have spent much of my life studying predatory fishes in East Africa’s coastal waters, but never have I been more concerned about their future. The disappearance of the western Indian Ocean’s largest reef fishes is not just an ecological tragedy, it is a crisis that threatens entire coral reefs in this region. These species […]
On July 1, the reassessment of Sweden's hydropower plants will resume under the framework of its national plan.
By: Mike Digirolamo, Erik Hoffner
Jean-Gaël “JG” Collomb says community-based conservation organizations know best how to tackle the complex conservation challenges unique to their ecosystems. However, they’re also among the most underserved in terms of funding of all stripes. On this week’s episode of Mongabay’s podcast, Collomb explains how his nonprofit, Wildlife Conservation Network (WCN), is working to change that. […]
By: Erik Hoffner, Philip M. Fearnside
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was silent while the “bill of devastation” (formally PL 2159/2021) moved through the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Congress, and passed by a vote of 290 to 115 on May 13. The silence continued while the Senate, the upper house, added damaging amendments and passed the […]
By: Beth Allgood, John Waugh
If we want conservation to succeed, we must place cultural and spiritual connections at its core, the authors of a recently published paper argue.
By: Andrew-James Anthony, Erik Hoffner
While supporting conservation research in Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental with teams from the U.S.-based Columbia University and San Diego Zoo Global, I assisted in work involving the endangered thick-billed parrot. That experience — observing their habitat and the threats it faces — made clear how severely environmental crime and weak governance are driving biodiversity loss. […]
By: Gaston Browne, Erik Hoffner
These are turbulent times for the global economy and multilateralism. Uncertainty lies at every turn, yet for Antigua and Barbuda — and other Small Island Developing States (SIDS) like ours — navigating uncertainty is not new. It is our lived reality. I have witnessed firsthand how cascading shocks — climate events, market volatility, geopolitical fragmentation […]
Narratives help shape our society, culture and environment, entrenching beliefs that can help — or harm — our planet and human rights. Tsering Yangzom Lama, story manager at Greenpeace International, joins Mongabay’s podcast to explain how dominant narratives — stories shaped by existing power structures and institutions — often undergird destructive industries and favor the […]
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