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Mongabay news:in 2022 Mongabay published nearly 5,000 stories in six languages covering more than 100 countries. This reporting attracted 61 million users to Mongabay's website, including visitors from nearly every country on earth. Collectively, these visitors spent 11.9 million hours reading news articles in 2022.critical ecosystems experiencing environmental degradation and acute threats remained at the heart our 2022 coverage. While we remained committed to our longtime reportage on tropical forests, wildlife, land rights, extractive industries and infrastructure, we expanded our coverage of oceans, conservation and nature-based climate solutions, global-scale environmental initiatives, philanthropy, commodities and supply chains, as well as the growing role and recognition of indigenous peoples and local communities in conservation. In addition to our original written reporting, we continued to expand our storytelling via multiple formats. We produced hundreds innovative data-visualizations and short-form videos, including new series like consumed where Mongabay tracks the environmental impact of consumer products through their lifecycle. We also produced 60 podcasts in 2022, including a 7-part "Mongabay explores" deep dive into conservation issues in new guinea. In late 2022, the podcast team worked with a pair of award-winning journalists to produce a 3-part, true crime-style investigative series about the uk's growing waste crisis, "into the wasteland. "throughout the year Mongabay set the stage to scale up transparency in the reforestation and tree-planting sector by developing and engaging a dedicated community interested in reforestation via a topic-specific newsletter and our public transparency tool reforestation.app. Since the launch of the reforestation initiative in late 2021, we've cultivated a community of more than 1,000 individuals inclusive of prominent figures and stakeholders. Our team and network of contributors continued to expand. The staff headcount grew by 13%. This growth significantly increased our editorial capacity in nepal, bangladesh and africa, where we're doing more french-first coverage. In total, we had more than 1,000 people write for Mongabay during the year.mongabay continued to receive growing recognition for its achievements and reporting, while members of staff won individual accolades. These ranged from the heinz award for ceo rhett ayers butler to regular tv appearances for contributing editor karla mendes to call-outs by journalists from other recognized publications like the new york times.much of 2022 was spent developing a strategic plan that will guide the organization's development and expansion over the next seven years. After a long stakeholder engagement process, Mongabay expects to finalize its 2023-2030 strategic plan in may 2023.mongabay continued to see important impacts resulting from our reporting, especially investigations. These range from the malaysian government investigating a questionable carbon deal in sabah to a community securing funding after we covered their conservation efforts.

Mongabay education:mongabay's education initiative, which provides materials geared toward elementary and middle school kids for educators, published nearly 200 posts in 2022. Mongabay kids a global audience that's continuing to grow since its official launch in 2021. In 2022 Mongabay kids established an academic advisory panel to help better understand the needs of its users and establish itself as an essential environmental education resource for kids around the world.