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Podcast: Mongabay Newscast
Episode: Mongabay Explores New Guinea: Community empowerment and forest conservation grow from the galip nut
Description: Mongabay Explores is an episodic podcast series that highlights unique places and species from around the globe. By 2025, the edible nut industry will be worth an estimated $2 billion globally. In Papua New Guinea (PNG), a traditional and plentiful staple, the galip nut (Canarium indicum), holds the promise of tapping into that demand. Its familiarity and the ease with which it can be grown together with coffee and cocoa is adding up to a new source of income for thousands of small scale farmers across PNG while preserving forest cover. On this episode of Mongabay Explores, w...