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Podcast: Mongabay Newscast
Episode: Almost Famous Animals - plus the songs of galagos
Description: On this episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we welcome contributing editor Glenn Scherer to the program, who is responsible for Mongabay's "Almost Famous Animals" series, which just wrapped up its second year with a focus on little-known Asian wildlife. Many conservationists argue that protecting charismatic species like tigers, rhinos, and orangutans will also lead to the protection of less widely known species such as pangolins and langurs, but that has not always been the case. Many lesser known species often fall through the cracks, so this series aims to raise their profiles. And in the...