Weird animals win on Instagram. Mongabay’s next-best choice? Its reporters.

Mongabay’s most successful videos are about weird animals. But not every video from the environmental newsroom can be about strange — or strangely cute — animals. Some have to be about shrimp farm pollution. Or a deforestation crisis brought on by cacao farming in Liberia. That’s where the challenge comes in, Mongabay video managing editor...