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Many of our listeners are likely aware that this past Saturday was International Save the Vaquita Day, and we spent a lot of time putting together a very special city-wide event here in Boise, ID where I reside.  Our partners for this event included the Mexican Consulate Office here in Boise, the Discovery Center of Idaho, JUMP Boise, the Aquarium of Boise, and local Mexican restaurant El Gallo Giro.  We held screenings of our film, Souls of the Vermilion Sea, gave presentations about the vaquita, and held a vaquita march. The vaquita march was perhaps the highest profile component of this city-wide International Save the Vaquita Day event - we had 22 hand painted and creatively designed vaquita banners to represent the approximate number of vaquitas remaining on the planet.  We met at the Idaho State capital building, and marched down 8th street in downtown Boise.  On Saturdays 8th street hosts the Boise farmer’s market and is open only the pedestrian traffic, so it was an ideal route for our march.  We turned a lot of eyes as this strange procession of vaquita advocates marched through the crowded open air market, and hopefully got some people thinking about endangered species conservation. Of course, we weren’t the only ones hosting events for International Save the Vaquita Day this year.  There were events taking place across three continents, including several events in China and numerous events in Mexico.  This was the 5th annual International Save the Vaquita day, and it was Aidan Bodeo-Lomicky, who actually played a central role in the creation of this annual event back in 2013, which is why we’ve decided to re-broadcast the interview that we recorded with him over a year ago for episode 44 of the show. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Greg Luther is an avid hunter, living in Montana. As a sportsmen and a gun owner, he supports stricter gun control. In a recent op-ed piece published in High Country News, Luther stated: We hunters pride ourselves on self-sufficiency, so let’s work from the ground up. That means looking at the facts, talking about it around the campfire, voting for candidates that aren’t in the NRA’s pocket, and donating dollars to organizations that help protect the things that actually are under threat — like our public lands. Matt Podolsky caught up with Greg Luther to discuss the inspiration behind this powerful piece. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Paulette Jordan is a candidate for the US Senate in Idaho, and a former Idaho state representative. If elected, she would be the first female senator to represent Idaho, and the first female Native American senator in US history. In our interview, Jordan discusses how her background has informed her approach towards running her campaign, and why she has a shot at victory despite Idaho's reputation as an extremely conservative state.

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Oceans are the lifeline of our blue planet and they cover nearly ¾ of the Earth’s surface. And on June 8^th we celebrated World Oceans Day. Who doesn’t love the ocean right? Beaches, the lovely breeze, the feel of sand beneath your feet, the wildlife. So, wildlife film-maker and presenter, Aishwarya Sridhar talks to Francesca Trotman, managing director and founder of Love The Oceans.

 

Love the Oceans is a non-profit marine conservation organisation working in Jangamo Bay, Mozambique since 2014. LTO is working to protect and study the diverse marine life found here, including many species of sharks, rays and the famous humpback whales. They use research, education and diving to drive action towards a more sustainable future. Their ultimate goal is to establish a Marine Protected Area for the Inhambane Province in Mozambique, achieving higher biodiversity whilst protecting endangered species. 

Francesca Trotman holds a Masters in Marine Biology. Francesca has always had a passion for marine life and is an emerging leader in the ethical tourism space. An avid diver since the age of 13 with a keen interest in all aspects of marine life, Francesca is particularly passionate about sharks. Results orientated, she constantly encourages people to consider conservation in everyday life and take a greener approach to modern living. As the founder she likes to stay close to the research and community, overseeing the majority of programs on the ground in Mozambique.

 

Let the sound of waves and ocean breeze lift your spirits as you listen to this podcast from your home!!

 

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Today on the show we are going to learn about how one city is taking responsibility for the trash that it produces, and setting a global example for how to stop plastic waste from entering our oceans. That city is Baltimore, and I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to chat with one of the key figures behind Baltimore’s campaign to clean up their waterways - Adam Lindquist.  Adam works for the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore where he serves as the director of the Healthy Harbor Initiative.  Listen in to the episode to learn how Adam and others are using Mr. Trash Wheel, and a variety of other initiatives to clean up Baltimore's harbor and improve the lives of those who live in the city. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Today’s guest on the show is Zak Smith from the Natural Resources Defense Council.  Zak is a Senior Attorney at NRDC, and has been running the group’s Marine Mammal Protection Project for the past 10 years.  Through this work, he has become deeply involved in efforts to save the vaquita from extinction. If you’re wondering what a vaquita is - it’s a small species of porpoise found in the northern Gulf of California, and is considered to be the world’s most endangered marine mammal with fewer than 30 individuals remaining on the planet.  If you’re a regular listener of the show - you’re likely very familiar with the vaquita issue since we’ve been covering it extensively here on the show for the past two years, and just released a 30-min documentary about the struggle to save it from extinction.  The film, by the way, is called Souls of the Vermilion Sea, and is available for free online streaming if you click here. Zak’s most recent role in the fight to prevent the vaquita’s extinction has been the implementation of a boycott of Mexican shrimp.  Although the vast majority of shrimp fishing that goes on in Mexican waters does not impact the vaquita (because it occurs outside the vaquita’s range), Zak hopes that this boycott will put pressure on the Mexican government to step up enforcement of the existing regulations that are designed to protect the vaquita - including the ban on the use of all gillnets in the region. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Welcome to Northern Colorado. Ehret Nottingham loves Colorado. He loves the wilderness, and he wants everybody to have a piece of it. He's also one incredibly driven 18 year old. Ehret, with the help of some gifted, talented, and passionate friends organized and launched Northern Colorado's Youth Climate Strike, and offshoot of the international group, Youth Climate Strike. In this episode, Ehret walks us through Library Park where his march took place, he talks about what drives him, and shares what inspires him to take action when it comes to one of the biggest challenges facing mankind today. Show music by the Humidors with additional music by Lee Rosevere and Blue Dot Sessions. For more information check out EOC producer, Kristin Tieche's episode #176 "Youth Climate Strike!" Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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This Earth to Humans roundtable discussion was recorded LIVE on election night!

Join us for discussion and analysis about the implications of this unprecedented election and how the outcome could effect the environment, wildlife, and much more.

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Historian Mark David Spence is the author of “Dispossessing the Wilderness”, which explores the often obscured history of the forced removal of Native Americans from the landscapes that would become our first national parks. Yosemite, Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks were inhabited landscapes before white settlers arrived and were awestruck by the scenic majesty of these places. Spence’s work shows how the history of the National Park Service is intertwined with the history of the reservation system and our nation’s shameful history of Native American oppression and genocide.

In our conversation, Spence discusses his research process for the book as well as the hurdles he encountered from Park Service historians and archivists. He also talks about his love for National Parks, and how he is able to continue to enjoy spending time in these magical places even after being exposed to their brutal and oppressive history.

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Valentine’s Day. A day where we celebrate love in all its many forms. In keeping with the holiday's theme of romantic love and the art of courtship, complete with candy hearts and flying babies slinging arrows, we take a moment to celebrate a slightly different version of this same story. After all, much of the brilliant beauty in nature exists because attracting another is a critical component to a species survival. It’s the reason birds sing, flowers bloom and, as Matt Podolsky explains, California Condors dance. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Already this summer we have experienced record-breaking heat waves.  As I prepare this episode for release on our nation’s independence day, it’s over 100 degrees where I live in Boise, Idaho.  Of course, every time I see news of record breaking temperatures I’m reminded of our rapidly changing climate - but these days I’m also reminded of something else.  The solar panels that were recently installed on my roof.  Long hot days mean that those panels are generating more energy - actually more than we can use often. So today we are bringing you a group discussion about rooftop solar.  Here in Boise, ID, we have a fantastic campaign going on right now called Solarize the Valley.  The campaign is run by the Boise-based non-profit organization Snake River Alliance, and it’s goal is to promote and encourage more people to install solar panels on their roof. So we are joined today by an excellent panel of guests who are involved in this campaign.  Liz Paul is the main organizer of the Solarize the Valley Campaign for the Snake River Alliance, Micah Hornback is a technical sales representative with Altenergy, one of the two solar contractors involved in the solarize campaign, and Rick and Rinda Just are participants in the Solarize the Valley campaign who recently installed solar panels on their house. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Today’s guest on the show is Carole Dean, a veteran of the film industry and an expert on how to fund film projects. Carole’s path through the world of filmmaking is absolutely fascinating - she’s been working to help independent filmmakers get their films made for decades, but her approach towards achieving this goal has been constantly evolving.  Today she runs a filmmaker grant program, manages fiscal sponsorships, and provides mentorships for independent filmmakers.  She is the author of the seminal book, The Art of Film Funding and the host of a podcast series of the same name (which I would highly recommend for anyone interested in filmmaking). Although Carole is not focused specifically on films that address conservation issues, the advice that she has to share is highly relevant to anyone looking to fund a conservation project - whether it’s a documentary film, a conservation outreach project, or scientific research. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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In today’s show we are exploring and comparing the extinction crises experienced by two very different wildlife species - the California condor, and the vaquita. If you’ve been following the latest news about the vaquita, then you’ve probably already heard a number of comparisons between the situation faced by this small species of porpoise and that faced by the condor in the early 1980s.  A lot of folks have been drawing this comparison between these two high profile endangered species issues - but how similar are the situations faced by these two animals really? Having spent six years of my life working very closely with the California condor recovery project - first as a biologist, then as a filmmaker and storyteller, I have been steeped in the natural history and the conservation history of this unique scavenging species.  This is in part why I was so interested in getting involved in telling the story behind the vaquita - I saw it as an opportunity to document this species’ extinction crisis as it unfolds.  So let’s start with the most obvious similarity that folks have been pointing to - the rate of decline and the low population numbers.  The wild population of California condors dropped to 21 individuals in 1981.  This is quite similar to the latest population estimate that we’ve gotten for the vaquita - 30 individuals as of fall 2016.  Listen in to hear more about these two unique endangered species issues, including interview clips from prominent experts on both the condor and the vaquita. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Today we are going to learn about the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, a piece of legislation that the Trump administration is attempting to dismantle 100 years after it was passed.  We are presenting for you in today's episode a presentation given by the Chief Network Officer of the National Audubon Society, David Ringer.  David highlights the key role played by the Audubon Society in the passage of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act 100 years ago, and discusses how Audubon is currently working to ensure that this and other important protections for birds and our environment are maintained. David gave this presentation back in November of 2018 as Audubon was winding down it’s celebration of the 100 year anniversary of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act - but this message remains equally critical now, at the start of the new year.  While our current political situation can be downright depressing, it’s important to remember that we do have options for making our voices heard. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Turn down the lights, pour yourself a beverage, and tune your ears to the smooth offerings of Ayana Young, host and author of the podcast and book, For the Wild. Ayana visits with Matthew Podolsky about how she got started in activism going all the way back to her childhood poetry. Ayana is no stranger to speaking truth to power. A graduate of the Occupy movement, she went on to live the camper life, traveling at home and abroad in a quest to understand this crazy world just a bit better.

 

To read about her book, listen to her amazing podcast, and for links to her social media visit her website at https://forthewild.world/

 

Music used in today’s show: “As I Was Saying” by Lee Rosevere, “Forgotten Landscape” by Daniel Birch, and “Variation Waldheim” by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive via Creative Commons Licensing.

 

For a list of the show notes, please visit the website www.wildlensinc.org/eoc196

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Today we are bringing you a special Earth Day bonus episode of the show! We have a lot going on this Earth Day - today marks the online release of our newest documentary film, Souls of the Vermilion Sea - about the struggle to save the vaquita from extinction.  We’re super excited to be releasing this new 30-min doc for free online streaming!  Click here to watch the film, or go to vaquitafilm.com. We are celebrating this online release with today’s bonus episode of the show, in which we are featuring an interview with California state Assembly member Todd Gloria, who recently introduced a new bill to the California state legislature that would restrict the import of certain seafood products in an attempt to help protect the vaquita.  Before we jump into today’s interview however, I have to mention our exciting collaborative project to cover the March for Science.  As many of our listeners likely are aware, Earth Day 2017 is a day of action for scientists all around the globe, who will be marching in over 400 cities  to send a message to our government and the Trump administration that we will not stand idyl as science is de-funded and scientific truths are outright denied. We have seven Eyes on Conservation correspondents covering seven different March for Science events all across the US, from Washington, D.C. to Hawaii, and we’ll be using the audio and video that is captured to put together a very special episode of this podcast. We will also be live streaming from a number of March for Science events directly to our Eyes on Conservation Facebook page - so if you’re not able to attend a march, or if you want to see what some of the other events in places like Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and San Francisco look like - you can tune into our EOC Facebook page to get live updates. And when you get back home from participating in the March for Science, you can settle in with a good movie - our film Souls of the Vermilion Sea about the struggle to save the vaquita from extinction. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Happy Holidays from the EOC team!

 

Tune in to listen to a very light, candid, fun installment of the award winning Eyes on Conservation podcast with hosts Sarinah Simons, Kristin Tieche, Matthew Podolsky, and Gregory Haddock as we talk space-bound dinosaurs, whales, recycling, fundraising, and brushfires. It’s a tornado of holiday cheer!

 

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Music from https://filmmusic.io

"Holiday Weasel" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

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As many of our listeners are likely aware, we engaged in an experiment this past weekend and sent five EOC correspondents out to cover five different March for Science events all across the US.  Today’s episode is the end result of that experiment! The episode starts off in Washington, D.C. - the main event this past Saturday, Earth Day 2017.  The Washington, D.C. march was attended by tens of thousands of people, and featured a number of prominent speakers.  Although many scientific issues were raised, a common theme throughout the day was climate change.  Speakers addressed the need for politicians to recognize the scientific consensus regarding our role in causing this crisis, as well as the role of science in finding ways to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Our goal with this episode was to create something of a soundscape, allowing listeners to understand what it felt like to participate in one of these March for Science events.  In addition to the Washington, D.C. march, you'll hear interviews and audio from marches in San Francisco, San Diego, Portland, OR and Boise, ID.  The interviews range from highly prominent scientists and researchers, to curious onlookers experiencing their very first event of this type. In addition to this podcast episode, many of our EOC March for Science correspondents were recording live footage directly to our Eyes on Conservation facebook page, and these videos are still available to view on that page.  If you want to share an experience that you had at a March for Science event, we encourage you to either leave a comment at the bottom of this page, or head on over to our EOC podcast facebook group (we keep this group private to protect people's privacy, so you'll have to request access if you want to join the discussion) where we'll be facilitating ongoing conversation about the March for Science and other upcoming events. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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On this episode of EOC, I spoke with author and environmental historian, Bathsheba Demuth. Demuth is an Assistant Professor at Brown University who specializes in the intersection between humans, ecosystems, ideas, and history. We talked over Skype while Demuth was in Fairbanks as the professor was performing research for her new book. Her first book is titled Floating Coast, An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. NPR called it “A deeply studied, deeply felt book that lays out a devastating but complex history of change, notes what faces us now, and dares us to imagine better.”

 

As we proceed I will note that I spoke with Professor Demuth from the university library, so it can be a little loud in the background at times. I can promise you, however, that this will be one of the most compelling and interesting accounts of the history of whaling that you have ever heard.

 

Demuth was drawn to the arctic in her formative years, even living in the Yukon for two years – doing all the things you’re imagining right now: tracking bears, fishing salmon, and yes, even husky mushin’. And no, I’m not making that up. She’s that for-real.

 

Special thanks to Bathsheba Demuth for taking the time to share with us about her experiences and research from her book, Floating Coast, and recounting her findings around Soviet Whaling in the Bering Strait. For information about Professor Demuth visit her website at http://www.brdemuth.com/ and for stunning images from the arctic, check out her Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/brdemuth/. She is also on Twitter @brdemuth.

 

For a full list of this episode’s links, and contributors including music used in this show, please visit the show note’s page at www.wildlensinc.org/eoc194.

 

Music used via Creative Commons licensing. Running on Empty by Poddington Bear, Ben Bolt; In the Gloaming by Bohumir Kryl, and Failed Moments by Ari de Niro.

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Today’s episode is about drones.  I spoke with the founders of an organization called Oceans Unmanned about how they are using drones to assist in conducting biological research, as well as how they are working to reduce wildlife disturbance from drones. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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When we think about communities that are threatened by climate change, we often think about coastal areas and how these communities will be affected by sea-level rise, but we often don’t think about the other elevation extreme; how mountainous communities are going to be affected, and how they will have to adapt.

 

In this podcast episode, we dive in to learn how mountainous communities around the world are adapting to climate change. We are joined by two researchers who lend different perspectives to understanding what threats these communities face and how they can adapt. 

 

Dr. Kelli Archie is the Senior Science Advisor at the Institute for Ecological Civilization. She spent the past 12 years as an academic in New Zealand and the USA studying climate change adaptation. Dr. Archie speaks about where her passion for this topic came from, why mountainous communities are at more risk than some other geographic areas and she discusses her research findings and its implications.

 

Tina Chen received the prestigious Watson Fellowship to conduct an interesting explorative research project where she spent a year traveling alone to live in various mountainous communities, learning about how they are adapting to climate change. Ms. Chen joins EOC to tell us what she learned from that one year’s experience. 

 

Take a plunge into learning about climate change, ski towns, yak butter, politics, and more.

Music: “Hit the Road” by VESHZA Artlist.io.com

 

This episode was produced by Wild Lens Collective member, Emily Stanford

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Crima Pogge is a professor of Biology and Ecology at City College of San Francisco. In this episode, Kristin Tieche lets you be a student again, as she takes you along on her class with Crima: Ecology of the Mendocino Coast. You’ll visit a harbor seal rookery, a dune ecosystem, and a redwood forest. In 2016, San Francisco voters made City College of San Francisco free for residents, providing life-long learners an opportunity to continue their education with zero financial risk. Crima describes the civic value of the ecology classes she teaches for San Franciscans, and their accessibility to all types of learners.   Also interviewed is Kristin’s classmate Hilda Ngan, who teaches us about red abalone.   Learn more about Crima Pogge here: https://sites.google.com/a/mail.ccsf.edu/aboutcrima/   Learn more about City College of San Francisco here: https://www.ccsf.edu/   Closing music: Orange+Blue by Chris Collins.   Support Eyes on Conservation by become a Patron:   https://www.patreon.com/WildLensCollective Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Today’s guest on the show is Deia Schlosberg.  Deia is an extremely talented filmmaker, who was unexpectedly arrested after documenting a civil disobedience action in Northern North Dakota back in October of 2016. There was a wave of arrests of journalists working to document pipeline protests in the fall of 2016, but Deia’s arrest really shook the filmmaking world because she was charged with three counts of conspiracy and was facing a maximum penalty of 45 years in prison, without having actually committed a crime. I was one of the many filmmakers and journalists impacted by this spate of arrests - it was Deia's story that, in part, inspired me to travel to Standing Rock and get involved in covering these types of issues here on the podcast. So I am extremely excited to have Deia on as our guest for today’s show - in addition to her recent work covering issues related to oil pipelines and civil disobedience, she was a producer on Josh Fox’s most recent film How to Let Go of the World and Love all the Things Climate Can’t Change - which in my opinion is one of the most powerful climate change films to be released in recent years. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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I am extremely excited to announce that we have added a fresh component to the EOC marque that embraces all art forms in how these diverse creative mediums can convey conservation information.  All of us respond differently to a variety of media.  Some us connect with video and radio, while others may connect to paintings, song, or dance.  It is important that the issues, actions, and efforts that concern the natural world of our planet are received by as many people as possible.  So we introduced the Eyes on Conservation Art Scene! The Eyes on Conservation Art Scene (EOCAS) is a community where artists can fuse together, share ideas and show case their individual works that focus on conservation.  The mission of the EOC Art Scene is a place of unity and raising awareness about wildlife issues, not to mention a place where cool art is created! Recently, we launched the first EOC Art Scene exhibit at the Les Bois Film Festival, which we co-host with the Land Trust of the Treasure Valley in Boise, Idaho. Our first amazing collaborators to premiere this exhibit are the SWELL Artist Collective and the Endangered Species print project. The exhibit is currently on display at the SWELL Artist Collective gallery, which we attended on it's opening night this past Thursday - and this takes us into today’s show. The goal of the exhibit is to raise awareness of species in the Idaho and Pacific Northwest region and as well as international species and how these species share commonalities as well as our connections to all species. SWELL artists produced 35 original works of art of these species and the Endangered Species Print Project presented 5 art pieces coupled with a map showing their migrations. These two organizations are wonderful examples of an artistic community with a shared love and appreciation for wildlife while inspiring others. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Today’s guest on the show is Annette Berkovits, an author and educator focused on wildlife conservation who has written the new book, Confessions of an Accidental Zoo Curator. We talked with Annette about her path towards becoming a key architect of what has now become a worldwide standard for wildlife and conservation education programs.  Annette worked for three decades with the Wildlife Conservation Society, and took a unique approach towards designing conservation education programs - an approach that has been hugely successful in reaching students and zoo visitors all across the globe. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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To have or not to have children, that is a most vexing question and one I wrestled with personally during my 30s. A career in conservation and, in particular, being steeped in issues of climate change, firmly planted me on the fence on the issue. After all, how could I bring a life into this doomed world? At the same time, I witnessed nature’s resilience first-hand, opening the possibility of hope for the future, so maybe a new life could thrive and contribute to making the world an even better place. Then I hit 40 and was quietly relieved that nature had made the decision for me and that answer was: “No.” That is until it wasn’t anymore. I have no idea what changed, but suddenly my husband and I were expecting. And my world flipped. Matt Podolsky and I chatted about this flip and the curious business of having and raising a conscientious child that makes a positive contribution to the world and how finding answers to these questions lead to the idea for a new podcast. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Julia Barnes is the young filmmaker behind the award-winning feature documentary Sea of Life.  Julia has been working on a new film project for the past two years, and she just launched a crowdfunding campaign – which means you can become a part of this new film, called Bright Green Lies. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Today’s guest on the show is Tom Jefferson, a marine mammal researcher and the director of Viva Vaquita, an NGO dedicated to the conservation of the vaquita. jg5ps89q Here at Wild Lens, we’ve been actively involved in vaquita conservation for a year and a half through our work producing the documentary, Souls of the Vermilion Sea.  2016 was a milestone year for vaquita conservation - efforts to save the species from extinction were ramped up considerably and the species received more mainstream media coverage than ever before.  Despite this, the vaquita population in the upper gulf of California has continued its precipitous rate of decline, with the increased conservation efforts having no measurable impact. This culminated just a few weeks ago when the Mexican Minister of the Environment, Rafael Pacchiano, announced that Mexico would take steps in 2017 to launch a captive breeding program for the vaquita.  Although vaquita experts have been discussing this option for a number of years, it was always viewed as a last ditch effort - something only worth attempting if all other options had been expended.  Well - it is now clear that we have reached that point. EOC producer Sean Bogle and I got Tom on the line to do a year in review for the vaquita, as well as to answer some of our burning questions about the what a captive breeding program for the vaquita may look like. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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It’s been two years since we launched this podcast, and it’s amazing to me that we have already released close to 100 interviews.   This show began as an experiment, but it has moved well beyond that to become a central hub of the internet for folks who are interested in conservation.  We’ve interviewed biologists, researchers, filmmakers, activists, artists, politicians, musicians, authors, educators, chefs, entrepreneurs - all of whom are involved with conservation in some way.   Today’s show is special - not just because we are celebrated 100 episodes - but because we are introducing two new contributors to the show!  Sarinah Simons and Courtney Rae will be helping us expand the scope of Eyes on Conservation.  No longer will you be hearing solely my voice here on the show, but the voices of Courtney and Sarinah, as well as EOC producer Sean Bogle. In today’s discussion we’ll be talking about the future direction of this show, and sharing our perspectives on the current state of the conservation movement. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Kristy Oriol and Paul Bancroft recently co-authored an article on the surprising and unsettling link between climate change and violence against women and their words serve as some of the earliest discussions surrounding this important topic. Oriol and Bancroft work to provide victims of domestic and sexual violence and child abuse with safety, advocacy, support and education services through the non-profit, the Tahoe Safe Alliance.  Learn how increasing knowledge of these connections could simultaneously work to dismantle rape culture and remedy the climate crisis. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Today’s guest on the show is Fitz Cahall.  Fitz is a podcaster, filmmaker and storyteller at Duct Tape Then Beer.  He is the producer and host of the Dirtbag Diaries, one of the most popular podcast series focused on outdoor adventure, and he’s also the director of the new film, Paul’s Boots. I had a lot of fun talking with Fitz - there aren’t too many other people out there that share my same passions for both filmmaking and podcasting!  I was particularly interested to hear about Fitz’s approach towards producing and directing his film, Paul’s Boots.  Paul’s Boots is about a unique journey across the Appalachian Trail - any anyone who follows this podcast series knows that that Appalachian Trail holds a very special place in my heart.  I produced my own film about a trip across the Long Trail in Vermont - the trail that inspired the creation of the Appalachian Trail. Beyond my own fascination with long distance hiking however, I’m also excited about this conversation with Fitz because we are actually screening his film Paul’s Boots as a part of Les Bois Film Festival, the local Boise film fest that we co-host with the Land Trust of the Treasure Valley.  So our listeners in Boise will actually have the opportunity to see this film up on the big screen at the Egyptian Theatre this coming Saturday. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Today’s interview was conducted by one of our newest contributors to the show, Courtney Rae.  Courtney brings a very different perspective on wildlife and conservation issues to the show, and I’m super excited to have her on board. Courtney is deeply embedded in the conservation and environmental community in Portland and beyond through her work as a community organizer with Bark as well as other environmental groups, and she’ll be continuing to explore the intersection between conservation and social justice in future episodes of the show. For this first episode of 2017, Courtney talked with Esther Forbyn, who is the creator of a unique conservation outreach project called 30 Birds to Know in Portland.  Courtney and Esther had a wide ranging conversation focused on the connections between birding, conservation, and social justice. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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After months of conversation, debate, and reflecting on listener feedback... we've settled on a new name. We are still the Eyes on Conservation people you've come to expect, but our focus is shifting ever-so-slightly to the needs of this world and the people, plants, and animals on it. We hope you continue to join us for the adventure. Find out more at www.wildlensinc.org

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When we think of organized crime, we don’t often think of it involving wildlife. Something more along the lines of the Sopranos and Breaking Bad maybe, but not tigers and turtles. Jessica Graham is trying to change that. 

It may be surprising to know that wildlife trafficking is one of the five most lucrative illegal, global trades, valued at over 20 billion USD per year. Jessica, who has worked in INTERPOL’s Environmental Security Program as well as in the U.S. State Department’s Presidential Task Force for Combating Wildlife Trafficking, is fighting to put an end to wildlife trafficking through partnership building and on the ground work. 

In this episode, we discuss the mechanics behind wildlife crimes, the link between the illegal wildlife trade and future pandemics, as well as female anti-poaching teams in Africa setting the example for a world without corruption. 

Links: 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tracking-ivory/article.html

www.jgglobaladvisory.com

https://livingplanet.panda.org/en-us/

https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/tnrc-blog-female-rangers-and-anti-poaching-strategies-to-stem-corruption

https://royalfoundation.com/programme/private-sector/

https://www.state.gov/2019-end-wildlife-trafficking-strategic-review/

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For her feature-length film, Sea of Life, the ever-talented Julia Barnes interviewed scientists and activists working to save the ocean and shared an interview with Callum Roberts with Eyes on Conservation. Callum is a marine conservationist, oceanographer, author and researcher based at York University. Julia spoke with Callum about human impacts on the ocean, going back through the history of fishing and looking towards the future of ocean conservation. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Today we are revisiting the issue of lead poisoning in wildlife.  This is a topic that I’ve spent quite a bit of time investigating, as it was central to the story behind my first film, Scavenger Hunt - which was about the connections between California condor conservation efforts and the issue of lead poisoning from spent ammunition. This issue has been in the headlines recently - the Obama administration in its final weeks in office issued an order to phase our lead-based ammunition and fishing tackle from all lands managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - these areas included all National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges.  The response to this action was predictable - it was applauded by many conservation groups, and provoked lead ammo industry lobbyists to repeat their claims that there’s no proof of lead’s negative impact on wildlife populations. Once Donald Trump became our president - his new head of the Department of the Interoir Ryan Zinke moved to overturn this plan to phase out the use of lead ammo on these federally managed lands - again, a predictable move. Today we are sharing with you an archival interview, recorded while we were working on our film Scavenger Hunt, with the founding director of the USGS Wildlife Health Center, Milton Friend.  Milton worked for decades to get lead shot banned from use in waterfowl hunting, and is therefore intricately familiar with the type of political maneuvering that we’re seeing right now in regard to the lead ammunition issue.  He points out many similarities between his fight to end the use of lead shot for waterfowl hunting and the current incarnation of this fight against the use of lead based ammunition for hunting generally. Just to be clear - the use of lead shot for waterfowl hunting was officially banned by the US Fish and Wildlife Service in 1991 - although there were complications with the implementation of this ban as you’ll hear Milton discuss. Although this interview was recorded back in 2012 - it remains extremely relevant to our current situation with the lead ammunition issue. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Today we are welcoming back our guest from episode 92 of the show - Nate Dappen.  Nate is a filmmaker focused on telling stories about science and conservation, and he has a new film, just released this week, called “the Passage”. The Passage is a bit of a departure from Nate’s typical storytelling style - it’s a deeply personal story focused on the importance of family and explores what it’s like for him to watch his parents age. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Today, we're taking you to a remote island off the coast of Alaska, just above the Aleutian Islands and not too far from Russia. Among the bellows of the fur seals and windswept sea cliffs of St. Paul Island, Aquilina Lestenkof, an indigenous Unangan woman and pioneer for her community in revitalizing the Unangan language, is teaching a new generation of youth about where their people have come from, and how far they still have to go in order to protect what she calls the "ingredients" that make up her community and culture. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Today, we take you for a tour of the inside of Wild Lens as the organization starts the difficult process of transforming, growing and differentiating. Following a weekend retreat with collaborators and contributors to the work of Wild Lens, I spoke with Matt Podolsky and Sean Bogle about this process, what it has looked like, how it feels and the circumstances leading up to their recognition for the organization’s need to undergo a metamorphosis. The music for today’s show was recorded live at the retreat and is the talented Greg Willis, who not only provided wisdom and insight that will inform this next iteration of Wild Lens, but contributes his art to the Wild Lens collective that is beginning to form and is mentioned throughout today’s show. Sean kicks this discussion off with an overview of how Wild Lens has grown. Have a listen! Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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In this episode, we chat with Suzanne Smith, Founder and Executive Director of the Amazon River Dolphin Conservation Foundation about her efforts to conserve the endangered River Dolphins in the Amazon through research, education and collaboration. We talk about how her conservation work which builds upon the wisdom and beliefs of the local communities in the Amazon may be a recipe for success, despite the odds. 

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When we think of wetlands, most of us see them as ghostly swamps where spiders have huge webs that look like banshee in veils, or the dangerous Dead Marshes through which Gollum led Frodo in the Lord of the Rings. However, wetlands are not at all these dangerous, murky, smelly, marshy areas. In fact they are the most cheerful places full of life and activity. It’s where life gravitates to, where human settlements started and where wildlife will gravitate around as well. These marshes, swamps and lagoons are a critical part of our natural environment. Wetlands are one of the most productive ecosystems in the world comparable to rain forests and coral reefs. But sadly today, they are disappearing 3 times faster than our forests. A meagre 6% of the Earth’s surface is covered by wetlands whereas 31% of the earth’s surface still has forests. And yet people don’t seem to appreciate them in the same way, don’t love them as much as forests. They are hardly considered even important. 

In this episode, a young wildlife presenter and film-maker, Aishwarya Sridhar from India, talks to Mr. Debi Goenka and Mr. Nikhil Bhopale about the importance of wetland eco-systems in a world plagued by climate crisis. Mr. Goenka has been working towards the protection of mangroves and wetlands for over 35 years of his life. He is the executive trustee of Conservation Action Trust (a non-governmental organisation in India) engaged in environmental protection and he’s the force behind the recent policy protecting the Indian mangroves. 

On the other hand, Mr. Nihil Bhopale is an educationist, conservationist and an author, having written a book on the birds of the Indian subcontinent. He is the founder of Green Works Trust, an NGO pioneering environmental education in India. 

They discuss the role of wetlands, the crisis facing them and the need to protect them urgently. 

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Today’s guests on the show are working to empower local entrepreneurs and bring solar power to the Buffer Zone communities of Nepal.  Moira Hanes is the co-founder and board chair of Empowered by Light, and Anya Cherneff is the co-founder and executive director of Empower Generation.   These two organizations have come together to implement a project that will provide solar  power to ranger stations within Chitwan National Park in Nepal.  These rangers are on the front lines of protecting wildlife from poaching, which is serious problem in this unique National Park.  But Empowered by Light and Empower Generation are doing so much more than just assisting park rangers in protecting wildlife - they are empowering local entrepreneurs, and demonstrating the ability of solar power technology to leapfrog fossil fuel infrastructure. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Hunters have historically been leading conservation efforts, going back to Teddy Roosevelt, who was himself an avid hunter and huge proponent of the protection of wildlife and wildlife habitat. This merger of hunting and conservation persists today. Matt Podolsky spoke with Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation’s Chief Conservation Officer Blake Henning about the organizations efforts to maintain the North American Wildlife Conservation Model, recognizing that fish and wildlife belong to all Americans, and that they need to be managed in a way such that their populations will be sustained in perpetuity. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Today's guest on the show is writer and activist Kimberly Fanshier.  Kimberly seeks to use writing and critical reading as community building, anti-oppressive tools.  Her research interests revolve around place-based rhetorics: Kimberly writes about wolves in Oregon, pop country radio, internet comment sections, and frontier violence to unpack the discourses of belonging, home, identity, and borders. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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As the world of brand names and politicians offer their bandwagon platitudes for the summer of 2020 we’ve been thinking a lot about what that means for us. On the surface of it, conversations about wildlife, nature, conservation, climate change, mass extinction, and more – don’t often feel like there is a direct connection with racism, LGBTQ rights, gender equality, rampant runaway nationalism, classism, wealth inequality... And yet, the two worlds of our cultural values and the physical space and beings which inhabit it are completely intertwined. They are intersectional. They are undetachable.

 

That is why we have made the decision to rebrand our podcast. We feel the name “Eyes on Conservation” no longer serves the purpose it once did. We feel that it doesn’t address those issues enough, and instead of simply throwing a #BLM stamp on our Instagram, patting ourselves on the back, and calling it a day, we’ve decided to make social equality and natural conservation - the natural allies that they are - central to our journey forward.

 

And we want you to take the journey with us. We would like to hear from you what you think about this. What ideas you have for a new name, what concerns or questions you have. Please give us your feedback either through email at info@wildlensinc.org or by calling our voicemail at 208-917-3786. We will listen and read everything you send us and would love to share your answers on an upcoming episode.

 

Wild Lens Collective member Sarinah Simons is a freelance filmmaker, activist and intersectional environmentalist currently based in northern California. She works in wildlife management for the state. Sarinah is passionate about telling stories about wildlife and marginalized communities. Her upcoming projects include the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band’s traditional fire practices in California, and A Change in the Clouds, the story of Panama’s indigenous Guna Yala people, jaguar conservation, and the crossroads of climate change.

 

Website: http://www.sarinahsimons.com/ 

IG: https://www.instagram.com/_sea_legs/ 

GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/change-in-the-clouds-film

 

Wild Lens Collective member Ben-Alex Dupris, aka @Bendigenous, is an enrolled member of the Colville Confederated Tribes, where he grew up. Over the years he has worked in commercial entertainment, tribal language preservation, youth media training and most recently, documenting front-line environmental activism. 

 

He is a Concordia Studios Artist-In-Residence Alumni headed by Academy-Award winner Davis Guggenheim, Firelight Impact Producer's Fellow, and a Sundance Institute "Rauschenberg" Producer's Fellow.

 

His directorial debut, Sweetheart Dancers, was a Grand Jury Winner for best short film at OUTFEST LA, and his upcoming PBS American Masters features Pawnee painter Bunky Echo-Hawk as a part of a series curated by Firelight Media. 

 

@Bendigenous also teaches “Indigenous Mythology in Film” at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, with upcoming class dates coming up in the 2020-2021 year. 

 

The work we’re doing is made possible because of people like our patrons on Patreon. Thank you so much to all of you. Please consider becoming a supporter for as little as a buck a show at www.patreon.com/wildlenscollective.

 

A Message From the Native Filmmakers Fighting the Dakota Pipeline at Standing Rock – Speech by John Trudell “We Are Power”, video short produce by Ben Alex and Heather Rae https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phre0bArD0M

  

Sweetheart Dancers – Directed and Produced by Ben Alex Dupris

https://www.pbs.org/filmfestival/films/sweetheart-dancers

 

Extended Interview: Burning a Forest to Revive a People – Valentin Lopez for PBS explaining the significance of fire practices for the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band

https://www.pbs.org/video/valentin-lopez-burns-forest-revive-people-hotbmr/

 

A Change in the Clouds – Directed and Produced by Sarinah Simons

https://www.gofundme.com/f/change-in-the-clouds-film

 

Sea of Shadows – Co-director, Matthew Podolsky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiFjJCUd9ro

 

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Today, we pause for a moment, to talk directly to you, our listeners. Matt podolsky and I are working on developing new shows and new show ideas and these discussions always find their way back to one very basic, but crucially important question: “What do listeners want?” Rather than continue talking among ourselves, we wanted to include you in on these discussions, fill you in on our thinking about the show and figure out ways to connect better with you and to connect our listeners with one another. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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The chambered nautilus is the only living descendant of a group of ocean creatures that thrived in the seas 500 million years ago when the earth’s continents were still forming. Older than the dinosaurs, these deep sea dwellers are often referred to as the oldest living fossils. But, after withstanding countless challenges, they are being sought after for their beauty and dwindling toward extinction. A young activist and several curious scientists traveled to Fiji recently on an expedition to learn more about this ancient animal and how to save it. Gianna Savoie traveled with them to capture some of the story of this threatened ancient animal and the work being done to rescue it. I spoke with this filmmaker and founder of Ocean Media Institute, a non-profit conservation organization based in Bozeman, MT, to learn more about their adventure and her work as a science storyteller on behalf of the ocean. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Most endangered species are easy to see in peril. There simply aren’t very many of them, and we struggle to see them in the areas where they’re from. Others aren’t so clear. Take, for example, the black-tailed prairie dog. It seems like they’re everywhere, and yet, their numbers are some of the lowest they’ve every been. This isn’t just bad news for the prairie dog. It’s bad news for animals like the black footed ferret, and a whole host of other animals who either feed on prairie dogs or rely on their burrows for shelter. Meet Deanna Meyer, the Executive Director of Prairie Protection Colorado, the group working to relocate prairie dogs from certain eradication in places like the City of Castle Rock’s Promenade Shopping Mall in Colorado. While only a fraction of these animals were able to be saved by Deanna and her team, the ones that did make it to the relocation area just outside of Sedalia have no idea how lucky they are. And maybe we don't either. Find out more about Deanna and the whole team of Prairie Protection Colorado at prairieprotectioncolorado.org and prairieprotectioncolorado@gmail.com. Show music by The Humidors. Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions via Creative Commons Licensing. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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When it comes to fracking regulations on the ballot, there are likely fewer places more concerned than Weld county, Colorado, where I live. Weld county has a lot invested in the outcome, because nearly 12% of its workers are somehow either directly or indirectly tied to its production. Proposition 112 made it on the ballot because for many the debate over how safe this process actually is and how dangerous the wastewater byproduct can be has not been adequately dealt with. While the fight for Proposition 112 in 2018 ended in defeat for organizers, supporters treat the loss like another major milestone in the path to victory. So what would the legislation actually do? Proposed guidelines set by Proposition 112 would create a “setback” for all new oil and gas development a minimum of 2500 feet away from any “vulnerable” area such as homes, hospitals, schools, and highly trafficked or used areas by people. This would include public open spaces, water sources, or playgrounds. Any other areas deemed vulnerable by state or local governments would be added to the list. It would not affect any new oil and gas projects on federal land, and existing projects would be exempt. However, re-entering old wells would be considered new development and would therefore be subject to the new laws. Current restrictions demand wells be 1,000 feet away from high-occupancy buildings: schools, hospitals, and the like. 500 feet away from occupied buildings like homes, and only 350 feet away from playgrounds. I followed Anne Lee Foster, ballot initiative proponent and CO Rising volunteer, from the “yes” campaign’s office to election night to find out what this means for the future of oil and gas in Colorado. Show music by the Humidors. Additional music by Gillicuddy and Scott Holmes via the Free Music Archive through Creative Commons Licensing, and 112 through Fair Use. https://corising.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ColoradoRising/ Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Larry Larocco spent his political career working on public lands issues in the Western US.  He began his career working for Senator Frank Church and played a key role in the establishment of the River of No Return Wilderness in central Idaho.  As a congressman he introduced the legislation that created the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey NCA, an area just south of Boise, ID that is home to the highest nesting densities of birds of prey anywhere in North America.  Few political leaders have had such an outsized influence on the current makeup of our public lands system, and it was an honor to speak with Congressman Larocco about his unique political career.  This interview was recorded for an oral history project focused on the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey NCA.  This oral history series was produced by the Birds of Prey NCA Partnership, a friends group for this NCA, working in close collaboration with the BLM, the Peregrine Fund’s Archives of Falconry, and the Wild Lens Collective. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Today’s guest, Marcus Eriksen, founded an organization tasked with addressing the many pervasive threats that plastics pose to wildlife and ecosystems all around the globe. The issue of plastic pollution in our oceans has been getting more and more attention recently, and the 5 Gyres Institute has been at the forefront of this movement for almost a decade.  This unique organization was launched back in 2008 with a research voyage across the Pacific Ocean, which was conducted on a small raft made with over 15,000 plastic bottles and a variety of other re-purposed plastic materials. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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So I’m guessing that folks have started to notice that we’ve been lagging behind on our typical weekly release schedule with the show.  We are going through a bit of a transition period with the show, and with Wild Lens as a whole - in fact one facet of this transition will be discussed in detail on today’s episode.  But regarding the podcast - I just want to assure you that we aren’t going anywhere - we are planning lots of exciting interviews for the coming months and will be back to our weekly schedule very soon. Now we had to make the vaquita the focus of this episode because I am about to embark upon what could be the most dramatic shoot of my career.  In less than 2 weeks the vaquita capture effort will begin, and our Wild Lens crew will be there to capture whatever happens. As if the capture effort itself wasn’t exciting enough, we also have an exciting update to share about our film project itself.  This will be discussed in detail on today's episode of the show - but just to give you a teaser - we have partnered with several other large production companies to produce the feature length version of our film.  We’re super excited about this collaboration and everything that it means for both vaquita awareness generally and Wild Lens. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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In this era of climate crisis and extinction crisis, it’s not hard to feel like there’s nothing we can do to stop these cascading and devastating global environmental trends. Some activists have taken the motto "Think globally, act locally" to heart.

In this episode, Kristin Tieche talks to Ildiko Polony, an environmental activist who is the founder of a new organization called Wildfires to Wildflowers, whose mission is to restore California lands for climate stability and reach carbon negativity by 2046.

Kristin joins Ildiko for a hike on Ring Mountain in Marin County, California. Ildiko shares her extensive knowledge of native plants and invasive species, and is joined by naturalist Paul Bouscal as they hike the mountain and interpret the landscape along the way.

For Ildiko, reconnecting and restoring natural habitat is the most effective and rewarding way to create positive change in the face of our planet's most pressing environmental crises.

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“[Dolphins] have been on the face of the Earth a lot longer than humans have been. They've figured out a number of solutions for making a living in an environment that would be very hostile to us, and yet that joins the areas where we live. So we talk about these animals living in our backyard, but in reality, we kind of live in their backyard.”

When Dr. Randall Wells was still in high school, he joined a U.S. naval research project involving dolphins as an assistant in Sarasota Bay Florida. The same year, in 1970, he and a colleague began tagging wild dolphins and that data-informed project would become the “world’s longest-running study of a dolphin population.”

 

When he began the work, Dr. Wells’ initial project was to determine if dolphins remain in one area over their lifetime or if they migrated and moved, a question unanswered by science at the time. 

 

“We had no idea whether the dolphins that we saw one day would be there a week later or a month later, or whether they range freely around the Gulf of Mexico.” 

Since then, Dr. Wells, now the Director of the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program and employed by the Chicago Zoological Society, and his team of conservation scientists have contributed much more to our understanding of one the most intelligent animals on earth. 

 

From the concept of the “ecological cul-de-sac” to “dolphinalities,” and from innovative citizen science initiatives to data that has informed high profile environmental lawsuits, in this episode Dr. Wells discusses his life’s work and the dolphins at the heart of it all, some of whom he’s been watching his entire 50-year career. 

 

The Sarasota Dolphin Research Program is part of the Chicago Zoological Society. Learn more about the lab’s ongoing research here: https://www.sarasotadolphin.org 

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EOC's guest on this installation of the Eyes on Conservation podcast has not only seen the profit-driven side of death, but was able to break free of something she saw as misleading, opportunistic, and ultimately serving the needs of neither the mourners, nor the deceased. Elizabeth Fournier is the owner and Funeral Director of Cornerstone Funeral Services, an institution dedicated to reducing the unnecessary costs of funeral services, restoring monetary and economical justice to clients, the deceased, and planet Earth, by offering the greenest practices possible when laying loved ones to rest. Her paradoxically radical and refreshingly simple methods have led her closest family and friends to dub her, The Green Reaper.

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When Lambs Become Lions

 

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Join Eyes on Conservation’s Matthew Podolksy in an interview with Jon Kasbe, director of the documentary “When Lions Become Lambs”, winner of the Tribeca Film Festival’s Best Editing award in a Documentary.

 

Jon Kasbe spent much of his 20s in Kenya chronicling the lives and hardships of not only the rangers protecting endangered elephants in the region, but also the difficult decisions poachers make to support their families. Kasbe tells their stories with disciplined impartiality. However, viewers may struggle to remain emotionally unwavering as you are dropped into the shoes of a community bursting with complexities, each person doing what it must to survive.

 

Special thanks to When Lions Become Lambs director, Jon Kasbe. For more information about the film, please visit www.whenlambs.com. Music in today’s show via the Free Music Archive through Creative Commons licensing. “Gradual Sunrise” by David Hilowitz, and “Siesta” by Jahzzar. And if you haven’t made a pledge to our show, please head over to our patreon.com/wildlenscollective page, and lastly – be sure to send us a voicemail to info@wildlensinc.org. We really want to hear from you!

 

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Close your eyes, and picture yourself underwater. See the light sway above you, as it gets darker and darker the further down you go. Welcome to the deep waters of the ocean, a place where today’s guest has spent a considerable part of her life, swimming alongside the ocean’s many flora and fauna. Dr Sylvia Earle is an icon in marine biology and ocean conservation and has been featured in popular documentaries like Seaspiracy, Mission Blue and Chasing Ice. She has won many awards and accolades including the Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science, the National Audubon Society’s Rachel Carson Award, and has authored more than 150 publications including a new book alongside National Geographic called Ocean: A Global Odyssey.

She’s also the first woman to walk on the ocean floor.

The team here at Earth to Humans is a HUGE fan of Dr. Earle and her work and we’ve had a hard time containing our excitement in anticipation of this episode’s release. We talk octopus intelligence, empathy in science and reasons why there is still so much reason to hope (even though everything seems really f@$%ed). She thinks we humans can overcome the mountain of our environmental negligence, and after this interview, we might be inclined to believe her.

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In 2018, Virginia Tech Political Science Professor Cara Daggett wrote a paper entitled ‘Petro- masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire’ which analyzed how society’s constructs of masculinity had become prevalent in attitudes towards fossil fuel use and energy. Cara’s research focuses on feminist political ecology, in particular the politics of energy in an era of planetary disruption. While we spoke, found her definition and analysis of energy completely mind-blowing and it’s shattered my previous understanding of the word and energy as a concept. I’ll never use the word in the same way again!

In the article mentioned above, Cara addresses the new authoritarian movements in the West that embrace a toxic combination of climate denial, racism and misogyny as the planet warms. Rather than considering these issues separately, the article interrogates their relationship through the concept of ‘petro-masculinity’, which highlights the historic role of fossil fuel systems in buttressing white patriarchal rule. Petro-masculinity is helpful in understanding how the anxieties aroused by the Anthropocene era can increase desires for power.

The concept of petro-masculinity suggests that fossil fuels mean more than profit; fossil fuels actually contribute to making identities. Moreover, fossil fuel use can even function as a violent compensatory practice in reaction to gender and climate trouble.

I found this article fascinating. I’d never considered the impact that western societal pressures on masculinity could have on environmentalism. Sure, I’ve spent my career as a Wildlife Biologist constantly surrounded by female-identifying people, which is something I’ve definitely noticed, and all of the most environmentally friendly people I know are also female. But, after reading this article so many things started jumping out at me that I hadn’t noticed before, including the way that many environmentally unfriendly products are directly targeted at men, even using anti-feminine and homophobic slurs as a means of increasing sales. Gender is an intersection of environmentalism that I hadn’t noticed quite so much before. The way that Cara discusses masculine domination over the feminine, with the feminine being the Earth, sent chills down my spine and is again, something I’ve consistently noticed since speaking to her.

Why is it that destructive practices towards nature are seen as being manly, whereas being nurturing and kind to the environment are girly and practicing these things supposedly makes you less of a man? It’s a minefield.

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Mark Dowie is a self-styled investigative historian, and the author of the recent books, Conservation Refugees and The Haida Gwaii Lesson.  After a long career as a journalist, which included breaking the story of the exploding Ford Pinto in the 1970s, as well as a stint as the managing editor of Mother Jones, Dowie took his investigative approach to the field of history.

In Conservation Refugees, a revisionist history of the conservation movement, he explores how Indigenous People have been forcibly displaced from their traditional homelands all across the globe in the name of conservation.  The Haida Gwaii Lesson, written as a follow up to Conservation Refugees, was designed to be a strategic playbook for Indiginous sovereignty.  The book analyzes the history of the Haida Gwaii Nation, located off the Western coast of Canada, with a focus on how the Haida people have regained much of their sovereignty.  It was written specifically to provide Indigenous Nations with information to aid their own struggles to regain sovereignty.

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Today we’re sharing some bonus content from my interview with Mark Dowie, as well as some of the discussion that Sarinah and I had about the topics brought up by Mark in his books.

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For this episode we invite back the former Senior Producer of this show, our friend Gregory Haddock.  Greg has been working on some awesome podcast projects this past year, and we’re super excited to have him back on the show for this episode in which we reflect on the one year anniversary of the Jan. 6th insurrection.

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Sarinah tackles female solo hiking from the perspectives of 5 women as she tries to make sense of managing both the physical and mental fears of hiking alone, but also the beauty of mentorship and prioritizing joy in the outdoors. The women in this panel range from environmental scientists to travel bloggers, teachers to mothers, but all with individual expertise and an accomplished list of hikes that should intimidate the hell out of you.

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To answer this question, we explore a transformative new approach to land management that has been adopted by the National Park Service. This new land management framework, known by the acronym RAD, was developed to help park managers who are grappling with the challenges posed by a rapidly warming climate. We speak with Patty Glick, one of the lead authors of the RAD framework, along with several other climate change experts whose work is focused on the landscapes of the Western US.

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Patty Glick is the lead author of a new paper that lays out a framework for land management in our modern era of climate change. She explains how the framework was crafted and how it can help land managers adapt their practices to account for our rapidly changing climate.

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The ETH crew is happy to invite you to our very first book club meeting which will be Sunday, March 6th at 11am PST via Zoom featuring Author Mark Dowie, author of The Haida Gwaii Lesson. To sign up for this free event, you must be an ETH Patreon subscriber at the $1/month tier, which will also get you access to a free digital download of Mark's book. So sign-up, get reading and we can't wait to see you at our very first bookclub meetup March 6th at 11am PST via Zoom. Zoom details will be sent out to Patreon subscribers ahead of the event. Email sarinah@wildlensinc.org if you have any questions.

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On today’s episode, producer Hannah Mulvaney takes over the earth to humans podcast with an amazing interview with two folks leading the charge to create sustainable, environmentally friendly ways for women in developing countries to gain and build financial independence. They work to address gender oppression by focusing on rural, women-led work that remedies issues of poverty and resource disparities. Their community based projects aim to empower women with financial stability and drive communities away from environmentally harmful practices. So often, environmental organizations are not sustainable because they are not wholistic approaches but self-congratulatory band aid solutions that are not led by the communities they are inserting themselves into but The Think Her Project is. This conversation features founder and executive director Daphne De Celles and Godfrey Oyema as they discuss some of the important work they are doing in Tanzania and Kenya. Financial independence can mean the difference between life and death for some of these women as well as an escape from sexual violence all while sustaining their communities and their environments. It’s an important conversation, that we hope you enjoy.

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The very first book I read by today’s guest haunted me for weeks after finishing it. I couldn’t shake the reality of the near-future world that she creates, which feels as terrifying as it is tangible and close. The reality of a world without animals. I knew I had to bring her on the show somehow, and I’m so glad we were able to have today’s conversation. Charlotte McConaghy is an Australian author living in Sydney and the mind behind two international bestselling novels, Migrations and Once There Were Wolves. Charlotte’s books are sweeping, beautiful and haunting as they tackle issues related to the frayed and fragile relationship that we humans have to the natural world. Today we’ll discuss both of her latest novels, the necessity of empathy and preserving hope in the face of devastating ecological and interpersonal loss. Charlotte will be joining us for our next Earth to Humans Book Club, which you can find more information about at patreon.com/earthtohumans. As always, let us know what you thought about this episode by leaving us a review on your favorite podcast app.

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An in-depth look at the illegal cheetah trade with the founder of the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF), Dr. Laurie Marker, and the CCF illegal wildlife trade lead Dr. Shira Yashphe.

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The modern dating world is a tricky thing to navigate. We all have expectations and desires - but what happens when you add environmentalism into the mix? For today's episode, we join together 4 singles who are environmentalists by trade or by passion, to discuss how their belief systems affect their romantic lives.

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Let’s go back in time about a few hundred million years. You’re a plant. And you’re a plant that’s been evolving alongside microorganisms, fungi and animals. Come to find out, everyone finds you particularly tasty. You naturally don’t like being eaten, but you’re a plant and you can’t just walk away. So what can you do against all these predators? You could modify your leaves into thorns or equip them with tiny, irritating hairs, but maybe you decide to go a different route and develop chemical toxins to deter your opponent. Perhaps upon ingesting this toxin, insects find you instantly deadly, perhaps small mammals find themselves immobilized and disoriented by your effects and learn to leave you alone, but perhaps early hominids find a way to carefully dose your toxins and use them for medicine or even recreation.

That’s the topic of my conversation today with Dr. Oné R. Pagán and his latest book, Drunk Flies and Stoned Dolphins: A Trip Through the World of Animal Intoxication. We’ll discuss how naturally occurring compounds in our environment been used and abused (both intentionally and unintentionally) by members of the animal kingdom. We’ll learn about cigarette wielding birds, LSD induced elephants and big cats crazy for catnip. As always, we’d love to hear from you about this episode, so leave us a review and follow us on social media @earthtohumanspod.

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While Sarinah and Hannah are on vacation, we decided to rebroadcast one of our "best of" episodes with Dr. Sylvia Earle, you'll understand why in a minute...

Close your eyes, and picture yourself underwater. See the light sway above you, as it gets darker and darker the further down you go. Welcome to the deep waters of the ocean, a place where today’s guest has spent a considerable part of her life, swimming alongside the ocean’s many flora and fauna. Dr Sylvia Earle is an icon in marine biology and ocean conservation and has been featured in popular documentaries like Seaspiracy, Mission Blue and Chasing Ice. She has won many awards and accolades including the Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science, the National Audubon Society’s Rachel Carson Award, and has authored more than 150 publications including a new book alongside National Geographic called Ocean: A Global Odyssey.

She’s also the first woman to walk on the ocean floor.

The team here at Earth to Humans is a HUGE fan of Dr. Earle and her work and we’ve had a hard time containing our excitement in anticipation of this episode’s release. We talk octopus intelligence, empathy in science and reasons why there is still so much reason to hope (even though everything seems really f@$%ed). She thinks we humans can overcome the mountain of our environmental negligence, and after this interview, we might be inclined to believe her.

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Ocean Mercier teaches Te Pūtaiao Māori/Māori Science which is a course on mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge and science) in both traditional and contemporary contexts, at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. Her research and that of her peers and students recognizes the values and merit of both indigenous and western techniques, using both to produce some amazing research that could hold the key to saving species, ecosystems and even improving human resilience against the negative impacts of climate change. In this episode, we also discuss the Polynesian and European settlement of New Zealand, Maori culture and beliefs, and round off the episode on the ancient creation story of 'Aotearoa' - the land of the long white cloud.

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I came across today’s topic in kind of a roundabout way. Recently I was rewatching the James Cameron film, Titanic, and as I was watching Rose freeze on her floating piece of wood and pry Jack’s cold dead hands from hers as she whispers "I’ll never let go," it got me wondering just how cold the water actually was when the titanic actually sank. A quick google search told me it was about -2.2 degrees Celsius (or 27 degrees Fahrenheit). And if you’re me and were taught that water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius or 32 degrees Fahrenheit, you may have been stumped by the water’s ability to be colder than “freezing.”

So you do another few google searches and come to find that water doesn’t actually HAVE to freeze at 0 celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit) and continuing the Titanic example, saltwater, ambient air temperature and the sheer size of the body of water all affect the water’s temperature and ability to freeze. Still with me? Okay but then I started wondering just how cold liquid water can still exist before it HAS to freeze (the answer is -55 degrees Fahrenheit by the way) and then I came across a bit of research about a group of scientists who accidentally created the coldest place in the universe.

This is where today’s episode picks up. I wanted to understand a bit more about this experiment, how it happened, and what its implications are for real world and important applications. Christian Deppner is my guest today who was a member of the team that created this ultra cold capsule of atoms while researching what’s called internal wave interferometry. By using a tall drop tower that simulates anti-gravity conditions, Christian and his team at the Center for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) at the University of Bremen in Germany, tried to see how slow they could get a contained cloud of atoms to move and how accurately they could measure this movement, all the while creating atomic movement so slow, it became the coldest place in the universe.

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Hannah’s ancestry traces back to Ireland, and learning about the folklore that would have shaped the way that her great grandparents, great great grand parents and all the Mulvanys before them would have related to nature and the places around them has been a main feature of her past month in the country. She wanted to delve deeper into the folklore that the country is famous for, so spoke to Bairbre Ní Fhloinn, professor of folklore at Dublin University, about how it has framed humankind and our relationship to nature, and how it links together all humanity.

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**BOOKCLUB DATE** Friday, July 29th at 6pm PST or 9pm EST at https://www.patreon.com/EarthToHumans

The very first book I read by today’s guest haunted me for weeks after finishing it. I couldn’t shake the reality of the near-future world that she creates, which feels as terrifying as it is tangible and close. The reality of a world without animals. I knew I had to bring her on the show somehow, and I’m so glad we were able to have today’s conversation. Charlotte McConaghy is an Australian author living in Sydney and the mind behind two international bestselling novels, Migrations and Once There Were Wolves. Charlotte’s books are sweeping, beautiful and haunting as they tackle issues related to the frayed and fragile relationship that we humans have to the natural world. Today we’ll discuss both of her latest novels, the necessity of empathy and preserving hope in the face of devastating ecological and interpersonal loss. Charlotte will be joining us for our next Earth to Humans Book Club, which you can find more information about at patreon.com/earthtohumans. As always, let us know what you thought about this episode by leaving us a review on your favorite podcast app.

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Today as I drive alone down highway 395 on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada along the length of California, I am reminded of a powerful film I had the privilege of seeing in the summer of 2021. It completely changed the way that I looked at this beautiful, harsh landscape and left me contemplating its messages even a year later. Filmmakers Ann Kaneko and Jin Yoo-Kim join producer Sarinah Simons for a deep dive into the empty lake-waters in Payahuunadü (Owens Valley) where Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp, becomes the confluence for memories of Payahuunadü, the now-parched “land of flowing water.” Intergenerational women from Native American, Japanese American and rancher communities form an unexpected alliance to defend their land and water from Los Angeles.

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When I first heard about the organization that today’s guest, Jennifer Hartman, works for, I felt like I could’ve found my dream conservation job. Two of my greatest loves in life combined - dogs and biology. Apparently this is quite a common perception, but it takes a very special type of person, and an even more special type of dog to join this well-oiled team.

Rogue Detection Teams is made up of field biologists, known as ‘bounders’, and rescue dogs, chosen for their supreme desire to fetch. These human-canine teams head out into some of the most hostile environments on the planet for days or weeks at a time, all in the name of conservation. They’ve made numerous important new discoveries, contributed to crucial conservation work, and informed management plans for ecosystems and the species that call them home.

In this emotional interview, Jennifer shares her highlights and heartbreaks, and I realize why I might not actually be cut out for the job after all.

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Rosalind Helfand was enamored with the wild hills of Simi Valley as a child. Their continuous destruction by human expansion ignited a quest for justice that has embedded Roz on the frontlines fighting for environmental and social issues her entire life. Recognition that human rights and the plights facing our natural ecosystems are intertwined has strengthened her resolve.

Roz works as a consultant helping develop progressive policies for non-profit and governmental entities. A recent focus has been on the upcoming 2021 Convention on Biological Diversity where her efforts and those of many others have helped establish the state of California as an official observer of the convention.

Roz spoke with Wild Lens member Jason Milligan about her history with progressive policy, the challenges facing the Convention on Biological Diversity, and how issues facing biodiversity are intricately linked with climate change.

LINKS:

Roz Online:

https://rozhelfand.com

UN Convention on Biological Diversity:

https://www.cbd.int

Guardian Links Climate Change and Biodiversity:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/06/biodiversity-climate-change-mass-extinctions

Panel Announcing CA as an Observer:

https://youtu.be/pr6l4GEIAZY

GEC Supports CA’s Participation in CBD:

https://gec.eco/gec-supports-ca-participation-in-the-united-nations-convention-on-biological-diversity/

CA Biodiversity Collaborative:

http://biodiversity.ca.gov

Governor Newsom’s Executive Order to Combat Climate Change and Protect Biodiversity:

https://www.opc.ca.gov/2020/10/governor-newsom-signs-executive-order-to-conserve-biodiversity-combat-climate-change-and-build-climate-resilience-through-nature-based-solutions

IIED Links Biodiversity and Social Issues:

https://www.iied.org/theres-justice-battle-for-biodiversity

NPQ Links Biodiversity and Social Issues:

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/environmental-justice-moving-equity-from-margins-to-mainstream/

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Can you count to 1 trillion? Sure, it sounds like an overwhelming number, but according to Plant for the Planet and the Crowther Lab, we already have 3 trillion. So 1 trillion more should be a breeze, right? Right? Sagar Aryal, global chairman for Plant for the Planet, and EOC producer, Gregory Haddock visit about what it means to plant 1 trillion trees across the globe. Please consider making a donation to EOC on our Patreon campaign at patreon.com/wildlenscollective. Your contribution makes shows like this possible. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Welcome back to Earth to Humans! On our first episode back for the season, Sarinah speaks with guest, Beth Pratt, Executive Director for California at the National Wildlife Federation and renowned conservationist who has worked tirelessly to protect and restore wildlife habitats across the state (which is huge by the way).

In this episode, we'll be discussing Beth's unique relationship with a certain mountain lion known as P-22, who became a symbol of the coexistence between wildlife and humans in urban areas. P-22 captured the world's attention when he journeyed from the Santa Monica Mountains to Griffith Park, right in the heart of Los Angeles, where he settled down and made his home. His presence in the city provided a rare opportunity for people to connect with wild animals and inspired many to take action to protect the city’s remaining wild spaces.

We had Beth on the show back in 2017, but a lot has changed since then. For one, the famed 101 freeway wildlife crossing that was then just an idea still in need of final funding, now looms completed over the huge 10 lane freeway. Unfortunately since our last interview, P-22 was captured by wildlife officials in December 2022 due to concerns related to his health and a few days later, on December 17, 2022, was euthanized.

Our conversation discusses the impact of his loss on the local community and the wider conservation movement as well as the challenges facing urban wildlife and the importance of preserving natural habitats in cities in order to support biodiversity and the survival of these precious predators.

So, join us as we delve into the fascinating world of urban wildlife and learn more about the amazing journey of P-22, the people who have been touched by his impact, and the many urban species he has inadvertently saved due to his global impact. 

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I was lucky enough to be brought onto the Hellbent team last year to create content for their online storytelling and, after watching the film for the first time, I was so excited to be part of such an incredible project. Having worked together for months, it was great to sit down with the film’s Co-Directors, Justin Grubb and Annie Roth, to ask them all the questions I’d been wanting to ask them for ages, as well as those I thought our listeners would enjoy hearing the answers to.

This, now multi-award winning, short film documents a mother and daughter team in Grant Township, Pennsylvania, as they take on a huge fracking corporation to protect their water source and, in the process, save the habitat of the highly endangered, incredibly sensitive and thoroughly weird-looking hellbender salamander. I instantly fell in love with Stacy and Judy - the film’s main characters, as their warmth and determination was contagious, and I was behind their community 100%. The film is empowering and hopeful, but the story is far from over. This is one of the very few ‘rights of nature’ cases that has been upheld in the US and, with many having been overturned since designation, Grant Township is far from being out of the woods. 

The people behind the film are working hard to make sure this film is seen by as many people as possible, so that other communities can gain inspiration and encouragement to fight their own battles, and protect both human and nature’s rights.

Oh, and I won’t end this article without mentioning the beautiful animation created by the multi-talented Katie Garrett (also the film’s editor) stunning cinematography, and the magnificent original score, which features in the podcast episode and was composed by Micah Anderson. Having listened to me bang on about how great the film is, I’m sure you want to watch it, so here’s a link. You have to register for free and then you’ll get access to five of the films in the Jackson Wild World Wildlife Day Showcase (including ours). AND if you love it too, please vote for the film to win the Audience Award, as the more attention the film gets, the more people will know about it and will be inspired by its message.

• Follow Hellbent on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook to keep up to date with Grant Township’s fight, screenings and the rights of nature movement.
• If you’d like to organise a screening of Hellbent in your community, you can get in touch with the team here.
• Hellbent is a co-production of the Wild Lens Collective - who are also the makers of the Earth to Humans podcast. Learn more about our community and the other film’s we’re currently working on on our website.

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This week’s guest is Laird Lucas, the executive director for Advocates for the West, a non-profit environmental law firm that has dedicated itself to protecting our most valuable and vulnerable natural resource: Mother Nature. Their team is a roaring voice and strong ally in the environmental movement, and their strides in land and wildlife protections across the country and beyond, have paved the way for improved laws and legislation in favor of conservation efforts. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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There's no denying that climate change will play a significant role in everyone's lives in the future (if it isn't keeping you awake at night already). But how do we tell our kids the truth and reality about climate change and its implications on their futures without completely freaking them out?

Well, the answer is actually pretty complicated and doesn't allow for a clear-cut solution. While it is an amazing feat that some kids are learning about this important topic AT ALL, the way we are teaching them about it leaves a lot to be desired.

On this episode, we chat with 7-year-old and first grader, Rowan Podolsky, about how he currently understands climate change and its solutions as well as with his parents, Matt and Miranda Podolsky, about their fears, joys and confusion when it comes to climate change education and raising Rowan at a time when our environment seems so unstable.

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In the picturesque Pacific Northwest lies an incredible landscape where the sea and mountain meet. This environment means life on land and sea are deeply intertwined with one another. In this episode, we will explore exactly how trees being planted near rivers throughout the region are helping save salmon, orcas, and an entire ecosystem.

I’m Victoria (Tori) Obermeyer, an environmental photojournalist based in Washington State. Over the last three years, I have been studying the highly endangered, Southern Resident Killer Whale which call the Salish Sea home. From conducting critical long-term data for NOAA to co-producing a feature-length documentary called Coextinction Film (hyperlink: https://www.coextinctionfilm.com), I’ve come to understand the complexities behind their rapidly disappearing population. 

In this episode, I had the honor of speaking with Diana Chaplain, Marketing Director from One Tree Planted (hyperlink: https://onetreeplanted.org) and Dr. Kathleen Guillozet, Senior Director of Bonneville Environmental Foundation Watersheds (hyperlink: http://www.b-e-f.org/). These two organizations are working together to find the most productive and helpful location to plant trees in order to restore salmon habitat all over the West Coast. 

Together, we break down the threats toward these incredible species and their ecosystem, what’s being done to help save them, and what you can do to get involved.

To check out an informative, interactive map: https://defenders-cci.org/map/Promise_the_Pod/index.html or https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=15lH5DGQEiRf_q_ySe7rhkf2N0E9XcClF&ll=44.45935547631631%2C-124.3810253&z=6

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To support Coextinction Film: https://www.coextinctionfilm.com/shop

Music:

It's Okay by Firefl!es

Life Doesn't Escape Us by Sapajou

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It’s far too rare in the world of environmentalism to see programs that seek to solve humanitarian issues, to create positive conservation outcomes. But, after seeing the implications of illegal logging on the communities and ecosystems in which they grew up, the Founders of Yayasan ASRI went about stopping it a little differently by asking ‘why?’

This approach, later dubbed ‘radical listening’ by the organization, led to a very simple answer to their question - local communities couldn’t afford healthcare that they needed for themselves and their families. Or, the chemical fertilizers they were being sold had become so expensive and unsustainable that they could no longer afford to pay for them, so could no longer grow crops to feed or support their families. In both incidences, people were turning to illegal logging to pay their bills. They weren’t logging because they wanted to, it was because they had no other choice. 

By removing boundaries to affordable, high quality healthcare, providing education on organic farming techniques and offering business and grants and financial advice, this organization has changed the lives of many people throughout Indonesia by providing previously unavailable options, and has created a model that is now being used in other places around the world.

In this episode, Hannah Mulvany speaks to Mahardika Putra Purba about this incredible conservation and humanitarian organization in Borneo - the place that sparked her journey to become an environmental scientist.

Learn more about Yayasan ASRI on the latest Earth to Humans episode, or visit their website: https://www.alamsehatlestari.org/

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Today’s guest on the show is Dr. Frances Gulland, senior scientist at the Marine Mammal Center, and a member of the International Committee for the Recovery of the Vaquita.  This committee is composed of the world’s top vaquita experts, and they just released a new report which contains some shocking revelations. Before we jump into our interview with Frances however, I’m going to check in with EOC producer Sean Bogle to get an update on our vaquita documentary project, Souls of the Vermilion Sea.  We have a new half hour film associated with this project that we are about to release, and Sean’s here to explain the inspiration behind this new release as well as our outreach goals moving forward. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Summer is often cited as a favorite season, what with long days and favorable weather for outdoor adventures. Living in Montana, however, Summer has gotten shortened by a new, worrisome season: Fire. Months of smoke-filled skies, waking up to a layer of particulate matter covering everything and a worry that seeps into every cell of my being makes it easily my least favorite time of the year. When the impacts of climate change are at my doorstep, the need to get nature on a better trajectory becomes urgent. Rather than utilizing great scientific minds to argue over whether what we all are experiencing in increasingly devastating examples is indeed reality, I have long been a proponent of developing solutions to strengthen ecosystems. This starts with scientists, land managers and advocates working together. I spoke with Jeff Burrell, the recently retired Northern Rockies Program Director for the Wildlife Conservation Society, about the role of science in the long-term preservation of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in light of climate change. He beautifully articulates why using the best available science to choose how and where on-the-ground efforts are most effective has the greatest capacity to build climate change resilience at a landscape-scale. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Shrouded in mystery, misunderstood, vilified and beautiful, mountain lions, pumas, cougars (or however you refer to them), exist in our modern world in constant conflict. People hate them, people love them, or people fear them. 

Mark Elbroch is a mountain lion biologist who has dedicated his career to not only studying these elusive animals, but working to bridge the divide among different stakeholders, agencies, and advocates. In Mark’s new book, The Cougar Conundrum (available August 13, 2020), he dismisses long-held myths about mountain lions and uses groundbreaking science to uncover important new information about their social habits.

Mark argues that humans and mountain lions can peacefully coexist in close proximity if we ignore uninformed hype and instead arm ourselves with knowledge and common sense. He walks us through the realities of human safety in the presence of mountain lions, livestock safety, competition with hunters for deer and elk, and threats to rare species, dispelling the paranoia with facts and logic. In the last few chapters, he touches on human impacts on mountain lions and the need for a sensible management strategy. The result, he argues, is a win-win for humans, mountain lions, and the ecosystems that depend on keystone predators to keep them in healthy balance.

In this episode, Mark breaks down the mythology and takes us through some of the biology and natural history behind these animals, and contextualizes current management practices and public perception in unexpected ways! If you’ve ever wondered why we think the way we do about mountain lions in this country, buckle up, because it may surprise you.

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https://www.panthera.org/

https://markelbroch.com/

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Today’s guest on the show rode his bike over 2,000 miles from Canada to Mexico along the Pacific coast - carrying a trailer with a life-sized rhino behind him!  Matt Meyer is a South African safari guide who was inspired to take action to help protect declining rhino populations - and just this past week he completed what he calls the Rhino Ride! Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Documentary producer Nate Ford invites two big cat experts to weigh in on the record breaking documentary series, “Tiger King.” Did you watch the show and fall in love with tigers? Find out ways to get involved in big cat conservation and learn how to impact legislation (like, right now) by supporting the Big Cat Safety Act. Are you tired of hearing your neighbor talk about getting a pet tiger? Tune in to find out the legitimate reasons why that is a TERRIBLE idea. Then, go tell your neighbor. And then, consider moving.

 

Kimberly Craighead is the co-founder of the Kaminando Habitat Connectivity Initiative, where her team collects data on wild jaguars in Panama through the use of camera traps. One of her main goals is to empower local Panamanians as well as conservationists around the world to participate in preserving suitable natural environments for the jaguar. Tune in to hear about her treks in the jungle and the touching story about a tapir that was captured in a village in Panama, and how the villagers responded. To learn more about Kimberly's work, visit Kaminando.org.

 

Amy Gotliffe is the Director of Conservation for the Oakland Zoo, which has provided “forever homes” to rescued big cats for years. They continue to push the limit of what a zoo can be by sparking ideas and fostering a global response to animal conservation. Amy gives pointers on how to get involved in the stewardship of a species you love and expands on the myriad of ways in which we can maximize small personal decisions for a global impact. Grab your favorite stuffed animal and sequined jacket…EOC takes on the Tiger King!

  

Music by David Bashford (via Bloc Films)

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Katelyn Spradley and Kat Cannell recently undertook a fascinating journey - all in the name of protecting endangered salmon. These two women tracked the path of salmon migration on horseback, traveling from the Pacific coast all the way to the remote mountains of central Idaho. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Bill Ulfelder is the New York Executive Director for the Nature Conservancy.  The Nature Conservancy is known throughout the world for purchasing, managing and conserving land to protect and improve wildlife habitat, but in recent decades the focus of the organization has shifted towards finding solutions to the big environmental challenges of our time.  No challenge is bigger than that posed by climate change, and Bill sat down with EOC contributor Emma Tyrell to discuss how the Nature Conservancy is approaching this enormous challenge in light of the recently released report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Today we are digging into our interview archives to explore a particularly bizarre and fascinating question - how can an endangered species recovery program assist in solving a missing-persons case?  The interviews that you’ll be hearing in today’s episode were recorded during production for my first film, Scavenger Hunt, an hour long documentary about California condor recovery and the issue of lead poisoning from spent ammunition.  In addition to former condor recovery program field manager Eddie Feltes, you’ll also be hearing from condor field biologist Sean Putz, as well as from myself.  I spent 4 years working as a condor biologist, and recorded several self-interviews while working on this film project almost a decade ago. Now, most of the time when we discuss the benefits that saving an endangered species might have on human populations, we’re talking about the intrinsic beauty of an animal, or the biological role that animal plays in an ecosystem.  Sometimes we might even delve into the topic of ecosystem services - what benefits does an ecosystem as a whole provide to human communities and how does this one species help that ecosystem thrive. But today, we’re talking about how California condors are able to directly assist law enforcement officers in the recovery of the bodies of people who go missing in Grand Canyon National Park. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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On today’s episode of the show, we are taking you to Sun Valley Idaho where we’ll sit in on a panel discussion featuring the voices of both local and global innovators on the topic of resiliency, innovation and opportunity in the face of climate change. Aimee Christensen is the executive director of Sun Valley Institute for Resilience and lead’s today’s panel discussion. The theme of the discussion revolves around turning risks into opportunities and how economics, policy and natural resources fair in the face of climate change. With the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently releasing their special report on the effects of a 1.5 degree global temperature increase, and the very real and very urgent implications of those findings, these discussions on mitigating and adjusting our approaches to climate change in these dire times is more timely than ever. To learn more information about Sun Valley Institute or about the Sun Valley Forum on Resilience, visit: sunvalleyinstitute.org. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Lily Raff McCaulou was raised on the East coast as an environmentalist and an animal lover. Although she was a meat-eater, she’d grown up learning that harming animals was wrong. After moving to central Oregon for a reporting job in her early twenties, she began spending weekends fly-fishing and weekdays interviewing hunters for articles and realizing her perception of hunters wasn’t accurate. She met many whose connection to animals and the environment ran deeper than even her own. So, she embarked on a journey learning to hunt and through it she discovered a fascinating and firsthand way to learn about wildlife and the ecosystem in which she lived while bringing home healthy food for her family. As a hunter and a gun owner using guns for an activity she loves, however, she is deeply concerned about the epidemic of gun violence in our country. Matt Podolsky spoke with Lilly about her journey and perspective as a hunter on responsible gun ownership. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Munir Virani is a world-renowned raptor biologist and the executive vice president of the Peregrine Fund. We talk with him about growing up in Nairobi, Kenya, his inspiration to begin studying birds of prey, and how he helped solve a continent-wide mystery about the source of a mass-poisoning event that wiped out more than 95% of India’s vulture population.

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Quick! Before Matt and Greg do something dumb! We've got some good ideas and some not-so-good ideas. Help us make the decision as we rename Eyes on Conservation! Tell us what to do!!! info@wildlensinc.org or leave a voicemail at 208-917-3786.

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Today, our host Matt Podolsky interviews CEO and founder of ReAgency Science Communication, Jayde Lovell. Jayde and her team host the YouTube series, SciQ, where they try and bridge the gap between difficult science and the public by making their content engaging, informative and relatable. Their belief in spreading scientific literacy has led them to a partnership with The Young Turks Network and placed their platform on a wider scope covering politics and hot-button scientific issues. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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Coral reefs are one of the world’s most diverse ecosystems. While 1% of the world’s oceans are coral reefs, they support 25% of all marine life and feed more than 500 million people. In some areas of Florida and the Caribbean, the coral cover has declined by 50% to 80% in the last 30 years and it takes centuries for these reefs to develop naturally, thus running the risk of losing them altogether. But every dark cloud has a silver lining! 

Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium has developed a unique “micro fragmentation and fusion” method to grow corals 50 times faster in their nurseries than they grow naturally. Yes! They have a 95% survival rate when placed onto the reef. And they are doing this with the help of financial partnerships.

So, to gain a deeper understanding of our coral reefs and this partnership, wildlife film-maker and presenter, Aishwarya Sridhar spoke to Dr. Erinn Muller, Program Manager and Science Director of the Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research and Restoration at Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium and Scott Sensenbrenner, CEO of Enzymedica, a digestive enzyme supplements company. In the last 10 years, Mote has planted over 70,000 corals onto Florida's Coral Reef, and Enzymedica provides additional support for coral restoration.

Scott Sensenbrenner’s passion for the oceans is deep and he is committed to saving the coral reefs. He has been the CEO and a Director of Enzymedica since September of 2009. He is passionate about supporting Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium and the amazing work they are doing to save Florida’s coral reefs.

Dr. Erinn Muller has studied coral health and disease for the last 15 years in many places throughout the world including the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Florid Keys, and as far away as Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. She has published 24 peer-reviewed publications on coral health and disease. Muller’s research is funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Park Service, NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and through philanthropy like that of Enzymedica. She received the prestigious Young Scientist of the Year Award from the International Society for Reef Studies in 2015, became a Staff Scientist in 2015, and the Coral Health and Disease Program Manager at Mote in Sarasota, Florida, in 2016. She is now the Science Director of Mote Marine Laboratory’s Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research and Restoration.

 

Take a plunge into the unique world of corals by listening to this podcast!! 

 

Website- https://mote.org

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Twitter- @MoteMarineLab

 

Music- Organisms by Chad Crouch from Free Music Archives.  https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chad_Crouch/Arps/Organisms

 

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Today’s guest on the show is Monica Bond from the Wild Nature Institute.  Monica was one of our first guests on the podcast - she was featured in episode 6 of the show.  At that time we had recently completed two short films about the research and conservation work being conducted by the Wild Nature Institute in Tanzania - and we’ll get a quick update on these important conservation projects going on in East Africa before delving into the main topic of today’s conversation - the ecological importance of the hottest, most intense forest fires. In addition to today's podcast episode, we have just released a new short film, produced in partnership with the Wild Nature Institute on this topic of forest fire ecology and research, called A New Message for Smokey. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content!

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