Life On The Brink (Gabriel George & Alex Bezzina)
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| 15 Nov 2021 | BONUS: Diversifying shark science | 00:15:36 | |
This is our third ever bonus episode!!! Last week's episode introduced us to Deborah Santos de Azevedo the incredible great hammerhead researcher who works with stressed-out sharks. She also happens to be a member of Minorities in Shark Science (MISS) an awesome organisation looking to build diversity in marine research and support minorities in the field. So this episode focuses on Deb's experiences as a Brazillian immigrant making her way into the wild world of shark science and her message that you aren't alone and if you work hard enough you can work with hammerheads too! Follow Life On The Brink on Instagram: @lifeonthebrinkpodcast and via our website: lifeonthebrinkpodcast.com Follow Deb on Twitter: @diverdebb and Instagram: @deborahsazevedo Follow MISS on Twitter and Instagram: @MISS_Elasmo Produced by Gabriel George & Alex Bezzina Theme Music by Kyle Morley | |||
| 25 Oct 2021 | A MANTA RAY OF HOPE w/ marine biologist & manta conservationist Asia Haines | 01:04:42 | |
Welcome to the first of four episodes on ELASMOBRANCHS (rays & sharks)! Over the next month, we've got two full episodes and two little bonus episodes headed your way. We know we only just started out fortnightly schedule but we just can't help ourselves!! Episode 10 of Life On The Brink is all about the world of the ocean's wanderers: MANTA RAYS! We're focussing on the reef manta ray, the slightly less massive of the two manta ray species. Our guide through their big blue world is Asia Haines, a manta biologist who works with the citizen-science group Project Manta to understand the manta ray populations along Australia's east coast. She talks about the world's only pink manta ray, why no one has ever seen a manta ray give birth in the wild, and what it's like to swim belly-to-belly with a wild manta ray. Follow Life On The Brink Follow Project Manta Produced by Alex Bezzina & Gabriel George Theme music by Kyle Morley Episode Cover Image: Inspector Clouseau, the only pink manta ray in the world. ASIA HAINES. | |||
| 22 Jul 2021 | Pilot: Testing One Two Three | 00:03:38 | |
Everything has to start somewhere, and Life On The Brink starts here! We are Gabriel & Alex, a couple of conservation scientists and science communicators. During our time studying and researching the natural world, we've been lucky enough to meet some of the most incredible people - people who have dedicated their lives to saving species they love. This podcast is dedicated to telling their stories, and the stories of the species they protect. Check back for the first episodes in August. Until then, find us on our Instagram @lifeonthebrinkpodcast to follow the production process. | |||
| 06 Sep 2021 | LIFE IS A FLYWAY w/ conservation professor & shorebird ecologist Prof. Richard Fuller | 00:58:07 | |
Episode 6 is bringing us back-to-back bird episodes woo!!! This edition of Life On The Brink takes us on the incredible journey of the world’s largest migrating shorebird from Australia all the way to China and features Professor Richard Fuller as our guide. Get ready to learn all about these goofy birds, their marathon journey, their enormous pecs, and how to protect an animal that crosses international borders like it's a competition. Follow Life On The Brink on Instagram: instagram.com/lifeonthebrinkpodcast/ via our website: www.lifeonthebrinkpodcast.com Theme Music by Kyle Morley Production by Gabriel George and Alex Bezzina | |||
| 09 Aug 2021 | THE LAST TREE-CLIMBING LIONS w/ big cat researcher & filmmaker Dr Alexander Braczkowski | 00:51:29 | |
Episode 2 electric boogaloo… well actually TREE CLIMBING LIONS! On the second episode of Life On The Brink Gabriel and Alex chat to big cat biologist and NatGeo explorer Dr Alexander Braczkowski about the rare lions that spend most of their days up in trees. So get ready to learn about how one of the most iconic species is threatened with extinction, listen to the adorable sounds of lion cubs learning to climb trees, and hear about what goes into being both a conservation scientist and filmmaker. Follow Life On The Brink Follow Alex Braczkowski Music by Kyle Morley Production by Angus Bezzina, Gabriel George, and Alex Bezzina Episode Feature Image: Young lion cub hangs in the branches of a euphorbia tree in Uganda. ALEXANDER BRACZKOWSKI. | |||
| 17 Jan 2022 | MAJOR UPDATE ON OUR FAVOURITE AUSSIE SONGBIRDS w/ regent honeyeater ecologist & conservationist Dr Ross Crates | 00:30:00 | |
Another update on one of our first-ever stories, and this one's a big one!! Episode 15 of Life On The Brink features the regent honeyeater and Dr Ross Crates. While Alex was away, Ross patched in (on Christmas Eve - what a legend!!) to give Gabriel a rundown on what had happened since we last touched base. He mentioned some big news that was on the horizon for early 2022. Listen in to hear what happened next! Follow Life On The Brink Follow Dr Ross Crates Theme Music by Kyle Morley Production by Gabriel George & Alex Bezzina Episode Cover Image: Regent honeyeater. ROSS CRATES, PhD. | |||
| 13 Sep 2021 | THE MYSTERY OF BUTTERFLY MIGRATION w/ insect conservationist & photographer Shawan Chowdhury | 00:46:00 | |
It's time to float like a migrating butterfly for Episode 7 of Life On The Brink! Insects make up more than 90% of species on this planet, and yet we know so little about them. In this episode, we unravel the complete mysteries of butterfly migration with Ph.D. candidate Shawan Chowdhury. We hear how Shawan fell into the world of butterflies as a student in Bangladesh's capital city Dhaka, how following the butterflies landed him in a world of leeches, and how the guy who failed eight out of 12 classes in 7th Grade went on to study a Ph.D. Follow Life On The Brink Find Shawan on his website: shawanchowdhury.wordpress.com/ Theme Music by Kyle Morley Production by Alex Bezzina & Gabriel George Episode Album Image: Caterpillar of the common mime swallowtail butterfly. SWAHAN CHOWDHURY. | |||
| 16 Aug 2021 | KRAFTY KIWIS w/ adventurer & biodiversity ranger Denis Stojanovic | 01:05:21 | |
Installment three of Life On The Brink is here! Follow Life On The Brink Follow Dennis Stojanovic Theme Music by Kyle Morley | |||
| 27 Sep 2021 | HOUSE HUNTING FOR ENDANGERED LIZARDS w/ conservationist & reptile ecologist Holly Bradley | 00:57:35 | |
Get ready to meet the cutest most baby-dragon-looking-est lizards we've somehow never heard about before on Episode 8 of Life On The Brink! Reptiles are so often overlooked in conservation and these cute critters are a perfect example. They live in family groups and make houses out of logs complete with outdoor dunnies. What's not to love?! In the episode, we hear how the incredible Holly Bradley started off in research keeping honey possums warm, moved on to sloth tracking in the Costa Rican jungle, and now is taking on the challenge of relocating entire populations of endangered Western spiny-tailed skinks before new coal mines wipe out their current habitat. Follow Life On The Brink Follow Holly Produced by Alex Bezzina & Gabriel George Theme music by Kyle Morley Episode Cover Image: Western Spiny-Tailed Skink. HOLLY BRADLEY. | |||
| 22 Nov 2021 | THE SUPER SPEEDY SPERM OF NEW ZEALAND'S LIZARD THAT ISN'T ACTUALLY A LIZARD w/ tuatara reproduction biologist & PhD Candidate Sarah Lamar | 00:51:49 | |
We're back in New Zealand for Episode 12 of Life On The Brink!! And this time, it's all for the tuatara! Some call it a "living fossil", others say they have a mystical third eye, but what we do know is there are a lot less of them than there used to be. In the episode, we run the tuatara rumours past our guest PhD Candidate Sarah Lamar and ask her why she researched the speed of their sperm in the name of conservation! Follow Life On The Brink Follow Life On The Brink Produced by Gabriel George & Alex Bezzina Theme music by Kyle Morley Episode Cover Image: A tuatara. SARAH LAMAR. | |||
| 09 Aug 2021 | FIRE & FEATHERS w/ ornithologist & Breaking Boundaries star Dr Daniella Teixeira | 00:49:59 | |
Heeeeyyyyyoooo…welcome to the first episode of Life On The Brink with Alex and Gabriel! We speak to the incredible Dr Daniella Teixeira about the endangered Kangaroo Island Glossy Black Cockatoos. So get ready to learn about how these birds and Daniella felt the heat of the 2020 bushfires, discover how they both unknowingly ended up on a David Attenborough Documentary, and hear some amazing vocal performances (both avian and human). Follow Life On The Brink Follow Daniella Follow The Black Cockatoo Project Music by Kyle Morley Production by Angus Bezzina, Gabriel George, and Alex Bezzina Episode Feature Image: Glossy black cockatoos. MICHAELA SHERWOOD VIA THE GLOSSY BLACK CONSERVANCY. | |||
| 01 Nov 2021 | BONUS: Tracking a manta ray down a highway | 00:12:31 | |
It's our second ever bonus episode! Last week's full episode with manta biologist Asia Haines left a lot of cool stuff on the cutting room floor, including a story about when the organisation she works with (Project Manta) tracked a manta ray down a highway! She also talked through how absolutely anyone can help Project Manta discover more about manta rays through the power of belly photos. Follow Life On The Brink on Instagram: and via our website: Follow Project Manta Theme Music by Kyle Morley Production by Alex Bezzina & Gabriel George Album Images: Tracking map of the tag mentioned in the episode & a photo of the tag. PROJECT MANTA. | |||
| 21 Feb 2022 | THE TINY TRUFFLE-LOVING MARSUPIAL w/ wildlife ecologist & educator Caitlin Weatherstone | 00:56:53 | |
Season 2 is heerrreee! Sorry for the delay! Gabe ended up getting and starting a new job since our last episode. So, to preserve what's left of his sanity, we thought it'd be best to push the start of our new episodes back by a week. But Episode #17 is worth the wait! We're bickering about bettongs with Caitlin Weatherstone. We talk about why the northern bettong is balancing so close to the edge of extinction when other bettongs seem to be managing okay, hear hairy stories about being evacuated in a tiny helicopter during a 10-minute gap in the tropical rain, and learn about how Alex actually helped Caitlin try to discover unknown bettong populations a couple years ago! And no we aren't going to start the episodes back at #1 again. Partly because it'd get confusing, but also because saying we have 17 episodes sounds way cooler. And sorry some of the audio from me (G) sounds a little funky - had a tech breakdown and had to use our backup recording! Follow Life On The Brink Follow Caitlin Produced by Gabriel George & Alex Bezzina Theme music by Kyle Morley Episode Cover Image: Northern bettong. STEPHANIE TODD/JCU/WWF-AUS. | |||
| 03 Jan 2022 | I WONDER WHAT'S HAPPENED WITH THOSE COCKATOOS FROM EPISODE 1? w/ glossy black cockatoo ecologist and conservationist Dr Daniella Teixeira | 00:18:59 | |
SURPRISE STORY UPDATE! Episode 14 of Life On The Brink features Dr Daniella Teixeira and the glossy black cockatoo (again!!) Daniella has been busy since we last talked to her in what turned out to be the first ever episode of Life On The Brink. Listen in to hear about new data showing how the 2019/20 bushfires impacted the very rare glossy black cockatoos of Kangaroo Island, the new population of birds Daniella has switched her focus to, and what you can do to save glossy black cockatoos in mainland Australia. We'll have a couple more story updates coming your way throughout the next few weeks as we gear up for Season 2 of Life On The Brink! Follow Life On The Brink on Instagram instagram.com/@lifeonthebrinkpodcast and our website: lifeonthebrinkpodcast.com Follow Daniella on Instagram instagram.com/daniellalteixeira and her website: www.daniellateixeira.com/ Follow The Black Cockatoo Project on Instagram instagram.com/@blackcockatooproject Music by Kyle Morley Production by Gabriel George & Alex Bezzina Episode Feature Image: Glossy black cockatoos. MICHAELA SHERWOOD VIA THE GLOSSY BLACK CONSERVANCY. | |||
| 10 Mar 2022 | THE AUSTRALIAN MOUSE THAT BECAME "UN-EXTINCT" w/ evolutionary biologist Dr Emily Roycroft | 00:51:42 | |
What a title hey? But enough of that, it's time for Episode 18! Our guest on this episode, Dr Emily Roycroft, was supposed to be studying the family tree of eight species of extinct Australian rodents. She then realised one wasn't actually extinct. Listen in to hear that story, and whether this mouse will go extinct for the SECOND time. Follow Life On The Brink Follow Emil Produced by Gabriel George & Alex Bezzina Theme music by Kyle Morley Episode Cover Image: Shark Bay Mouse. LAWLER. | |||
| 06 Dec 2021 | CATCHING CARBON TO SAVE LIONS w/ ecologist & Koobi founder Dr James Allan | 00:41:25 | |
Lions #2 electric boogaloo you're carbon credits are due! (Alex said we had to say that, sorry) It's Episode 13 of Life On The Brink, featuring LIONS. Didn't we already do lions? Yes we did... deal with it. But also this episode is very different from our first lion episode. Last time we focused on the tree-climbing lions of Uganda, this time we're focusing on the equally unique lions in Kenya known for their maneless males! In the episode, our over-achieving guest Dr James Allan talks about what it's like to grow up with a family that owns a safari company in a national park the size of Switzerland, we hear about the research he was involved in that influenced international conservation policy, and we talk with James about his new project - a company dedicated to capturing carbon AND saving threatened animals at the same time! Follow Life On The Brink Follow Life On The Brink Find Koobi Carbon Produced by Gabriel George & Alex Bezzina Theme music by Kyle Morley Episode Cover Image: Man-eating maneless male lions (ones from the railway James mentions in the episode) from Tsavo, Kenya. Currently full of stuffing instead of human as they stand on display in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, USA. JEFFREY JUNG. | |||
| 08 Nov 2021 | STRESSED-OUT HAMMERHEADS w/ shark researcher & marine biology student Deborah Santos de Azevedo | 00:50:54 | |
What could possibly out a 6-metre hammerhead? Humans, of course. This is Episode 11 of Life On The Brink, and the third installment of our little four-part series on elasmobranchs, featuring the Great Hammerhead shark. Follow Life On The Brink Follow Deb Produced by Alex Bezzina & Gabriel George Theme music by Kyle Morley | |||
| 01 Feb 2022 | RETURN OF THE KIWI w/ adventurer & biodiversity ranger Denis Stojanovic | 00:28:56 | |
Our final update episode before we start Season 2! This Life On The Brink update features biodiversity ranger Denis Stojanovic and the Haast southern brown kiwi. The Haast population of southern brown kiwis is a unique group of kiwis that only numbers around 500. Denis has major updates for us on how the recent breeding season has gone for this tiny population of threatened birds, and some corrections to the voice-overs we made over our original interview for Episode 3! Follow Life On The Brink Follow Dennis Stojanovic Theme Music by Kyle Morley Production by Alex Bezzina & Gabriel George Episode Cover Image: Denis the kiwi-wrangler. | |||
| 30 Aug 2021 | THE ENDANGERED SONGBIRD THAT'S LOSING IT'S SONG w/ bird ecologist & conservationist Dr Ross Crates | 00:59:02 | |
Welcome to the world of songbirds for Episode 5! Follow Life On The Brink Follow Dr Ross Crates Theme Music by Kyle Morley Production by Alex Bezzina & Gabriel George Episode Cover Image: Regent honeyeater. ROSS CRATES, PhD. | |||
| 11 Oct 2021 | THE WONDERFUL THING ABOUT TIGERS w/ big cat researcher & statistical ecologist Dr Arjun Gopalaswamy | 01:04:30 | |
...is tigers are wonderful things! However we can't verify whether their tops are actually made of rubber nor their bottoms made out of springs. Episode 9 of Life On The Brink is full of tiger talk and more Tigger from Winnie-the-Pooh references! Hear how hard it is to count one of the world's most elusive big cats, and how Arjun once came face-to-face with a wild tiger in a 15-minute standoff. This episode is a big one, full of stories, ways anyone can help conserve tigers, and high-brow questions like 'Where did the tiger actually get its stripes?!'. Follow Life On The Brink Follow Arjun Produced by Alex Bezzina & Gabriel George Theme music by Kyle Morley Episode Cover Image: Wild bengal tiger. | |||
| 20 Sep 2021 | BONUS: Meeting New Zealand's kinkiest kakapo | 00:14:31 | |
Welcome to the first Life On The Brink bonus episode! Launching Life On The Brink has been a very humbling experience. The response we've seen so far blew us away, so we kept pushing weekly episodes out so you could get to know who we are and what this podcast is all about. But we've now kicked into our on-going fortnightly release schedule to maintain the standard we want to keep (and, to be honest, to stop us two from burning out too quickly). But that doesn't mean you won't hear from us in these "off weeks". We'll still be popping up in your feed with bonus episodes like this one, mini-series we have in the works, and major updates to our previous stories. Follow Life On The Brink on Instagram instagram.com/lifeonthebrinkpodcast and via our website: lifeonthebrinkpodcast.com Follow Denis on Flickr: instagram.com/viv.fox Theme Music by Kyle Morley Production by Alex Bezzina & Gabriel George | |||
| 23 Aug 2021 | TURTLEY OBSESSED w/ ocean activist & marine biologist Melissa Staines | 00:59:53 | |
Time to give the big blue some love on Life On The Brink number four! Follow Life On The Brink Follow Melissa Staines Theme Music by Kyle Morley
Episode Cover Image: Green sea turtle hatchling. MELISSA STAINES. | |||