Dr. Justin Perrault, Director of Research at Loggerhead Marinelife Center

By | April 7, 2021 | Advocates, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, Educators | No comments

Dr. Justin Perrault—Director of Research at Loggerhead Marinelife Center, a nonprofit sea turtle research, rehabilitation, education, and conservation center, located in Juno, Florida—recalls growing up a landlocked kid in Memphis, Tennessee whose first exposure to a sea turtle came during a family trip to Mexico when he was 12. Read more…

Carlton Ward, Jr., conservationist and photographer

By | March 31, 2021 | General | No comments

Carlton Ward, Jr.—a Florida native, conservationist, and celebrated photographer whose striking photos of the Florida Panther are featured in the April edition of National Geographic—recalls how growing up in Florida first spurred his love of nature and wildlife. Read more…

Caitlin O’Connell, author of “Wild Rituals: 10 Lessons Animals Can Teach Us about Connection, Community, and Ourselves”

By | March 10, 2021 | Advocates, Authors, Captive, Cats, Educators, Elephants, Health & Behavior, Horses, Mammals, Primates, Vegetarian/Vegan, Wild | No comments

Caitlin O’Connell—a noted scientist who’s spent much of her career studying elephants and their communication, and author of several books, most recently “Wild Rituals: 10 Lessons Animals Can Teach Us about Connection, Community, and Ourselves”—addresses some of her varied professional pursuits, including a NASA project that involved the Space Station, that had prompted me, tongue partly in cheek, to dub her “a Renaissance Woman.” Read more…

Elizabeth Lo, Director of (who also produced, filmed & edited) “Stray”

By | March 3, 2021 | Actors & Filmmakers, Advocates, Dogs, Educators, Health & Behavior, Mammals | No comments

Elizabeth Lo—an award-winning filmmaker who directed “Stray,” a wildly-inventive documentary about the stray dogs who roam freely in Turkey (by law, no one there may hold captive or euthanize a stray dog)—discusses her lifelong love of dogs, spurred by her childhood dog, Mikey; “Stray”’s end credits note the film is “In memory of Mikey.” Read more…

Ginny Sweet, co-founder of Corsos for Heroes

By | February 24, 2021 | Advocates, Authors, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, Dogs, Elephants, Health & Behavior, Mammals, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

Ginny Sweet—co-founder (with Harry Toro) of Corsos for Heroes, an organization based in Lutz, Florida, that donates specially-trained service dogs, of the Cane Corso breed, to military veterans who are contending with one or more disabilities—describes some of the members of her military family. Read more…

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