by Duncan | Apr 23, 2025 | Advocates, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, Dogs, Educators, Health & Behavior, Legislation, Wildlife
Kate MacFall and Katherine McGill—longtime wildlife experts joining me for a discussion devoted to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), specifically, the FWC’s current effort to evaluate existing rules for wildlife trapping—address what for...
by Duncan | Apr 9, 2025 | Advocates, Educators, Health & Behavior, Primates, Rescue, Sanctuaries
Kari Bagnall–founder and executive director of Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary, which offers permanent care to nearly 200 monkeys retired from laboratory research, who are former pets, or have been confiscated by the authorities—recalls the first monkey...
by Duncan | Apr 2, 2025 | Advocates, Educators, Factory Farming, General, Health & Behavior, Legislation, Rescue, Sanctuaries, Vegetarian/Vegan
Kelly McCormick and Glenn Maresca–co-founders of Florida Rescue Farm, a sanctuary in Duette, FL, devoted to rescuing, rehabilitating, and housing pigs, goats, geese, chickens, ducks, cattle, other critters, and no less devoted to cultivating a strong educational...
by Duncan | Mar 19, 2025 | Actors & Filmmakers, Advocates, Cats, Educators, Elephants, Health & Behavior, Wild
Jocelyn Stokes and Katie Schuler—co-creators of “In Her Nature,” a new digital series carried on the YouTube channel for the longstanding PBS program, “Nature”—retrace the path that led each of them toward their present filmmaking careers, specializing in natural...
by Duncan | Mar 12, 2025 | Advocates, Cats, Dogs, Educators, General, Horses, Mammals, Sanctuaries
Michael Schneider, a pilot and founder of Pilots To The Rescue—which flies animals from shelters plagued by low rates of adoption (and, often, high rates of euthanasia), to rescues where foster or forever homes have been arranged—describes the career reinvention that...