by Duncan | Jan 24, 2018 | Advocates, General, Horses, Legislation
Jodie Wiederkehr—campaign director for Chicago Alliance For Animals (CAA), she’s spearheading CAA’s campaign to ban horse carriages in Chicago—recalls how her earliest professional animal advocacy work began in 1997, but that she grew up in a politically-engaged...
by Duncan | Jan 17, 2018 | Educators, General, Rescue, Sanctuaries, Veterinarians, Wildlife
Amy Kight—newly named executive director of Busch Wildlife Sanctuary (though she’s worked at the Jupiter, FL wildlife refuge, hospital, rehabilitation facility, and educational center since 2004)—discusses being so passionate about working with animals and so eager to...
by Duncan | Jan 10, 2018 | Advocates, Cats, Dogs, Educators, General, Mammals, Pets, Rescue, Spay/Neuter
Dr. Peter Rork—a retired orthopedic surgeon and pilot who co-founded Dog Is My CoPilot, an organization that flys shelter animals to different parts of the country, boosting their prospects of being adopted—recalls his lifelong love of flying, taking his first lessons...
by Duncan | Jan 3, 2018 | Authors, Educators, General
Dr. Ann Weaver—an animal behaviorist conducting a long-term study of bottlenose dolphins off the coast of St. Petersburg, Florida—talks about the enormous array of species she has worked with directly or studied before landing on the dolphin study in 2005, driven by a...
by Duncan | Dec 27, 2017 | Advocates, Educators, General, Health & Behavior
Christophe Cox—co-founder and CEO of APOPO, a Tanzania-based nonprofit organization that trains African giant pouched rats to detect landmines and to detect tuberculosis—recounts the genesis of the organization, when co-founder Bart Weetjens began contemplating...
