Ralph Heath--the zoologist who in 1971 founded the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary in Indian Shores, Florida, the largest wild bird hospital and sanctuary in the U.S., which will be a pivotal operation in cleaning and treating the birds affected by the Gulf oil disaster...
Our guest is Patti Ragan--founder of The Center For Great Apes, a 100-acre sanctuary in Wauchula, FL which houses 40+ chimpanzees (including Michael Jackon's old pal Bubbles) and the country's largest gathering of orangutans. ...
Scott Lope--Director of Operations at Tampa's Big Cat Rescue, one of the largest sanctuaries of its kind in the world, housing more than 100 big cats, spanning more than 40 acres, and recently named Animal Planet's "Hero Of The Year" ---discusses his background,...
Pat Derby--co-founder of The Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), which operates three animal sanctuaries in Northern California, among them the 2300-acre ARK 2000, where upwards of a dozen elephants live--discusses the needs of and challenges faced by captive...
Dr. Carole Noon--founder and director of Save The Chimps, the world's largest sanctuary for rescued chimpanzees, based in Fort Pierce, FL--discusses the formative stages of her career as a primatologist, the history and evolution of Save The Chimps (including the...
This represents a special one-hour edition of "Talking Animals" that aired on July 9 at 1pm, in addition to the regularly-scheduled half-hour edition that aired earlier in the day at 11:30am... GUEST: Michael Mountain--president and one of the founders of Best...
Melanie Bowles--cofounder, with her husband Jim, of Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary--discusses the history of the Sanctuary (it began some 18 years ago, taking in one horse, Cody, on five acres in Myakka City, FL) and evolution (it's now a 320-acre facility in Mena,...
Gene Baur--the cofounder and president of The Farm Sanctuary, the nation's leading farm animal protection organization--discusses his new book, "Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals And Food," (an acclaimed crazy quilt of a book whose patches...
Carole Baskin--founder and CEO of Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, one of the world's largest such sanctuaries, housing more 100 big cats (lions, tigers, leopards, cougars, servals, others) over 40-plus acres--discusses the history and evolution of the facility (including...
Pattrice Jones, co-founder of the Eastern Shore Sanctuary And Education Center--a Maryland sanctuary primarily for chickens (but also for ducks), and the only such sanctuary to rehabilitate former fighting cocks; she's also an ecofeminist activist, writer, college...
