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Scott Blais, co-founder of the Global Sanctuary for Elephants, currently running Elephant Sanctuary Brazil

By | December 11, 2019 | Advocates, Captive, Educators, Elephants, General, Health & Behavior, Rescue, Sanctuaries | No comments

Scott Blais—co-founder of the Global Sanctuary for Elephants, whose initial facility is the Elephant Sanctuary Brazil—begins the conversation aiming to answer my question about what makes elephants magical, what provokes such passionate response to them in so many people. Read more…

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Kathryn Bowers, authors of “Wildhood: The Epic Journey from Adolescence To Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals”

By | October 16, 2019 | Authors, Cats, Cetaceans, Dogs, Educators, Elephants, General, Horses, Mammals, Primates | No comments

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers–New York Times bestselling authors of “Zoobiquity,” whose new book is “Wildhood: The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals”—in recalling that they both were raising adolescents while working on “Wildhood,” address how much those adolescents shaped the direction of the book and its core concept. Read more…

Natasha Daly, author of National Geographic story “The Hidden Cost of Wildlife Tourism”

By | May 22, 2019 | Advocates, Authors, Captive, Cetaceans, Elephants, General, Primates | No comments

Natasha Daly—a staff writer for the National Geographic, where she wrote the June cover story, “The Hidden Cost of Wildlife Tourism”—addresses her role as the magazine’s “wildlife crime reporter,” how she landed on that beat, and what sort of stories she’s written in that capacity. Read more…

Dr. Toni Frohoff, wildlife behavioral biologist

By | January 23, 2019 | Advocates, Captive, Cetaceans, Educators, Elephants, General, Wild | No comments

Dr. Toni Frohoff—a wildlife behavioral biologist who has researched the lives and behaviors of elephants and cetaceans for more than 30 years—recalls how, as an aspiring surfer growing up in Southern California, encountering dolphins in the ocean there, spurred her initial interest in studying those cetaceans. Read more…

Jim Oesterle, Asst. U.S. Attorney for Western District of Washington

By | August 15, 2018 | Birds, Fish & Reptiles, Educators, Elephants, General, Mammals, Wild | No comments

Jim. Oesterle—an Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington, who, earlier this summer, served as a faculty member for a two-week course on Combating Illegal Wildlife Trafficking at the International Law Enforcement Academy in Gaborone, Botswana–describes what’s involved in leading the office’s environmental crimes working group, and prosecuting offenses under all the environmental statues. Read more…

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