All posts tagged animal advocate

Avalon Theisen, 14-year-old environmentalist, animal advocate and educator

By | September 23, 2015 | Advocates, Birds, Fish & Reptiles, Educators, Environmental Impact, Factory Farming, General, Health & Behavior, Sanctuaries | No comments

Avalon Theisen—the 14-year-old Tampa environmentalist, animal advocate, and founder of Conserve It Forward—describes what Conserve It Forward is and does, and what prompted her to launch it 2010 (at age nine). Read more…

Kevin Nealon, comedian-actor-animal advocate

By | May 2, 2012 | Actors & Filmmakers, Comedians | No comments

Kevin Nealon–the comedian, actor and longtime animal advocate who stars as pot-loving accountant Doug Wilson in the Showtime series “Weeds,” and earlier in his career, enjoyed nearly a decade stint on “Saturday Night Live”–discusses starting to shoot the eighth and what may be the final season of “Weeds,” Read more…

Jane Wiedlin, The Go-Go’s singer-guitarist & veteran animal advocate

By | November 9, 2011 | Captive Exotic, Musicians, Rescue | No comments

Jane Wiedlin–The Go-Go’s singer-songwriter-guitarist and longtime animal advocate–discusses the forthcoming film, “Doggie Boogie,” which she stars in and for which she wrote the title song (which we heard at the top of the show). She also recounts her history as an animal activist, and how she was a lifelong animal lover who thought she was going to become a veterinarian–“but I became a Go-Go instead.” Read more…

Jonathan Balcombe, animal behavior scholar and author

By | September 7, 2011 | Authors, Health & Behavior | No comments

Jonathan Balcombe–animal behavior scholar (he holds a PhD in ethology), animal advocate and author of four books, most recently “The Exultant Ark: A Pictorial Tour of Animal Pleasure,” which features dozens of gorgeous, often-striking photographs of animals in the throes of various kinds of bliss–discusses the factors that led him onto the scientific path of examining, studying and writing about animal behavior. Read more…