Arkansas | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Fri, 20 Jun 2025 21:56:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/talkinganimals.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-talking-animals-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Arkansas | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 Tanya Smith, founder & president of Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge https://talkinganimals.net/2025/06/tanya-smith-founder-president-of-turpentine-creek-wildlife-refuge/ https://talkinganimals.net/2025/06/tanya-smith-founder-president-of-turpentine-creek-wildlife-refuge/#respond Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:06:18 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=11831 Tanya Smith–Founder and President of Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge, a 459-acre sanctuary in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, chiefly housing abused, abandoned, and neglected big cats—recalls a precocious first foray into big cat rescue…at age 11. She explains that this was the outgrowth of her parents—inveterate animal lovers—intervening in an odd, colorful situation where a lion cub […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2025/06/tanya-smith-founder-president-of-turpentine-creek-wildlife-refuge/feed/ 0 11831 Dr. Jane Goodall https://talkinganimals.net/2023/04/dr-jane-goodall-2/ https://talkinganimals.net/2023/04/dr-jane-goodall-2/#respond Wed, 05 Apr 2023 04:00:13 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=10054 Dr. Jane Goodall–the ethologist, activist, and conservationist who rose to international attention in the 1960s, propelled by her pioneering work studying chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania—offers her current impressions of young people’s attitudes about animals and the environment. She recalls the beginnings of Roots & Shoots, a youth program of the Jane Goodall Institute, launched in […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2023/04/dr-jane-goodall-2/feed/ 0 10054 Emily McCormack, Animal Curator at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge https://talkinganimals.net/2022/11/emily-mccormack-animal-curator-at-turpentine-creek-wildlife-refuge/ https://talkinganimals.net/2022/11/emily-mccormack-animal-curator-at-turpentine-creek-wildlife-refuge/#respond Wed, 23 Nov 2022 05:00:30 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=9830 Emily McCormack—the Animal Curator at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge (TCWR), a sanctuary in Eureka Springs, Arkansas housing 94 animals (mostly big cats, plus bears)—recalls being infatuated with tigers since childhood, telling her parents at age 10 or 12 that she intended to save them. Sure enough: Half of TCWR’s 84 big cats are tigers. Over […]

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