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Rebecca Reid, Director of Education at Busch Wildlife Sanctuary

Duncan — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 04:00:25 +0000

Rebecca Reid–Director of Education at Busch Wildlife Sanctuary, a multifaceted operation (wildlife refuge, veterinary hospital, rehabilitation facility, education center) in Jupiter Farms, Florida—discusses the readily observable love for her job, and its probable roots in her passion for animals, and being outdoors, while growing up in New Jersey. Reid recalls it was a childhood joyously replete […]

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Amy P. Kight, executive director of Busch Wildlife Sanctuary

Duncan — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 05:00:32 +0000

Amy P. Kight, executive director of Busch Wildlife Sanctuary, discusses the Sanctuary, its imminent relocation, some resident animals, the recent fatal gator attack in Fort Pierce, and more.

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Dr. Heather Johnston, Medical Director at Busch Wildlife Sanctuary

Duncan — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 04:00:57 +0000

Dr. Heather Johnston—a veterinarian who serves as the Medical Director at Busch Wildlife Sanctuary, a multifaceted operation in Jupiter, Florida that, in celebration of March being Women’s History Month, is slated to present a “Women in Wildlife Panel Discussion” there on March 29 (featuring Johnston)—recalls that she wanted to be a vet since she was […]

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Joshua Zeman, director of “The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52”

Duncan — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 04:00:57 +0000

Joshua Zeman—the director of “The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52,” a feature-length documentary chronicling the science-oriented pursuit of a whale that experts think has spent his whole life in solitude because, they believe, he’s communicating at a frequency no other whale can understand—addresses the observation that this film represents a departure from his past […]

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Amy Kight, executive director of Busch Wildlife Sanctuary

Duncan — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 05:00:40 +0000

Amy Kight—executive director of Busch Wildlife Sanctuary, a multifaceted operation in Jupiter, Florida serving as wildlife refuge, veterinary hospital, rehabilitation facility, and education center–recalls loving animals so much, so young, that she made an arrangement to start helping out at a veterinarian’s office at age six. Kight goes on to note this represents a lifelong […]

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Amy Kight, executive director of Busch Wildlife Sanctuary

Duncan — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 05:00:29 +0000

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 do so as a very determined little kid that she landed a gig helping out at a veterinarian’s […]

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