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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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Jerry Bishop, director of training at F1 K9

Duncan — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 04:00:29 +0000

Owing to the coronavirus pandemic and the new Stay at Home order, this was the first show I broadcast remotely from home, with in-studio help from my friend/WMNF music director Lee “Flee” Courtney, featuring live and recorded elements… Jerry Bishop—the co-founder and director of training at F1 K9, a Florida-based firm that provides training and […]

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

Duncan — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 04:00:36 +0000

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. Noting […]

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Dr. Nick Pyenson, paleontologist and author of “Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures”

Duncan — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 05:00:29 +0000

Dr. Nick Pyenson—the curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, and the author of “Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures”—traces his interest in fossils to his childhood, when his parents would take him to natural history museums, experiences he called “formative.” […]

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Discussion of Amendment 13 with Carey Theil, of Grey2K USA Worldwide, & our Greyhound Correspondent Don Goldstein

Duncan — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:00:24 +0000

For this edition of “Talking Animals,” I presented a special show devoted to greyhounds, and specifically, Amendment 13, the ballot measure that, if it passes on Nov. 6, would end greyhound racing in Florida by 2020. I held this in-studio discussion with Carey Theil, executive director of Grey2K USA Worldwide, a national greyhound protection organization, […]

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

Duncan — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 04:00:59 +0000

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 […]

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Erika Abrams, co-founder & president of Animal Aid Unlimited

Duncan — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 04:00:13 +0000

Erika Abrams—co-founder and president of Animal Aid Unlimited, a rescue operation, hospital, and sanctuary in Udaipur, India—recalls the circumstances under which she, her husband, Jim, and daughter, Claire, began traveling to India in the late 1980s. While noting she wasn’t (and still isn’t) well-traveled, and that her initial interest in the country was rooted in […]

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Arin Greenwood & Lee Greenwood, sibling animal welfare advocates

Duncan — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 05:00:05 +0000

Arin Greenwood and Lee Greenwood—siblings who are both lawyers, skillful writers, and engaged in promoting animal welfare, from different platforms—recount growing up in a house that was, unsurprisingly, brimming with animals (though Arin notes a difficult six-year stretch, start when she was 6, when the family went dog-less). The Greenwoods agreed there was no predict […]

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Stephen Wells, executive director of Animal Legal Defense Fund

Duncan — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 04:00:34 +0000

Stephen Wells—the executive director of the Animal Legal Defense Fund ALDF)—traces his intriguing, sometimes colorful, career path before joining ALDF, particularly his years in Alaska, where, among other developments, he formalized his commitment to becoming a professional animal advocate. (His early time in Alaska included participating in the clean up of the Exxon Valdez oil […]

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