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Mara Hvistendahl, New York Times reporter: “The Panda Factories”

Duncan — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:45:09 +0000

Mara Hvistendahl, a The New York Times reporter who wrote “The Panda Factories”–an extraordinary piece of investigative journalism probing the impact of China’s gambit nearly 30 years ago to send pandas to zoos in other countries, hoping the visiting animals would breed, ultimately resulting in pandas that could be returned to the wild–recounts the genesis […]

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Dr. Toni Frohoff, wildlife behavioral biologist

Duncan — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 05:00:44 +0000

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. Frohoff laments that she never learned to surf, but […]

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Ryan Tate, co-founder of VETPAW

Duncan — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 05:00:20 +0000

Ryan Tate—co-founder and president of Veterans Empowered to Protect African Wildlife (VETPAW), which employs military veterans to combat poaching of elephants and rhinos in African nations—discusses growing up in Tampa in a family that prized animals, and later enlisting in the Marines as a teenager. He recalls that after completing his stint in the Marines—including […]

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Joyce Poole, Elephant Expert Extraordinaire

Duncan — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:58:59 +0000

Joyce Poole–co-founder of ElephantVoices and considered one of the world’s foremost elephant experts–discusses some of her pioneering work in the realm of elephant communication, including identifying and decoding their vocalizations; addresses some of the techniques for moving unobtrusively close to elephants over more than 30 years of studying them, often in East Africa, perhaps most […]

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Leslie Griffith–Emmy-winning journalist

libby — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:00:28 +0000

Leslie Griffith–a veteran television journalist who’s won numerous awards, including nine Emmys, and also won awards and acclaim for a TV piece she did on the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and its abuse of Asian elephants–discusses the genesis of that piece, the possibly darker and certainly more under reported story that many […]

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