Sanctuaries | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Sat, 26 Oct 2024 00:45:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/talkinganimals.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-talking-animals-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Sanctuaries | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 Mara Hvistendahl, New York Times reporter: “The Panda Factories” https://talkinganimals.net/2024/10/mara-hvistendahl-new-york-times-reporter-the-panda-factories/ https://talkinganimals.net/2024/10/mara-hvistendahl-new-york-times-reporter-the-panda-factories/#respond Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:45:09 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=11501 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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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2024/10/mara-hvistendahl-new-york-times-reporter-the-panda-factories/feed/ 0 11501 Patti Ragan- Founder of The Center For Great Apes https://talkinganimals.net/2010/03/patti-ragan/ https://talkinganimals.net/2010/03/patti-ragan/#respond Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:46:17 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=10 Our guest is Patti Ragan–founder of The Center For Great Apes, a 100-acre sanctuary in Wauchula, FL which houses 40+ chimpanzees (including Michael Jackon’s old pal Bubbles) and the country’s largest gathering of orangutans.       Ragan discusses some of the actual traits and stories attendant to captive apes as opposed to the sometimes […]

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