Green Divas Heart Wildlife: Recent Episodes
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The Green Divas love wildlife and want to share the love with listeners. From endangered wildlife and abandoned pets that needs our help or pets going green, we've got some wonderful green diva and green dude experts who love to talk about animals.
John Platt, editor if The Revelator and Extinction Countdown offers us some excellent tips for ways that we can all take action to help wildlife -- both locally in our own backyards (literally) and globally.
Fresh water mussels are quickly disappearing. Listen to this GDs Heart Wildlife episode with John R. Platt to learn why it is a big problem and what we can do about it.
John R. Platt, editor of The Revelator and author of Extinction Countdown shares some good news about how one scientist has discovered a way to help catch elephant poachers using their own poop.
A little good news for a change... Amur Leopards were poised to be extinct with only about 30 of these gorgeous big cats left in the world, but humans stepped up and helped provide a safe habitat and they are now up to a population of 103! Still not perfect, but going in the right direction. Great report from wildlife Green Dude John R. Platt, who writes Extinction Countdown and edits The Revelator for The Center for Biological Diversity.
Another in our series with Green Dude John Platt on his Extinction Countdown. This one is on the state of turtles around the world. It's not all bad news either!
Birds are in trouble, which means we're all in trouble really. Listen to this great Green Divas Heart Wildlife segment to hear John Platt talk about what's happening with some bird species.
Listen to this podcast before you believe all those reports out there that the wild tiger population is on the rise. I had no idea that there are tigers being raised in captivity to make "medicinal" products for humans. WHAT!?! Yup. Listen and learn.
Hallie Austen-Iglehart, founder of All One Ocean shares her brilliant and educational beach cleanup stations for any beach to help reduce the garbage flowing into our oceans and water ways from beaches.
Another great Green Divas heart wildlife segment with Lori Ann Burd of the Center for Biological diversity. She talks about endangered species, why and how we need to protect them.
The EPA recently came out with a report on chemical pesticides and the impact on pollinators. According to Lori Ann Burd from The Center for Biological Diversity, the report may be a step in the right direction, but it is far from complete.
A fascinating discussion with Dr. Kerry Kriger about frogs and why they are so important to our ecosystem.
Lori Ann Burd from the Center of Biological Diversity talks about the impact neonicotinoids found in pesticides and GMOs are having on wildlife.
Elephants need our help. Had to imagine someone brutally killing us so they can rip out our teeth, but that is the equivalent of what is happening to thousands of elephants. Musician and activist Wynne Paris is doing something about it. He is part of a new effort Africa ASAP (Ariel Surveillance Against Poaching), which will utilize dirigibles to keep poachers from killing elephants. Please listen. Please get involved.
Lori Ann Burd from Center for Biological Diversity talks about the impact that genetically engineered crops are having on us, the environment and of course wildlife.
Dr. Charles Rawlings is many things (literally), but we talked to him about his underwater photography and his book Living Shells, which explores the amazing technicolor life beneath the surface of many oceans. He does notice some changes over the years and believes climate change is definitely having an impact.
An important Green Divas Heart Wildlife episode featuring John Platt about the Extinction Clock. Tick Tock, Tick Tock, Tick Tock . . .
Another great discussion about the serious decline of songbirds with filmmaker Su Rynard.
The first of many conversations with the folks from the Center for Biodiversity. Jonathan Evans enlightens us about ways to handle rodents without the use of common poisons. Some surprising and useful information.
Our songbirds are disappearing in alarming numbers -- and when I say alarming, I mean ALARMING! Listen to this special Green Divas Heart Wildlife segment with filmmaker Su Rynard talks about her upcoming film Songbird SOS, which highlights the plight of nature's singers and what it really means for the rest of us here on the planet.
Don't freak out. Snakes have their purpose and most of them are actually harmless. Listen to David Suzuki's Queen of Green, Lindsay Coulter talk about how you can support healthy garden snakes in this Green Divas Heart Wildlife podcast.
The first of our Green Divas Heart Wildlife series. We love animals, and who doesn't? David Suzuki's Queen of Green Lindsday Coulter talks about how we can help wildlife species that are in trouble by adopting them through organizations that are doing great work to help. Listen up and adopt an orangutan or two!