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Senator Menendez (D-NJ) comments on new legislation inspired by Cecil the Lion. The CECIL Act will extend protection to animals still waiting to become officially listed on the Endangered Species list.

Professor David Macdonald, director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at the University of Oxford, found their research thrust into the international limelight last week, after one of the lions he was studying named Cecil was brutally slaughtered by an American trophy Hunter from Bloomington, Minnesota.

While much of the press this story has received has been negative and dark MacDonald says much good has and will come of this event, including the fact the research teams anti-poaching patrols were about to be shut down due to lack of funds and now will continue, thanks to this infusion of global concern. For more information and to support the program, visit: www.wildcru.org

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Professor David Macdonald is director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at the University of Oxford, in the UK. His team found their research thrust into the international limelight last week, after one of the lions he was studying named Cecil was brutally slaughtered by an American trophy Hunter from Bloomington, Minnesota.

While much of the press this story has received has been negative and dark MacDonald says much good has and will come of this event, including the fact the research teams anti-poaching patrols were about to be shut down due to lack of funds and now will continue, thanks to this infusion of global concern. For more information and to support the program, visit: www.wildcru.org

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Tom Davies (Pronounced Davis) is 19 years old and lives in London. He finished high school last summer and wanted to do something “different” for his gap year, which is a British expression for the year many high school students take off before starting college. So, being an enthusiastic cyclist… he decided to bicycle around the world.... and become the youngest person to ever circumnavigate the globe.

UPDATE: On Sunday, August 10th, 2015 Tom Davies returned to his home in Battersea and successfully completed his trip, becoming the youngest known person to ever bike around the world.

LINKS:

Tom Davies Webpage: http://tomdaviesrtw.com/

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Heather McElhatton interviews the lead engineer of NASAs Dawn space probe, which is set to make discoveries on Ceres and Vesta, which are are the two most massive residents of the asteroid belt. Vesta is a rocky body, while Ceres is believed to contain large quantities of ice. The profound differences in

geology between these two protoplanets that formed and evolved so close to each other form a bridge from the rocky bodies of the inner solar system to the icy bodies, all of which lay beyond in the outer solar system.

At present, most of what we now know about Vesta and Ceres comes from ground-based and Earth-orbiting telescopes like NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The telescopes pick up sunlight reflected from the surface in the ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared, and by emitted radiation in the far-infrared and microwave regions.

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Matthieu Ricard is a venerated Buddhist Monk and a celebrated cellular geneticist. He's been described as a human “Rosetta Stone,” he’s able to speak in multiple and often-conflicting languages all at once: Scientifically, spiritually, plainly and with great complexity. He’s also fluent in Chinese, Tibetan, French and English. His unusual history contributed to this composite expertise, Ricard left a prominent career in cellular genetics over forty-five years ago to study Buddhism in the Himalayas. He’s now the Dalai Lama’s French interpreter and an internationally bestselling author of many book, including his latest publication, "Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World.”

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Canadian Explorer, Adam Shoalts discovered 7 waterfalls on the "Again River" in Canada's remote Hudson Valley Lowlands. He discovered the falls, by literally falling over them and he's the first known person to traverse the entire length of the river.

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EXTENDED INTERVIEW: Author and journalist Heather Lende writes obituaries for the Chillkat Valley News, a small newspaper in her hometown, Haines, Alaska. her new book 'find the good' chronicles the many lessons she's learned about finding the good in people and situations ...where its not always obvious.

Read More about the Book: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/events/2013/11/a-beautiful-world/alaskan-obits.shtml

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Author and journalist Heather Lende writes obituaries for the Chillkat Valley News, a small newspaper in her hometown, Haines, Alaska. her new book 'find the good' chronicles the many lessons she's learned about finding the good in people and situations ...where its not always obvious.

Read more about the book: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/events/2013/11/a-beautiful-world/alaskan-obits.shtml

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Over 2 million dogs are euthanized in U.S. shelters every year due to lack of space. Shelters have nowhere to put animals or people to care for them. Could prisons offer a unique solution? "Dogs on the Inside" follows a group of prisoners in Massachusetts who're part a special animal rescue program called "Don't Throw us Away," which pairs rescue dogs with prisoners. Visit www.dogsontheinside.com to watch the full documentary.

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TALKING STORY is a documentary film and companion book by Marie-Rose Phan-Lê that chronicles the lives, rituals and wisdom of healers and spiritual leaders from diverse world cultures.The film transports the viewer into a world of exotic places, sacred practices and practical applications in the art of healing, from the beaches of Hawaii to the heights of the Himalayas. What emerges is a series of intimate portraits of healers and spiritual teachers as both human and divine. More at: www.talkingstorybook.com

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