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Paulette Jordan is a candidate for the US Senate in Idaho, and a former Idaho state representative. If elected, she would be the first female senator to represent Idaho, and the first female Native American senator in US history. In our interview, Jordan discusses how her background has informed her approach towards running her campaign, and why she has a shot at victory despite Idaho's reputation as an extremely conservative state.

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When we think about communities that are threatened by climate change, we often think about coastal areas and how these communities will be affected by sea-level rise, but we often don’t think about the other elevation extreme; how mountainous communities are going to be affected, and how they will have to adapt.

 

In this podcast episode, we dive in to learn how mountainous communities around the world are adapting to climate change. We are joined by two researchers who lend different perspectives to understanding what threats these communities face and how they can adapt. 

 

Dr. Kelli Archie is the Senior Science Advisor at the Institute for Ecological Civilization. She spent the past 12 years as an academic in New Zealand and the USA studying climate change adaptation. Dr. Archie speaks about where her passion for this topic came from, why mountainous communities are at more risk than some other geographic areas and she discusses her research findings and its implications.

 

Tina Chen received the prestigious Watson Fellowship to conduct an interesting explorative research project where she spent a year traveling alone to live in various mountainous communities, learning about how they are adapting to climate change. Ms. Chen joins EOC to tell us what she learned from that one year’s experience. 

 

Take a plunge into learning about climate change, ski towns, yak butter, politics, and more.

Music: “Hit the Road” by VESHZA Artlist.io.com

 

This episode was produced by Wild Lens Collective member, Emily Stanford

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Coral reefs are one of the world’s most diverse ecosystems. While 1% of the world’s oceans are coral reefs, they support 25% of all marine life and feed more than 500 million people. In some areas of Florida and the Caribbean, the coral cover has declined by 50% to 80% in the last 30 years and it takes centuries for these reefs to develop naturally, thus running the risk of losing them altogether. But every dark cloud has a silver lining! 

Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium has developed a unique “micro fragmentation and fusion” method to grow corals 50 times faster in their nurseries than they grow naturally. Yes! They have a 95% survival rate when placed onto the reef. And they are doing this with the help of financial partnerships.

So, to gain a deeper understanding of our coral reefs and this partnership, wildlife film-maker and presenter, Aishwarya Sridhar spoke to Dr. Erinn Muller, Program Manager and Science Director of the Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research and Restoration at Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium and Scott Sensenbrenner, CEO of Enzymedica, a digestive enzyme supplements company. In the last 10 years, Mote has planted over 70,000 corals onto Florida's Coral Reef, and Enzymedica provides additional support for coral restoration.

Scott Sensenbrenner’s passion for the oceans is deep and he is committed to saving the coral reefs. He has been the CEO and a Director of Enzymedica since September of 2009. He is passionate about supporting Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium and the amazing work they are doing to save Florida’s coral reefs.

Dr. Erinn Muller has studied coral health and disease for the last 15 years in many places throughout the world including the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Florid Keys, and as far away as Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. She has published 24 peer-reviewed publications on coral health and disease. Muller’s research is funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Park Service, NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and through philanthropy like that of Enzymedica. She received the prestigious Young Scientist of the Year Award from the International Society for Reef Studies in 2015, became a Staff Scientist in 2015, and the Coral Health and Disease Program Manager at Mote in Sarasota, Florida, in 2016. She is now the Science Director of Mote Marine Laboratory’s Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research and Restoration.

 

Take a plunge into the unique world of corals by listening to this podcast!! 

 

Website- https://mote.org

Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/MoteMarineLab

Instagram- @motemarinelab

Twitter- @MoteMarineLab

 

Music- Organisms by Chad Crouch from Free Music Archives.  https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chad_Crouch/Arps/Organisms

 

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Shrouded in mystery, misunderstood, vilified and beautiful, mountain lions, pumas, cougars (or however you refer to them), exist in our modern world in constant conflict. People hate them, people love them, or people fear them. 

Mark Elbroch is a mountain lion biologist who has dedicated his career to not only studying these elusive animals, but working to bridge the divide among different stakeholders, agencies, and advocates. In Mark’s new book, The Cougar Conundrum (available August 13, 2020), he dismisses long-held myths about mountain lions and uses groundbreaking science to uncover important new information about their social habits.

Mark argues that humans and mountain lions can peacefully coexist in close proximity if we ignore uninformed hype and instead arm ourselves with knowledge and common sense. He walks us through the realities of human safety in the presence of mountain lions, livestock safety, competition with hunters for deer and elk, and threats to rare species, dispelling the paranoia with facts and logic. In the last few chapters, he touches on human impacts on mountain lions and the need for a sensible management strategy. The result, he argues, is a win-win for humans, mountain lions, and the ecosystems that depend on keystone predators to keep them in healthy balance.

In this episode, Mark breaks down the mythology and takes us through some of the biology and natural history behind these animals, and contextualizes current management practices and public perception in unexpected ways! If you’ve ever wondered why we think the way we do about mountain lions in this country, buckle up, because it may surprise you.

For more information, visit:

https://www.panthera.org/

https://markelbroch.com/

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Quick! Before Matt and Greg do something dumb! We've got some good ideas and some not-so-good ideas. Help us make the decision as we rename Eyes on Conservation! Tell us what to do!!! [email protected] or leave a voicemail at 208-917-3786.

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This episode was originally published nearly 2 years ago, but it could have been made yesterday. Thank you Sarinah Simons and Rue Mapp for this piece of internet gold.

Original Text: On today’s episode of the show, I interview a woman who has inspired me and many people like me to embrace themselves in outdoor spaces and find community even when its not always easy. Her name is Rue Mapp, and she is the CEO and founder of Outdoor Afro, a not-for-profit organization founded in Oakland, California that is at the forefront of celebrating and inspiring African American connections in nature. Outdoor Afro represents a network across 30 states, challenging and changing representation in the outdoors and connecting thousands of people to outdoor experiences.

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As the world of brand names and politicians offer their bandwagon platitudes for the summer of 2020 we’ve been thinking a lot about what that means for us. On the surface of it, conversations about wildlife, nature, conservation, climate change, mass extinction, and more – don’t often feel like there is a direct connection with racism, LGBTQ rights, gender equality, rampant runaway nationalism, classism, wealth inequality... And yet, the two worlds of our cultural values and the physical space and beings which inhabit it are completely intertwined. They are intersectional. They are undetachable.

 

That is why we have made the decision to rebrand our podcast. We feel the name “Eyes on Conservation” no longer serves the purpose it once did. We feel that it doesn’t address those issues enough, and instead of simply throwing a #BLM stamp on our Instagram, patting ourselves on the back, and calling it a day, we’ve decided to make social equality and natural conservation - the natural allies that they are - central to our journey forward.

 

And we want you to take the journey with us. We would like to hear from you what you think about this. What ideas you have for a new name, what concerns or questions you have. Please give us your feedback either through email at [email protected] or by calling our voicemail at 208-917-3786. We will listen and read everything you send us and would love to share your answers on an upcoming episode.

 

Wild Lens Collective member Sarinah Simons is a freelance filmmaker, activist and intersectional environmentalist currently based in northern California. She works in wildlife management for the state. Sarinah is passionate about telling stories about wildlife and marginalized communities. Her upcoming projects include the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band’s traditional fire practices in California, and A Change in the Clouds, the story of Panama’s indigenous Guna Yala people, jaguar conservation, and the crossroads of climate change.

 

Website: http://www.sarinahsimons.com/ 

IG: https://www.instagram.com/_sea_legs/ 

GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/change-in-the-clouds-film

 

Wild Lens Collective member Ben-Alex Dupris, aka @Bendigenous, is an enrolled member of the Colville Confederated Tribes, where he grew up. Over the years he has worked in commercial entertainment, tribal language preservation, youth media training and most recently, documenting front-line environmental activism. 

 

He is a Concordia Studios Artist-In-Residence Alumni headed by Academy-Award winner Davis Guggenheim, Firelight Impact Producer's Fellow, and a Sundance Institute "Rauschenberg" Producer's Fellow.

 

His directorial debut, Sweetheart Dancers, was a Grand Jury Winner for best short film at OUTFEST LA, and his upcoming PBS American Masters features Pawnee painter Bunky Echo-Hawk as a part of a series curated by Firelight Media. 

 

@Bendigenous also teaches “Indigenous Mythology in Film” at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, with upcoming class dates coming up in the 2020-2021 year. 

 

The work we’re doing is made possible because of people like our patrons on Patreon. Thank you so much to all of you. Please consider becoming a supporter for as little as a buck a show at www.patreon.com/wildlenscollective.

 

A Message From the Native Filmmakers Fighting the Dakota Pipeline at Standing Rock – Speech by John Trudell “We Are Power”, video short produce by Ben Alex and Heather Rae https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phre0bArD0M

  

Sweetheart Dancers – Directed and Produced by Ben Alex Dupris

https://www.pbs.org/filmfestival/films/sweetheart-dancers

 

Extended Interview: Burning a Forest to Revive a People – Valentin Lopez for PBS explaining the significance of fire practices for the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band

https://www.pbs.org/video/valentin-lopez-burns-forest-revive-people-hotbmr/

 

A Change in the Clouds – Directed and Produced by Sarinah Simons

https://www.gofundme.com/f/change-in-the-clouds-film

 

Sea of Shadows – Co-director, Matthew Podolsky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiFjJCUd9ro

 

Music in today’s show by Blue Dot Sessions via the Free Music Archive under Creative Commons licensing.

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“[Dolphins] have been on the face of the Earth a lot longer than humans have been. They've figured out a number of solutions for making a living in an environment that would be very hostile to us, and yet that joins the areas where we live. So we talk about these animals living in our backyard, but in reality, we kind of live in their backyard.”

When Dr. Randall Wells was still in high school, he joined a U.S. naval research project involving dolphins as an assistant in Sarasota Bay Florida. The same year, in 1970, he and a colleague began tagging wild dolphins and that data-informed project would become the “world’s longest-running study of a dolphin population.”

 

When he began the work, Dr. Wells’ initial project was to determine if dolphins remain in one area over their lifetime or if they migrated and moved, a question unanswered by science at the time. 

 

“We had no idea whether the dolphins that we saw one day would be there a week later or a month later, or whether they range freely around the Gulf of Mexico.” 

Since then, Dr. Wells, now the Director of the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program and employed by the Chicago Zoological Society, and his team of conservation scientists have contributed much more to our understanding of one the most intelligent animals on earth. 

 

From the concept of the “ecological cul-de-sac” to “dolphinalities,” and from innovative citizen science initiatives to data that has informed high profile environmental lawsuits, in this episode Dr. Wells discusses his life’s work and the dolphins at the heart of it all, some of whom he’s been watching his entire 50-year career. 

 

The Sarasota Dolphin Research Program is part of the Chicago Zoological Society. Learn more about the lab’s ongoing research here: https://www.sarasotadolphin.org 

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“My focus was on the impact of environmental and climate change on national security, a growing concern of the military and intelligence communities… The White House blocked the submission of my bureau’s written testimony [because] the analysis did not comport with the administration’s position on climate change.” – Rod Schoonover, July 2019.

 

Dr. Rod Schoonover was a tenured professor when he went to work for the United States intelligence community in 2009. His task was to investigate the science behind climate change and assess any risk associated to national security. One of a handful of intelligence analysts doing work on climate change, the results and prognosis were troubling. Regardless, Schoonover at least had the assurance that he would have an apolitical space to do his job. That all changed in June of 2019 when he was asked to testify in front of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence about the national security concerns from climate change that lie ahead in the coming years.

 

The night before his testimony he was notified that the Trump administration was blocking his testimony from taking place at all. After ongoing negotiations throughout the evening, Schoonover was reluctantly permitted to give a brief summary of his 11 page report. The report, unfortunately, was never entered into official record. But, you can still read it here.

 

Watch Dr. Rod Schoonover’s National Security and Climate Change testimony here. His comments begin at minute 12:50.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?461413-1/national-security-climate-change

 

Music used in this episode by The Great Turtle.

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Oceans are the lifeline of our blue planet and they cover nearly ¾ of the Earth’s surface. And on June 8th we celebrated World Oceans Day. Who doesn’t love the ocean right? Beaches, the lovely breeze, the feel of sand beneath your feet, the wildlife. So, wildlife film-maker and presenter, Aishwarya Sridhar talks to Francesca Trotman, managing director and founder of Love The Oceans.

 

Love the Oceans is a non-profit marine conservation organisation working in Jangamo Bay, Mozambique since 2014. LTO is working to protect and study the diverse marine life found here, including many species of sharks, rays and the famous humpback whales. They use research, education and diving to drive action towards a more sustainable future. Their ultimate goal is to establish a Marine Protected Area for the Inhambane Province in Mozambique, achieving higher biodiversity whilst protecting endangered species. 

Francesca Trotman holds a Masters in Marine Biology. Francesca has always had a passion for marine life and is an emerging leader in the ethical tourism space. An avid diver since the age of 13 with a keen interest in all aspects of marine life, Francesca is particularly passionate about sharks. Results orientated, she constantly encourages people to consider conservation in everyday life and take a greener approach to modern living. As the founder she likes to stay close to the research and community, overseeing the majority of programs on the ground in Mozambique.

 

Let the sound of waves and ocean breeze lift your spirits as you listen to this podcast from your home!!

 

Love The Ocean Social Media

Instagram: @lovetheoceans

Twitter: https://twitter.com/lovetheoceans

Facebook: https://facebook.com/lovetheoceansorganisation

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/love-the-oceans

Website: https://lovetheoceans.org/

 

Music used: Bumbling Bumbling by Pictures of the Floating World

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Pictures_of_the_Floating_World/Bumbling/Bumbling

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