Escape The Zoo

Michelle Valberg is a Canadian wildlife photographer and nonprofit leader with several books to her name. She is a Nikon Ambassador and was named as the first ever Canadian Geographic Photographer-in-Residence. She founded Project North, a nonprofit that delivers education and sports-based opportunities to youth in Canada’s Arctic. If you love bears like I do, this podcast is for you!

Included stories:

- intimate experiences with spirit bears

- a way too close for comfort encounter with a polar bear

- the ice grizzlies of Canada

- swimming with narwhals, the real unicorns of this world!

Please check out and support Michelle’s work:

www.michellevalberg.com

www.projectnorth.ca (nonprofit work)

www.instagram.com/michellevalbergphotography

www.facebook.com/michellevalbergphotography

www.twitter.com/michellevalberg

www.michellevalberg.com/book-shop

Full show notes @ https://bit.ly/2yvpDmW

Full interview video @ https://bit.ly/2yr0bPk

Keith Connelly is a wildlife guide, photographic guide, professional photographer and travel addict.

Included stories:

- being shoved by a gorilla

- getting caught in gunfire on a hippo-filled lake

- climbing Kilimanjaro

- conservation ideologies in Africa

Please check out and support Keith’s work:

https://www.keith-connelly.com/

https://www.instagram.com/ingwe911/

https://www.facebook.com/keithconnelyphotographyandexperiences/

https://www.twitter.com/ingwe911

Full show notes @ https://bit.ly/2MFfK90

Full video @ https://youtu.be/DrUC4hpFXzA

Margot Raggett is a renowned wildlife photographer and conservationist. Her Remembering Wildlife series of photographic books include contributions from some of the greatest wildlife photographers in the world and all proceeds are directly donated to important conservation work. Remembering Elephants, Rhinos, and Great Apes have received tremendous celebrity support and collectively raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to protect these species.

Included stories:

- the Remembering Wildlife series and conservation projects supported via funds raised

- meeting Sudan, the last male Northern white rhino

- visiting chimpanzees and mountain gorillas

- the trophy hunting debate

- a conversation with the legendary Jane Goodall

Please check out and support Margot’s work:

https://rememberingwildlife.com/

https://www.facebook.com/MargotRaggettPhotography/

https://www.instagram.com/margotraggettphotography/

http://www.margotraggettphotography.com/

full show notes @ https://bit.ly/2JAFLZj

John Marriott is a Canadian wildlife photographer, author, personality and outspoken conservation advocate.

Included stories:

- relaxing with spirit bears in the Great Bear Rainforest

- photographing the ice grizzlies of the Arctic Circle in Canada’s Yukon

- four years tracking the Pipestone wolves in Banff National Park

- the massive caribou migration

- black-footed ferrets in Saskatchewan after being absent from Canada for almost a century

Please check out and support Tony’s work:

www.wildernessprints.com (photos, books, events)

www.canwildphototours.com (tours / workshops)

www.bit.ly/2xQsWog (YouTube / web series)

www.instagram.com/johnemarriott/

www.facebook.com/JohnEMarriottPhotography/

www.twitter.com/JohnEMarriott

Full show notes @ https://bit.ly/2MlacQT

Full video @ https://youtu.be/1CyCKKkiJYA

Tony Wu is a multiple winner at the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards, most well known for his work underwater with whales and other cetaceans.

Included stories:

- Tony’s terrifying experience with a sperm whale that changed the course of his life

- an underwater phenomenon that he is the only person on Earth to ever document

- mass gatherings of whales

- swimming with orcas

- conservation issues affecting the future of the gentle giants.

Please check out and support Tony’s work:

www.tony-wu.com

www.instagram.com/tonywu98/

www.facebook.com/tonywuphotography/

www.twitter.com/tonywu

Full show notes @ https://bit.ly/2xStZnS

Full video @ https://youtu.be/svpU8iT6PNM