Kindred

Welcome back to Season 4 of The Kindred Podcast! We are so excited for this next season. We continue to explore the intricate and interdependent relationship that humans have with animals and the environment. And we dig deeper into how we are not above but equal to the Natural world. And through our conversations with people who make this their life work, we work to inspire a new consciousness in all of us in order to repair our relationship with the natural world. Our conversations take us to ecosystems around the world and we can't wait for you to come along. Enjoy, and be inspired! Lots of Love, Kate & Jenn

Kindred is hosted by Kate Coffin and Jenn Asplundh.

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We’ve asked Shawn Heinrichs to drop in and walk us through what has happened at a few of the big conventions, like COP 15, COP 27, and CITES, as far as what concrete action has been implemented in support of slowing climate change and specifically in context to protecting the high seas and marine wildlife. He gives us the reality check we all need, and more importantly how our oceans and the beings that live in them are desperately trying to survive in a brutal climate of indiscriminate fishing and our human “out of sight, out of mind” perspective.

COP 15

COP 27

Cites

30x30

OnlyOne

Instagram

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In this week's episode, we speak with Rebby Sebei, conservationist and manager at Ruko Wildlife Conservancy.  Rebby talks about her work uniting two warring communities and how through saving the endangered Rothschild's Giraffes, land, and a deeply divided community, can be restored and healed. It's a beautiful story of how the giraffe became a sign of peace and hope.

Baringo Conservancies

Save Giraffes Now

Northern Rangelands Trust

Kenya Wildlife Services

FGM World Health Organization Fact Sheet

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In this week's conversation, we speak with Tony Incashola Jr., forest manager for CSKT (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes), and Stephanie Gillin, information and education program manager and former wildlife biologist for the CSKT at the Flathead Indian Reservation.

Tony and Stephanie walk us through the history of fire and what it means to their tribes and how the criminalization of their fire practices not only impacted the health of the landscape but significantly changed how fire affects the land, ecosystems, and people of Montana and the general western part of the United States.

Returning Fire to the Land

CSKT Tribes

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In this week's conversation, we speak with Dr. Kelly Slattery of Home & Shore Vet about grief in specific context to the non-human members of our families.

Grief and losing a loved one, human or non-human, is something nearly all of us have experienced and we feel the topic of grief is a really important one to cover and one that is often shied away from because, well, it's a tough subject.

But Kelly walked with us through this whole conversation with grace and a deep understanding of the beautiful bond we have with our pets, and why it's so hard to lose them. We're so grateful to Kelly for her kindness and the grounded space she created for this episode.

We are dedicating this episode to not only the loved ones we have lost, but to the people who are going through a tough time. We hope you feel seen and heard and maybe not so alone.

Lots of Love.

Home and Shore Vet

Lap of Love

Harmony Animal Health Center

Ariel Mosenco UPenn Vet 

UPenn Veterinary Hospital Emergencies 

Veterinary Specialty & Emergency Center

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In this week's conversation, we speak with Dr. Elaine Ostrander about all things dogs and why they look like they do. In layman's terms, Dr. Ostrander explains how dogs don't often look like their closest genetic relatives, the wolf. She answers the long standing question and for us the mystery, of how Freddy the Great Dane doesn't look like Franky the Dachshund. We might even have those fancy Victorians to thank for it.

Elaine A. Ostrander, Ph.D. Natural Human Genome Research Institute

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This episode consists of Part 1 & Part 2.

In this week's conversation, we speak with Ecologist Monica Gagliano about her groundbreaking research with plants in context to perception, learning, memory, cognition, and intelligence. Her work opens a new awareness of how we perceive the plant world and challenges traditional thinking about plant and animal intelligence, and how we might connect on a much deeper level than we ever thought. We hear about the patient little Mimosa plant, or Sensitive plant, and how they learn, remember and react.

Monica Gagliano's WebsiteMonica Gagliano's Instagram

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In this week's conversation, we speak with Ecologist Monica Gagliano about her groundbreaking research with plants in context to perception, learning, memory, cognition, and intelligence. Her work opens a new awareness of how we perceive the plant world and challenges traditional thinking about plant and animal intelligence, and how we might connect on a much deeper level than we ever thought. We hear about the patient little Mimosa plant, or Sensitive plant, and how they learn, remember and react.

Monica Gagliano's WebsiteMonica Gagliano's Instagram

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In this week's conversation, we speak with Itsaso Velez del Burgo about her work at the Lwiro Primate Rehabilitation Center in the Democratic Republic of Congo rescuing and rehabilitating chimps and other vulnerable species. She talks to us about how the devastating effects of extreme poverty and hunger lead to poaching and the trauma that echoes through the chimpanzees and their families. We hear her intimate account of what little baby chimps go through when they are taken from their killed mothers and what a life resulting from the illegal selling of our closest relatives looks like. 

Lwiro Primates Rehabilitation Center

Lwiro’s Instagram

National Geographic - Central African Sanctuary Gives Hope to Chimps and Their Rescuers 

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In this week's conversation, we speak with Ph.D. Student Shelly Eshleman about the incredible journey migrating birds take every year. Shelly talks about her ongoing research and her work at Willistown Conservation Trust tracking migrating birds along the East Coast of the United States with the MOTUS Avian system. We get a peek into the long and sometimes dangerous journey of migrating birds, and the little backpacks they take along the way.

Lights Out Philly

The Big Collision

Bird Cast

Willistown Conservation Trust

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