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A weekly public affairs show that delivers news and views about the most important environmental issues in California and globally.

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30×30 is an international movement to conserve 30% of natural areas, lands, and waters by 2030, in an effort to protect and restore biodiversity and mitigate and build resilience to climate change.

On this week’s episode, Terra Verde host Fiona McLeod is joined by Jennifer Norris, Deputy Secretary for Biodiversity and Habitat at the California Natural Resources Agency, who leads the state’s 30×30 initiative, and Blanca Begert, Reporting Fellow at Grist who has written extensively about 30×30 and who holds a Masters Degree from the Yale School of the Environment.

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In the foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains and just a few miles outside of Gilroy, California, sits land that is sacred to the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. Known as Juristac, the Amah Mutsun lived on this land for millennia until they were forcibly removed. Today, a private investor group wants to develop a massive gravel and sand mining complex on the site, despite its cultural significance to the Amah Mutsun, as well as the role it serves as a wildlife corridor and refuge for vulnerable species. The Amah Mutsun oppose this plan, and have been organizing to stop it. Valentin Lopez, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, joins  Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal Managing Editor Zoe Loftus-Farren to discuss the campaign to protect Juristac.

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This episode of Terra Verde features an interview with a researcher from the organization Food and Water Watch describing their recent report on Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology titled The Dire Climate Consequences of Capturing Carbon from the Atmosphere. The episode exposes the highly celebrated but unproven climate geoengineering approach as being absurdly expensive, energy and emissions intensive and, ultimately, worse than doing nothing.

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The residents of Bayview Hunters Point, a low-income, working class community of color in southeast San Francisco, have been embroiled in a decades-long struggle to get a full clean up of the many sources of pollution in their neighborhood, including radioactive and toxic contamination at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Superfund site and dozens of other contaminated sites along the waterfront and throughout the community.

Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal editor Maureen Nandini Mitra discusses the latest developments in this ongoing saga for environmental justice with community resident Kamillah Ealom and Bradly Angel of Greenaction, an environmental group that focuses on building community power to fight environmental injustice, and investigative reporter Greg Schwartz of the Anthropocene Alliance, a national coalition of frontline communities fighting for climate and environmental justice.

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Every winter, hunters gather across the United States to partake in a uniquely American activity: predator killing contests. These events are pretty much what they sound like — contests to see who can kill the most or biggest coyotes, bobcats, foxes and other native carnivores, often in the name of wildlife management. Those who prevail are awarded significant cash purses and other prizes, including hunting equipment.

Thanks to the tireless work of wildlife advocates, the controversial events have faced increasing scrutiny in recent years, including from scientists, wildlife management officials, and even some hunters. Camilla Fox, founder and director of Project Coyote, and Jill Fritz, senior director of wildlife protection with the Humane Society of the United States join Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal Managing Editor Zoe Loftus-Farren to discuss the problematic nature of these contests as well as the campaign to end them.

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Terra Verde is joined by guests Lucas May and Laura Haight of the civil society organization Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI). They report on biomass energy developments at a national and international level, and describe how industry is targeting California forests as feedstock to manufacture and export wood pellets to global energy markets.

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