Pelecanus

Welcome to The Possibilists!

The Possibilists is a podcast collaboration between The Smithsonian Earth Optimism and Pelecanus.

conservationcommons.si.edu

www.pelecanus.org

In this partnership we spotlight conservationists working with a possibilistic attitude for solutions-based efforts to tackle the world's critical environmental struggles. We’re attempting to reframe the narrative around conservation to show that conservation successes are possible through changes in attitude and implementation of intentional change.

On today’s episode of The Possibilists we talk to Jonathan Franklin, author and investigative journalist. Jonathan has written multiple books and dozens and dozens of articles for The Guardian, the New York Times and others on topics ranging from Narcos in Colombia to interviewing Timothy McVeigh among so much more. His latest book, A Wild Idea, is a biography of Doug Tompkins, the founder of apparel companies The North Face and Esprit, who then moved to Chile to purchase large amounts of land for the sole purpose of Conservation and reWilding. In this conversation we dive deep into the book and the life of Doug Tompkins, so please enjoy our conversation with Jonathan Franklin about the amazing story of Doug Tompkins and his love affair with South America and Patagonia.

Find the links to his books here but try and support your local bookstore:

https://www.amazon.com/A-Wild-Idea/dp/B092B79VY2/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3OGT8BAXOYK4E&keywords=a+wild+idea+by+jonathan+franklin&qid=1644288889&sprefix=a+wild+id%2Caps%2C127&sr=8-1

Host and producer for this episode are Austin Parker and Taylor Parker

Producers are Cat Kutz and Andrea Santy

Music was provided by A Picture Book Studios

Please like, comment, and subscribe to our page if you haven’t already. Thanks again, we’ll talk to you next time.

Check out these awesome headlines from the last few weeks!

All podcasts can be found at Pelecanus.org, iTunes, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Podcasts, and Google Podcasts. Long form podcasts including our series with The Smithsonian's Earth Optimism "The Possibilists" and our new Pelecanus Deep Dives can also be found on YouTube!

Rewilding

‘We’re making babies’: After years in decline, Okanagan salmon are back

https://thecanadian.news/2022/01/04/were-making-babies-after-years-in-decline-okanagan-salmon-is-back/

Asiatic cheetah Homino spotted in Bafgh for 1st time in years

https://theanimalrescuesociety.nationbuilder.com/asiatic_cheetah_bafgh

Land

Biden Admin Revokes Mining Leases Near Minnesota's Boundary Waters

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/01/biden-administration-revokes-twin-metals-mining-leases-minnesota-boundary-waters/

Redwood Forest in California Is Returned to Native Tribes

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/30/us/redwood-forest-california-native-tribes-tcih-leh-dun/index.html

Biden administration announces more than $1 billion for Everglades restoration

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-administration-announces-more-than-1-billion-for-everglades-restoration/ar-AASW9Kq

Regulations

Hawaii becomes first state to ban shark fishing

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/hawaii-becomes-first-state-to-ban-shark-fishing/

EPA Acts To Curb Air, Water Pollution In Poor Communities

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/epa-acts-environmental-justice-gulf-coast-states-82481021

Welcome to Pelecanus Deep Dives, where we take a headline from a recent Pelecanus NEWS episode and take a deep dive, just like a pelican, into the article and try and explain some of the more technical, nuanced, or maybe complex ideas of the story to help us all better understand our world.

While we will still release these as audio podcasts, this is really made for video as we’ll show diagrams, data visualizations, or photos to better illustrate the article’s topics. Check out our youtube page or social media to watch the video version.

In this episode, our host Harrison Parker, a CalTech doctoral Candidate in atmospheric sciences, explains a January 15th Pelecanus NEWS headline about offshore wind energy. See links below!

Host for this episode is Harrison Parker,

Producers are Harrison, Austin and Taylor Parker.

Music was provided by A Picture Book Studios

Thank you for tuning in! Don’t forget to like, comment and subscribe.

https://www.iflscience.com/technology/worlds-largest-wind-farm-has-officially-started-producing-power/

https://orsted.com/en/media/newsroom/news/2021/12/20211220460511

https://www.energy.gov/eere/wind/animation-how-wind-turbine-works

https://www.seia.org/initiatives/whats-megawatt

https://www.americangeosciences.org/critical-issues/faq/what-are-advantages-and-disadvantages-offshore-wind-farms

https://www.energy.gov/eere/wind/articles/top-10-things-you-didnt-know-about-offshore-wind-energy

https://www.comsol.com/blogs/simulating-permanent-magnet-generators/

On today’s episode of Conservation Conversations we talk with Emma Sanchez of Panthera Belize. Panthera is a global organization dedicated to conserving big cats from African lions to cheetahs to leopards and more! Panthera Belize is a hub for the Jaguar corridor initiative which is working to preserve the genetic integrity of the jaguar by connecting and protecting core jaguar populations in human landscapes from northern Mexico all the way to Argentina among so much more.

Please look into Panthera and the work they do all over the world to protect big cats at Panthera.org. You can also find Panthera Belize on Facebook!

This episode is brought to you in part by our sponsor Tidal Influence, a Californian ecological consulting firm who proudly supports environmental education and all of the diverse conservation efforts that Pelecanus works to highlight. Visit their website at www.tidalinfluence.com to learn more about what they do to conserve our coastal resources and how you can get involved

Hosts and producer for this episode is Austin Parker

Producer is Taylor Parker

Music was provided by “A Picture Book Studios”

Please like, comment and subscribe to our page if you haven’t already and thank you for tuning in, we’ll talk to you next time.

Check out these awesome headlines from the last few weeks!

All podcasts can be found at Pelecanus.org, iTunes, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Podcasts, and Google Podcasts. Long form podcasts including our series with The Smithsonian's Earth Optimism "The Possibilists" and our new Pelecanus Deep Dives can also be found on YouTube!

Charges Dropped Against Journalists Arrested on Wet’suwet’en Territory

https://thenarwhal.ca/coastal-gaslink-drop-charges-journalists/

Drawdown

World’s largest wind farm has officially started producing power

https://www.iflscience.com/technology/worlds-largest-wind-farm-has-officially-started-producing-power/

Court orders Shell to halt Wild Coast seismic blasting

https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/court-orders-shell-to-halt-wild-coast-seismic-blasting/ar-AASdojO

Developers cancel Oregon pipeline and LNG export terminal

https://www.ecowatch.com/oregon-lng-export-project-pipeline-2655910510.html

Divestment for Biodiversity

Norway wealth fund divests from China’s Yunnan Baiyao over pangolins

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/norway-wealth-fund-divests-from-chinas-yunnan-baiyao-over-pangolins

Welcome to The Possibilists!

The Possibilists is a podcast collaboration between The Smithsonian Earth Optimism and Pelecanus.

conservationcommons.si.edu

www.pelecanus.org

In this partnership we spotlight conservationists working with a possibilistic attitude for solutions-based efforts to tackle the world's critical environmental struggles. We’re attempting to reframe the narrative around conservation to show that conservation successes are possible through changes in attitude and implementation of intentional change.

In this episode of The Possibilists we talk with Dr. J. Drew Lanham, a professor of wildlife ecology at Clemson University, where his research focuses on songbird ecology as well as the African-American role in natural-resources conservation. Dr. Lanham is also an author and award-nominated poet of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, as well as his collection of poems, Sparrow Envy, were both published in 2016.

Please find and read his books and articles, and keep up with the content he produces. He is a true voice of conservation in our time.

Find the links to his books here but try and support your local bookstore:

https://smile.amazon.com/Sparrow-Envy-Field-Lesser-Beasts/dp/1938235819/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=drew+lanham&qid=1641165292&s=books&sprefix=drew+lanham%2Cstripbooks%2C365&sr=1-1

https://smile.amazon.com/The-Home-Place-J-Drew-Lanham-audiobook/dp/B07NWYFR1Y/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=drew+lanham&qid=1641165292&s=books&sprefix=drew+lanham%2Cstripbooks%2C365&sr=1-2

Host and producer for this episode are Austin Parkerand Taylor Parker

Producers are Cat Kutz and Andrea Santy

Music was provided by A Picture Book Studios

Please like, comment, and subscribe to our page if you haven’t already. Thanks again, we’ll talk to you next time.

Check out these awesome headlines from the last few weeks!

All podcasts can be found at Pelecanus.org, iTunes, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Podcasts, and Google Podcasts. Long form podcasts including our series with The Smithsonian's Earth Optimism "The Possibilists" and our new Pelecanus Deep Dives can also be found on YouTube!

We start off this episode with a tribute to Dr. Thomas Lovejoy and Dr. E.O. Wilson, both of whom passed this last week. Their contribution to conservation will be forever felt and impactful. We thank you both for your lives of service.

Protected Areas

Portugal creates Europe’s largest marine protected area

https://www.treehugger.com/portugal-creates-europe-largest-marine-reserve-5211970

Rules and Regs

Papua court ruling a win for local government, Indigenous groups against palm oil

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/papua-court-ruling-a-win-for-local-government-indigenous-groups-against-palm-oil/

Italy announces nationwide fur farming ban

https://www.livekindly.co/italy-announces-nationwide-fur-farming-ban/

Spanish law no longer considers animals objects

https://www.livekindly.co/spain-animal-welfare/

In this episode of Conservation Conversations we talk with Korie Merrell and Sarah Godfrey about the Center for Natural lands management or CNLM. preserves and Management in Southern California.

CNLM is a non profit organization that is focused on conserving native species, their habitat and functioning ecosystems in perpetuity, promoting the conservation values of such lands through education, promoting and facilitating uses of lands by the public that preserve the conservation values, and much more. Check out their conservation work at CNLM.org

Korie Merrill is a Preserve manager for the Center for Natural Lands Management in Southern California which focuses on habitat conservation of many different habitat types, endangered or special status species, and public outreach.

Sarah Godfrey is now a private contractor in Southern California with Map the Point, which specializes in database organization and customized GIS solutions, Integrated pest management and habitat restoration, and project management. Check out her work at Mapthepoint.com

This episode is brought to you in part by our sponsor Tidal Influence, a Californian ecological consulting firm who proudly supports environmental education and all of the diverse conservation efforts that Pelecanus works to highlight. Visit their website at www.tidalinfluence.com to learn more about what they do to conserve our coastal resources and how you can get involved.

Host and producer for this episode is Austin Parker

Music was provided by A Picture Book Studios

Please like, comment, and subscribe to our page if you haven’t already. Thanks again, we’ll talk to you next time.

Check out these awesome headlines from the last few weeks!

All podcasts can be found at Pelecanus.org, iTunes, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Podcasts, and Google Podcasts. Long form podcasts including our series with The Smithsonian's Earth Optimism "The Possibilists" and our new Pelecanus Deep Dives can also be found on YouTube!

Drawdown

Biden signs executive order to make U.S. government carbon neutral by 2050

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-signs-executive-order-make-u-s-government-carbon-neutral-n1285632

Renewable energy has ‘another record year of growth’ says IEA

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/01/renewable-energy-has-another-record-year-of-growth-says-iea

Animal Rights

Elle bans fur from magazines worldwide

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/dec/03/elle-magazine-to-stop-using-fur-in-editorial-and-advertising-content-worldwide

New Jersey passes ban on cosmetic animal testing

https://www.humanesociety.org/news/new-jersey-becomes-latest-state-end-cosmetics-animal-testing

Wildlife

"‘Phenomenal’: Farne Islands Seal Numbers Expected To Reach New High"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/02/it-is-phenomenal-farne-islands-seal-numbers-expected-to-reach-new-high

Check out these awesome headlines from the last few weeks!

All podcasts can be found at Pelecanus.org, iTunes, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Podcasts, and Google Podcasts. Long form podcasts including our series with The Smithsonian's Earth Optimism "The Possibilists" and our new Pelecanus Deep Dives can also be found on YouTube!

Drawdown

"Boston Mayor Divests Vulnerable City From Fossil Fuels"

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/boston-mayor-divests-vulnerable-city-fossil-fuels-81335013

Wildlife Protections

Freshwater Mussel Gains Endangered Species Act Protection in North Carolina, Virginia

https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/freshwater-mussel-gains-endangered-species-act-protection-in-north-carolina-virginia-2021-11-15/

Monarch butterflies return to California after record low

https://apnews.com/article/climate-science-california-butterflies-habitat-destruction-ffc90bc85fe95c60acc368e00966d025

USFWS withdraws flawed Red Wolf Rule

https://defenders.org/newsroom/us-fish-and-wildlife-service-withdraws-flawed-red-wolf-rule

Jaguars in Mexico are growing in number, a promising sign that national conservation strategies are working

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/jaguars-in-mexico-are-growing-in-number-a-promising-sign-that-national-conservation-strategies-are-working/

United Kingdom declares octopuses and squids are sentient beings

https://futurism.com/the-byte/united-kingdom-octopus-sentient

First Endangered Tiger Footprints in 50 Years Found in Northeast Siberia

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/11/24/first-endangered-tiger-footprints-in-50-years-found-in-northeast-siberia-a75650