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Skaana with Mark Leiren-Young | Oceans, Eco-Ethics & The Environment

Mark Leiren-Young | Oceans, orcas, eco-ethics and the environment.•www.skaana.org
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Episodes

Paul Watson – Free and Fighting!

A letter from Captain Paul Watson from prison in Greenland, an interview with Paul in prison and a plea for you - yes you - to help save his life.

Feb 20, 2025•42 min•Season 4Ep. 80

Eric Pelkey on BC’s Fishy Herring “Fishery” – “SHUT IT DOWN!”

Let the Herring Live! Eric Pelkey is done pretending BC fishers should still be capturing herring. The Community Engagement Coordinator for the W̱SÁNEĆ leadership cancel talks about a proposed boycott, over-fishing, under-enforcement and the disappearance of a keystone species with significance to the W̱SÁNEĆ Nation and the entire eco-system of the Salish Sea. "The importance of herring to our people is immeasurable."

Jan 01, 2025•27 min•Season 4Ep. 79

#FreePaulWatson – It’s Up to You!

A letter from Captain Paul Watson from prison in Greenland, an interview with Paul in prison and a plea for you - yes you - to help save his life.

Dec 13, 2024•36 min•Season 4Ep. 78

Andrew Lewin on Making Media Matter

Andrew Lewin - host of the How to Protect the Ocean podcast - on Jaws vs. sharks, orcas vs. sharks, Asian carp and working with and against Canada's department of Fisheries and Oceans and how young people can and do change the world.

Nov 28, 2024•40 min•Season 4Ep. 77

Dr. Andrew Rosenberg on Trump vs. Science, Facts & The Planet

Talking Trump vs. science, facts and the planet with Dr. Andrew Rosenberg. The former director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists and former director of NOAA on Project 2025, popping social media bubbles and why it is so friggin' important that Americans vote... And not for Trump. “Whatever your issue is, should you be concerned? Yes! ...This is not a time to sit it out.” On Project 2025: “It’s worse than you think it is. No matter how bad you think it i...

Oct 05, 2024•55 min•Season 4Ep. 76

Podcaster Andrew Lewin On Protecting the Oceans

Andrew Lewin - host of the How to Protect the Ocean podcast - on teaching the world about oceans, myth-busting fake facts and falling for the oceans from his home in Ontario. "This is what people should be talking about."

Sep 11, 2024•28 min•Season 4Ep. 75

16-year-old Rylee Brooke on Young People Saving the Planet

Sixteen-year-old Hawaiian environmental activist Rylee Brooke hasn't just been fighting for the environment - and the rights of keiki (young people) - since the age of eight, she's teaching other young people and adults how to make change and make laws. Adventures in changing things locally and globally, making the case for Vote 16 and proving that young people can do pretty much anything - including inspiring law-makers to do better..

Aug 21, 2024•31 min•Season 4Ep. 74

The King & Queen of OctoNation

Sy Montgomery (author: Soul of an Octopus) and Warren Carlyle (founder of OctoNation) on friendly octopuses, the Mayor of Octopus City, and their top octopus secrets from their new book Secrets of the Octopus that accompanies the National Geographic TV series. Second of a two-part interview about the wild world of octopuses! "We're in the age of octopus," Sy Montgomery.

Jul 10, 2024•28 min•Season 4Ep. 73

The Beyonce of Octopuses and The OctoKing on Why Octopuses Needed a Publicist

Sy Montgomery (Soul of an Octopus) and Warren Carlyle (founder of OctoNation) on octopuses taking over the media, the origins of OctoNation, why octopuses needed a publicist and some of the secrets of octopus from their new book Secrets of the Octopus that accompanies the National Geographic TV series. First of a two-part interview about all things octopus!

Jun 19, 2024•34 min•Season 4Ep. 72

Eco-Pirate and Eco-Church Founder Paul Watson on Fighting for Whales and Phytoplankton, Launching Neptune’s Navy and Daring Iceland to Arrest Him

Eco-pirate Paul Watson talks about taking on whalers in Iceland and Japan, splitting with the Sea Shepherd, launching an eco-church and what the hell just happened in his world with Skaana host Mark Leiren-Young (author of Sharks Forever & Orcas Everywhere). "We're ecologically ignorant. And unless we learn to educate ourselves, we're not going to survive."

May 08, 2024•47 min•Season 4Ep. 69

Melody Horrill: On Saving Dolphins and Her Book About The Dolphin Who Saved Her

Author, broadcaster and activist Melody Horrill (The Dolphin Who Saved Me) talks about saving the Port River dolphins and how a dolphin named Jock saved her with Skaana host Mark Leiren-Young (author of Sharks Forever & Orcas Everywhere). "Dolphins do have a special place in our hearts... They help us connect to the water and the natural world."

Jan 26, 2024•40 min•Season 3Ep. 68

David Shiffman: On Jaws, Sharknados, Megalodon-Mania and Shark Week Vs. Sharks

Author and marine conservation biologist David Shiffman (Why Sharks Matter) talks about Sharkweek, Sharknados, megalodon myths, Jaws and junk science with Skaana host Mark Leiren-Young (author of Sharks Forever & Big Sharks, Small World). "More people are bitten by other people on the New York city subway system every year than are bitten by sharks in the whole world... but whenever any shark gives someone side eye anywhere in the world, it's headline news everywhere in the world."

Jan 12, 2024•39 min•Season 3Ep. 67

Danna Staaf: On Alien Octopuses, Squid Squads and Why Baby Animals Rule

Cephalopod expert Danna Staaf (author of The Lady and the Octopus and Monarchs of the Sea) talks with Skaana host Mark Leiren-Young about the alien world of octopuses, the secret lives of squid and her two new books Nursery Earth: The Wondrous Lives of Baby Animals and the Extraordinary Ways They Shape Our World and The Lives of Octopuses and Their Relatives: A Natural History of Cephalopods. “They are definitely our fellow earthlings and some of the oddest ones we share the planet with.”

Oct 18, 2023•49 min•Season 3Ep. 65

Jason Colby: On the Capture of Toki/Tokitae/Lolita/Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut and How Penn Cove Almost Ended the Southern Resident Orcas

Jason Colby (author of Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator) talks with Skaana host Mark Leiren-Young about the capture of Toki/Tokitae/Lolita/Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut and how Penn Cove almost ended the southern resident orcas and was the beginning of the end of the capture era. "It's worth remembering that the argument at the time, if there could have been a debate at the time, it was really between whale catching and whale shooting, not whale catching and whale watching....

Sep 13, 2023•26 min•Season 3Ep. 64
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