Documentary producer Nate Ford invites two big cat experts to weigh in on the record breaking documentary series, “Tiger King.” Did you watch the show and fall in love with tigers? Find out ways to get involved in big cat conservation and learn how to impact legislation (like, right now) by supporting the Big Cat Safety Act. Are you tired of hearing your neighbor talk about getting a pet tiger? Tune in to find out the legitimate reasons why that is a TERRIBLE idea. Then, go tell your neighbor. A...
May 20, 2020•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast In today’s episode of Eyes on Conservation , filmmaker Kristin Tieche invites two women in bat conservation who appear in her upcoming feature documentary about bats, The Invisible Mammal . Dr. Winifred Frick is the Chief Scientist at Bat Conservation International and an Associate Research Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Santa Cruz. Dr. Frick has studied the ecology and conservation of bats for nearly 20 years and has worked around the globe on bat conservation, including pr...
May 06, 2020•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Earth Day! Talk to us! What's your favorite quarantine activity? Call the voicemail! 208-917-3786 Join Wild Lens Collective members and EOC producers for a Covid-19 Roundtable on Earth Day roundtable talking about how the Coronavirus has affected all of our lives, our work, and most importantly - the environment. For a full list of show notes including web links, articles, and MEMES discussed in today's show - head over to the show notes page at www.wildlensinc.org/eoc198 ! Join pr...
Apr 22, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s Startup meets YouTube meets Twitch meets National Geographic. You know what? To really understand you’re just going to have to check it out yourself! www.mammalz.com . Co-founders Rob Whitehair and Alex Finden (Happy birthday!) tell the story of how this brand new tech startup began, and what truly makes it a one-in-a-million platform. From the Mammalz Website: “Founded by wildlife filmmakers Rob Whitehair and Alexander Finden, Mammalz is the “Twitch for Nature”; an app- and web-based media...
Apr 08, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Turn down the lights, pour yourself a beverage, and tune your ears to the smooth offerings of Ayana Young, host and author of the podcast and book, For the Wild . Ayana visits with Matthew Podolsky about how she got started in activism going all the way back to her childhood poetry. Ayana is no stranger to speaking truth to power. A graduate of the Occupy movement, she went on to live the camper life, traveling at home and abroad in a quest to understand this crazy world just a bit better. To re...
Mar 25, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast When we think of wetlands, most of us see them as ghostly swamps where spiders have huge webs that look like banshee in veils, or the dangerous Dead Marshes through which Gollum led Frodo in the Lord of the Rings. However, wetlands are not at all these dangerous, murky, smelly, marshy areas. In fact they are the most cheerful places full of life and activity. It’s where life gravitates to, where human settlements started and where wildlife will gravitate around as well. These marshes, swamps and...
Mar 11, 2020•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast https://www.patreon.com/WildLensCollective Send us a voice note or even a regular ole email to info@wildlensinc.org ! On this episode of EOC, I spoke with author and environmental historian, Bathsheba Demuth. Demuth is an Assistant Professor at Brown University who specializes in the intersection between humans, ecosystems, ideas, and history. We talked over Skype while Demuth was in Fairbanks as the professor was performing research for her new book. Her first book is titled Floating Coast, An ...
Feb 26, 2020•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this era of climate crisis and extinction crisis, it’s not hard to feel like there’s nothing we can do to stop these cascading and devastating global environmental trends. Some activists have taken the motto "Think globally, act locally" to heart. In this episode, Kristin Tieche talks to Ildiko Polony, an environmental activist who is the founder of a new organization called Wildfires to Wildflowers, whose mission is to restore California lands for climate stability and reach carbon n...
Jan 31, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Common Land is a new radio documentary-style podcast series produced by the Wild Lens Collective. The series takes a deep dive into the history, science and politics behind the creation of one particular patch of protected land. Season one tells the creation story behind a unique stretch of the Snake River Canyon in Idaho, that is home to the highest nesting densities of birds of prey anywhere in North America. Here we present our first episode of the show, which tells the story of Morley Nelson...
Jan 30, 2020•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast When Lambs Become Lions If you haven't already, please head over to www.patreon.com/wildlenscollective and make a donation to expand the work we’re doing here. As one of the longest running conservation podcasts around, we are uniquely positioned to do some incredible work in the future, but it will require additional funding. So, if you can manage even a buck a show – your donation will fuel that work, and it even come with perks! Join Eyes on Conservation’s Matthew Podolksy in an interview...
Jan 15, 2020•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Holidays from the EOC team! Tune in to listen to a very light, candid, fun installment of the award winning Eyes on Conservation podcast with hosts Sarinah Simons, Kristin Tieche, Matthew Podolsky, and Gregory Haddock as we talk space-bound dinosaurs, whales, recycling, fundraising, and brushfires. It’s a tornado of holiday cheer! lease, if you can, consider a gift donation to the cause of bringing the stories you care most about to the foreground at www.patreon.com/wildlenscollective Your...
Dec 19, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast In an article dated August 7, 2019, GQ magazine defined ecofascism as “a belief that the only way to deal with climate change is through eugenics and the brutal suppression of migrants.” It’s a philosophy that has roots in the American environmental movement dating back to the 1800s, right down to the creation of our national parks system . Let’s start off with the recent events that inspired me to produce this episode. On August 3rd 2019, a shooter in El Paso, Texas killed 20 people at a Walmar...
Dec 04, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Zeima Kassahun and I have been friends for a really long time - pretty much most of our lives. You wouldn't know it then, but we've somehow managed to not only stay best friends, but we've both ended up in environmental professions as adults. Zeima works as a community planting manager for a non-profit organization in the Presidio of San Francisco called Friends of the Urban Forest or FUF. Friends of the Urban Forest has planted more than 60,000 trees, totaling almost half of the cit...
Nov 20, 2019•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Have you ever been listening to the EOC podcast and thought, "My goodness, EOC is like butter in my ears"? And then a second thought quickly came across your mind, "Good grief, I need to tell them this"? Now you can! In fact, we wish you would! Let the floodgates open to breaking down the wall between all of us. Send us your thoughts to info@wildlensinc.org and we might air your voice on the show! Not sure how? No sweat. This minisode will tell you exactly how. Because, you'r...
Nov 14, 2019•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today’s episode is all about goat grazing. Not only are goats absolutely adorable, they also reduce fire hazard, support native plant growth and soil health, and their poop is an amazing aid in carbon sequestration. Here in San Francisco, if you think you have a growing fire hazard in your backyard, an organization called City Grazing will bring a herd of goats to you, to chomp away at the invasive blackberry bushes and ivy that could fuel the fire. City Grazing’s executive director Genevieve Ch...
Nov 06, 2019•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast For one week each year the tiny island of St. Paul holds its annual Bering Sea Days. It’s a celebration of the local biology and ecology, and a week of experimental learning and activities for the k-12 students on the island. Scientists from the Alaska Fisheries Science Center and Regional Office come to the region known as the Pribilof Islands. The program, developed by the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island Tribal Government and St. Paul School, opens up kids to learning about one of the most ...
Oct 23, 2019•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast This September, the United Nation’s annual Climate Action Summit met, and as usual, the chance to make real, lasting inter-governmental response to climate change came – and went. In response, youth are hitting the streets, following the lead of young people like Sweden’s Greta Thunberg, and promising to strike every Friday until Green New Deal demands are met. The fury and passion are self-evident. The frustration and anger are visceral. But, as the environmental rights movement, and its most c...
Oct 09, 2019•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast EOC's guest on this installation of the Eyes on Conservation podcast has not only seen the profit-driven side of death, but was able to break free of something she saw as misleading, opportunistic, and ultimately serving the needs of neither the mourners, nor the deceased. Elizabeth Fournier is the owner and Funeral Director of Cornerstone Funeral Services, an institution dedicated to reducing the unnecessary costs of funeral services, restoring monetary and economical justice to clients, th...
Sep 25, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ted Howard is the chairman of the Shoshone-Paiute tribe. These tribes once freely occupied the land in the tri-state area of what is now Idaho, Nevada and Oregon, and Ted Howard, who was the cultural resources director for the tribal government before becoming the chairman, is steeped in this history. This interview was recorded as a part of an oral history series on the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey NCA. This series, called Dedication Point, was produced by the Birds of Prey NCA Partn...
Aug 28, 2019•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today’s guest is a filmmaker working to document the complex situation unfolding in Denali National Park surrounding the management of this area’s wolf population. Ramey Newell is the documentary filmmaker behind the new film “A Good Wolf”. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Get full access to Earth to Humans Podcast's Substack at earthtohumanspodcast.substack.com/subscribe...
Aug 22, 2019•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Locals and tourists marvel at the yearly northward migration of the Gray Whales, which occurs every spring. But 2019 has been a year that has confused both locals and scientists. Not only did more gray whales than usual enter the highly trafficked San Francisco Bay in search of food, but 13 gray whales were found dead, washed up on our beaches or found floating in the water. Scientists and researchers are concerned about this unusual mortality event, and continue to search for not just for answe...
Aug 16, 2019•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Can you count to 1 trillion? Sure, it sounds like an overwhelming number, but according to Plant for the Planet and the Crowther Lab, we already have 3 trillion. So 1 trillion more should be a breeze, right? Right? Sagar Aryal, global chairman for Plant for the Planet, and EOC producer, Gregory Haddock visit about what it means to plant 1 trillion trees across the globe. Please consider making a donation to EOC on our Patreon campaign at patreon.com/wildlenscollective . Your contribution makes s...
Jul 31, 2019•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Julia Barnes is the young filmmaker behind the award-winning feature documentary Sea of Life. Julia has been working on a new film project for the past two years, and she just launched a crowdfunding campaign – which means you can become a part of this new film, called Bright Green Lies. Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Get full access to Earth to Humans Podcast's Substack at earthtohumans...
Jul 17, 2019•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Crima Pogge is a professor of Biology and Ecology at City College of San Francisco. In this episode, Kristin Tieche lets you be a student again, as she takes you along on her class with Crima: Ecology of the Mendocino Coast. You’ll visit a harbor seal rookery, a dune ecosystem, and a redwood forest. In 2016, San Francisco voters made City College of San Francisco free for residents, providing life-long learners an opportunity to continue their education with zero financial risk. Crima describes ...
Jun 14, 2019•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Northern Colorado. Ehret Nottingham loves Colorado. He loves the wilderness, and he wants everybody to have a piece of it. He's also one incredibly driven 18 year old. Ehret, with the help of some gifted, talented, and passionate friends organized and launched Northern Colorado's Youth Climate Strike, and offshoot of the international group, Youth Climate Strike. In this episode, Ehret walks us through Library Park where his march took place, he talks about what drives him, an...
May 15, 2019•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Larry Larocco spent his political career working on public lands issues in the Western US. He began his career working for Senator Frank Church and played a key role in the establishment of the River of No Return Wilderness in central Idaho. As a congressman he introduced the legislation that created the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey NCA, an area just south of Boise, ID that is home to the highest nesting densities of birds of prey anywhere in North America. Few political leaders have ...
May 01, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Podcast producer Kristin Tieche was at the California Youth Climate Strike on March 15th, documenting this growing youth movement in support of the Green New Deal and immediate action to solve our climate crisis. To learn more check out Youth vs. Apocalypse: http://youthvsapocalypse.org/ Join private conversations with top authors and access exclusive bonus content! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Get full access to Earth to Humans Podcast's Substack at earthtohumans...
Apr 17, 2019•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today, Sarinah Simons brings you interviews from the front lines of the 2019 Film Festival. After wandering the streets of Park City, Utah and seeing more films in five days than she would in an entire year, Sarinah interviews the filmmakers and creators behind some of her favorite films seen at the festival. This included the films Anthropocene: The Human Epoch co-directed by Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky and Nicholas de Pencier, Honeyland co-directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubo Stefanov...
Apr 03, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kristin Tieche explores issues of accessibility at the festival and analyzes it's role in spreading awareness of social, racial and environmental justice issues. This episode features: Cassandra Begay of PANDOS https://www.pandos.org/ Maikiko James of Women in Film https://womeninfilm.org/ Poonam Basu & Esther Mira of Team Rebelution https://www.facebook.com/teamrebelutionfilms/ Tamara Kotevska & Ljubo Stefanov, directors of Honeyland https://www.facebook.com/honeyland.earth/ Juan Pa...
Mar 20, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast EOC podcast contributor Emma Tyrell interviewed representatives from indigenous communities all around the globe for this special episode of the show. Climate change affects every community in a different way, and the variety of perspectives presented here show the scope of issues that indigenous communities are already facing. These interviews also show the resiliency of indigenous communities, discussing how traditional knowledge can help communities adapt for the change that is coming. Join p...
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