Saving the Animals  

 

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, New Sightings! (?)  

Dr. Geoffrey Hill: Ornithologist at Auburn University.  Recent sightings in Florida suggest The Ivory- Billed Woodpecker has "returned".

  Michael Jasny, NRDC. This week, over 400 dolphins were found stranded, dead and dying on the coast of Tanzania. Many are speculating that this may be yet another disaster to the oceans' creatures resulting from the catastrophic sounds of submarine underwater sonar. This is just one of the many sonic assaults on the living ocean, struggling now to survive.
 

Starlings' Surprising Speech. Dr. Timothy Gentner, Assistant Professor, Psychology Department / University of California San Diego. Dr. Gentner has been studying the ability of the European Starling, one of the world's most accomplished singers and mimics, to understand and create complex patterns of song that indicate the capacity to utilize recursion. What's it mean?

They've got a lot to say, and they know what they're talking about.

  Dr. Bruce Freedman: Menhaden What kind of world is it that permits a family-owned business to drive a legacy fish species out of existence? It's the story of the Menhaden. 
 

Sea Otters. Andy Johnson, Manager: Sea Otter Research. Monterey Bay Aquarium. Following 50 years of recovery, the population of Sea Otters along California's coast are showing signs of instability. 

 

Being Caribou Karsten Heuer and his wife Leanne set off on a 5-month, 1000-mile journey to walk in the footprints of the Porcupine Caribou herd, from Canada to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and back.     Available as PodCast

 

Surfrider Foundation. Jim Moriarty, Executive Director.  We talk with Jim Moriarty about Surfrider, and the waves and beaches he plans to serve.

  The Farley Mowat Takes Direct Action with Captain Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
 

The National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska with John Schoen: Senior Scientist: Alaska Audubon

 

Sand Mountain Blue Butterfly vs the OHV with Karen Schambach, of California PEER

  The Great Ape Trust: Dr. Duane Rumbaugh talks about his lifelong research into our closest animal relatives.
  Messing with the Endangered Species Act:  Host Sidney Wildesmith on Senator Pombo's attempts to disempower the EIA. 
  Monkey Trails - Forest Tales:  Kimberly Livingstone, San Diego Zoo 
  Be Friends to your BEST FRIENDS this 4th of July: Dr. Mark Goldstein, San Diego Humane Society
  The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker: Dr. John Fitzpatrick (in 2 parts)
  Blackie is Dead: Rod Adtkins / San Diego Scuba
  Toklat Wolves: Dr. Gordon C. Haber
  Pale Male Nest Restored: Lincolm Karim
 

"State of the Oceans Report": Dr. Charles Kennel:  Director: Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Jane Goodall: Address to Children of the World
  Oceana Ted Danson
  Pale Male Nest Destroyed! Lincoln Karim from the street in NYC. . . LIVE!
  Pale Male settlement! David Miller/NY Audubon
  The Saga of Pale Male, continues. Frederic Lilien
  Yellowstone Wolves, 10 years later: Doug Smith
Wildlife University...Online
Koalas: San Diego Zoo
Frogs: American Museum of Natural History
Bank of America / RAN (Rainforest Action Network)
2004 Wilderness Conference/Seattle
 Earth Day 2004