Episodes
Sunday Dec 21, 2014
Kathleen Fitzgerald - 12.21.14
Sunday Dec 21, 2014
Sunday Dec 21, 2014
Kathleen Fitzgerald is the African Wildlife Foundation Vice President for Conservation Strategy, Nairobi, Kenya. www.awf.org. She has 22 years' experience directing landscape-scale conservation and community engagement. Prior to overseeing AWF's conservation strategy, Kathleen led AWF's land program helping to advance AWF's land conservation projects across Africa, including establishing community conservancies, developing carbon mitigation projects, securing wildlife corridors, and helping to improve management of protected areas and community lands. Prior to moving to Africa seven years ago, Kathleen facilitated dozens of land transactions to establish conservation areas, and co-founded a regional wilderness land trust. Kathleen holds a Master of Science in Botany from the Field Naturalist Program at the University of Vermont and completed her final research on wolves in Canada, and has an Undergraduate Degree in Environmental Studies and Government.
Sunday Dec 14, 2014
John Davis - 12.14.14
Sunday Dec 14, 2014
Sunday Dec 14, 2014
John Davis is a wildways scout and advocate, who served as editor of Wild
Earth in the 1990s, program officer of the Foundation for Deep Ecology in
early 2000s, and conservation director of Adirondack Council till 2010. He
has since been working with Wildlands Network and Rewilding Institute,
trekking and writing and speaking about the proposed Eastern and Western
Wildways. We talk about the importance of wildlife corridors.
Sunday Dec 07, 2014
Rachel Smolker - 12.07.14
Sunday Dec 07, 2014
Sunday Dec 07, 2014
Rachel Smolker is a codirector of Biofuelwatch, and an organizer with
Energy Justice Network. She has researched, written and organized on the
impacts of biofuels, bioenergy and biochar on land use, forests,
biodiversity, food, people and the climate. She has a Ph.D. in
ecology/biology. She is author of "To Touch A Wild Dolphin" (Doubleday
2001) and lives in Vermont.
Monday Dec 01, 2014
Chris Matera - 11.30.14
Monday Dec 01, 2014
Monday Dec 01, 2014
Chris Matera is a civil engineer and the founder of Massachusetts Forest
Watch, a group which works in New England to protect forests, and promote
genuinely "clean" and "green" energy solutions.