Princeton UP Ideas Podcast | 11 November 2022 | 0h 56m | Listen Later |
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Interview with Karen Bakker about her book The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants. Discusses the application of technology and artificial intelligence to animal communication – decoding whale, elephant, turtle and bat communication; robots that can ‘speak’ to bees, listening and tracking endangered whales to keep them safe from shipping, evidence that trees and coral hear, the ethics of communicating with other species, and more.
Tag: Conservation
Jonathan Slaght on Owls of the Eastern Ice
Thecuriousmanspodcast | 1 December 2020 | 0h 47m | Listen Later | iTunes | Spotify
Interview with Jonathan Slaght about his book Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl. Discusses his life and conservation work in the Russian Far East studying the endangered Blakiston Fish Owl.
Oostvaardersplassen: A Wild Idea
Sideways | 15 December 2021 | 0h 28m | Listen Later | iTunes | Spotify
Tells the story of the oostvaardersplassen, a nature reserve in the Netherlands, made from land newly reclaimed from the sea. Stocked to test the theory that pre-human Europe had vast grassy plains, it ran into controversy about whether it should be genuinely wild or managed for animal welfare.
The Complicated History of Wildlife Conservation
Vox Conversations | 22 April 2021 | 1h 07m | Listen Later | iTunes | Spotify
Interview with Michelle Nijhuis about her book Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction. Discusses the history of the conservation movement and its many characters, the standout successes and ugly truths, and why, even with millions of species under threat, there’s still reason to hope.
Saving Birds With Economics
The Indicator from Planet Money | 22 July 2021 | 0h 09m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Eric Hallstein of The Nature Conservancy about using reverse auctions to pay rice farmers to flood their fields at the right times to provide wetland habitat for migrating birds.
How Maverick Rewilders are Trying to Turn Back the Tide of Extinction
The Guardian’s Audio Long Reads | 6 November 2020 | 0h 30m | Listen Later | iTunes
A handful of radical nature lovers are secretly breeding endangered species and releasing them into the wild. Many are prepared to break the law and risk the fury of the scientific establishment to save the animals they love.