Live from Colombia! Today's special episode is hosted by Duane Martinez in the Radio Kingston studio with regular host Laurel Sutherlin broadcasting from Cali, Colombia, where he is participating in the UN COP16 Biodiversity Summit as part of his role on staff with Rainforest Action Network.
Laurel shares experiences chasing migratory songbirds and encountering many familiar Hudson Valley species in the cloud forests of the Western Andes. He also describes the stakes and opportunities of the Biodiversity Summit, the world's most important treaty aimed at stopping the extinction crisis. Laurel and his team are lobbying country delegates, hosting press conferences, calling BS on corporate-driven false solutions to the crisis and supporting Indigenous allies in protests against corporate rights violators.
