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Your Soulpodcast for Inner PeaceThe Power of Asking for HelpIn this intimate and soul-nourishing conversation, we explore what it feels like when we don’t belong, when we’re on the edges, yearning for connection, but unsure how to reach out. Together with my lovely guest Johanna Huettmann, we dive into the power of asking for help, the courage it takes to show vulnerability, and how healing often begins not in isolation, but in relationship.We speak about the importance of safe spaces, places that don't trigger our survival mode but invite softness, trust, and truth. We reflect on how following our intuition, listening to o...
2025-05-181h 02
CASA LOUISA#125 - Wenn Entspannung dysreguliertWieso kann das Lösen von körperlichen Blockaden eine heftige emotionale Reaktion auslösen?
"Wieso kann das Lösen von körperlichen Blockaden eine heftige emotionale Reaktion auslösen?" diese Frage kam aus der Community, nachdem Marina* einen Besuch beim Physiotherapeuten hatte.
Übertragen lässt dich diese Frage auch prima auf alle Felder, die mit dem Nervensystem arbeite: Yoga, Meditation, Nervensystemregulationsübungen, Progressive Muskelentspannung, uvm.
Mehr zu Johanna: https://www.johannahuettmann.com/
Mehr zu Loredana: http://loredana-di-filippo.de/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/johanna.huettmann/
https://www.instagram.com/loredana_pina/
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2023-11-1615 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogNo Snow, Wow!When snow gets warmed up it melts; virtually every child will know that.
However, on a policy and public level, those details are hardly acknowledged, certainly not the vast impacts that relate to lacking 'snow pack', e.g. seasonality, regional climate, and feeding water tables, rivers, estuaries and thus directly contributing to farming, global food security and warfare even - to name just a few.
Here I share my first-hand experiences across years from observing snow and ice in winter for areas like Hindu Kush-Himalaya, Antarctica and Alaska, the mountains and ice sheet landscapes. Those...
2023-01-2716 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogA comment on "A decade of wrangling, but dolphins and seabirds off South Island's NZ east coast remain unprotected" (by A. Vance 2022)New Zealand (NZ) is blessed with a unique, quite wild nature and its endemic biodiversity. Also, NZ as a relatively small nation with c. 5.1 mio inhabitants features the world's 4th largest exclusive economic zone (EEZ). But modern NZ also entails many governance problems. Indigenous concepts are becoming now more dominant in NZ, and commercial fisheries there have a governance stronghold. Many of the fisheries products are actually for export, e.g. U.S., Asia and the EU/UK.
Like found in many fisheries nations, e.g. Japan, Norway and Iceland, the set up of Marine Protected Areas...
2023-01-1720 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogTelecoupling anyone ? The global case of the Elegant Tern (Veit et al. 2021) in the Anthropocene connecting the Pacific with the Atlantic, western Europe, and the global economySome environmental patterns appear to be local - but upon closer inspection - then have a wider and larger spill-over and are actually driven by global actors. Based on a recent study by Veit et al. (2021) here a seabird example is presented - the Elegant Tern - and how its conservation management effects spill into the wider Pacific and the Atlantic, including western Europe (Spain and France). It turned global. Most individuals of this tern species breed on just one tiny island in southern California - Isla Raza. However, individual bird vagrants of Elegant Terns are found by bird...
2023-01-0313 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogLiving off-grid in a remote Alpine Meadow Hut: Guest Interview featuring Moriz Steiner“My dream is to live off-grid”. A sentence that seems to come up more and more frequently throughout the last few years. Who does not want to live sustainably and be self-subsistent ? Yet, how is it really to live off-grid in remote areas, away from modern society, but yet to stay in western countries ? This is what we are discussing with our special guest Moriz Steiner in this episode. Moriz lived in his early teens in remote off-grid mountain huts, looking after cattle, and also discovering nature and himself. We touch upon topics such as the reason for living such...
2022-12-2222 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogDistribution matters: A typical conservation story from the Great Gray Owl and many othersSpecies distributions are an essential feature for a successful species conservation management. Data of presence/absence are quite simple to obtain and they are easily part of most inventory schemes, such as Bird Atlases and survey plots. After +100 years of bird banding, the current flurry of geotagging should improve knowledge on distributions. It should specifically be an easy feature for large species. The Great Grey Owl (Great Gray Owl in North America, Strix nebulosa) is one of those species; it is c. 65cm tall and has a wingspan of 1,2m, occurring in the Old World and the New World fr...
2022-12-0815 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogThe Panama Canal as part of the Global Collateral: Sea anemones, Evolution, Birds, Butterflies, The Global Economy and ...PeopleThis episode deals with the somewhat overlooked impact on 'deep nature' by the world economy and global trade, it uses a global bottleneck and strategic hotspot: the Panama Canal region.
While focusing on a re-interpretation and shifted emphasize of the results by Bellis et al (2018; sea anemones, abundance, diversity and genetics) it also takes further evidence from Karr (1990; birds), Basset et al. (2015; butterflies) and Huettmann (2015) for the Panama Canal region and beyond (Jackson et a;. 2001) as a convenient and subsidized conduit for world trade through international cargo ships connecting virtually all major ports in the world across oc...
2022-10-2414 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogThree-Dimensional Quantification of Copepods Predictive Distributions in the Ross Sea/Antarctica using Open Access and Machine Learning/AI (Grillo et al. 2022):'Plankton" consists of phytoplankton (~plants) and zooplankton (-animals). It represents the basis of the ocean food chain and it includes many species; it's a very complex 'multi-species soup' representing a true science frontier hardly tackled, understood or managed yet.
Copepods are part of that taxonomic set up and they contribute usually to the majority - up to 70% - of zooplankton abundance in oceans. Using field data of the Italian National Antarctic Program from the 1980s and 1990s here we model-predict in an interdisciplinary international team effort for 26 copepod species at three ocean depth classes (0-10m, 11-70m...
2022-06-0812 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogTropical Mountains and Cloud Forest: Example from Nicaragua with Guest Speaker Hazel BerriosThis episode presents on Tropical Mountain and Cloud Forest issues, namely conservation, species diversity and ecology.
It uses an interview with Hazel Berrios and her wider tropical plant field experience.
This session discusses a multi-year field study experience by the author, and a 2 years M.Sc. thesis field work by HB in the cloud forest of Ometepe Island, Nicaragua. A focus is made on over 200 species of epiphytes and its open access data in Dryad, a topic not much addressed before.
References
Berríos Alvarez, H. K. (2019). Species richness patterns and p...
2022-05-1031 min
CRM924Ich glaube. Wir feiern. Das Leben!"Wir brauchen das. Wir brauchen das, dass junge Menschen mal wieder ein richtiges Highlight, eine Ermutigung haben, einfach mal wieder feiern können, einfach mal wieder ein Festival!"In dieser Podcast-Folge sprechen wir mit Chris Pahl (1981). Er hat jahrelang als Jugendreferent in Leipzig gearbeitet, ist geschäftsführender Projektleiter des Christival22 und hat gemeinsam mit Karsten Hüttmann das Jugendbuch "Ich glaube. Wir feiern. Das Leben!" (Gerth Medien) herausgegeben. Wir sprechen über Skills&Chancen, Zukunft&Impact, Glaube&Hoffnung.Infos zum Christival2225. - 29. Mai in ErfurtAnmeldeschluss 13. MaiFreiplätze für ukraini...
2022-05-0930 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogForestation Programs and Perspectives in China: Details and Thoughts from Zhang et al. (2022)This podcasts elaborates on some supplementary materials in the forestry publication by Zhang et al. (2022).
Based on this research it briefly presents details of ten Forestation Programs in China and their contexts and objectives. Those are large-scale and long-term landscape projects with various aims and goals, increasing the forest area in China, and sometimes beyond. Grasslands and steeply sloped mountain areas play a specific role. Those programs improve poverty and rural development but are often not so well known abroad, and thus they are presented and discussed here as first pointers and for consideration and debate with...
2022-02-1118 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogComment and Explanation: 'Modeling Eastern Russian High Arctic Geese (Anser fabalis, A. albifrons) during moult and brood rearing in the ‘New Digital Arctic’'This podcast provides some deeper insights into our new publication by Solovyeva et al. (2021) dealing with Arctic Geese in the Eastern Russian Arctic. It provides a showcase for the 'New Digital Arctic' as the myriad changes in the Arctic land-, sea- and coastal-scape are unfolding so fast with devastating outcomes (Krupnik and Crowell 2020).
This research shows a more nuanced range and distribution pattern for these two species - Tundra Bean Geese & Greater White-fronted Geese - during moult and brood-rearing than previously known for flyway delineations, nesting and summer range maps etc. This was possible by using Machine...
2021-11-1911 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogGray-headed Chickadee: Another Canary against the Coal Mines ?The Gray-headed Chickadee is part of the app. 50 Parus species with a dominance in the Old World, ranging from Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden Finland) all across Russia and even into the New World, namely Alaska and Yukon/Canada (Hailman and Haftron 1995). This species is often found in pine-dominated lichen stands of the subarctic region.
In the last years some studies reported dramatic declines, e.g. in the southern regions of Norway and northern Finland (Krams et al. 2010, Dale and Andreassen 2016). Here I focus on some aspects of the reported and local species loss, namely man-made global warming due...
2021-10-3011 min
Herrlich unperfekt!#26 Der Weg zurück zu sich Selbst! - Interview mit Johanna HuettmannIn der heutigen Folge haben wir die liebe Johanna Huettmann Yogini und Empowerment Coach. Johanna erzählt uns kurz Ihren Weg in ihr neues Leben in die Freiheit, zurück zu sich selbst. Hier ein Shortcut über die Themen: - Mut das gewohnte Leben zu verlassen- Glaubensätze ablegen- Lernen was man wirklich braucht- Leben als Nomadin- SelbstfindungLass uns wissen ob dir die Folge inspirie...
2021-08-2634 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogSegregation in Animals: Selected examples, and implications for an effective Conservation Management of the past and the futureThe segregation in animals is a fundamental topic in wildlife research and conservation policy. It was studied early on within 'deer' (ungulates) and how males and females use space and habitat in different ways. Often, they are not even overlapping, and for parts of the year they may even be treated perhaps as different species ?
Here I discuss some key citations and the concept, using sexual segregation, and then extend the concept to birds such as White-naped Cranes from Mongolia and how those species use space and home ranges in different ways, e.g. by age class, s...
2021-05-2208 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogSustainable Seascape Ecology (Pittman et al. 2021): How to set Priorities for Global Sustainability without a Bias ?This episode elaoborates on the Seascape Ecology scheme and on the concept of defining a global sustainability science agenda without bias.
It is based on the new publication of over 30 co-authors by Pittmann et al. (2021) which essentially tried to follow the Sutherland et al. (2009) approach to find and highlight research priorities for the so-complex world ocean scheme reaching sustainability (something that we are currently far away from, e.g. ocean crisis and based on a traditional reductionistic approach/oceanography/research vessels).
In the meantime, the concept of Seascape Ecology is presented, e.g. (Pittmann 2017) -stemming i...
2021-04-0515 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogArt and Science: This time done right ?The Arts and the Sciences are truly connected; they feed into each other, relate directly, provide inspiration and creativity for the global audience.
Following a quote by Berthodl Brecht "Art is not a mirror for reality, but a hammer with which to shape it" it can present a major force to be reckoned with. And in case done 'right' it can effectively achieve progress for the wider common good, sustainability and future generations.
While art is beautiful in its own right, linking it with science and power for a valid outcome when using public money a...
2021-04-0317 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogThe Big Caribou Meltdown: Reflections and Evidences from a Meta-AnalysisCaribou and reindeer are an inherent and co-evolved part of the Circumpolar North. However, the Arctic Report Card 2018 stated that app. 2.6 million reindeers got lost just during the last 20 years. The status of caribou herds further south is equally worrisome, with the lower 48 states of the U.S. having virtually no wild caribou left, and reindeer herds in Mongolia also struggeling, just like many Canadian caribou do.
Looking at many herds and publications, here I elaborate on those changes, cycles and generic trends the these animals face in times of the anthropocene, global change and widely unabated...
2021-03-2414 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogMigratory Birds from the EU-Africa flyway and their Declines: Some wintering ground models and wider views to tackle warfare, resource extraction, poverty and climate changeMany songbirds are migratory, and they are in a serious conservation trouble! Here we show from a recent publication by Walther and Huettmann (2021) how those trends in the Old World and its African fllyways and wintering grounds can be modeled with Open Access GIS layers and machine learning, how they relate to recent habitat factors over time, and where the trends and hotspots in Africa are predicted to go in the near future for species that are in 'large decline', 'moderate decline' and 'not declining'. This work presents a grim case for flyway managment achievements, lack there of for 1970...
2021-03-1515 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion Blog'Autocorrelation' as another Dealbreaker in Science-based Conservation Management WorldwideAutocorrelation -the serial correlation - as a correlated signal with a delayed copy of itself is inherent in Nature. It's not just a problem to get rid of, to be modeled away or a Red Herring in time and space, but it should be used to your advantage. In reality though, it's either ignored or disturbing the classic frequentist analysis of data and inference for a science-based analysis. There is virtually no conservation policy and legal text addressing it. Here I elaborate on the meaning and relevance of autocorrelation and how to tackle it and I promote to put...
2021-03-1317 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogCentral American Biodiversity: A case from a global role model ?Central America and its Biodiversity is world famous. However, its status and conservation is very worrying, just like many features in the Anthropocene these days. Using over 12 years for field school-based field research in the region -land, marine and atmosphere - this podcast is based, in part, on Bocklett (1998) and Huettmann (2015) elaborating on issues of conservation governance relevance, and many of them otherwise widely overlooked but highly applicable worldwide.
Citations
Bocklett C.D. (1998) Land, power and poverty: agragian transformation and political conflict in Central America. 2nd ed. (Thematic Studies in Latin America). Westview Press, Boulder.
2021-03-1123 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogThe World is Burning ? Why we urgently need a new International Polar Year (IPY) now for progress during times of rapid man-made climate change and global industrializationThe International Polar Years (IPYs) are meant to provide unbiased research and progress - a great leap forward - for polar regions and wider global issues. Starting in 1882 they are organized app. every 50 years by the international community, and the last IPY just finished in 2007/8 as one of the largest internationally coordinated modern research initiatives in the world.
While the world moves fully into the Anthropocene, many new and dramatic changes in the polar regions - any region initially covered by ice (e.g. Arctic, Antarctic and Hindu Kush Himalaya) - warrant a new and urgent IPY...
2021-03-0211 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogThe snow leopard has no data sharing: Just another victim of globalization and its poor governanceSnow leopards have been studied for over a century, specifically by the western world; they got heavily promoted by western media and TV as a rare sensation of the mountains (e.g. Matthiesen 2008). Realities do differ though, and here I show that the snow leopard is virtually free of Open Access data shared with the global public; many of its data are incomplete or come from zoos and captive animals in the U.S. (but not from zoos in Canada or EU etc or from the wild!).
This podcast is based on our snow leopard study below...
2021-02-2816 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogHome Ranges anyone ? Elaborations on another skeleton in the big closet of failed Wildlife Conservation ManagementHome ranges have occupied the Wildlife Management research and literature for decades; they are the bread-and-butter of most species accounts and textbooks. Various software exists computing Minimum Convex Polygons (MCPs), Kernel estimators etc. However, the validity, repeatability and transparency of these methods have been questioned by Signer et al. (2015) and others for years, while the U.S. Endangered Species ACT (ESA) or virtually any other legislation hardly use them anyways.
Here I elaborate on sense and mostly non-sense of 'modern' home range work and why it fails in the wider ecology of the species during the Anthropocene...
2021-02-2514 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogRe-Post and Critical Context: STEMM Storytellers #12 Antarctic Ice-shelf collapse, iceberg calving and future researchThis is a re-post and a wider conservation science policy context of an earlier podcast interview with STEMM Storytellers with Rachel Villiani's
#90 Antarctica Series 12: https://anchor.fm/storytellersofSTEMM/episodes/90---Antarctica-Series-12-Falk-Huettmann-eom8au
It is c. 1h long, tackles issues of research directions for sustainability with NSF, the international community and Antarctica, and is based on the initial internationall mass-co-authored publication by Ingels et al. 2020 below.
I report that to you because in my view, metling ice in Antarctica is widely due to man-made causes like CO2, Economic Growth, industrial society etc. And for pub...
2021-02-2209 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogBystanding by Design ? Seabirds as Indicators of a Failed Scientific Conservation Managment and their Institutions, Employees and NGOs worldwideIt remains undisputed for over a century that 'Seabirds are Indicators', the same can be said is true for the Global Ocean Crisis in the Anthropocene.
However, considering the reality of oceans and many seabirds, the applied policy concept that seabirds can show us the status of fish stocks - can actually forcast them- and indicate the ocean's health for pre-cautionary action has apparently failed. Seabird scientists in their respective institutions and employments watched and studied their indicators first-hand but did not get active, hardly acknowledged and promoted it or really stopped a desaster unfolding right under o...
2021-02-2133 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogSo-called 'Modern' Western Science and Industrial Approaches Fail the Saiga Antelope: Repeated Massive Population Crashes of Migratory Species in Herder's Land are Not Understood nor AddressedThe Saiga antelope is a fascinating - albeit tragic- example for Global Governance failure and Western Research Publication Arrogance. While widely distributed in the Asian steppe for millennia, as publicized by George Schaller for the wilderness of Central Asia and Tibetean Plateau region, the Saiga antelope is now critically endangered and went through ~90% population crashes in just the last 20 years or so. Based on the citation below here I briefly review and comment on some of the science done, its actors and players for conservation progress and betterment.
Citation (PDF available on request):
Huettmann F. (2020) T...
2021-02-1717 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogTroubles in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ): Impossible and Careless Conservation Management and Enforcement for Seabirds, Marine Life and HabitatsThe Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is part of a national jurisdiction, but widely out of reach for conservation.
Many nations do not even have the gear, funding or the will and knowledge to monitor and enforce it fully.
Based on Humphries and Huettmann (supported by E. Woehler; 2012) here emphasize the problems, and elaborate on the wider
but hardly known issues of the EEZ, using global seabirds as an example.
Citations and related references (PDFs available upon request):
Beal M. M. P. Dias, R. A. Phillips, S. O...
2021-02-1518 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogThe Failed Commercialized Neoliberal Publication Model for Profit: An Example from Peregrine Falcon Conservation WorldwideUsing best-available data and research, Peregrine Falcons of this world are shown to occur primarily in cities,
and they link with predictors like infant mortality and proximity to coast and water.
Here I discuss why this finding is so relevant and what the rejected publication means
and indicates, while the pre-print achieved record-high downloads, e.g. due to Open Access
Data Sharing that commercial publishers with record annual profits are not much interested in.
I show that this concept of labor and expertise does not really reward students and...
2021-02-1410 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogThe Ecological Niche is 'kaputt': Some perspectives for mammals, nature and Mother EarthHello Everybody,
This episode deals with the fact that species can only live in their respective ecological niches. That's the law of nature.
Any species outside of their ecological niche will die...A good example would be when humans
trying to fly to MARS, trying to exist outside of their spaceship bubble!
It's a generic scheme, and here I have reviewed that concept for mammals of the world. In the Anthropocene one finds that many species now get pushed out of their co-evolved ecological niche. That's a strong change, happening specifically...
2021-02-1010 min
Falk's Conservation Opinion BlogSquirrel taxonomy, failure of the research machine and lack of conservationThis episode covers squirrels, their taxonomy and conservation management failures in a globalized world dominated by science, policy and its institutions, but failing to address even the most basic concepts for such species, and for nature overall.
We show that specifically species for wealthy nations are affected and propose that this concept is to be improved.
Citation of this work and related reference:
Steiner M and F. Huettmann (2021) Justification for a taxonomic conservation
update of the rodent genus Tamiasciurus: addressing marginalization and mis-
prioritization of research...
2021-02-0408 min
Storytellers of STEMM#90 - Antarctica Series 12: Falk HuettmannToday's episode features Dr Falk Huettmann. He's a wildlife biologist and professor at University of Alaska-Fairbanks. He does a lot of polar research, and introduces me to the three pole concept (Arctic, Antarctic, and Himalayas) and is based on those 3 places having large concentrations of ice and glaciers. So we cover a lot of ground in this conversation today talking about Antarctica issues, including research, tourism, wildlife, and about governance of Antarctica. We also talk about what international polar years are and why they're valuable. This is a wide ranging conversation so enjoy!---You...
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