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Cultivating ConservationEpisode Fourteen: Ethical Lens's. Navigating morality in wildlife photography and film making with Megan Hockin-Bennett, Natasha Garritty and Ryan TidmanEthical Lens's. Navigating morality in wildlife photography and film making with Megan Hockin-Bennett, Natasha Garritty and Ryan Tidman.
This week’s episode is a little different in format. Last week I hosted the first ever Coastal Insights. Over a year ago I had an idea. To bring science, conservation, creativity and community together. To have everyone under the one roof to present, listen, inspire and share collectively our love for this coast we call home.
We squeezed 90 people into one of my favorite places on earth. The Whale Interpretive centre is a museum in telegraph Cove...2024-07-0829 min
Cultivating ConservationEpisode Thirteen: Greg Cummings on saving the mountain gorillas, the power of fundraising and burn outGorillas are among the most recognizable of the large charismatic mammals, but climate change and poaching has brought them to the brink of extinction.
Greg Cummings was the executive director of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund for seventeen years. He shares his fascinating experiences as a “wildlife Robin Hood”—raising money from the rich and famous and redistributing it to endangered gorillas and their habitats.
He met and enlisted the help of celebrities such as Sigourney Weaver, Arthur C. Clark, Douglas Adams, and Leonardo DiCaprio. This thirty-year worldwide journey moves from boardrooms in Manhattan and London to mounta...2024-06-2454 min
Cultivating ConservationEpisode Twelve: Christy Hehir on the psychology of tourism, individual lasting impact and the importance of local economies.Dr Christy Hehir is an environmental psychologist with a PhD on how tourism can better aid conservation. Christy is passionate about understanding how tourists engage with the natural world and the long-term impacts tourism can have on individuals’ subsequent pro-environmental behaviour towards our planet’s sustainability. Committed to science communication, Christy was recently awarded a fellowship at the Royal Geographical Society and currently works as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey - researching the future of polar tourism. Prior to academia, Christy had 10 years’ travel industry experience across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Her polar adventures ignited...2024-06-1033 min
Cultivating ConservationEpisode Eleven: Patricia Sims on following your heart, world elephant day and the impact of filmmaking
Patrica Sims is a Director, Writer and Producer specializing in documenting threatened wildlife and is fascinated by the connection between humans and nature. From the arctic to the tropics, from the land to the sea. A true documentarian, Patricia has spent her life embedded within communities that live in close proximity with the natural world and her goal is to bring a global awareness to threats they face. She is a Fellow International of The Explorers Club, and Fellow in the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS).
In 2012 Patrica founded World Elephant Day, A global awareness campaign t...2024-05-271h 16
Cultivating ConservationEpisode Ten: Tiare Boyes on sustainable fishing, life underwater in BC and turning ocean trash into artTiare Boyes is an underwater camera operator, photographer, commercial diver and ocean plastics artist. Growing up on the coast of BC raised by a family of fishermen, her life has always revolved around the ocean; understanding how we can be good neighbors to our marine cousins, as well as sharing the incredible beauty and amazing underwater life with others in an enjoyable and educational manner drives her creativity. Her passion is being immersed in the marine world, both at work and at play and showing others the incredible world that lays just below the surface.
Show Notes: 2024-05-1247 min
Cultivating ConservationEpisode Nine: Season Break and gratitude fest with Megan Hockin-BennettHost, Megan Hockin-Bennett takes a break from interviews to talk about the podcast, what it has meant for her so far and the huge ripples it's making in her life swell as others!
2024-03-0423 min
Cultivating ConservationEpisode 8: Finlay Pringle on protecting the ocean, growing up with climate action and the importance of support.
Finlay Pringle is a marine conservationist, climate change activist, Sea Shepherd shark ambassador and alongside his family has collected nearly 10,000KG of trash from the shorelines of his home in Scotland. But most importantly, at the age of 16, right now he is trying to complete his exams so he can once again focus his efforts on saving the planet!
At the age of nine, Finlay was in love with sharks, but became upset when he found out that over 100 million of them were being killed a year due to human threats. This sparked a nearly decade-long j...2024-02-1933 min
Cultivating ConservationEpisode Seven: Lauren Plummer on slowing down fast fashion and Green Threads CornwallLauren Plummer is the director of Green Threads Cornwall. A slow fashion market dedicated to connecting local communities to second hand clothing and promoting past loved items. She lives in Cornwall with her Husband Martin and her son Orlando. Lauren is passionate about empowering communites to adopt a slower and simpler life for the sake of our children and out planet.
2024-02-1242 min
Cultivating ConservationEpisode Six: Lindsey Raven Emrich on empowering your local community, low impact living and the importance of green spaces .Lindsey Raven Emrich is vetrineray nurse, yoga teacher, green living inspiration and my first and formost, my sister! She lives in a small town in rural England and dedicates every spare moment she can trying to inspire people to make a differance. Whether its orginizing litter picks in her local community or combating waste in the vetrineray industry, Lindsey is the true definition of a conservationist. She has inspired me and many others throughout our lives that incremental change, leads to monumental change! Infectiously enthusiastic about making low impact life FUN!
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Cultivating ConservationEpisode Five: Will Travers on the Born Free foundation, captivity and compassionate conservationExecutive president and co-founder of Born Free foundation Will Travers is an internationally renowned wildlife expert who has dedicated his life to wildlife protection, conservation, advocacy and policy. His passion for wildlife was ignited at an early age when he lived in Kenya while his parents, Dame Virginia McKenna and the late Bill Travers MBE, made the award-winning film Born Free (1966). In 1984, with his parents, he co-founded the wildlife charitable organisation now known as The Born Free Foundation which works to stop individual wild animal suffering, protect threatened species worldwide and keep wildlife in the wild. Will has been involv...2024-01-2945 min
Cultivating ConservationEpisode Five: Will Travers on the Born Free foundation, captivity and compassionate conservationExecutive president and co-founder of Born Free foundation Will Travers is an internationally renowned wildlife expert who has dedicated his life to wildlife protection, conservation, advocacy and policy. His passion for wildlife was ignited at an early age when he lived in Kenya while his parents, Dame Virginia McKenna and the late Bill Travers MBE, made the award-winning film Born Free (1966). In 1984, with his parents, he co-founded the wildlife charitable organisation now known as The Born Free Foundation which works to stop individual wild animal suffering, protect threatened species worldwide and keep wildlife in the wild. Will has been inv...2024-01-2901 min
Cultivating ConservationEpisode Four: Rob Lott on the power of citizen science, the future of captive cetaceans and 20 years with WDCRob Lott is a marine mammal scientist and currently works as a policy manager and orca programme lead for Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC), an international charity which campaigns to see a world where every whale and dolphin is safe and free. Based in the UK, Rob works on WDC’s anti-captivity programme, addressing the issue of the live captures of cetaceans in Russia and Japan, as well as improving the welfare of captive whales and dolphins through the exploration of retirement sanctuary options. He is a keen writer and photographer and has published internationally in magazines and newspapers. Hi...2024-01-2742 min
Cultivating ConservationEpisode Three: Alexandra Morton on listening to whales, protecting your home and finding your leverAged 13 I picked up a book in my school library. Listening to whales by Alexandra Morton. It changed my life, It brought me to British Columbia and it brought me to Alex!
Alexandra Morton settled in a remote area of the BC coast in 1984 to study orca vocalizations. When impact of the industrial salmon farms flooding into the area became apparent, Morton began a 35-year effort to convince government to halt the damage by this industry. She has published dozens of scientific papers on the impact , built the research station Salmon Coast to document the impact, filed 5 law...2024-01-151h 12
Cultivating ConservationEpisode Two: Sam Rose Phillips on ethics, impact and the stories we tell ourselves in wildlife filmmakingDear friend and fellow film maker Sam Rose Phillips is a photographer, documentary filmmaker, and poet based in Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ Territory, what is currently known as Ucluelet, British Columbia. She focuses her lens on human-wildlife stories and their significance to coastal communities. Sam specializes in off-grid, remote storytelling from land and on the water, spending the first 5 years of her career as a one-woman film crew. She is currently directing her first feature-documentary about the nuances of coexisting with wildlife. Show Notes: - http://www.samrosephillips.com
2024-01-0844 min
Cultivating ConservationEpisode One: Shari Manning on tree planting, boat rigging and sitting on the same rock for a very long time.For episode one I simply had to sit down with my best friend and biggest inspiration! Growing up in far north Queensland Shari had an interesting start to life tree planting with her mother. Now is a traditional sailor and rigger, participated in numerous Sea Shepard Society Campaigns, made a documentary about captive orca Morgan and we have spent the last 7 summers volunteering together at OrcaLab in British Columbia, Canada.
Show Notes:
- @shariana on instagram
- https://www.movingimage.org.uk/events/to-liberate-a-blackfish/
- https://seashepherd.org
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Breaching Extinction56. Drowning in SoundIn this episode Erica is joined by Megan Hockin Bennett, decade long volunteer at Orcalab. She talks about what make this institution unique, some of the most current threats Northern Residents and how this year has been different in light of covid.2021-02-051h 02