Guest: Kevin Schneider, Executive Director and Matthew Dominguez, Government Affairs Director, The NonHuman Rights Project Topic: Fundamental Legal Rights for Species and Growing Body of Scientific Research on Self-Awareness/Cognition in Nonhuman Species
Guest: Sarah Hanneken, Attorney with Animal Legal Defense Fund Topic: USDA Blackout of Animal Welfare Data
Air Date: May 12, 2017 Guest: Representative Carl Trujillo, Santa Fe Topic: HB123, a Bill to Fund Low-Cost Spay/Neuter in New Mexico
Guest: Natalie Owings, Founder and Director, Heart & Soul Sanctuary Topic: A Look at the Heart & Soul Animal Sanctuary in New Mexico
Guests: Senator Mimi Stewart and Michael Dax, Defenders of Wildlife Topic: Wildlife Trafficking in New Mexico and Senate Bill 81
Guests: Jessica Johnson, Chief Legislative Officer, Animal Protection of New Mexico and Animal Protection Voters of New Mexico Topic: Overview of 2017 Legislation
Guest: Rep. Carl Trujillo, Santa Fe Topic: House Bill 123 to Create and Fund Low-Cost Spay Neuter Program in New Mexico
Guest: Dan Flores, Author, “Coyote America” Topic: History of Human/Coyote Relationship; Present Day Coyote Extermination Policies and Practices
Guest: Rep. Daymon Ely, Bernalillo & Sandoval Counties Topic: HB210 to Clarify and Strengthen New Mexico’s Animal Cruelty Statute
Guest: Commissioner Billy Garrett, Dona Ana County Topic: Scope and Impact of Companion Animal Overpopulation and House Bill 123 to Create Low-Cost Spay/Neuter in New Mexico
Guest: Rep. Carl Trujillo, Santa Fe Topic: House Bill 123 to Create and Fund Low-Cost Spay Neuter Program in New Mexico
Guest: Jessica Johnson, Chief Legislative Officer, Animal Protection of New Mexico and Animal Protection Voters of New Mexico Topic: Overview of Animal Bills in the 2017 Legislative Session
Guest: Nicholas Arrivo, Attorney, Humane Society of the United States and Jessica Johnson, Chief Legislative Officer, Animal Protection of New Mexico and Animal Protection Voters of New Mexico Topic: Trapping in New Mexico and Legal Challenge to NM Game Commission Ruling
Guests: Jessica Johnson, Chief Legislative Officer, Animal Protection of New Mexico and Animal Protection Voters and Kevin Bixby, Executive Director, Southwest Environmental Center Topic: Legislation to Ban Wildlife Killing Contests in New Mexico
Guest: Camilla Fox, Founder and Executive Director, Project Coyote Topic: Wildlife Killing Contests
Guest: Tshkedi Khama, Minister of Environment, Natural Resources, Conservation and Tourism, Government of Botswana Topic: Protecting the African Elephant; CITES and Botswana's Vote for Appendix I/Most Protective Listing for African Elephant; Proceeding with Total Ban on Ivory Sales in Botswana
Guests: Jessica Johnson, Chief Legislative Officer, Animal Protection Voters and Animal Protection of New Mexico and Nick Arrivo, Staff Attorney for The Humane Society of the United States Topic: Legislative and Legal Challenges to 2015 Expansion of Cougar Kill Quotas and Expansion of Trapping on State Public Lands