Wildlife Observer Network (Archived)

(English/Español) The City Nature Challenge starts on Friday, April 29, and in this episode Billy talks with Angel Mario Hualpa Erazo of Ecuador's Green Jewel, based in Loja in southern Ecuador. We get to know Loja, hear about Green Jewel's conservation and environmental education programs, and talk about the City Nature Challenge. This episode is in English and in Spanish. We start with a shorter English summary and continue with the full discussion in Spanish. El City Nature Challenge empieza el Viernes, 29 de Abril, y en este episodio Billy habla con Angel Mario Hualpa Erazo de Green Jewel, basado en Loja, en el sur de Ecuador. Conocemos Loja, aprendemos de los programas de conservación y educación ambiental de Green Jewel, y hablamos del City Nature Challenge. Este episodio es en inglés y español. Empezamos con el resumen en Inglés y seguimos con la conversación entera (a los 11 minutos y 50 segundos) en español.

Only watch this episode if you believe good work needs a good workplace. Solidarity for environmental workers and workers everywhere!  https://twitter.com/defenders_staff  https://twitter.com/audubonforall  Recommended readings  Demargainlizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics.  The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System  Intersectional Environmentalist  Credits: Executive Producer: Tony Croasdale; Audio Production: Tykee James; WON Artwork: Robin Irizarry; WON Stinger by Alexander Jenson (music by His Hero is Gone) Help our reach by rating us where you’re listening to Wildlife Observer Network and sharing this episode on social media We have Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! Please support our creativity with monthly payments through Anchor or Patreon. Or you can make a one-time contribution on our website. You can also help us right now by giving us a rating and sharing this episode on social media so your family, friends, and followers know you’re a part of the Wildlife Observer Community.  Want to become a contributor? Email us: urbanwildlifecast@gmail.com https://anchor.fm/wildlife-observer-network https://www.patreon.com/WildlifeObserverNetwork

Urbanites are starting to learn to live with predators like coyotes, bobcats, and hawks, but what about their rodent prey, like rats? We talk with political scientist and human/wildlife researcher Christian Hunold about his paper looking at rodenticide bans and what they say about how we regard rats and the animals that eat them.

Always Be Birdin' Podcast: https://always-be-birdin.simplecast.com/ Always Be Birdin the Boroughs: https://www.instagram.com/p/CaSzLYMvd8J/?utm_medium=copy_link Scholarships for Black and Brown people: https://amplifythefuture.org/black-latinx-birders/  Justice Outside Liberated Grants program: https://justiceoutside.org/grantmaking/liberated-paths-grantmaking-program/

Troy Bynum (@tb_wildlife_photography on Instagram) is Philly naturalist, wildlife photographer, and a new urban hunter. He talks with Billy about the experience of hunting for the first time, and they discuss issues of race and hunting.

Local wildlife lovers and cat lovers can all feel outgunned and overwhelmed when the national, multi-million-dollar organizations that push TNR come to town. Tulsans for Public Safety shows how one community has organized on a grassroots level to promote sound policy for unowned cats.

The brothers discuss joy of new birders, some thoughts on birding groups as institutions, and a shout out to the Biggest Week in American Birding for inviting Tykee to be a keynote speaker in 2022!

Wildlife conservation advocate Rosie Sanchez shares how she found herself in the work, her recent accomplishments, and her vision for achieving balance for humans and wildlife!  Shameless plug to support Amplify the Future: https://amplifyfuture.betterworld.org/auctions/amplify-future-annual-auction/items/cooking-conversations-tykee-jame Rosie Sanchez on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alma-sanchez-000495a6/  Rosie Sanchez on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rorosanchie/ Outdoor Equity Grant Program: https://cpw.state.co.us/outdoor-equity-fund Proposition 114: https://www.denverpost.com/2020/11/05/colorado-proposition-114-election-results-gray-wolves-final-results/#:~:text=Proposition%20114%20directs%20CPW%20to,the%20ground%E2%80%9D%20within%20three%20years.  Credits: Executive Producer: Tony Croasdale; Audio Production: Tykee James; WON Artwork: Robin Irizarry; WON Stinger by Alexander Jenson (music by His Hero is Gone) Help our reach by rating us where you’re listening to Wildlife Observer Network and sharing this episode on social media We have Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! Please support our creativity with monthly payments through Anchor or Patreon. Or you can make a one-time contribution on our website. You can also help us right now by giving us a rating and sharing this episode on social media so your family, friends, and followers know you’re a part of the Wildlife Observer Community.  Want to become a contributor? Email us: urbanwildlifecast@gmail.com https://anchor.fm/wildlife-observer-network https://www.patreon.com/WildlifeObserverNetwork

Still finding their cadence, the brother return to share levity, wisdom, and ketchup with what's been going on since Episode 8: Parent life update, birding festivals, lifers, James Bond, new punk album release, Audubon for All (union at National Audubon Society), and dogs on leashes.  Credits: Executive Producer: Tony Croasdale; Audio Production: Tykee James; WON Artwork: Robin Irizarry; WON Stinger by Alexander Jenson (music by His Hero is Gone) Help our reach by rating us where you’re listening to Wildlife Observer Network and sharing this episode on social media We have Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! Please support our creativity with monthly payments through Anchor or Patreon. Or you can make a one-time contribution on our website. You can also help us right now by giving us a rating and sharing this episode on social media so your family, friends, and followers know you’re a part of the Wildlife Observer Community.  Want to become a contributor? Email us: urbanwildlifecast@gmail.com https://anchor.fm/wildlife-observer-network https://www.patreon.com/WildlifeObserverNetwork

Joined by NEW Co-Host Julian Nesbitt, the pair discuss curious mountain lions in California, hungry wolves in Yellowstone, and migrating elephants in Tanzania. Sources: https://www.duneland.k12.in.us/cms/lib/IN01001867/Centricity/Domain/237/scienceA.pdf https://futurehuman.medium.com/russian-scientists-are-trying-to-revive-wooly-mammoths-to-halt-siberias-warming-crisis-e1bd4fd3f6bb Credits: Executive Producer: Tony Croasdale; Audio Production: Tykee James; WON Artwork: Robin Irizarry; WON Stinger by Alexander Jenson (music by His Hero is Gone) Help our reach by rating us where you’re listening to Wildlife Observer Network and sharing this episode on social media We have Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! Please support our creativity with monthly payments through Anchor or Patreon. Or you can make a one-time contribution on our website. You can also help us right now by giving us a rating and sharing this episode on social media so your family, friends, and followers know you’re a part of the Wildlife Observer Community.  Want to become a contributor? Email us: urbanwildlifecast@gmail.com https://anchor.fm/wildlife-observer-network https://www.patreon.com/WildlifeObserverNetwork

Learn about the neighborhood galagos and the red-banded rubber frogs of urban Zanzibar with Jonathan Richard Walz. Billy and Tony talk with Richard about the urban wildlife of this corner of East Africa as well as the impact of the pandemic.

It's been a minute so the brothers put ketchup on it before discussing eBird hotspot legitimacy theory and how perpetuating feline homelessness is a form of white supremacy.  ---- Credits: Executive Producer: Tony Croasdale; Audio Production: Tykee James; WON Artwork: Robin Irizarry; WON Stinger by Alexander Jenson (music by His Hero is Gone) Help our reach by rating us where you’re listening to Wildlife Observer Network and sharing this episode on social media We have Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! Please support our creativity with monthly payments through Anchor or Patreon. Or you can make a one-time contribution on our website. You can also help us right now by giving us a rating and sharing this episode on social media so your family, friends, and followers know you’re a part of the Wildlife Observer Community.  Want to become a contributor? Email us: urbanwildlifecast@gmail.com https://anchor.fm/wildlife-observer-network https://www.patreon.com/WildlifeObserverNetwork

Inspired by a conversation with past podcast guest Brad Gates, Billy, who has been vegetarian for over 25 years, is thinking about taking up urban hunting. Tony and Billy talk about the implications, ethical and ecological.

Founding President of the Labor Network for Sustainability, and Voices for a Sustainable Future. Joe is a current board member of the US Climate Action Network. He also serves on the advisory board of the Future of Music Coalition. Joe is a musician, and a member of the American Federation of Musicians. Audubon For All Morgan Lewis Report Response: https://morgan-lewis-response.glitch.me/ https://www.labor4sustainability.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/LNS-Mission-and-Principles.pdf https://equityfund.egnyte.com/dl/GwNOckdToD/

The city can be a tough place for a little bird, unless that city has lots of pine trees and cozy places to build nests. Dark eyed juncos have adapted to Los Angeles, and we’ll hear about it from ornithologist Samuel Bressler who talks with Tony about his research.

Tykee and Tony catch up after some political and and personal absurdity. The brothers discuss finding time to bird for fun instead of work.

Tony and Billy talk with Tony Lee, film producer and author of The Cat that Changed America, the story of Los Angeles’ P22 mountain lion.

Tykee, a founder of the Audubon for All union effort speaks with Larry, who was one of the founders for the union at the Sierra Club.  Vision statement for Audubon for All Union: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/audubon-for-all-vision-statement Details of National Audubon Society's response to workers' organizing efforts: https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2021/03/17/stories/1063727733 Sierra Club management walks out in negotiation (2018) https://www.facebook.com/ProgressiveWorkersUnion/videos/1528762327221091/

Tony and Billy talk with Singapore nature guide Ivan Kwan about wild boar, huge water monitor lizards, introduced myna birds, and what it's like to explore nature in one of the world's greenest cities.

Philly naturalist Robin Irizarry and Billy talk with their antipodean urban bioblitz colleague Stephan Fricker about the Great Southern Bioblitz, the fall (or spring if you're down under) counterpart to the City Nature Challenge.