Archive for 2009
The WildLife: Reindeer, Nancy Bazilchuk
Nancy Bazilchuk reveals reindeers’ special adaptations as she describes her dramatic cross country ski trek across Hardangervidda Plateau in one of Norway’s most famous national parks in search of this elusive animal. Traveling the same route that nearly defeated legendary explorer Roald Amundsen, she tells “The WildLife” host Laurel Neme about the slow seasonal waltz from east…
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Nancy Bazilchuk reveals reindeers’ special adaptations as she describes her dramatic cross country ski trek across Hardangervidda Plateau in one of Norway’s most famous national parks in search of this elusive animal. Traveling the same route that nearly defeated legendary explorer Roald Amundsen, she tells “The WildLife” host Laurel Neme about the slow seasonal waltz from east…
Read MoreThe WildLife: Wildlife Crime & INTERPOL, David Higgins
David Higgins discusses INTERPOL and wildlife trafficking and reveals the many challenges facing law enforcement in stopping it. He explains to “The WildLife” host Laurel Neme how INTERPOL, the world’s largest international police organization, fights wildlife crime and describes several INTERPOL-assisted undercover operations. Listen as he takes us inside Operation Baba, a five-country sting that targeted the illicit ivory trade in…
Read MoreThe WildLife: Wildlife Crime & INTERPOL, David Higgins
David Higgins discusses INTERPOL and wildlife trafficking and reveals the many challenges facing law enforcement in stopping it. He explains to “The WildLife” host Laurel Neme how INTERPOL, the world’s largest international police organization, fights wildlife crime and describes several INTERPOL-assisted undercover operations. Listen as he takes us inside Operation Baba, a five-country sting that targeted the illicit ivory trade in…
Read MoreThe WildLife: Shark Fin Trade, Rebecca Regnery
Rebecca Regnery explains how shark finning is threatening the world’s sharks. In her conversation with “The WildLife” host Laurel Neme, she tells how the value of shark fins combined with limited space on fishing vessels encourages many shark fishermen to cut off the fins and toss the rest of the animal back into the water. In…
Read MoreThe WildLife: Elephant Seals, Christine Heinrichs
Christine Heinrichs exposes elephant seals’ captivating habits and bizarre lifestyle as she takes us to Piedras Blancas elephant seal rookery on California’s central coast. She tells “The WildLife” host Laurel Neme how elephant seals spend 8 to 10 months a year in the open ocean and that, to find food, they dive incredibly deep, up to a mile underwater. …
Read MoreAbout “The WildLife” Radio Show
“The WildLife” is a weekly radio program that probes the mysteries of the animal world through interviews with scientists and other wildlife investigators. The program is hosted by Laurel Neme and airs on The Radiator, WOMM-LP, 105.9 FM in Burlington, Vermont every Monday from 1-2 pm EST. You can live stream THE WILDLIFE at www.theradiator.org. You can download podcasts…
Read MoreAnimal Investigators and Jane Goodall
Animal Investigators sits right alongside Jane Goodall’s book within bestselling category at Scientific American book club:
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Laurel Neme: Wildlife Crime Documentation
By Rebekah K. Murray They were dead: dozens of elephants with missing tusks. It was 1992, and Tanzania’s chief wildlife officer, Musa Mohammed Lyimo, suspected that the elephants had been killed for their ivory tusks. But how could he prove it? Eight years later, Laurel Neme (’85, M.P.P. ’86) sat in Lyimo’s office and heard…
Read MoreThe Wildlife Professional – Fall 2009
Finding Clues in Bones and Bile HOW WILDLIFE FORENSICS HELPS ANIMAL CONSERVATION By J. Jeffrey Root, Ph.D., and Antoinette J. Piaggio, Ph.D.
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