The (NEW) WildLife Podcast: Forest-dependent Raptors with Christopher O’Bryan and Ralph Buij
The Wildlife Podcast Episode 4: Save the forests - save the raptors!
Discover how a groundbreaking new study on bird and forest ecology is delivering critical information about global forest health for policy-makers around the world.
In this episode, award-winning journalists Laurel Neme and Jeffrey Barbee help sort the forest from the feathers with scientists Dr. Christopher O'Bryan, a conservation biologist at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and Dr. Ralph Buij from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Buij is also the Africa and Asia Conservation Director at The Peregrine Fund.
The new study analyzed 369 forest-dependent raptor species using high resolution satellite data from 2001 to 2023. It has revealed previously unknown threats to these birds, but also illuminated critical ways to help successfully conserve them in the future.
Check out the study: Rapid Global Deforestation Leaves Forest‐Dependent Raptors With Half of Their Suitable Habitat Remaining.
Guests: Christopher O'Bryan, Maastricht University, and Ralph Buij, Wageningen University and The Peregrine Fund's Africa and Asia Conservation Director
Learn more about how you can help make a real difference to some of the most iconic birds in the world, wherever you live.
You can support the Peregrine Fund:
Or volunteer at your local bird or wildlife sanctuary!
Other exciting and vital ways to help raptors:
https://parktrust.org/blog/how-you-can-help-save-birds-of-prey/
Learn more about raptors here:
https://peregrinefund.org/explore-raptors-species
And here!
https://raptor.umn.edu/about-raptors/learn-about-raptors