Media

Radio and Podcasts

Public radio:

 

• Vermont Public Radio:  Exploring The Global Demand for Rhino Horns and Its Impacts
• National Public Radio’s Science Friday

 

• WBIA (Missouri public radio) Global Journalist: Indonesia Rapid Deforestation

 

• Vermont Public Radio: Exploring The Global Demand For Rhino Horns And Its Impacts
• Vermont Public Radio: Laurel Neme talks about Legal and Ethical Questions of Big Game Trophy Hunting of Cecil the Lion
• Vermont Public Radio: Lessons from an Escaping Orangutan
• Vermont Public Radio – Wildlife CSI

 

• Oregon Public Broadcasting

 

• Wisconsin Public Radio: Kathleen Dunn Show

 

• WAMU (Washington DC) – Kojo Nnamdi Show

 

• New Hampshire Public Radio, Word of Mouth

 

• Will AM 580 Illinois Public Media
• Conversations Live with Cyrus Webb
• Culture Shocks
• Meet the Planet
• Science, Health and Healing
• Write the Book
• The Real Dr. Doolittle Show with Val Heart
• TheWildLife, WOMM in Burlington, VT

 

 

Television

 

• Global Journalist: Indonesia’s Rapid Deforestation
• ABC News Nightline: Animal CSI: Lab Targets Illegal Species Traffic

 

• CBS News Up to the Minute

 

• NewEngland Cable Network:  The Secret Life of Animals

 

• C-SPAN Book TV

 

• Global Journalist: Indonesia Rapid Deforestation

 

• WCAX: Everything Animals: Orangutans  (air date: December 1, 2014)

 

• WCAX: Everything Animals: A wildlife treasure hunt for the whole family (air date: June 14, 2011)

 

• WCAX: Bill aims to ban the sale of ivory in Vermont (air date April 8, 2015)

 

 

• WCAX: The 0:30 — Elephant expert discusses poaching and illegal ivory sales (air date October 15, 2013)

 

• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (May 20, 2009)

 

• BCTV: Brattleboro Community Television

 

 

(Note: The following are articles or links about the above)

• C-SPAN Book TV – air dates for May and June 2009
• Shelburne author to videotape C-SPAN interview April 16
• The Secret Life of Animals

 

Other Press

• CNN: 17+ must-reads on illegal wildlife trade
• NBC World News: Elephants slaughtered, orphan found in latest Africa poaching
• TIME.com Animal Investigators Photo Gallery
• TIME.com Q&A Investigating Animal Crimes
• Treehugger cites Laurel Neme’s article on Difficulties of Destroying Ivory
• USA Today Cites Laurel Neme’s Work
• Article in Orion Magazine March-April 2009
• Living Green Magazine: Going, Going, Gone! Animal Trafficking Threatens Many Endangered Species
• Burlington Free Press, Friday April 10, 2009
• International News Program of the Brazilian Federal Police (DPF)
• Scienze – Specie Poco Protette
• University of Michigan’s LSA Magazine: Laurel Neme: Wildlife Crime Documentation
• Mongabay — One clever ape: new book celebrates real-life Orangutan Houdini
• Shelburne News: Wildlife expert talks about her book: Orangutan Houdini
• Green Mountain Global Forum event on December 4, 2014
• Bear Pond Books – Orangutan Houdini & Creating Global Connections
• Bear Pond Books: Students Take On International Wildlife Issues
• Brattleboro Reformer: About Laurel Neme: Author of ‘Orangutan Houdini’ (October 1, 2014)
• DePauw Magazine (Winter 2013) Mary Burnham Curtis ’84, CSI Wildlife: Solving Cases at the World’s largest wildlife crime lab 
• Mental Floss: Inside the World’s Only Wildlife Forensics Lab (February 12, 2013)
• CQ Researcher: Wildlife Smuggling: Can the World’s Disappearing Species be Saved from Poachers? (October 2010)
• All-Creatures: Proposed Bill Hopes to Protect North American Black Bears from Poaching for Asian Markets – Before It’s Too Late 

 

 

 

Reviews of Laurel’s books

• Publisher’s Weekly Book Review
• Kirkus Reviews: Orangutan Houdini
• New Scientist reviews Animal Investigators
• Book Review by Mother Nature Network April 2009
• Examiner.com Review: Orangutan Houdini’ by Laurel Neme — Exploring the intelligence of animals
• AWI Online
• Amazon Rankings – #1 in Conservation Wildlife
• Animal Investigators available on Book-of-the-Month Club
• Animal Investigators Giveaway by 4 The Love of Animals
• Animal Investigators is on CNN’s List of “Must Reads”
• As seen on Peachy Green, August 15, 2009
• As seen on the Sierra Club – The Green Life
• Authors Guild announces new books by members
• Book explores the world’s first wildlife forensics lab
• Book Review by MyEcoProject.org
• Review of ANIMAL INVESTIGATORS in Uganda’s Daily Monitor
• The Warden’s Words
• The Wildlife Professional – Fall 2009
• Wildlife Management Institute

• Adventures with Kiddos reviews Orangutan Houdini
• Brodart selects Orangutan Houdini for its top Children & Teen Book Picks
• Geek Dad recommends Orangutan Houdini
• Imagination Soup recommends Orangutan Houdini as one of its “Best Books”
• Kids’ Home Library review calls ORANGUTAN HOUDINI a book that “wows”
• Motherhood Moment reviews ORANGUTAN HOUDINI
• Orangutan Houdini – Review by Joy Makin’ Mamas
• Story Monsters Holiday Guide recommends Orangutan Houdini
• Michigan State University Department of Integrative Biology – Book Recommendations

 

Endorsements

• Bill McKibben
• Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE
• George Schaller
• Jeff Corwin
• John M. Sellar
• Jorge Pontes
• Richard Leakey
• Terry Grosz
• Wayne Pacelle

 

Awards and recognitions

• University of Michigan’s Humanitarian Service Award
• Outdoor Writers Association of America – 2016 Excellence in Craft Award — Book for Youth

 

• Indie bookstore Bear Pond Books includes ORANGUTAN HOUDINI in list of Best Nonfiction Children’s Books for 2014