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Nature Solutionaries
by Veronika Perkova
Podcast about conservationists who do amazing things for nature and bring inspiration into our lives.
Episodes
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Protecting the beautiful, risky, and unexplored rainforest in Panama | Alexandra Climent
There aren’t many places on Earth you can call unexplored. The Darién Gap in Panama is one of them. This mountainous, densely forested area, which is often used by refugees to cross from South to North America, is a place where you won’t find any roads, shops or hospitals. When you’re there, your...
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Want to Have a Better Life? Learn How to Negotiate | Rumaitha Al Busaidi
Omani feminist and climate change activist Rumaitha Al Busaidi shares her unique insights and tips on how to pursue your dreams and negotiate for a better life. More about Rumaitha: • She is the first female football analyst in the Arab world. • She is an adventurer, having explored the South…
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How a Nature Lover Built a Conservation News Empire | Rhett Butler
When Rhett Butler created a website called Mongabay 25 years ago, he had no idea it would become one of the most popular webs about conservation. But it’s no wonder it did. For years, Rhett Butler worked 100 hours per week. He wrote thousands of articles about rainforests and published tens of...
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The Man Who Saved Nairobi National Park | Reinhard Nyandire
When Reinhard Nyandire was small, he lived in a mud hut and ate one meal per day. But that never stopped him from dreaming he would one day become a wildlife conservationist. Ignoring the teasing from his friends, he went on to study Environmental Planning and became a successful conservationist....
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Ayesha Amin | The Pakistani Feminist Who Loves Breaking Taboos
When Ayesha Amin, a renowned Pakistani women’s rights activist, first saw a condom in a workshop, she refused to touch it. “I felt so embarrassed that I just wanted to disappear,” she says. Her shame, however, turned into curiosity and this moment helped Amin realize that talking about sex and...
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Fighting for a world without child marriage | Joan Kembabazi
Even though child marriage might seem like a thing of the past for some of us, one in five girls globally are still married off under the age of 18. This means that for millions of these child brides, their childhood, education and future have been stolen forever. Uneducated women often end up...
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Reproductive Justice Doesn’t End With Contraception | Nadine Goodman
If we truly want to liberate women, access to contraception is just the tip of the iceberg. We also need to feel comfortable talking about our bodies, our sexuality and sensuality, menstruation, post-partum depression, parental burnout and menopause. Because if we feel ashamed or embarrassed…
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Meet the Nigerian Teacher Who Advocates for Smaller Families
To have a large family, and at least one son, are such strong cultural and religious norms in Nigeria that when women don’t meet them they’re often considered failures. Not only is this unfair to women, it’s also becoming nearly impossible to provide for a big family in Nigeria, where poverty is...
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The Catalyst for Change in Pakistan: Women’s Empowerment
Imagine that you were a 14-year old girl, and instead of chatting with friends or monitoring Instagram, you’d be married off to an elderly man and expected to run a household. Imagine that you gave birth to your first child, a cute baby girl, and instead of receiving cheerful reactions, people...
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800,000 Seeds of Hope Planted in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest
800,000 native trees. This is how many seeds of hope conservationists from Brazilian nonprofit REGUA have planted on degraded lands in the Atlantic Forest over the last two decades – one of the biologically richest forests in the world. And that’s not all! The dedicated team managed to buy land...
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Should a Vocal Minority Dictate Women’s Futures?
Being able to make decisions about when or whether to have children is among the most fundamental human rights. Yet when it comes to women and their bodies, suddenly so many people – complete strangers – feel they have the right to tell women what to do, like, “Contraceptive use is against our...
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What Every Conservationist Should Know: A Lesson From Madagascar
In Madagascar, where people depend on natural resources to survive, yet 75% live in extreme poverty, protecting nature is a big challenge. That's why conservation organizations are starting to realize that they can't only protect animals but must also address the well-being and health of...
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4 Steps to Empowering Women Everywhere: A Lesson From Venezuela
Getting access to birth control — or any reproductive healthcare in a country in shambles — is harder than you can imagine. And that is especially true for families that live hand to mouth. But nothing is impossible, especially when there’s good will and a great team. Turimiquire Foundation has...
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The Fight for Girls' Education and Family Planning in Niger
It’s not easy being a woman in Niger. The odds are especially high for women to drop out of high school, get married young (17 is the average age), or be displaced due to climate change, insecurity or humanitarian crisis! What happens to women in Niger, though, doesn’t stay in Niger alone. It...
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Here’s Why Mountain Gorillas in Uganda Are Thriving
Uganda’s first wildlife vet and award-winning conservationist, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, shares her personal story about how her organization “Conservation Through Public Health“ has contributed to a steady growth of mountain gorillas in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. That’s in...
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How Filipino NGO preserves nature and improves people’s lives
Natural conservation and making improvements in the health and livelihoods of our communities are not at odds, although sometimes it feels this way. In reality, they are inherently connected. For example, in many rural communities where access to quality health services is low and jobs are few…
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How anyone can become a solutionary for systemic change
Many people feel desperate about the state of the world today. It’s no wonder because the number of negative news we hear is endless – biodiversity loss, resource depletion, increasing inequality, wars, and so on. The more informed we are, the more helpless we feel, thinking, “How can I make a...
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How PMC's hot soap operas improved the lives of more than 500 million people
When soap operas are designed in a way that they not only entertain people but also educate about social issues, they can have a huge positive impact on society and the environment. This type of approach is called entertainment education and is at the core of what Population Media Center does....
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Why freshwater fish need as much or more attention than rhinos
Even though people mostly view fish as tasty food on their plates, freshwater fish species are in desperate need of our attention and action. They are the world’s most threatened taxon, due to pollution, aquatic habitat loss, invasive species, overharvesting and water flow changes. Fish are at…
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How family planning programs help women live better lives and get involved in local protection of nature
When Colombian conservationist Sara Inés Lara started helping women from rural communities access family planning and education and become guardians of their own environment, she got a lot of pushback from local men and conservation colleagues. After all, it was a taboo to address environmental...
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Claire Lewis: Good news! Black rhinos and elephants are on the rise in Zambia
While in most places, we hear about rhinos and elephants being killed, in North Luangwa National Park in Zambia, one of the most untouched wilderness sanctuaries in Africa, the situation is quite the opposite. This little-known park is home to Zambia’s only black rhino population, which continues...
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Robichaud: How to save saola – an animal that no biologist has ever seen
With fewer than 50 animals in the wild, saola is possibly the most threatened mammal on the planet. Even though it was discovered in 1992, very little is known about it, as no biologist has ever seen it in the wild and there are only a handful of photos of it from camera traps – last one from…
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Paul R. Ehrlich: The Most Effective Conservation Strategy? Empower Women
The impact of our growing population on nature is such a sensitive topic that nobody really dares talk about it. Better sweep it under the carpet and forget about it, right? Well, not necessarily. If you think it through, the solution is really simple and beautiful: give women full rights,...
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Terry Spahr: Talking About Overpopulation Isn’t Sexy, But We Have to Do It
For 7.8 billion people to live sustainably on the planet, everyone would have to be a vegetarian; never drive a car or fly in an airplane; live in a one-room apartment with minimal electricity and no heat, hot water, washing machine, dryer, or dishwasher; and have only a few sets of clothes and...
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Sniegon: We Can Still Save African Elephants. Here's How
Even though the elephant population decline is a gigantic problem – only 415,000 elephants remain compared to 10 million in 1930 – there are ways to protect this iconic species. The nonprofit Save Elephants, in collaboration with EAGLE Network (organizations fighting corruption and wildlife…
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Mazariegos & Pimm: Animals in Western Andes Can Finally Find a Date
In this episode, I am talking to Luis Mazariegos and Stuart Pimm about their successful conservation project in Western Andes Cloud Forest, in Colombia, one of the most biodiverse spots on the planet. Since 2008, The Hummingbird Conservancy, with financial support from Saving Nature has restored...
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Lisa Carne & Maya Trotz: Belize Is a Shining Star of Coral Reef Restoration
Lisa Carne is a marine biologist and founder of Fragments of Hope, a community-based organization that stands behind the most successful coral reef restoration project in the Caribbean. Dr. Maya Trotz is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida and a…
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Arjoon-Martins & Thompson: Protecting Sea Turtles and Mangrove Forests in Guyana
Annette Arjoon-Martins is a Guyanese conservationist and pilot who founded the Guyana Marine Conservation Society, an NGO that originally started with protecting sea turtles on Shell Beach and now aims to protect mangrove forests and marine habitats in general. Ivana Thompson is a young marine...
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Hana Raza: Fighting for a Better Future for Persian Leopards in Iraq
Hana Raza is a Kurdish wildlife conservationist who rediscovered the Persion leopard, once thought to be extinct, in the mountains of Kurdistan in 2011. She dedicated her career to establishing a program for conserving this globally endangered species. In 2017, she was awarded the prestigious…
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Tilo Nadler: Successful Conservation of Critically Endangered Delacour's Langur
In this episode, I talk to a German conservationist Tilo Nadler about: - How he managed to establish the only viable population of Delacour's Langur in Vietnam - What it's like to negotiate an extension of an existing reserve - Why captive-born langurs are re-introduced in Trang An UNESCO World...
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František Příbrský: Let's Stop the Illegal Wildlife Trade in Pangolins and Slow Lorises
František Příbrský is a Czech conservationist and field zoologist. Since 2014, he has been running The Kukang Rescue Program. What You Will Hear in This Interview: - What consequences illegal wildlife trade has for animals and humans - How animal black markets work - What it is like to run a…
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Podcast about conservationists who do amazing things for nature and bring inspiration into our lives.
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Nature Solutionaries is created and hosted by Veronika Perkova.
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