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The First WildLife Podcast with Founder Laurel Neme

by Laurel Neme

In 2026, we have relaunched with all new episodes and much better audio quality! Please see The WildLife Podcast with Laurel Neme and Jeffrey Barbee at the following links: Youtube Spotify Apple Podcasts Come join us on our new adventure as we share new, exciting and positive stories about wildlife and wild places!

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The WildLife: Pangolin Rescue with Save Vietnam's Wildlife, Thai Van Nguyen and Gillian Fuller

Go behind the scenes of a pangolin rescue with Thai Van Nguyen, founder and executive director of Save Vietnam's Wildlife, and Gillian Foster, the organization's Communic

Mar 9 2016
52 min

The WildLife: From bats to humans - echolocation for the blind, Carol Foster

While researching bats for one of her films, documentary filmmaker Carol Foster learned that humans were also doing what bats could do, namely using echolocation to see.T

Feb 1 2015
27 min

The WildLife: Madison Vorva, Girl Scout and Teen Activist for Orangutans

In 2007 fellow Girl Scouts Madison Vorva and her friend Rhiannon Tomtishen embarked on a campaign to save the orangutan by targeting unsustainable palm oil production and

Sep 15 2014
48 min

The WildLife: Rhiannon Tomtishen, Girl Scout and Teen Activist for sustainable palm oil

Since she was in 6th grade, Rhiannon Tomtishen has been passionate about orangutans. As a Girl Scout, that passion led her to fight for deforestation-free palm oil togeth

Aug 25 2014
38 min

The WildLife: Kevin Bewick, Anti-Poaching Intelligence Group of Southern Africa (APIGSA)

Kevin Bewick, head of the Anti-Poaching Intelligence Group of Southern Africa (APIGSA), provides his perspective on the fight against wildlife crime. His group undertakes

Jan 28 2014
28 min

The WildLife: CITES CoP16 Outcomes, CITES Secretary-General John Scanlon

John Scanlon, Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), provides his perspective on the major outcomes of CITES 16th Confe

Apr 18 2013
37 min

The WildLife: Polar Bears, Global Warming and CITES Decision, Steven Amstrup

Dr. Steven Amstrup has been studying polar bears and their habitat since 1980, and much of what we know about them, and even how scientists study them, comes from his wor

Mar 22 2013
48 min

The WildLife: CITES Secretary-General John Scanlon

John Scanlon, Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), reflects on the 40th anniversary of CITES, provides an overview of

Feb 24 2013
46 min

The WildLife: A Lifetime with Elephants, Iain Douglas-Hamilton

Iain Douglas-Hamilton reflects on a lifetime studying elephants and discusses the current surge in ivory poaching. At age 23, Iain Douglas-Hamilton pioneered the first i

Feb 21 2013
21 min

The WildLife: Celia's Campaign Against the Elephant Ivory Trade, Celia Ho

Fourteen-year-old Celia Ho from Hong Kong recently launched a campaign to stop the ivory trade after becoming inspired by Bryan Christy’s “Blood Ivory” article in Nationa

Feb 18 2013
25 min

The WildLife: Carbofuran impacts and forensic considerations, Ngaio Richards

Carbofuran was developed in the 1960s to replace more persistent pesticides such as DDT. Since then it has repeatedly been implicated in the mass mortality of nontarget w

Jan 29 2013
18 min

The WildLife: The Rhino DNA Index System and it's Role in Anti-Poaching Efforts, Cindy Harper

The Rhino DNA Index System (RhODIS) is a secure database containing DNA profile data of individual rhinoceros. The extraction method has been optimized and is now used to

Jan 23 2013
20 min

The WildLife: Nature Walks and Backyard Wildlife, Mark Fraser

Naturalist Mark Fraser shares his enthusiasm for wildlife  and reveals simple things you can do to help wildlife in your own backyard. He takes "The WildLife" host Laurel

Oct 3 2011
57 min

The WildLife: Detection Dogs and Wildlife Conservation, Megan Parker

Megan Parker, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Working Dogs for Conservation, reveals the secrets of using detection dogs for wildlife conservation. She tells "The Wi

Sep 26 2011
1 h 00 min

The WildLife: Wildlife documentaries, Carol Foster

Wildlife filmmaker Carol Foster reveals her secrets for filming wildlife in a manner that captures natural actions in a manner that does not disturb the animals.  She tel

Sep 19 2011
1 h 00 min

The WildLife: Nature Iraq, Anna Bachmann and Hana Ahmed Raza

Anna Bachmann, Director of Conservation for Nature Iraq, and Hana Ahmed Raza, their mammal specialist, discuss wildlife and nature in Iraq. They tell "The WildLife" host

Sep 11 2011
1 h 00 min

The WildLife: New Frog Species Discovery in Ecuador, Alejandro Arteaga

Alejandro Arteaga, a 19-year-old university student, talks about his discovery of a new frog species living in Ecuador’s Andean highlands, the Bamboo Rain-Peeper (Pristim

Sep 5 2011
53 min

The WildLife: The Secret Life of Seahorses, Helen Scales

Helen Scales, author of Poseidon’s Steed: The Story of Seahorses from Myth to Reality, reveals the unusual anatomy and strange sex lives of seahorses. She tells “The Wild

Aug 29 2011
1 h 00 min

The WildLife: Primate Smuggling and Tarantula Trade, David Kirkby

David Kirkby, veteran U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Special Agent, talks about wildlife law enforcement. He tells “The WildLife” host Laurel Neme about two of his

Aug 22 2011
55 min

The WildLife: Commercial Porcupine Farming in Vietnam, Emma Brooks

IUCN program officer Emma Brooks discusses illegal wildlife trade in Vietnam and her research on how commercial farming of a traded species, like porcupines, affects both

Aug 15 2011
53 min

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