The Eyes on Conservation Podcast

Crima Pogge is a professor of Biology and Ecology at City College of San Francisco. In this episode, Kristin Tieche lets you be a student again, as she takes you along on her class with Crima: Ecology of the Mendocino Coast. You’ll visit a harbor seal rookery, a dune ecosystem, and a redwood forest. In 2016, San Francisco voters made City College of San Francisco free for residents, providing life-long learners an opportunity to co...

Welcome to Northern Colorado.

Ehret Nottingham loves Colorado. He loves the wilderness, and he wants everybody to have a piece of it. He's also one incredibly driven 18 year old. Ehret, with the help of some gifted, talented, and passionate friends organized and launched Northern Colorado's Youth Climate Strike, and offshoot of the international group, Youth Climate Strike.

In this episode, Ehret walks us through Library Pa...

Larry Larocco spent his political career working on public lands issues in the Western US.  He began his career working for Senator Frank Church and played a key role in the establishment of the River of No Return Wilderness in central Idaho.  As a congressman he introduced the legislation that created the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey NCA, an area just south of Boise, ID that is home to the highest nesting densities of b...

Today, Sarinah Simons brings you interviews from the front lines of the 2019 Film Festival. After wandering the streets of Park City, Utah and seeing more films in five days than she would in an entire year, Sarinah interviews the filmmakers and creators behind some of her favorite films seen at the festival. This included the films Anthropocene: The Human Epoch co-directed by Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky and Nicholas de Pen...

Kristin Tieche explores issues of accessibility at the festival and analyzes it's role in spreading awareness of social, racial and environmental justice issues.

This episode features:

Cassandra Begay of PANDOS

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Maikiko James of Women in Film

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Poonam Basu & Esther Mira of Team Rebelution

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Tamara Kotevska & Ljubo Stefanov, d...

EOC podcast contributor Emma Tyrell interviewed representatives from indigenous communities all around the globe for this special episode of the show.  Climate change affects every community in a different way, and the variety of perspectives presented here show the scope of issues that indigenous communities are already facing.  These interviews also show the resiliency of indigenous communities, discussing how traditional knowled...

Environmentalism and its sister message of conservation have echoed throughout the ages. The love, fascination, and sublime fear of nature have been as much a part of humankind as any book or historical document can recall.

But, it doesn’t mean that we’ve always understood our duty to it, or even been able to comprehend our capacity to permanently change it. In fact, despite our affinity to the outdoors, our respect of Mother Earth...

Today we are going to learn about the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, a piece of legislation that the Trump administration is attempting to dismantle 100 years after it was passed.  We are presenting for you in today's episode a presentation given by the Chief Network Officer of the National Audubon Society, David Ringer.  David highlights the key role played by the Audubon Society in the passage of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act 100...

Kristy Oriol and Paul Bancroft recently co-authored an article on the surprising and unsettling link between climate change and violence against women and their words serve as some of the earliest discussions surrounding this important topic.

Oriol and Bancroft work to provide victims of domestic and sexual violence and child abuse with safety, advocacy, support and education services through the non-profit, the Tahoe Safe Alliance...

Most endangered species are easy to see in peril. There simply aren’t very many of them, and we struggle to see them in the areas where they’re from. Others aren’t so clear. Take, for example, the black-tailed prairie dog. It seems like they’re everywhere, and yet, their numbers are some of the lowest they’ve every been. This isn’t just bad news for the prairie dog. It’s bad news for animals like the black footed ferret, and a whol...

On today’s episode of the show, we are taking you to Sun Valley Idaho where we’ll sit in on a panel discussion featuring the voices of both local and global innovators on the topic of resiliency, innovation and opportunity in the face of climate change.

Aimee Christensen is the executive director of Sun Valley Institute for Resilience and lead’s today’s panel discussion. The theme of the discussion revolves around turning risks int...

Bill Ulfelder is the New York Executive Director for the Nature Conservancy.  The Nature Conservancy is known throughout the world for purchasing, managing and conserving land to protect and improve wildlife habitat, but in recent decades the focus of the organization has shifted towards finding solutions to the big environmental challenges of our time.  No challenge is bigger than that posed by climate change, and Bill sat down wi...

When it comes to fracking regulations on the ballot, there are likely fewer places more concerned than Weld county, Colorado, where I live. Weld county has a lot invested in the outcome, because nearly 12% of its workers are somehow either directly or indirectly tied to its production.
Proposition 112 made it on the ballot because for many the debate over how safe this process actually is and how dangerous the wastewater byproduct ...

Today, we're taking you to a remote island off the coast of Alaska, just above the Aleutian Islands and not too far from Russia. Among the bellows of the fur seals and windswept sea cliffs of St. Paul Island, Aquilina Lestenkof, an indigenous Unangan woman and pioneer for her community in revitalizing the Unangan language, is teaching a new generation of youth about where their people have come from, and how far they still have...

Earlier this year, I got an email from a listener that stood out.  It read, Listening to your podcast in college help me realize I wanted to get into filmmaking rather than field biology because I agree SO much with your viewpoints and the reasons you got into wildlife filmmaking.

Holy shit!  I thought.  We had altered the course of someone’s life with this podcast!

His name is Zach Steinhauser, and he had already begun working on ...

“She was looking for another member of her own kind, and there was never a response.”

Meet Mike Phillips, co-founder and Executive Director of the Turner Endangered Species Fund and co-founder and adviser to the Turner Biodiversity Division. Mike knows wolves. His work with them began in the 80s where his big break coordinating the Red Wolf Recovery Program. In 1994 he became Project Leader for Yellowstone’s Gray Wolf Restoration...

The chambered nautilus is the only living descendant of a group of ocean creatures that thrived in the seas 500 million years ago when the earth’s continents were still forming. Older than the dinosaurs, these deep sea dwellers are often referred to as the oldest living fossils. But, after withstanding countless challenges, they are being sought after for their beauty and dwindling toward extinction. A young activist and several cu...