Saving Wildlife with Sam
Get to know the extraordinary people who dedicate their lives to save wildlife and the places they call home. We go beyond the headlines to uncover their wildest encounters, toughest challenges, and what keeps them hopeful in the fight for nature.
Saving Wildlife with Sam
Latest Episodes
Dr. George Shillinger: Tracking the World's Largest Turtle Across the Pacific
George Shillinger has spent 40 years protecting sea turtles. His path started a pet box turtle that had literally been to space!I sat down with the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Upwell to talk about what it takes to protect an an...
Tamsin Orr-Walker: Protecting Kea, the World's Most Curious Parrot
A conversation about my favourite parrot! I had the pleasure of chatting with the Co-founder and Chair of the Kea Conservation Trust Tamsin Orr-Walker has spent 20 years protecting Kea, the world’s most curious parrot.Kea slide down roo...
Bill Sutherland: Using Evidence to Save Wildlife More Effectively
Bill Sutherland is Miriam Rothschild Professor of Conservation Biology at the University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, and founder of Conservation Evidence. For over 20 years he’s been asking a deceptively simple question: if a doctor ca...
Jen Miller: Sea Otters, Eco-Grief, and the Conservationist's Path Back to Hope
Jen Miller is Senior Manager of the Sea Otter Fund at the Wildlife Conservation Network, and her path has been anything but linear. A PhD from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies studying tigers and livestock depredation in In...
Ashleigh Lutz-Nelson: Coexistence of Snow Leopards and Remote Communities at 17,000 Feet
Snow leopards live in some of Earth's harshest environments, hunting on vertical cliffs at elevations where oxygen is half that of sea level. They're sacred to the indigenous communities who share their landscape and they're threatened by human...