Tag: endangered
A Fish Full of Dollars: A Film Review
A Fish Full of Dollars by filmmaker ADRIENNE GITTUS Adrienne Gittus was part of a tight knit diving community when she first visited the fish market of Tanjung Luar in East Lombok, Indonesia. There she was horrified to see the very ...
Brush up for Pollinator Week!
Take that flower and pollinate it. According to a United Nations-sponsored report released in February of last year, which draws on the research findings of about 3,000 scientific papers, 40 percent of all the world's invertebrate pollinators–including bees, butterflies and other ...
World Oceans Day, A Celebration Of Our Oceans
Happy World Ocean's Day! In observance of this important day, we here at Wild Lens will hold a Facebook Live Q&A led by our Souls of the Vermilion Sea filmmakers Sean Bogle and Matthew Podolsky at 6:30pm PT/9:30pm EST and we also ...
EOC 123: CONDOR VS. VAQUITA
Listen to this episode in iTunes In today’s show we are exploring and comparing the extinction crises experienced by two very different wildlife species - the California condor, and the vaquita. If you’ve been following the latest news about the ...
Extinction Reversed, But At What Cost?
Imagine a living mammoth, flesh and bone, once again lumbering across the plains, rejoining life on earth in the 21st century. Despite having gone extinct thousands of years ago, some scientists of our time are seriously considering the possibility of resurrecting this ...
The Ivory Game: A Film Review
A review by Brandon Navratil The Ivory Game is a full-length documentary produced by Red Bull’s Terra Mater Film Studios and Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions, in association with Malaika Pictures and Appian Way. As a Netflix original ...
Endangered Species Day, Every Day
Rather than saying "Happy Endangered Species Day" to you, I want to emphasize what kind of message this annual day of observance really intends to convey: Earth's species are at risk of extinction and, unless we garner awareness, educate ourselves ...
Project Puffin: A Story Review
The book is Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock by Stephen W. Kress and Derrick Z. Jackson As a "Puffineer" of three seasons working on puffin nesting islands, this is a book that ...
EOC 121: Zak Smith Explains How a Boycott of Mexican Shrimp Could Help Save the Vaquita
Listen to this episode in iTunes Today’s guest on the show is Zak Smith from the Natural Resources Defense Council. Zak is a Senior Attorney at NRDC, and has been running the group’s Marine Mammal Protection Project for the past ...
