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Did you know that schools are bringing on hi-tech animal-friendly alternatives to science class dissections? Are you aware of the impact of captivity on whale & dolphin social networks and behavior? What is “framing” and what’s new at zoos that could change practices worldwide?
These are all topics that you might have heard of in the past. Yet today, we provide you with unprecedented knowledge in a new series of interviews with top experts from the animal science & conservation fields.
Listen to each episode as our guests reveal little known facts regarding animal welfare and they underscore its inextricable link with environmental responsibility and social change. Learn what you can do to help in your community. Lend us a hand to reach public figures and ask them to step forward bearing our message of change.
About Zoocheck Voices
Featured episode
Ex Dolphin Trainer Jeff Ventre’s Wild Transformation: A Necrotic Tail and A Human Revelation
In this episode of NYK Experts Uncut, Dr. Jeff Ventre, former marine mammal trainer at SeaWorld explains how after seeing killer whales in the wild, he had a profound and life-changing revelation: he could no longer condone cetacean captivity. Jeff, co-founder of the advocacy group, Voice of the Orcas, has co-authored science-based articles, is featured in the documentary Blackfish, as well as in the book Death at SeaWorld. He is also the lead organizer of Superpod, the world renowned symposium on cetaceans that brings together experts and advocates from around the world every two years in the San Juan Islands.
Recent episodes
Dissection Part 2: Classroom Dissection – Non-Animal Alternatives as Superior Teaching Tools with Dr. Elisabeth Ormandy
In this interview, Dr. Elisabeth Ormandy, co-founder and executive director of BC-based Animals in Science Policy Institute, details all of the phenomenal benefits of switching to non-animal alternatives to classroom dissection. Be prepared to be amazed how easy it is for teachers to switch to these superior models and how they help students to learn more effectively in a cheaper, greener, and safer way.
“How to Tell a ‘Good’ Zoo from a ‘Bad’ One” with Kathryn Sussman and Rob Laidlaw
Listen as insider advocates Kathryn Sussman and Rob Laidlaw summarize the differences between sanctuaries, large commercially run zoos, and privately owned, small facilities often referred to as roadside zoos and their sometimes dubious links to the film industry. Kathryn and Rob discuss the hard-to-regulate status of various types of animal institutions with a number of current issues in the news, and they list ways that visitors can identify and avoid facilities that are not ethically sound.
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