Debbie Sykes

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340 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 6 Aug

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Animal Training Academy: Making Ripples · Shifting Perspectives in Wildlife Rehabilitation with Debbie Sykes [Episode 73] · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

Or, you know, I found this box turtle in my backyard, so I brought it to a pond and released it.

I just wanted you to know.

And you're like, well, that box turtle was supposed to be in your backyard and they actually aren't great swimmers.

They're not aquatic turtles.

So, yeah.

Not, you know, these people genuinely just didn't know, right?

Nobody ever taught them.

So that's when we started thinking about education differently.

It's not just about sharing information and sharing.

you know, going beyond connection.

It's creating behavior change.

So helping people make one small decision differently the next time they encounter wildlife or really just thinking about wildlife existing in their own backyard.

So focusing on changing the human behavior upstream to prevent those injuries before they ever happen.

And I do know there was an Animal Training Academy podcast many years ago.

I believe it was prior to...

COVID, where that was one of the things that struck me as she talked a lot about behavior change.

So that realization led a group of us to create Nashville Wildlife Conservation.

And our goal was to connect, conserve, and coexist with wildlife already living in our own neighborhoods.

And really, our main goal was to show that coexistence doesn't require a huge lifestyle change.

That was a skill I didn't

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