Cultivating Conservation
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode Fourteen: Ethical Lens's. Navigating morality in wildlife photography and film making with Megan Hockin-Bennett, Natasha Garritty and Ryan Tidman
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ethical Lens's. Navigating morality in wildlife photography and film making with Megan Hockin-Bennett, Natasha Garritty and Ryan Tidman. This week’...
Episode Thirteen: Greg Cummings on saving the mountain gorillas, the power of fundraising and burn out
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gorillas are among the most recognizable of the large charismatic mammals, but climate change and poaching has brought them to the brink of extinction...
Episode Twelve: Christy Hehir on the psychology of tourism, individual lasting impact and the importance of local economies.
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Christy Hehir is an environmental psychologist with a PhD on how tourism can better aid conservation. Christy is passionate about understanding how...
Episode Eleven: Patricia Sims on following your heart, world elephant day and the impact of filmmaking
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Patrica Sims is a Director, Writer and Producer specializing in documenting threatened wildlife and is fascinated by the connection between humans an...
Episode Ten: Tiare Boyes on sustainable fishing, life underwater in BC and turning ocean trash into art
12 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tiare Boyes is an underwater camera operator, photographer, commercial diver and ocean plastics artist. Growing up on the coast of BC raised by a fami...
Episode Nine: Season Break and gratitude fest with Megan Hockin-Bennett
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Host, Megan Hockin-Bennett takes a break from interviews to talk about the podcast, what it has meant for her so far and the huge ripples it's making ...
Episode 8: Finlay Pringle on protecting the ocean, growing up with climate action and the importance of support.
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Finlay Pringle is a marine conservationist, climate change activist, Sea Shepherd shark ambassador and alongside his family has collected nearly 10,0...
Episode Seven: Lauren Plummer on slowing down fast fashion and Green Threads Cornwall
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren Plummer is the director of Green Threads Cornwall. A slow fashion market dedicated to connecting local communities to second hand clothing and ...
Episode Six: Lindsey Raven Emrich on empowering your local community, low impact living and the importance of green spaces .
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lindsey Raven Emrich is vetrineray nurse, yoga teacher, green living inspiration and my first and formost, my sister! She lives in a small town in rur...
Episode Five: Will Travers on the Born Free foundation, captivity and compassionate conservation
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Executive president and co-founder of Born Free foundation Will Travers is an internationally renowned wildlife expert who has dedicated his life t...
Episode Four: Rob Lott on the power of citizen science, the future of captive cetaceans and 20 years with WDC
27 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Lott is a marine mammal scientist and currently works as a policy manager and orca programme lead for Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC), an int...
Episode Three: Alexandra Morton on listening to whales, protecting your home and finding your lever
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Aged 13 I picked up a book in my school library. Listening to whales by Alexandra Morton. It changed my life, It brought me to British Columbia and it...
Episode Two: Sam Rose Phillips on ethics, impact and the stories we tell ourselves in wildlife filmmaking
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear friend and fellow film maker Sam Rose Phillips is a photographer, documentary filmmaker, and poet based in Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ Territory, what is ...
Episode One: Shari Manning on tree planting, boat rigging and sitting on the same rock for a very long time.
31 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For episode one I simply had to sit down with my best friend and biggest inspiration! Growing up in far north Queensland Shari had an interesting star...