The First WildLife Podcast with Founder Laurel Neme
Episodes
Vultures - The Soap Of The Savannah (short and audio only)
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Short preview of our first new episode! Why are vultures called the "soap of the savanna"? THE WORLD OF VULTURES In this episode, Laurel Neme and Jeff...
Vultures - The Soap Of The Savannah (short)
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Short preview of our first new episode! Why are vultures called the "soap of the savannah"? THE WORLD OF VULTURES In this episode, Laurel Neme and Jef...
The WildLife: Pangolin Rescue with Save Vietnam's Wildlife, Thai Van Nguyen and Gillian Fuller
09 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Go behind the scenes of a pangolin rescue with Thai Van Nguyen, founder and executive director of Save Vietnam's Wildlife, and Gillian Foster, the org...
The WildLife: From bats to humans - echolocation for the blind, Carol Foster
01 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
While researching bats for one of her films, documentary filmmaker Carol Foster learned that humans were also doing what bats could do, name...
The WildLife: Madison Vorva, Girl Scout and Teen Activist for Orangutans
15 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In 2007 fellow Girl Scouts Madison Vorva and her friend Rhiannon Tomtishen embarked on a campaign to save the orangutan by targeting unsustainable pal...
The WildLife: Rhiannon Tomtishen, Girl Scout and Teen Activist for sustainable palm oil
25 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Since she was in 6th grade, Rhiannon Tomtishen has been passionate about orangutans. As a Girl Scout, that passion led her to fight for deforestation-...
The WildLife: Kevin Bewick, Anti-Poaching Intelligence Group of Southern Africa (APIGSA)
28 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Bewick, head of the Anti-Poaching Intelligence Group of Southern Africa (APIGSA), provides his perspective on the fight aga...
The WildLife: CITES CoP16 Outcomes, CITES Secretary-General John Scanlon
18 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
John Scanlon, Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), provides his perspective on the major outcom...
The WildLife: Polar Bears, Global Warming and CITES Decision, Steven Amstrup
22 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Steven Amstrup has been studying polar bears and their habitat since 1980, and much of what we know about them, and even how scientists study th...
The WildLife: CITES Secretary-General John Scanlon
24 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
John Scanlon, Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), reflects on the 40th anniversary of CITES, pro...
The WildLife: A Lifetime with Elephants, Iain Douglas-Hamilton
21 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Iain Douglas-Hamilton reflects on a lifetime studying elephants and discusses the current surge in ivory poaching. At age 23, Iain Douglas-Hamilton...
The WildLife: Celia's Campaign Against the Elephant Ivory Trade, Celia Ho
18 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Fourteen-year-old Celia Ho from Hong Kong recently launched a campaign to stop the ivory trade after becoming inspired by Bryan Christy’s “Blood...
The WildLife: Carbofuran impacts and forensic considerations, Ngaio Richards
29 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Carbofuran was developed in the 1960s to replace more persistent pesticides such as DDT. Since then it has repeatedly been implicated in the mass mort...
The WildLife: The Rhino DNA Index System and it's Role in Anti-Poaching Efforts, Cindy Harper
23 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The Rhino DNA Index System (RhODIS) is a secure database containing DNA profile data of individual rhinoceros. The extraction method has been optimize...
The WildLife: Nature Walks and Backyard Wildlife, Mark Fraser
03 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Naturalist Mark Fraser shares his enthusiasm for wildlife and reveals simple things you can do to help wildlife in your own backyard. He takes "The ...
The WildLife: Detection Dogs and Wildlife Conservation, Megan Parker
26 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Megan Parker, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Working Dogs for Conservation, reveals the secrets of using detection dogs for wildlife conservat...
The WildLife: Wildlife documentaries, Carol Foster
19 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Wildlife filmmaker Carol Foster reveals her secrets for filming wildlife in a manner that captures natural actions in a manner that does not disturb t...
The WildLife: Nature Iraq, Anna Bachmann and Hana Ahmed Raza
11 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Bachmann, Director of Conservation for Nature Iraq, and Hana Ahmed Raza, their mammal specialist, discuss wildlife and nature in Iraq. They tell ...
The WildLife: New Frog Species Discovery in Ecuador, Alejandro Arteaga
05 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Alejandro Arteaga, a 19-year-old university student, talks about his discovery of a new frog species living in Ecuador’s Andean highlands, the Bambo...
The WildLife: The Secret Life of Seahorses, Helen Scales
29 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Scales, author of Poseidon’s Steed: The Story of Seahorses from Myth to Reality, reveals the unusual anatomy and strange sex lives of seahorse...
The WildLife: Primate Smuggling and Tarantula Trade, David Kirkby
22 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
David Kirkby, veteran U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Special Agent, talks about wildlife law enforcement. He tells “The WildLife” host Laure...
The WildLife: Commercial Porcupine Farming in Vietnam, Emma Brooks
15 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
IUCN program officer Emma Brooks discusses illegal wildlife trade in Vietnam and her research on how commercial farming of a traded species, like porc...