Wildlife Wire

On this episode, we are joined by the executive producer of The Snake and The Whale, Scott Levy. This film won Best Feature at this year's Colorado Environmental Film Festival. We dive into why this film is important, some of the characters, and the challenges that resident orcas and wild salmon face because of the Snake River dams. 

You can watch the trailer for the film here.

Find out more about the dire situation at https://blue...

Michelle Lute is a conservation scientist and advocate with nearly twenty years’ experience in biodiversity conservation on public and private lands around the globe. She dedicates her professional life to promoting human-wildlife coexistence through effective public engagement, equitable participatory processes, and evidence-based decision-making.

Michelle holds a PhD in wildlife management from Michigan State University, an MS in...

We are shifting formats here at the Wildlife Wire! News is coming every Tuesday and Interviews on Thursday. Today's news has the following:

• https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/how-colorados-first-elk-migration-agreement-marks-a-big-step-for-conservation-and-agricultural-productivity
• Billboards celebrate parks, call out DOGE
• Right-way Right Whales

The Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust and the Property and...

Join Mark and Sam for the top wildlife news stories, including:

• New Mexico wildlife agency gets new name and mission
• Cougars coming back to Vermont?
• After 11 more bears killed, judge orders stop to Alaska predator control program
• California California county declares state of emergency over gray wolf activity

Then we are joined by Matt Barnes. Matt is a conservation scientist, rangeland ecologist, and advocate for human-...

Join Mark and Sam for the top wildlife news stories, including:

• The US government’s war on wildlife, explained in 3 charts
• 'Unparalleled' snake antivenom made from man bitten 200 times
• This cute animal is one of Yosemite’s ‘most dangerous,’ rangers say
• Attenborough at 99: naturalist ‘goes further than before’ to speak out against industrial fishing in new film

Then we interview Chris Schadler about eastern coyotes and w...

Join Mark and Sam for the top wildlife news stories, including:

• Feds kill endangered, potentially pregnant, Mexican wolf
• Is killing animals an effective way to regulate populations?
• Why are we afraid of snakes?
• Building bobcat alley in New Jersey

Then, Mark and Sam are joined by Ryan Sedgeley, an advocate for gray wolves and other imperiled species in Colorado for the Endangered Species Coalition.

He holds an M.A. in Env...

Join Mark and Sam for the weekly top wildlife news stories including:

• Trump threatens to revoke tax-exempt status of environmental nonprofits
• Frog, Lizard, Salamander Added to New York’s Endangered Species List
• Patenting woolly mammoths
• Are Dire wolves Pontiacs with a body kit?
• Baby Colossal Squid caught on camera

Then, we are joined by Max Seigal, renowned photographer and biologist, to talk wildlife expeditions, how to...

Join Mark and Sam for the top wildlife news stories including:

• Monarch butterflies get sick from the wrong milkweed 
• Landowners in Wyoming paid for elk presence?
• Unlimited wolf hunting bill dies in Montana
• Essay on insights into human wildlife coexistence using indigenous and traditional knowledge

Then, an interview with leading Grizzly Bear expert, Dr. Chris Servheen on how we can support Grizzly Bear recovery in today'...

Join Mark and Sam for the weekly top wildlife news stories including: 

• Sharktopus
• Lauren Boebert wants to delist wolves federally
• Point Reyes public access
• Turtle leaps to safety from eagles nest

Then, an interview with Dr. Fred Koontz an ethological zoologist on ethical considerations in wildlife management.

Dr. Koontz has a long, diverse, wildlife career at the Wildlife Conservation Society, Wildlife Trust (now “EcoHe...

Join Mark and Sam for the top four news stories of the week including:

• "Furbearer" policies in Colorado
• Washington Governor rescinds appointment of leading scientist to wildlife commission
• Central Park coyote in parking garage
• Trump increases logging in National Forests

Followed by an incredibly important conversation with Dan Flores, author, historian, and Project Coyote Ambassador. The history of humans and wildlife in...

Join Mark and Sam for the top four news stories of the week including:

• River otters can be trapped for damage in Wyoming
• Wally the beaver saved by advocates
• Travel to the Savannah Wildlife Refuge
• Wolf pups could be on the way in Colorado

Then, Scott Wilson, Wild Horse Photojournalist and 2022 Sony World Photography Awards Winner joins the pod to discuss wild horses, how we "manage" them, sterilization solutions, and how ...

Join Mark and Sam for the top four wildlife news stories of the week, including:

• Buffalo Restoration with the Tanka Fund
• Former Wyoming Game and Fish director nominated by Trump to serve as the director of USFWS
• Maybe dogs didn't need us at all to domesticate themselves
• Snow fox: enjoy 17 seconds of pure bliss with a gorgeous video of red fox in winter

Then, Mandy Culbertson, communications director for Wildlife for All,...