The Ecoflix Podcasts – Details, episodes & analysis

Ian Redmond talks to special guest Ugandan veterinarian and founder of Conservation Through Public Health Dr Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka an organisation dedicated to the coexistence of endangered mountain gorillas, other wildlife, humans, and livestock in Africa in his Primate Podcast. A Whitley Gold Award for her conservation work, in December 2021 Dr Gladys was proclaimed a United Nations Environment Programme's Champion of the Earth for Science and Innovation for her work with the One Health initiative.

Ian Redmond talks to Primate Podcast guest Dr Elodie Freymann who researches how wild chimpanzees use plants as medicine.
Elodie spent 9 months observing chimpanzees in Uganda to gather behavioral and pharmacological information on these medicinal plants, specifically on their ingestion of tree barks which are also taken as medicine by local human communities. This has implications for the discovery of novel human medicines in an age of growing antibiotic resistance and for the conservation of rapidly disappearing chimp forest habitats.
Find out more about Elodie's work at https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-elodie-freymann

Writer, filmmaker and adventurer, Jon Bowermaster is a six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council. One of the Society’s ‘Ocean Heroes,’ his first assignment for National Geographic Magazine was documenting a 3,741 mile crossing of Antarctica by dogsled.

His National Geographic-sponsored Oceans 8 project took him and his teams around the world by sea kayak over the course of ten years (1999-2008), bringing back stories from the Aleutian Islands to French Polynesia, Gabon to Tasmania, and more, reporting on how the planet’s one ocean and its various coastlines are faring in today’s busy world.

Jon lives in New York’s Hudson Valley. He is the President of the One Ocean Media Foundation, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Adventure Science and Creative Affiliate of The Safina Center.

John Quigley is an educator, environmental advocate, aerial artist and founder of Spectral Q, an Aerial Art company that offers a unique medium of communication that is designed to build community and inspire creativity.

Join John Quigley, a tree activist who climbed into a heritage oak and remained there for 71 days in 2002 saving the tree that was later relocated and thrives today.

Quigley has since created over 150 Human Aerial Art images around the world on every continent and has virtually directed and coached over 100 additional images as non-commercial communications. Spectral Q is an Aerial Art company that offers a unique medium of communication and is designed to build community and inspire creativity.

Kerry David has been working in the Hollywood film industry for over 25 years.

In 2014, she raised over $500,000 crowdfunding for various non-profits, productions and artists.

She was sidelined after learning about the silent war on endangered species due to commercial poaching and the human/wildlife conflict. It compelled her to get involved and in 2017 she launched her Non-Profit; OverandAboveAfrica.com

In 2019 she wrote, directed and produced her passion project; "Breaking Their Silence: Women on the Frontline of the Poaching War". BTS won seventeen film festivals, including Jury Award & Audience Award for Best Documentary at San Diego International Film Festival and the Durango Film Festival. 

www.BreakingTheirSilence.com

A fascinating conversation with Argentinian Teo Alfero, who after time in the army and Patagonia moved to California. It was here he encountered his first wolf and on a whim with no prior expertise decided launch Wolf Connection. This sanctuary not only provides for wolves and wolf dogs but Teo has developed an incredible program to assist inner city children overcome life challenges through their exposure to wolves.

Part 2 -Another fascinating Primate Podcast with Ecoflix Head of Conservation Ian Redmond OBE.

In this second part episode Ian continues his conversation
with the amazing Adams Cassinga. A wildlife criminal investigator, wildlife activist, permaculturist and writer. Adams is currently involved in the fight against wildlife trafficking in his native Democratic Republic of Congo where he heads a nature conservation non profit called "Conserv Congo " (www.conservcongo.org).

The organization focuses mainly on the anti-poaching, curbing the scourge of wildlife trafficking, civic education on natural heritage in communities and schools as well as sustainable development for communities living around parks and nature reserves.

Part 1 -Another fascinating Primate Podcast with Ecoflix Head of Conservation Ian Redmond OBE.

In this episode Ian speaks with Adams Cassinga. A wildlife criminal investigator, wildlife activist, permaculturist and writer. From Civil War to the mining industry, private jets and a reawakening, Adams' story is captivating as it is inspirational.

Adams is currently involved in the fight against wildlife trafficking in his native Democratic Republic of Congo where he heads a nature conservation non profit called "Conserv Congo " (www.conservcongo.org).

The organization focuses mainly on the anti-poaching, curbing the scourge of wildlife trafficking, civic education on natural heritage in communities and schools as well as sustainable development for communities living around parks and nature reserves.

Founder and CEO of Ecoflix David Casselman interviews h our very own Head of Conservation Ian Redmond about his incredible career in conservation with some brilliant stories about the legendary Sir David Attenborough.

David Casselman, Founder and CEO of Ecoflix interviews Robin Hanbury-Tenison OBE, DL, Dsc, Dhc, MA, FLS, FRGS. Robin is an explorer with a conscience. He has spent much of his life traveling in the world's rainforests and deserts and campaigning to protect both them and their people. One of the few remaining explorers who merits the name, he made the two first crossings of South America from East to West (1958) and North to South (1964/5). He believes that the spirit of exploration is alive and well and never more needed than now, as we begin to realize how little we really understand our world and how rapidly we are destroying it. The author of over twenty-five books, most of which are still in print, he also became celebrated as a photographer via the critically acclaimed exhibition at the National Theatre, Echoes of a Vanished World, which detailed his first encounters with pristine peoples and places.

From his farm on Bodmin Moor, which won the Award as the Best Large Scale Renewable Energy Project in Cornwall, he still travels widely, lecturing and visiting expeditions in the field.