Check out this weeks lineup! First, happily engaged Captain Paul Watson will give us Sea Shepherd updates on State of the Oceans! latalkradio/Oceans.php. We have special guests; top scientist, Dr. Lori Marino and former Sea World trainer, Samantha Berg, both were featured in Blackfish. We have Operation Grindstop 2014 campaigner leaders of Sea Shepherd, Lamya Essemlali and Rosie Kunneke We have our State of the Oceans Youth Correspondent and Media Activist, Elora West(Grindstop 2014 Volunteer Coordinator and Sea Shepherd Advisory Board member), who will be joining us as well. eloramalama/ Dr. Lori Marino was featured in Blackfish, and is a neuroscientist and expert in animal behavior and intelligence on the faculty of Emory University. She is internationally known for her work on the evolution of brain and intelligence in dolphins and whales and comparisons to primates. In 2001 she co-authored a ground-breaking study offering the first conclusive evidence for mirror self-recognition in bottlenose dolphins. (Reiss and Marino, 2001) after which she decided against further research with captive animals. She has also published numerous empirical and review papers on human-nonhuman animal relationships, including the psychological and philosophical bases of animal exploitation and, more specifically, critiques of dolphin assisted therapy and other captivity issues. kimmela.org/author/lori-marino/ and kimmela.org/founder-and-executive-director/ Animal pal, Samantha Berg, is a former Sea World trainer, and is also a cast member in the movie Blackfish. She was featured in Dr. Kirbys bestseller, Death at Sea World and is also part of Voice of Orcas and the Orca Project. https://sites.google/site/voiceoftheorcas/about-us/samanthaberg. alaskaacupuncture/. The Sea Shepherd superstars this week are the Operation Grindstop 2014 campaign leaders: Lamya Essemlai, who is President Sea Shepherd France and Campaign Leader at Sea Shepherd Global. She is Operation Grindstop 2104 campaign leader in Faroe Islands. Lamya Essemlali has a Masters degree in Environemental Sciences and an associate degree in Buisness Communication and Marketing. She met Captain Paul Watson in Paris in 2005. He’s been her incredible inspiration. Her encounter with him has certainely been a turning point in my activism for the oceans. She joined Sea Shepherd shortly after that, participated to two Antarctica campaigns, and led two campaigns in the Mediterranean sea to defend endangered blue fin tuna. She has also lead a anti poaching campaign in Senegal. She is now leading the off shore crew of Operation Grindstop in the Faroe Islands, which is her third campaign in the Faroes to oppose the largets slaughter of marine mammals in Europe. Besides, she is the co founder and President of Sea Shepherd France and vice president of Sea Shepherd Switzerland. She also wrote a book with the Captain Paul Watson “Interview with a Pirate”. The book was realeased in 2012 in France and 2013 in the US and UK. https://facebook/lamya.essemlali. Rosie Kunneke, is also Operation Grindstop 2014 campaign leader of Sea Shepherd. She has a degree in Finance and worked in the financial industry as Director for 12 years. She always wanted to help animals and to be involved in conservation. 5 years ago she decided to sell her car and devote her time to helping animals and fighting for our planet. She signed up to volunteer for Sea Shepherd, which was one of two organizations that she research that actually actively fought for animals and the conservation of our beautiful oceans. Her first campaign she joined Scott West on the ground in Taiji in 2010. The same year she joined the Bob Barker for Operation No Compromise down to Antarctica. The next year she was team leader in Taiji and also part of Operation Desert Seal in Namibia. The next year she would have been team leader in Taiji (Operation Infinite Patience) again, but was denied entry into Japan. The same year she was again part of Operation Desert Seal . Besides volunteering for Sea Shepherd, she works with animals in one of the poorest townships in Cape Town (South Africa) - a place called TinCanTown. To pay the bills while she fills her days helping animals, she works half day for a Veterinary Surgeon where she is being trained to obtain a qualification as primary care-giver in order to be able to treat animals in very poor communities. Currently she leading the onshore crew of Operation Grindstop 2014 in the Faroe Islands. FaceBook: https://facebook/rosie.kunne Link to SSCS website regarding Operation Grindstop: seashepherdglobal.org/grindstop/ To listen to the show live click on this link on Wed, Aug 20, 11am Pacific > latalkradio/Player_flash2.shtml Jungle Jana Shane Barbi Yana Rusinovich Lisa Agabian Farrah Smith David Kirby Steven Thompson Omar Todd Livja Sorenson Simone Reyes Heather Leigh Elissa Sursara Suzanne West Suzanne Hayes Sei Osh Tanya Vloet Patty Shenker Libra Max Louie Psihoyos John Jett Carol Ray Kate Porter William McNamara Katie Cleary David Sobel John Tribolet Aaron Hall Melissa Sehgal Shannon Keith Shannon Mann Robyn Nicole OceanArtist BobTimmons Laura Leigh Laura Lamond Laura Keats Leslie Olsen Holding Sandy McElhaney Suzi Athena Singstock Tod Emko Sammy Phillips Holise E Cleveland III Deborah Garrick Deborah Bassett Tommy Knowles Alec Pedersen Glenn Platt Kelly McBride Nicole McLachlan Susan Hartland
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