Our LATalkRadio-@CaptPaulWatson-@TeenageActivist @pawprojects DrConrad-@Pattyshenker-David Casselman- State of the Oceans radio LIVE on Wed 7/30 at 11am Pac here> latalkradio/Player_flash2.shtml Captain Paul Watson will give Sea Shepherd breaking news Wed July 30th on State of the Oceans latalkradio/Oceans.php. We have exciting guests this week, including Sea Shepherds Elora West and high powered lawyer David Casselman, with top exotic vet, Dr. Jennifer Conrad, talking about his Cambodia Wildlife Sanctuary project. Also joining us is humble vegan animal activist, Patty Shenker, who I call the elephant whisperer. Dr. Conrad will also discuss the 19 yr old cheerleader hunter killing exotic animals in the name of conservation. Elora West is our continuing youth correspondence for State of the Oceans. She is the GrindStop 2014 Vlunteer Coodinator at Sea Shepherd Global and Advisory Board Member at Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Elora Malama (West) is a homeschooled teenage activist. She is on the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) Board of Advisors for Children’s Education and Activities. She is currently 20 and will be finishing her Bachelors Degree in Media Activism over the next two years. In the fall of 2010 at age 16, Elora accompanied her father, Scott West, to Taiji, Japan for the first SSCS Cove Guardian campaign. They spent three months on the ground reporting everyday about the plight of the dolphins. While there Elora began a blog, A Teenage Activist: This Girls Soapbox and encouraged thousands of people to call the Japanese embassies in their area to protest the dolphin slaughter. Her young age combined with her blog reports brought international attention to what is happening in Taiji, Japan. Elora participated in the first ever meeting between the mayor of Taiji and the SSCS activists opposing the towns annual slaughter. She hopes to send a message to her generation that you are never too young to make your voice heard. Elora wants to inspire kids to stand against cetacean captivity, protest swim with dolphin programs, and other institutions that exploit marine mammals. She believes that if you love dolphins and whales, you want to work to protect them. Elora is studying Media Activism for her BA. Media Activism recognizes that mainstream media shapes the dominant consciousness. This degree is about using the media to lead new ways of thinking and develop a more educated and well informed electorate. There is nothing more important to a democracy. Elora also spent time in Australia aboard the Steve Irwin. She worked with SSCS Australia in preparation for Operation Zero Tolerance, the 2012-2013 campaign against Japanese whaling in Antarctic waters. In April 2013, she joined SSCS US at the Columbia River for the Dam Guardian campaign in an effort to end the slaughter of sea lions in Washington and Oregon. Continuing to work for Sea Shepherd in many capacities, Elora took over the Volunteer Coordinating of Sea Shepherd Globals GrindStop 2014 campaign, in the Faroe Islands. Follow her blog and keep up with her story. eloramalama/ David Casselman is the founding partner of Casselman Law Group. In addition to his decades of major civil litigation and trial work, earning him significant honors in the legal community, Mr. Casselman has devoted a large percentage of his time to pro bono representation of animals, covering a variety of issues, both great and small. On the grandest scale imaginable, he conceived and developed the one million acre Cambodia Wildlife Sanctuary, where they are rescuing elephants, gibbons, monkeys and soon, tigers and clouded leopards.. He is also the lawyer who pursued the City of Los Angeles for more than half a decade (all on his own time) to force them to close the recently built $42 million elephant exhibit at the Los Angeles Zoo. He took that case all the way to trial, and won several injunctions, prompting the City to file an appeal. As part of that appeal, Mr. Casselman is continuing to seek an order forcing the City to close the elephant exhibit. The appeal should be heard later this year. In addition to these groundbreaking efforts, Mr. Casselman has quietly represented hundreds of animals, year after year, giving voice to the most helpless in our community. ww.cambodiawildlifesanctuary elephantsincrisis.org . Dr. Jenny Conrad, top exotic vet and producer of The Paw Projectdocumentary.: The Cambodia Wildlife Sanctuary is the brainchild of Los Angeles-based attorney, David Casselman and his Cambodian business partner, Sok Hong. They had an opportunity to protect many animals in Cambodia and took advantage of it. About a decade ago, they were able to convince the Cambodian government into forming a joint venture with them to protect some of the last unspoiled lands in Cambodia. The Sanctuary is approximately 1,000,000 acres of land where many of Cambodia’s native wild animals still exist. Casselman and Sok Hong have a vision of making it a world-class Asian animale rescue site. They want to provide a home for any and all displaced Asian elephants as well as tigers, Asian birds and the diverse primate populations of that region. All in all, I am proud to say that not one animal has ever complained about my work and I have never billed anyone a single dime for any of my animal efforts Our other guest is my great vegan activist pal, Patty Shenkers, that seems to be on the front line of every important animal rights issue or important animal rescue. Pattys first step into animal advocacy was in 1970 when she became a vegetarian. Little did she know how that one step would change her life & lead her into a lifetime of animal advocacy. She co-founded Animal Acres, which is now part of Farm Sanctuary as well as the Animal Advocacy Museum & Free Animal Videos, a website which provides access to videos about the various animal issues for their advocacy.Patty also is partly responsible for getting Ruby out of the LA Zoo & to PAWS Sanctuary as well as another suffering elephant & making people aware of the crisis for orangutans because of palm oil. She also spearheaded a free spay & neuter program in S.Central LA in the early 90s to curb the overpopulation of pets. She adopts pets, writes letters, protests, invests in vegan restaurants, does TNR, lobbies politically, has produced several videos & has been honored by several animal organizations. I personally got to walk with her on the Taiji Cove demo last Valentines Day, she is a huge Sea Shepherd Supporter! animalequalitynow/ And returning guest, is top exotic vet and producer of critically acclaimed documentary The Paw Project, is Dr. Jennifer Conrad. Dr. Jennifer Conrad has cared for wildlife on six continents for over two decades. She is an impassioned advocate for animal welfare, who has seen first-hand the suffering and exploitation of animals, destruction of habitat, and gratuitous hunting—all of which threaten the welfare and very survival of many species. Dr. Conrad has participated in many programs to protect and improve the lives of wild animals. She has traveled to Namibia to de-horn rhinos, making them unattractive targets for slaughter by poachers who prize the horns for ornamental uses. While in Africa, she worked with the Cheetah Conservation Fund, collecting information to help fortify the dwindling numbers of this species. In Nepal, Dr. Conrad treated endangered Asian elephants, and in the Galapagos Islands, she joined government scientists treating a threatened population of sea lions. Dr. Conrad is a graduate of the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine and is a member of the American Veterinary Medicine Association (AVMA), the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians (AAZV), and the European Association of Zoo and Wildlife Veterinarians (EAZWV). Currently, Dr. Conrads professional responsibilities are divided between working with nonprofit wildlife sanctuaries for unwanted and abused animals in southern California and administering her own company, Vet to the (Real) Stars, which provides humane veterinary care to animals appearing in television and movies. Some of her animal actors have appeared in The Life of Pi, Transformers II, The Hangover, Zoo Keeper, Doctor Doolittle 2 and The Planet of the Apes. In her former role as head veterinarian at a wildlife sanctuary, Dr. Conrad founded The Paw Project, which rehabilitates big cats, such as lions, tigers, cougars and jaguars maimed by declawing. Actually an amputation of the last bone in the cats toe, declawing often cripples these magnificent creatures, both from the pain caused by the bone fragments left behind, and from the progressively debilitating arthritis produced by abnormal stress on other joints as the cats try to avoid walking on their painful, amputated toes. pawproject.org/ pawprojectmovie/ Listen on Wed July 30 at 11am Pac to this link> latalkradio/Player_flash2.shtml
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