Sea Guardians: Dr. Debi Luke’s Fight for Manatees, Corals, Sea Turtles and more

Vultures are Africa’s cleanup crew, and they are vanishing. In this episode of Robin’s Nest, Dr. Robin Ganzert talks with Kerri Wolter, founder and CEO of VulPro, South Africa’s leading vulture conservation organization. Kerri left a career in banking to spend two decades pulling poisoned vultures back from the edge. Kerri explains why vultures matter to human health as much as wildlife, since they stop the spread of anthrax, botulism and rabies. She shares how VulPro breeds permanently inju...

Madagascar is home to more than 100 lemur species found nowhere else on Earth, and more than 90% of them face extinction. This week on Robin’s Nest, Dr. Robin Ganzert welcomes back Dr. Jonah Ratsimbazafy, Madagascar’s foremost primatologist, President of the Groupe d’Étude et de Recherche sur les Primates de Madagascar (GERP) and a Kiessling Prize finalist for the second time. A year after his first visit, the threats have escalated. Lemurs are being trafficked by the thousand, hunted for bus...

What happens to a rescued animal after you let it go? Néstor Correa wasn't satisfied with not knowing. On this episode of Robin's Nest, Dr. Robin Ganzert sits down with the environmental lawyer turned conservation scientist who founded Panama's first wildlife rescue organization. During the Panama Canal Expansion, he led one of the largest wildlife relocations ever attempted in a tropical forest, moving nearly 2,500 animals across more than 100 species. Then he asked the question the field ha...

In 2007, the baiji was declared functionally extinct. Dr. Ding Wang had spent his career trying to save it, and he watched it disappear from the Yangtze River forever. Then he made a decision: it would not happen twice. Nearly twenty years later, the Yangtze finless porpoise, known in China as the smiling angel of the Yangtze, is the only critically endangered small cetacean on Earth that is recovering. The wild population stopped declining in 2022 and has climbed to 1,426, a 40 percent incre...

This week on Robin’s Nest, we celebrate courage, loyalty, and the incredible bond between humans and dogs with four remarkable past winners of the American Humane Hero Dog Awards. From lifesaving rescues to inspiring acts of service and companionship, these extraordinary canine heroes and their devoted handlers share unforgettable stories that prove why dogs truly are man’s best friend. Join Robin as she welcomes these inspiring guests for a heartwarming episode filled with hope, heroism and ...