00-01: Nature Travel with Laura Kammermeier

The American Birding Podcast

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Science, Birding, Hobbies, Travel, Birdwatching, Leisure, Aba, Ornithology, Nature, Birds

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Laura Kammermeier of Nature Travel Network joins us to talk about birding travel, what birders want when they head abroad, and how traveling for birds helps establish ecotourism and conservation initiatives around the world.

Nate Swick offers a commentary on a cool birding tourism initiative in Colombia.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the first episode of the American Birding Podcast from the ABA.
0:14.9	I'm Nate Swick from the ABA blog, and I'm really excited to introduce this new project
0:19.0	from the American Birding Association,
0:25.1	podcast, deliver to you regularly about birds and birding in the ABA area and beyond.
0:29.1	At the ABA, we're fortunate to have so many friends and colleagues in the birding world,
0:33.9	and just like you, we love talking about birds, so it's our intention to invite them here to talk about birding and let you listen in. You'll certainly hear from ABA staff as well
0:38.0	about what's going on in the organization. And we want to involve the wider birding community
0:42.5	in the conversation as much as we can. So if there's anything you want to hear about or anyone
0:46.5	that you want to hear from, please let us know in the usual social media channels or via
0:50.4	email. We're sort of in beta mode with this, for lack of a better term. But we want this
0:55.5	podcast to be as useful and entertaining as it can be. So please let us know what you want from a
1:00.1	birding podcast produced by the American Birding Association. We'll go ahead and start with some
1:04.7	birding news. The big news coming from the ABA is the vote to include Hawaii in the
1:08.5	ABA area going forward. That decision was made by the
1:11.5	membership of the organization and announced at the annual meeting in Delaware City in late October.
1:16.4	We first want to thank all of the ABA members who cared enough about this issue to submit their
1:20.5	proxy ballots. Four out of five of them supported this action of adding the 50th state to the
1:26.2	ABA area. We appreciate that support. We also acknowledge
1:29.5	that there are those who might be skeptical about the change. We hope that we can allay those
1:33.3	concerns in the months ahead as we move forward. This podcast is going to play a role there. We'll
1:37.7	have ABA staff, birders from Hawaii, and others on to talk about what's going on. We want to
1:41.6	make this whole thing as transparent as possible, and we want to make sure that we're making an effort to recognize those concerns about the
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