545: Rachel Nuwer | Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Rachel Nuwer (@RachelNuwer) is an award-winning freelance journalist who reports about science, travel, food, and adventure for The New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American, and more. Her multi-award-winning first book, Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking, is out now.
What We Discuss with Rachel Nuwer:- What drives the global demand for resources cruelly derived from endangered wildlife.
- Why poachers and smugglers are willing to risk their own lives to meet this demand.
- The pros and cons of solutions proposed to stem the tide of this illicit trade -- from legalizing it for sustainable sourcing to synthesizing alternatives.
- Why governments are shy to throw the book at the worst offenders, and how the most clever, wealthy, and well-connected usually (but don't always) bypass legal repercussions for their trafficking transgressions.
- What we can do here and now to promote policies for preserving these species before they vanish forever.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:03.0 | There was actually this guy a few years ago in China. |
| 0:06.0 | He was like some like big Chinese medicine guy, |
| 0:08.0 | like head of whatever organization. |
| 0:10.0 | In some speech, he was like, oh, you know, the bears don't mind. |
| 0:13.0 | And it's like a tickle for them. It feels good. |
| 0:15.0 | And then there was just like this crazy, like amazing social media backfire. |
| 0:20.0 | Like, you know, memes of him getting like f***** in the ass by a bear saying like it tickles. |
| 0:26.0 | And the people who are like with it get it like obviously, |
| 0:30.0 | but they're I think there's just willful ignorance about the state of these animals. |
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