Amazon Rainforest w/ Hilary Scheppers & Daniel Couceiro

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

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Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by Hilary Scheppers and Daniel Couceiro, both of whom previously worked at Rainforest Expeditions in the Tambopata National Reserve of the Peruvian Amazon.

Hilary is a former volunteer for the Macaw Project, focused on the conservation and management of large parrots in the Amazon rainforest. After her service, Hilary's poem Unbridled received an honorable mention for the Thomas Merton Poetry Prize (Published in Parabola Magazine, Winter Issue 2018).

Daniel Couceiro is a National Geographic Explorer working in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. He is currently developing an avian environmental education program for rural youth in the area. While at Rainforest Expeditions, he was the project lead for the Wired Amazon project.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Talk and Dirty. Today is Monday January 20th
0:16.8	2020 and I'm the host of the show Kara Santa Maria and today's a special day
0:22.0	you want to know why?
0:24.0	It's because I have a new show out.
0:25.7	I'm the science correspondent on the brand new
0:28.7	National Geographic series, Brain Games.
0:31.8	It actually airs tonight. So if you're listening to this early in the day
0:35.3	you can still catch it. And if you're listening to this after the 20th, that means it already
0:39.7	aired and you should be able to watch it and continue to watch every Monday on National Geographic.
0:46.6	Okay, not every Monday, but for the next few Mondays until there's no more episodes.
0:50.8	Super excited about this show, it was a ton of fun to make. The host is
0:54.4	Keegan Michael Key and we're also joined by mentalist Leor Sushard. I hope you guys
1:00.3	like it. I hope you reach out and tell me what you thought all right this
1:05.6	week's episode is a really interesting one it's very different from what we
1:09.4	usually do here on Talk Nurdy but before we dive it, I do want to thank those of you who made
1:15.1	talk Nurdy possible this week. Remember, Talk Nurdy is and will always be 100%
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