Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. Today is Monday, January 16th,

2023 and I'm the host of the show, Kara Santa Maria,

and we've got a fascinating chat for you today,

as we always do.

But before we dive into it, I do want to thank those of you

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All right, so let's talk about this week's episode.

I have the opportunity to chat with Samantha Zwicker.

She goes by Sam, she's a PhD candidate currently, and she's also the founder of a

nonprofit organization called Ohha Nueva. It's a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center in Peru, in the Peruvian Amazon.

And they combat wildlife trafficking by rescuing and rewilding key species.

They also built this brilliant ecological research station

to do education in the Madre de Dios region

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