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I'm Gail Strav and you're listening to She Explores. I think just the idea of vibrant, rich, valuable.

All of the things that we see in the media are negative, you know, they're hostile,

wasteland, violence, illegal.

People have that in their heads, but when you know it in reality,

when you either see it for yourself or you see a firsthand account of it, you see it for what it is.

It's vibrant, it's rich, it's beautiful, and it's important, and that's from a human and a wild perspective.

This is conservation photographer,

writer and filmmaker Krista Schlieer.

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