E33. Nathan Edmondson Warns there is a Ticking Clock to Rhino Extinction

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🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Nathan Edmondson is a writer and President of EDGE, an ambitious counter-poaching and conservation organization devoted to the innovative preservation of African wildlife. They bring new technologies and US special operations tactics and expertise to develop counter-poaching initiatives. Bridget and Nathan discuss media coverage of extinction events, how he became involved in the conservation movement, and why increased cancer rates in south-east Asia have led to an explosion in rhino horn poaching. He explains that there’s a ticking clock on rhino extinction, which is absurd because it’s a solvable problem, how EDGE is involving local communities on the ground, and what you can do to help. Nathan describes bringing African rangers to train in the US for the first time in history, how they were able to see their actions through the eyes of the world and experience people looking at them as heroes. He talks getting the next generation into a conservationist mindset, making animals ambassadors for their species, and tells the story of his most terrifying moment in Africa. You can support EDGE here.

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0:00.0	This is Walk-In's Welcome with Bridget Fetticy.
0:02.8	I'm Bridget Fetticy and you are welcome. You know the drill.
0:15.0	the drill.
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0:26.5	Our sponsor this week is Bridget Feticy.com, a lovely place for all Fettice related March.
0:34.0	This week we have Nathan Edmondson.
0:37.0	He's an American writer known for the comic series
0:40.0	Who is Jake Ellis and the activity for Image Comics as well as the Punisher and Black Widow for Marvel Comics.
0:47.0	He is also the co-owner of Allied Special Operations Experience Company and the co-founder of Edge, Ecological Defense Group
0:55.6	Incorporated, a nonprofit devoted to the innovative conservation of African
1:00.3	wildlife. And we do talk about his writing but we really get into his conservation
1:06.5	work in Africa. It's fascinating how we got into it. It's a little bit
1:11.6	heartbreaking and also just eye opening in terms of what we as normies just sitting here in traffic or in America doing our dishes can do to help in a situation that sometimes
1:26.4	feels helpless. So listen up. I'm here with Nathan Edmondson, head of President of Edge, correct?
1:34.6	Writer.
1:35.6	Tell us what you do.
1:36.6	Tell us about yourself.
1:37.8	I'm the President of Edge and a writer.
1:39.3	Okay.
1:40.8	I did something right in the first two minutes. I yeah I am a a writer of things like
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