Ep. 936: Path of the Panther - Eric Bendick
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Eric is an Emmy-winning director, producer, and writer whose films explore connectivity, conflict, and ingenuity at the intersection of human and wild spaces. He’s led storytelling expeditions to the heart of many of the last intact and untamed landscapes on Earth as well as to the front lines of habitat destruction and fragmentation. His films for National Geographic, PBS, Smithsonian, History Channel, among others have garnered numerous awards from major film festivals around the world.
Today we’re talking specifically about his most recent film project, Path of the Panther.
Drawn in by the haunting specter of the Florida panther, a wildlife photographer, veterinarians, ranchers, conservationists, and indigenous people find themselves on the front lines of an accelerating battle between forces of renewal and destruction that have pushed the Florida Everglades to the brink of ecological collapse.
In a struggle resonating across the globe, the panther’s habitat has become an island. Its lush territory transformed into subdivisions. A paradise vanishing into thin air.
Perched on the edge of extinction, the panther is an emblem of our once connected world. A vision of what could be again. Or else, a harbinger, of what could befall our planet, if the ‘Path of the Panther’ becomes a dead end.
Learn more about Eric:
Watch Path of the Panther:
- https://pathofthepanther.com/watch
- https://www.instagram.com/pathofthepanther
- Find it on Disney+ and Hulu
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:23.2 | I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:24.3 | We're posting one day late because it is Memorial Day, or yesterday was here in the United States. |
| 0:30.8 | It was the day off, so I took the day off podcasting. |
| 0:33.9 | But I want to set this up real quick, why we're talking about this topic today, the path of the |
| 0:39.5 | Panther. |
| 0:39.9 | And I'll explain what that is in a second. |
| 0:42.4 | You know, we love adventures on this show, obviously. |
| 0:46.0 | And most of the time our adventures take place on land that is protected in some ways, whether |
| 0:53.8 | it be national parks, publicly accessible |
| 0:56.8 | roadways, state parks, some sort of conservation area. Most of our adventures, you know, a lot of us |
| 1:05.1 | are huge landowners, so they take place on public land. And the more I have adventures, |
| 1:14.0 | and the more I continue to enjoy these places and have memories out there and build my life around doing adventures, the more I realize |
| 1:20.1 | the importance of public land and land that has been intentionally set aside for the protection of the environment and for, you know, |
| 1:30.0 | as kind of a secondary or tertiary reason, recreational use. |
| 1:34.2 | And as I get older, I get more and more interested about how that land comes to be. |
| 1:39.3 | Like, how does a national park happen? |
| 1:41.1 | You know, it's awesome that we can hike across the Grand Canyon, |
| 1:44.1 | but who decided to make it a place that we can hike across the Grand Canyon, |
| 1:50.5 | but who decided to make it a place that people can do that? Why aren't houses all over Yosemite National Park in the Valley? Why are there? It's what, how do these places come to be, |
| 1:56.5 | basically? And I can't seem personally to separate the desire to have more adventures from the desire to know and be a part of how to protect the places we have adventures. |
| 2:11.6 | And all this is to say and all this is to set up, today we're talking to Eric Bendick, the director of Path of the Panther. Path of the Panther |
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