Welcome to Our Henhouse. This is Jasmine Singer and this is Marianne Sullivan.

Happy New Year and thank you so much for joining us this week.

Marianne will be speaking with Rebecca Jenkins about the animals who are still the most

underappreciated and casually mistreated animals in the world.

I am, of course, talking about fish and other aquatic animals.

Rebecca is the executive director of the Aquatic Life Institute and is working hard to improve

the lives of these animals.

On this week's flock bonus segment, I'll be continuing my really fascinating conversation

with Becky.

As always, if you are a flock member, you will get a link to that bonus segment in your

email on the Tuesday after this podcast goes up.

You can always find it on the flock Facebook group if you don't see it in your email.

And if you're not a member of the flock you can

and you can afford it you can join for $10 a month at our henhouse.org slash donate and speaking of

donations yes i just want to offer a very big thank you to those of you out there who who helped us

to reach our goal this year of raising $20,000 from you, our listeners,

which was matched by our barringer benefactors, equaling 40, which was matched also by an

anonymous donor. So we had a really important end of year fundraising this past year 2020.

We reached it. Thank you to you and your

generosity. And just so you know, we do the vast, vast majority of our fundraising at the end of the

year. So even though it sounds like a lot of money, it's like most of our budget for the year to have

all of the technicians and and the producers and the

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