Exploring Tree Canopies with Nalini Nadkarni

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🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Nalini Nadkarni is an ecologist who helped revolutionize the study of forest canopies. In 1980, Nalini started using mountain climbing techniques to ascend to the treetops in the Costa Rican rainforest. When Nalini isn't traversing tree canopies, she's advocating for environmental conservation and education. Her goal is to reach a broad audience with the message that nature can be incredibly profound, even life-changing.

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0:00.0	Here at Wild Ideas worth living, we love hearing about your wild ideas.
0:07.0	Have you tried any new adventures lately?
0:09.0	Are you hang gliding on every continent or trying to walk every trail within 10 miles
0:13.9	of your house?
0:15.5	Writer of you were every listen to the show and tell us about it.
0:19.0	Who knows, maybe you'll be our next guest.
0:31.0	When you walk through a forest, a colorful ecosystem of plants and animals is alive all around you.
0:39.0	As you duck under moss hanging from towering trees, you might hear the hum of insects and the crunch of vegetation underfoot.
0:48.0	But all of this is just a small slice of what the forest has to offer.
0:53.0	High above the forest floor, the dense foliage of the tree canopy is a completely different world.
0:59.0	Right for discovery.
1:02.0	I might walk around New York City or Salt Lake City and say, oh, I'm connected to all these people that are walking around here.
1:08.0	You know, I have a lot in common with them.
1:10.0	There is something for me at least that when I'm in a forest, especially when I'm in the canopy,
1:15.0	that I feel connected to every living thing in that forest.
1:19.0	And I cannot describe it, I cannot explain it scientifically.
1:24.0	Maybe it is just in the realm of the spiritual, which is I think spirituality is all about being connected,
1:29.0	being connected to other people, being connected to nature, being connected to place, being connected to myself.
1:39.0	That's Nellini Natcarnie, an ecologist who helped revolutionize the study of forest canopies.
1:45.0	In 1980, Nellini started using mountain climbing techniques to ascend to the tree tops in the Costa Rican rainforest,
1:54.0	in doing so she became one of the first scientists to study the canopy.
2:01.0	I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas worth living, an REI co-op studios production.
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