How Is The Amazon Rainforest Doing? with Dr. M. Sanjayan

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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🗓️ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Dr. M. Sanjayan is the CEO of Conservation International, and formerly the lead scientist at The Nature Conservancy. He joined Jonathan in the studio to discuss his work with the Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Project, which aims to restore 73 million trees in Brazil by 2023—and explore how saving nature is actually about saving humanity. Dr. Sanjayan is a recipient of UCSC’s Global Oceans Hero Award, a member of National Geographic Society’s Explorers Council, and a Disneynature Ambassador. He can be seen co-hosting and hosting several nature-based documentaries on BBC, Discovery, and PBS. Follow Dr. M. Sanjayan and Conservation International on Instagram @ConservationOrg, on Twitter @ConservationOrg and @MSanjayan and on Facebook @Conservation.Intl. To find out more about Sanjayan and Conservation International's work visit www.conservation.org. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Bennis and every week I sit down for a 40-minute
0:06.2	conversation with A for Brilliant Expert to learn all about something that gets me curious.
0:11.8	On today's episode, I'm joined by the CEO of Conservation International, Dr. Sunjinn,
0:16.6	where I ask him how is the Amazon rainforest doing?
0:20.2	And just a quick note, this episode was reported a couple weeks before we had realized the
0:23.7	full extent of the fires in Australia and I just want to say that all of our hearts go
0:27.3	out to anyone listening to this most, and if you haven't had a chance to make a donation
0:31.5	that that's something that's possible for you to feel, please reach out to some of the
0:36.2	many incredible organizations that are doing such great work in Australia for the people
0:40.2	and for the wildlife that are suffering through this horrific natural disaster.
0:45.4	So without any further ado, I'd love you all so much and we'll get started on this
0:48.8	week's episode of Getting Curious.
1:00.2	Welcome to Getting Curious. This is Jonathan Bennis. I'm very excited for this week's
1:03.4	episode. We have an incredible guest who I'm going to introduce right now, Dr. Sunjinn.
1:07.5	He is the Conservation International CEO and the Global Conservation... Oh wait, Jesus Christ
1:12.9	loves us. That's what my mom says just so that I... She's worried that I'll burn in hell
1:16.7	if I just say Jesus Christ by itself. So I say loves us afterwards. But you are the
1:21.4	literal CEO of Conservation International. Yes, the literal CEO. Yeah, as opposed to
1:27.3	the non-literal CEO. But I mean, that's another major title. It is. Actually, it is. I have
1:33.4	to pinch myself. It's hard to believe that a kid from Sri Lanka grew up in Africa with
1:38.0	like monkeys in the backyard kind of made it here in some way and actually has a productive
1:43.5	life. That's beautiful. And I think that's incredible. And that's like literally the American
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