The Orangutan Project With Leif Cocks
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Because of the rampant deforestation of rainforests, many animals find themselves struggling to find new habitats and food sources. Among those that call such forests home are orangutans. Small population biologist Leit Cocks dedicates himself to the study of these great apes, with the goal of saving their endangered species. He joins Corinna Bellizzi to share how supporting the preservation of eight different rainforests allows Leit and his team to contribute to the noble effort of rehabilitating suffering orangutans. He also emphasizes the need for collective action against climate change and carbon production, especially in this most critical decade in the history of mankind.
About Guest:
For over three decades, world-renowned orangutan expert Leif Cocks has worked to secure the survival of Critically Endangered orangutans. He’s an outspoken campaigner on their behalf and a key player in developing plans for their protection, including leading the first-ever successful reintroduction of a zoo-born orangutan into the wild.
A small population biologist, Leif has a Master of Science studying orangutans. He’s been awarded Curtin University's highest award for achievement, has published several academic papers and books on orangutans, and is the author of the Amazon Best Seller Orangutans My Cousins, My Friends and Finding Our Humanity. In 2020 Leif was awarded the Order of Australia for his outstanding work in the field of wildlife conservation.
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| 0:00.0 | We're all connected, that love and compassion for all living beings, including things like |
| 0:05.7 | pigs and cows. |
| 0:07.5 | It's a lack of love and compassion for them, which is destroying the destruction of ourselves |
| 0:11.5 | and the planet. |
| 0:12.6 | And so love and compassion for other living beings from where there's a peak in America to |
| 0:17.5 | orangutans in Indonesia. |
| 0:19.8 | All that is going to benefit us. |
| 0:21.6 | And I would mention before, it's not the environment versus the economy. |
| 0:25.6 | We have exploitative economies now, which pass the true cost of production onto the powerless, |
| 0:31.6 | non-recognized persons such as orangutans, indigenous communities, powerless people as an example. But more importantly, |
| 0:39.9 | in the context, it's future generations. We're passing up the true cost of production |
| 0:43.5 | to future generations. Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care |
| 0:50.7 | about the social impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes. |
| 0:55.3 | Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain. |
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| 1:05.4 | Here's your host, Karina Belizei. |
| 1:10.6 | Hello, fellow do getters and friends. I'm your host, Karina Belizzi. I want to start today's |
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| 1:39.4 | and wherever that's possible. It will do worlds for helping us. Thank you so very much. Now, I want to invite you |
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