What Can Kids Do To Protect Animals?

Cool Facts About Animals

Cool Facts About Animals Podcast

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🗓️ 7 August 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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In this episode, we are so incredibly thrilled to bring you our interview with our local congressperson, Rep. Earl Blumenauer. We talk about salmon, polar bears, sharks, and the adorable panda. We also ask him about what Congress is doing to protect animals and the environment and what they can do better - plus what kids can do to help. Don't miss this important episode. And thank you again to Rep. Blumenauer and his amazing staff for this opportunity!

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0:00.0	Hey, listeners, thanks for tuning in to this extra special episode of Cool Facts About Animals.
0:05.0	In this episode, we are so thrilled to have the opportunity to speak with our local congressman,
0:10.0	Congressman Earl Blumenauer, who represents Portland and some of the surrounding areas.
0:15.0	We had a chance to ask him about climate change, about things that kids can do to stop climate change and to protect animals,
0:22.6	and about ways that Congress can do more to protect the animals that we all love.
0:28.6	We also tried to nail him down on his favorite animal, but we didn't quite get there.
0:33.6	We hope that you enjoy listening to this, but we also hope that it gives you some ideas about things that you can do to protect the environment and to protect animals.
0:42.7	If you have ideas, we'd love to hear about them.
0:44.7	You can always email us at Cool Facts About Animals at Gmail.com or tweet us at Cool Animals Pod.
0:51.5	We recorded this episode in connection with our episode on salmon, which is also out
0:56.1	right now. So please take a listen to that. And if you're interested in animals and protecting
1:00.9	animals, we also highly recommend our special Earth Day episode, which you should be able to find
1:06.0	on our feed. And once again, thank you so much to Congressman Blumenauer and his amazing staff.
1:11.6	We so appreciate this opportunity.
1:13.7	We've been talking about it ever since it happened, and we can't wait to share your message with our listeners.
1:21.3	Thank you so much for meeting with us.
1:23.3	The reason why we wanted to talk to you is because we do a podcast called Cool Facts About Animals.
1:29.5	And a lot of that podcast is just learning about cool animals and what makes them so interesting.
1:35.5	But we found that the more we investigate these animals, the more we're finding that a lot of them are threatened or vulnerable or endangered.
1:45.4	And we've become really concerned about the environment and how to protect animals. So we had an episode recently about
1:52.6	the mosquito, where we spoke to a professor at Stanford University, and we asked her what she
2:00.1	thought kids could do to protect animals.
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