Our Wild World

Today with my guest John R. Platt, editor of the Revelator, an independent online environmental news and ideas initiative of the Center for Biological Diversity, we delve into and question some of the top conservation headlines: the Extinction Countdown to what is at stake for us from the knowledge that will be gone from living in an increasingly homogenous world. How we think of ‘trade in species’ as this year’s critical CITES CoP18 with an agenda of 57 species listings and the decisions that can well affect the continued existence of earths’ megafauna from elephants and rhinos to lions to sharks and whales, to insects. Is de-extinction possible? What are the ramifications? What are the positive trends in science conservation communication? Where can the public turn to learn more and take meaningful action every day, from wherever we are, to do something whenever we can, and just how important social networking is to converse with each other verse ‘clickavism’.