All About Animals

All About Animals Special hosted by Nicole Rojas Today, we will be discussing the magnificent rhino, with our guest, Simon Jones, CEO of Helping Rhinos. Helping Rhinos is predominantly based in Africa. Their focus is on helping the species survive at sustainable levels by improving protection, care, and welfare of the rhino in its natural habitat as well as to forge significant partnerships with s...

Yvonne talks with Duncan McNair from Save The Asian Elephants (S.T.A.E. ). Save The Asian Elephants is a not for profit association of prominent professionals, experts and campaigners that informs public opinion on the brutal capture, beating, poaching and abuse for festivals and tourism of these wondrous but beleaguered creatures and the plunder of their habitat; and exerts influence on governmen...

In this episode Erica Salvemini, host of The Rising Lioness converses with Jeff Harrison, founder and creator of Pedaling Against Poaching , Board member and ambassador for HelpingRhinos.org . Jeff shares his inspirational story of how he’s combined his passions for mountain biking and love of animals together to create positive change for the world, specifically to help save the critically endang...

Nicole speaks with Jodie Wiederkehr, founder of Chicago Alliance for Animals. Chicago Alliance for Animals is a volunteer grassroots animal advocacy organization that began in 2015. The first goal of Chicago Alliance for Animals was to ban horse carriages in downtown Chicago, and in 2017, the organization began diligently documenting how the horses were treated by their handlers as well as the hor...

Eagle's Landing by Staci-lee Sherwood. Read by Nicole Rojas.

Breaking The Chains International was founded by British Army veteran Tom S-N who made it his life’s mission to make the world a safer place for any and all animals. After Russian forces invaded Ukraine on February the 24th in 2022, Tom and his close friend Steve put their extensive military and combat experience to use again by entering Ukraine with the sole purpose of extracting animals in despe...

Nikita interviews Anand Siva, CEO of the newly launched India Animal Fund that encourages effective giving for animals. The fund is backed by professionals in the corporate sector, blessed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and supported by several celebrities like Sir Paul McCartney, Alicia Silverstone, Madhuri Dixit and Shikhar Dhawan. India’s first platform created by seasoned professionals in the...

Yvonne catches up with Mary-Ann Holm from Leap for Lucy for the latest news on the campaign to move Lucy to sanctuary.

Nikita interviews Dr. Lori Marino, an expert in animal behaviour and intelligence and the founder of The Whale Sanctuary Project that is working on building a seaside sanctuary for captive cetaceans. Want to learn about the fascinating mirror recognition test in bottlenose dolphins or the controversial dolphin assisted therapies? Lori Marino is a neuroscientist and expert in animal behavior and in...

“Five Shooter”, is a poem written by Anthony Lovell in support of the New Big 5 project, an international initiative to create a New Big 5 of wildlife, the Big 5 of wildlife photography, not hunting. Shooting with a camera, not a gun.

Erica Salvemini, host of The Rising Lioness Podcast welcomes Billie Groom, award winning author, podcast-host, animal welfare activist, social entrepreneur and Canine Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CCBT) expert. During this show Billie shares her vast knowledge and expertise on CCBT. We discuss how Canine Cognitive Behavior Therapy can prevent canines from a life of being misunderstood due to their p...

Nikita interviews Sangita Iyer of the “Gods in Shackles” fame. Keep a tissue box handy as you listen to heart-wrenching accounts of the festival elephants of India. Learn about the plight of wild elephants as well: train collisions, human-ele conflicts, habitat constraints. And get wowed by the innovative solutions that Sangita brings through her organization VFAES. Sangita Iyer is the author of t...

Rachana talks with Mieko Saho and Koh Okuno about the launch of their crowdfunding campaign for the Unspoken Souls movie - a universal story about the exploitation of animals, people, and nature.

Nikita talks with Dr Andrew Kelly, Director of Freedom for Animals, one of UK’s longest-running animal charities with a mission to protect animals from exploitation, harm and captivity. Dr Andrew Kelly, a passionate advocate for animals, graduated from University of Glasgow in 1997 with a first class BSc (Hons) in Zoology and from Leeds University in 2001 with a PhD in Evolutionary Ecology. This w...

Yellowstone Wolves by Staci-lee Sherwood. Read by Nicole Rojas. Staci-lee wrote this poem in 1999 after going out to the park to see the wolves. She spent a week out there observing the Druid pack, which no longer exists, and the Rose Creek pack. After only a couple of years the writing was on the wall as the irrational wolf hatred was out in full force having already killed one of the alpha wolve...

The Fuzzy Bee by Staci-lee Sherwood read by Nicole Rojas.

Yvonne Luscombe talks with Dominic Dyer about his new petition to create a cost of living animal welfare crisis fund to protect dogs & cats in the UK.

Erica Salvemini converses with Lucas Spiegel, Author of The Weight of Empathy for a soulful discussion on humanity’s relationship with animals and the fortitude one needs to navigate an often cruel world. Lucas Spiegel is a marvelously talented writer whose stories are heartwarming and soul-inspiring. His book is filled with 100’s of gorgeously photographed landscapes, animals and the people who l...

Nicole Rojas talks with Adams Cassinga from Conserv Congo. Conserv Congo puts itself on the frontlines to save and protect endangered species from poachers and wildlife traffickers, fighting the good fight every day trying to prevent extinction of wildlife. To date, Conserv Congo has over 5,000 successful cases of wildlife trafficking.

Nikita Dhawan, Founder of Youth for Animals, chats with Tony Verhulst and Sofie Goetghebeur, co-founders of Elephant Haven sanctuary in Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region of south-west of France. The sanctuary currently houses two Asian female elephants Gandhi and Delhi in its 70 acre area. Tony Verhulst, Founder, worked at Antwerp Zoo / Planckendael between 1993 and 2015, where he cared for the elephants...

Nikita Dhawan, Founder, Youth for Animals converses with Andrea Richey, Executive Director of the Hong Kong Shark Foundation , an organization that raises awareness about shark conservation and educates people to stop consuming shark products such as shark fin soup. For the past 30 years, Andrea has lived in Hong Kong and worked for a wide variety of corporate and NGO entities. Since 2015, she has...

Erica Salvemini converses with Lucas Spiegel, Author of The Weight of Empathy for a soulful discussion on humanity’s relationship with animals and the fortitude one needs to navigate an often cruel world. Lucas Spiegel is a marvelously talented writer whose stories are heartwarming and soul-inspiring. His book is filled with 100’s of gorgeously photographed landscapes, animals and the people who l...

Nikita Dhawan, Founder, Youth for Animals converses with Alana Reynolds, currently a student of environmental law at Stanford University, about her past research on effective methods to mitigate human-elephant conflict e.g. chili and bee fences. Alana also talks about challenges and opportunities in the field of environmental law. Alana Reynolds is a current joint-degree student at Stanford Law an...

Nikita Dhawan , Founder, Youth for Animals converses with Todd Montgomery, Sr. Manager of External Relations for The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee , the largest natural habitat sanctuary in North America. Since 1995, The Elephant Sanctuary has provided "a home and a herd” to 28 elephants retired from performance and exhibition in its 3060-acre facility, Todd Montgomery is the Sr. Manager of Exte...

Join hosts Gail Hunte and Nicole Rojas speaking with their guest panel about the enforcement of animal protection laws in Barbados.