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In this episode of Protect The World, I speak with Jigar Ganatra, Frank Papushka, and Simi Nickmanova from the African School of Storytelling ( AFRISOS ). Based in Tanzania but working across the African continent, AFRISOS exists to provide opportunities to the next generation of African nature filmmakers and community-based storytellers. Over the years they’ve delivered dozens of innovative progr...

In this episode of Protect The World, I speak with Sanam Sherpa – co-founder and director of women's empowerment at The Small World . Based in the Solukhumbu district of eastern Nepal, The Small World works to create sustainable community development projects, with a core focus on girls' education and women's empowerment. During the conversation, Sanam and I discuss The Small World's key focus are...

In this episode of Protect The World, I speak with Blake Cansdale – National Director of ANTAR . Founded in the late 90s, ANTAR has grown to become one of Australia's largest and most influential Indigenous advocacy groups, working across a broad range of issues – from native title and land rights, to truth-telling and treaty. During this conversation, Blake and I discuss the organisation's histor...

In this episode of Protect The World, I speak with Rhett Butler – founder and CEO of Mongabay . Mongabay is a not-for-profit conservation news service that covers the intersection of people and nature. With bureaus in Latin America, India, Africa, Indonesia and the US, plus a network of journalists from across the globe, Mongabay shares stories relating to tropical forests, oceans, wildlife, the c...

In this episode of Protect The World, I speak with Caroline Teti – one of the vice presidents at GiveDirectly . GiveDirectly is global non-profit organisation dedicated to the alleviation of poverty through unconditional cash transfers. Their core philosophy is that individuals and communities living in poverty know their needs best. GiveDirectly uses a range of innovative technologies to identify...

In this episode of Protect The World, I speak with Galina Angarova. She comes from the Abzai clan of the Ekhirit nation of the Buryat peoples in Siberia, and she's also the executive director of the SIRGE Coalition . The SIRGE Coalition is an international association dedicated to securing the rights of Indigenous Peoples during the transition to a green economy. It's projected that this t...

In this episode of Protect The World, I speak with Gina Della Togna – executive director of the Amphibian Survival Alliance (ASA). Joining me from Panama, Gina discusses the ASA's work as a global coalition dedicated to the long-term protection of the world's amphibians. Consisting of frogs, toads, salamanders and caecilians – amphibians are the most threatened vertebrate animals on the pl...

In this episode of Protect The World, I speak with Delphine Robbe – managing director of the Gili Eco Trust . Originally from France, Delphine has dedicated the last twenty years of her life to building a sustainable future for the picturesque Indonesian island of Gili Trawangan. Located off the coast of Lombok, east of Bali, Gili Trawangan is one of three islands that make up the Gili Islands. Th...

In this episode of Protect The World, I speak with Kon Karapanagiotidis – founder and director of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC). Based in Melbourne, the ASRC works to provide support for refugees and people seeking asylum in Australia. Australia has a long history of cruel and inhumane treatment of refugees and asylum seekers, which continues to this day, including indefinite detention...

In this episode of Protect The World, I speak with Eleanor Unsworth – Executive Director of WINGS Guatemala . WINGS is a not-for-profit organisation that's been working for over two decades to improve access to reproductive health services and education in Guatemala, with a focus on rural communities. They run health clinics, mobile services, and youth education programs with the aim of ensuri...

In this episode of Protect The World, I speak with Claire Christian – Executive Director of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC). ASOC is a not-for-profit organisation that has been advocating for the protection of the Antarctic continent and its surrounding ocean for more than four decades. They're the only environmental NGO permitted to observe meetings of the Antarctic Treaty,...

In this episode of Protect The World, I speak with Charlie Whitbread – founder and director of Mobile Refugee Support . Based in Calais in northern France, Mobile Refugee Support exists in order to provide essential resources and assistance to the significant refugee population in the region. In this episode, I speak with Charlie about the complexities of the situation in northern France, the dest...

In this episode of Protect The World, I speak with Ashish Kothari – founding member of Kalpavriksh . Kalpavriksh is a not-for-profit environmental action group striving for ecological sustainability and social equity in India. They have a fully democratic, non-hierarchical governance structure, so it would be incorrect to call Ashish the director. However, he has been heavily involved in the organ...

In this episode of Protect The World, I speak with Olive Moore – Interim Director at Front Line Defenders . Front Line Defenders is a not-for-profit organisation that's focused on the protection of human rights defenders around the world. They have close to a thousand active cases, and are working tirelessly to support grassroots defenders of human rights who are facing persecution in every co...

In this episode of Protect The World, I speak with Chris Ketola – Field Research Coordinator at Fauna Forever . Fauna Forever is a not-for-profit organisation based in the Madre de Dios region of southeast Peru, dedicated to understanding, monitoring and protecting the tropical ecosystems of the Peruvian Amazon, while also promoting sustainable, regenerative livelihoods in the region. During the c...

In this episode of Protect The World, I speak with Callie Broaddus – founder and executive director of Reserva: The Youth Land Trust . Reserva's mission is to empower young people to participate in conservation efforts through research, storytelling and fundraising. In 2021, they opened the world's first entirely youth-funded nature reserve, and their long-term goal is to establish a netwo...

In this episode of Protect The World, I chat with Nat Kiemski, program director for All Hands and Hearts' disaster response efforts in Türkiye.  Back in February, Türkiye was hit by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake which took the lives of over 50,000 people. Less than 24 hours later, All Hands and Hearts were on the ground, assisting with recovery efforts, and working out how their volunteer-led dis...

In this very first episode of Protect The World, I chat with Corey Tutt, CEO of DeadlyScience and proud Gamilaraay man. DeadlyScience is a not-for-profit organisation that strives to increase Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation in science. They currently work with over 800 schools in regional and remote areas across the Australian continent, but it's taken a lot of hard work to...

Welcome to the Protect The World podcast! In this introductory episode, I give you an overview of what this project is: how it started, what I'm trying to achieve, and how you can help. This podcast is dedicated to the people and organisations making the world a better place. Every month, I connect with an NGO that's addressing inequality or biodiversity loss in some way. My goal is to lea...