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Welcome to The Geographical Podcast, brought to you by Geographical Magazine, the official publication of the Royal Geographical Society. Geographical helps our readers navigate an ever-changing and complex world. Featuring talented and perceptive writers from across the globe, our rigorous and entertaining journalism helps you to keep a global perspective. In The Geographical Podcast, you can listen to excerpts from our monthly print magazine. Each month, we'll share a feature-length story as well as interviewing contributors about their travels and experiences writing for the magazine. Published since 1935, Geographical has a rich heritage in exploring our planet. We encourage you to join us and subscribe to the magazine today.Geographical website: http://geographical.co.uk/ Subscribe to the magazine: http://geographical.co.uk/magazine/subscribe
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Editor's Picks: Saving Ecuador's last condors
This week, a trip to the Ecuadorian Andes where Mark Stratton visits a project aiming to save the country's last wild condors. Plus, an ancient Egyptian mystery and writer Alec Ash's decision to ditch the rat race in China and move to the beautiful rural town of Dali.
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Editor's Picks: A fairer future for South Africa's rooibos farmers
This week, we dive into the science of shipwrecks and find out what they can reveal about our changing oceans; board an icebreaker en route to Antarctica; and visit the rooibos plantations in South Africa's Cederberg Mountains, where Indigenous farmers are finally getting a fairer deal for their increasingly popular crop.
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Editor's Picks: The brain and climate change, and tracking the elusive snow leopard
This week, we travel to the high peaks of Ladakh in northern India to track one of the most elusive and charismatic animals in the world - the snow leopard. Plus, a bizarre proposal in Malaysia and the terrifying, underreported, impacts of climate change on brain health.
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Interview: Saving the African manatee with Aristide Kamla
In this bonus episode, we interview recent Whitley Award winner Aristide Kamla and hear all about his work, conserving Cameroon's marine wildlife
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Editor's Picks: Hunting the world's largest flower
In this episode, Andrew Brooks of King's College London explains why using historical comparisons when contemplating African hospitals is lazy and misleading; we hear some good news from the world of conservation; and Bryony Cottam charts the adventures of botanist Chris Thorogood and his hunt for rafflesia, the world's largest and smelliest flower.
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Editor's Picks: Why tourists are returning to Iraq
In this weekly edition of the Geographical podcast, we read out three articles from the magazine or website.In this episode, we hear how climate change is impacting the world's northernmost rivers; we learn about traditional Indigenous fire practices; and we meet the founder of a new group helping travellers connect with ordinary people in Iraq.