Life On The Brink Gabriel George & Alex Bezzina

What a title hey?
Apologies for this episode being a few days late, we're both still getting a handle on keeping this podcast running while now working full-time! 

But enough of that, it's time for Episode 18! Our guest on this episode, Dr Emily Roycroft, was supposed to be studying the family tree of eight species of extinct Australian rodents. She then realised one wasn't actually extinct. Listen in to hear that story, and whether this mouse will go extinct for the SECOND time. 

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Produced by Gabriel George & Alex Bezzina

Theme music by Kyle Morley

Episode Cover Image: Shark Bay Mouse. LAWLER.

Season 2 is heerrreee! 

Sorry for the delay! Gabe ended up getting and starting a new job since our last episode. So, to preserve what's left of his sanity, we thought it'd be best to push the start of our new episodes back by a week.

But Episode #17 is worth the wait! We're bickering about bettongs with Caitlin Weatherstone. We talk about why the northern bettong is balancing so close to the edge of extinction when other bettongs seem to be managing okay, hear hairy stories about being evacuated in a tiny helicopter during a 10-minute gap in the tropical rain, and learn about how Alex actually helped Caitlin try to discover unknown bettong populations a couple years ago!

And no we aren't going to start the episodes back at #1 again. Partly because it'd get confusing, but also because saying we have 17 episodes sounds way cooler. 

And sorry some of the audio from me (G) sounds a little funky - had a tech breakdown and had to use our backup recording!

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Produced by Gabriel George & Alex Bezzina

Theme music by Kyle Morley

Episode Cover Image: Northern bettong. STEPHANIE TODD/JCU/WWF-AUS.

Our final update episode before we start Season 2!  

This Life On The Brink update features biodiversity ranger Denis Stojanovic and the Haast southern brown kiwi. The Haast population of southern brown kiwis is a unique group of kiwis that only numbers around 500. Denis has major updates for us on how the recent breeding season has gone for this tiny population of threatened birds, and some corrections to the voice-overs we made over our original interview for Episode 3!

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Theme Music by Kyle Morley 

Production by Alex Bezzina & Gabriel George

Episode Cover Image: Denis the kiwi-wrangler.

Another update on one of our first-ever stories, and this one's a big one!! 

Episode 15 of Life On The Brink features the regent honeyeater and Dr Ross Crates.

While Alex was away, Ross patched in (on Christmas Eve - what a legend!!) to give Gabriel a rundown on what had happened since we last touched base. He mentioned some big news that was on the horizon for early 2022. Listen in to hear what happened next! 

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Theme Music by Kyle Morley

Production by Gabriel George & Alex Bezzina

Episode Cover Image: Regent honeyeater. ROSS CRATES, PhD.

SURPRISE STORY UPDATE!

Episode 14 of Life On The Brink features Dr Daniella Teixeira and the glossy black cockatoo (again!!)

Daniella has been busy since we last talked to her in what turned out to be the first ever episode of Life On The Brink. Listen in to hear about new data showing how the 2019/20 bushfires impacted the very rare glossy black cockatoos of Kangaroo Island, the new population of birds Daniella has switched her focus to, and what you can do to save glossy black cockatoos in mainland Australia. 

We'll have a couple more story updates coming your way throughout the next few weeks as we gear up for Season 2 of Life On The Brink!

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Music by Kyle Morley

Production by Gabriel George & Alex Bezzina

Episode Feature Image: Glossy black cockatoos. MICHAELA SHERWOOD VIA THE GLOSSY BLACK CONSERVANCY.

Lions #2 electric boogaloo you're carbon credits are due! 

(Alex said we had to say that, sorry)

It's Episode 13 of Life On The Brink, featuring LIONS. Didn't we already do lions? Yes we did... deal with it. But also this episode is very different from our first lion episode. Last time we focused on the tree-climbing lions of Uganda, this time we're focusing on the equally unique lions in Kenya known for their maneless males! In the episode, our over-achieving guest Dr James Allan talks about what it's like to grow up with a family that owns a safari company in a national park the size of Switzerland, we hear about the research he was involved in that influenced international conservation policy, and we talk with James about his new project - a company dedicated to capturing carbon AND saving threatened animals at the same time!

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Produced by Gabriel George & Alex Bezzina

Theme music by Kyle Morley

Episode Cover Image: Man-eating maneless male lions (ones from the railway James mentions in the episode) from Tsavo, Kenya. Currently full of stuffing instead of human as they stand on display in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, USA. JEFFREY JUNG.