NYK Experts Uncut

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The NYK Experts Uncut podcast is a series of in-depth interviews with world-known experts in animal science, animal welfare and wildlife conservation. The podcast provides listeners with unprecedented access to the latest information about animal welfare issues from the incisive viewpoints of the people pioneering change on controversial and important animal topics. It covers issues across the breadth of human usage of animals and animals in the wild, and the challenges they face due to climate change, habitat destruction, poaching, and other causes.

  1. 03/04/2020

    Attending an Animal Vigil Will Change Your Life: The Transformative Power of The Save Movement and the Link Between Animal Agriculture and Climate Change with Anita Krajnc

    Did you know that a single slaughterhouse in Canada kills about 10,000 pigs a day? Are you aware that, on average, two hundred  pigs are crammed into each animal transport vehicle as they are moved to slaughterhouses? Have you heard why ending animal agriculture will help solve the climate crisis? In this riveting interview, NYK […]

    24 min

  2. 02/19/2020

    Still Wearing Animals? Why We Should Be Kinder To Our Kin, with PETA founder and Animalkind author, Ingrid Newkirk

    Did you know that sheep are far from mindless creatures? In fact, they have  remarkable memory and recognition skills – they can recognize over twenty other human beings and other sheep from photographs. Have you heard how sheep in Asia have learnt through observation to operate water pumps using their horns? But have you also […]

    27 min

  3. 02/05/2020

    Is Ethical Fashion on Your Radar? Why It Should Be! with New York’s acclaimed Fashion Designer, Joshua Katcher

    Did you know that entire species have gone extinct due to the fashion industry, and that the leather shoe industry is one of the main drivers of climate change? Have you heard that it is leather, not meat, that is by far the most profitable element of factory farming animals such as cows and pigs? […]

    37 min

  4. 12/18/2019

    Ex Dolphin Trainer Jeff Ventre’s Wild Transformation: A Necrotic Tail and A Human Revelation

    In this episode of NYK Experts Uncut, Dr. Jeff Ventre, former marine mammal trainer at SeaWorld explains how after seeing killer whales in the wild, he had a profound and life-changing revelation: he could no longer condone cetacean captivity. Jeff, co-founder of the advocacy group, Voice of the Orcas, has co-authored science-based articles, is featured […]

    34 min

  5. 12/04/2019

    Behind the Smile: We’ve Banned it at Home, Let’s Not Do it Abroad – with Melissa Matlow

    In this episode of Now You Know, Kathryn Sussman talks with Melissa Matlow, campaign director at World Animal Protection, about WAP’s WildLife. Not Entertainers campaign, which aims to get travel companies and tourists to understand the impact they can have on animals through tourism. Melissa, with more than fifteen years experience leading welfare and environmental […]

    21 min

  6. 11/30/2019

    Why We’re Sending Orangutans to School: How We are Hurting and Helping One of Our Nearest Relatives with Primatologist Dr. Anne Russon

    In this special edition of Now You Know, Kathryn Sussman talks with Primatologist and Professor of Psychology at York University, Glendon College, Dr. Anne Russon. With over 30 years experience studying and working with wild and captive Orangutans in Indonesian Borneo, Dr. Anne underscores how these great apes are so very similar to us, and […]

    27 min

  7. 11/06/2019

    Think climate change is the polar bear’s greatest threat? Think again – Morten Jorgensen

    Is climate change the polar bears’ greatest threat? In this jaw-dropping interview, author and conservationist Morten Jorgensen explains how all risks to wild polar bear populations are human-posed. While global warming is the best-known, the most dangerous is in fact overhunting. What we are doing wrong and where are we, as Canadians, failing to protect this iconic species?

    27 min

  8. 06/24/2019

    “The Ocean Is The Planet” – Capt. Paul Watson

    Award-winning Captain Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace, and founder, president and executive director of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society talks about a wide gamut of marine conservation issues. Everything from the current state of wild whale populations, to Canada’s recent ban of shark fin and cetacean import, as well as the commercial seal hunt and […]

    24 min
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The NYK Experts Uncut podcast is a series of in-depth interviews with world-known experts in animal science, animal welfare and wildlife conservation. The podcast provides listeners with unprecedented access to the latest information about animal welfare issues from the incisive viewpoints of the people pioneering change on controversial and important animal topics. It covers issues across the breadth of human usage of animals and animals in the wild, and the challenges they face due to climate change, habitat destruction, poaching, and other causes.

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  • Creator
    Now You Know
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2020
  • Episodes
    23
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2019 Now You Know
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