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Guest: Tshkedi Khama, Minister of Environment, Natural Resources,

Conservation and Tourism, Government of Botswana
Topic: Protecting the African Elephant; CITES and Botswana's Vote for
Appendix I/Most Protective Listing for African Elephant; Proceeding
with Total Ban on Ivory Sales in Botswana

Direct download: AT_Botswana_123016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:00pm MDT

Guests: Jessica Johnson, Chief Legislative Officer, Animal Protection
Voters and Animal Protection of New Mexico and Nick Arrivo, Staff
Attorney for The Humane Society of the United States
Topic: Legislative and Legal Challenges to 2015 Expansion of Cougar
Kill Quotas and Expansion of Trapping on State Public Lands

Direct download: AnimalTalk122316.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:00pm MDT

Trapping of Wildlife on Public Lands in New Mexico

Direct download: AnimalTalk120916.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:00pm MDT

Rule, Effective July 6, 2016, on Ivory Trade in the United States

Direct download: AnimalTalk111816.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:00pm MDT

Guest: Varudhini Chilakamarri, Trial Attorney, US Department of
Justice,  Environment of Natural Resources Division
Topic: Investigation and Prosecution of Dog Fighting Rings

Direct download: AnimalTalk102816.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:00pm MDT

The Practice of Soring of Horses; on a bill to end soring, the
Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act; USDA proposed rule on Soring

Direct download: AnimalTalk_10_21_2016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:00pm MDT

Key issues discussed at October's meeting of the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
(CITES); Wildlife trafficking; Market in Trafficked Animal Parts

Direct download: AnimalTalk_10_14_2016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:00pm MDT

Guest:  Ohio State Representative Bill Patmon
Topic:  Rep Patmon, sponsor of "Goddard's Law," elevated to felony
status certain first-time acts of animal cruelty and animal neglect

Direct download: AnimalTalk100716.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:00pm MDT

Guest:  John Cruden, US Department of Justice, Environment & Natural
Resources Div.
Topic:  Market in USA for Illegal/Poached Ivory; President Obama’s
National Strategy for Combatting Wildlife Trafficking; Efforts to
Reduce Demand for Ivory in USA

Direct download: AnimalTalk_092316.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:50pm MDT

Guests:  Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society’s Hannah Padilla,
Director of Behavior & Training and Ben Swan, Public Information
Officer
Topic:  Rehabilitation Program for Dogs at Santa Fe Shelter

Direct download: AnimalTalk_9_16_2016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:00pm MDT

Guest:  Judge Rosemary Cosgrove-Aguilar
Topic:  Animal Abuse Court in Bernalillo County; Rehabilitation of
Misdemeanor Offenders

Direct download: AnimalTalk090916JudgeCosgroveAguilar.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:00pm MDT

Guest:  Peter LaFontaine, International Fund for Animal Welfare
Topic:  Elephants Losing Their Lives to Supply Illegal Ivory Market;
Efforts to Reduce Demand in USA

Direct download: AnimalTalk_9_2_2016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:00pm MDT

Guest: FBI, Stephen Fischer, Chief, Criminal Justice Information Services
Topic: FBI tracking of animal cruelty crimes; role of state and local
law enforcement in identifying and reporting animal cruelty crimes.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_8_19_2016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:00pm MDT

Equus Film Festival; Films included in this year’s line-up;
Horse/Human Bond; Horses in human history; Vulnerability of horses as
commodity of horse slaughter industry

Direct download: AnimalTalk_081216.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:08am MDT

Thundering Hooves educational event/Santa Fe NM; Documentary in
the making, "Their Last Ride"; vulnerability of horses to kill-buyers;
horses as commodity of horsemeat industry

Direct download: AnimalTalk_080516.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:20am MDT

Pet and Women Safety (PAWS) Act of 2015, bipartisan legislation
to help the estimated one-third of domestic violence victims who delay
leaving abusive relationships out of concern for the wellbeing of
their pets

Direct download: AnimalTalk_072916.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:18am MDT

Topic: Humane certification of cosmetics; cosmetics companies testing
on animals to access Chinese market; testing procedures; euthanasia
methods of animals after testing

Direct download: AnimalTalk_7_22_2016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:16am MDT

Guest: Alley Cat Allies, Misty Christo, Staff Attorney; Rebekah
DeHaven, Staff Attorney and Director of Humane Law and Policy
Topic: Understanding feral cats; comparing effectiveness and humaness
of traditional methods of population control versus modern
"trap-neuter-return" approach; update on Texas license revocation case
involving killing of cat by Kristen Lindsay, DVM

Direct download: AnimalTalk_071516.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:00pm MDT

Guest: The Horse Shelter, Susan Hemmerle, Director
Topic: Rescue and Adoption of New Mexico's Homeless Horses; Effort to
save horses from kill-buyers sending New Mexico's horses to slaughter
in Mexico; NM rescues having to bid against kill-buyers.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_7_8_2016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:44am MDT

Guest: FBI, Stephen Fischer, Chief, Criminal Justice Information Services
Topic: FBI tracking of animal cruelty crimes; role of state and local
law enforcement in identifying and reporting animal cruelty crimes

Direct download: Animal_Talk_070116.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:21am MDT

Guest: National Sheriffs Association, John Thompson, Deputy Executive Director
Topic: National Sheriffs Association and FBI tracking of animal
cruelty crimes; role of state and local law enforcement in identifying
and reporting animal cruelty crimes

Direct download: Animal_Talk_J_Thompson_062416.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:27am MDT

Cruelty-free Cosmetics; Required Testing on Animals for Access
to Chinese Cosmetics Market; Cosmetics companies Choosing to Not Test
on Animals

Direct download: AnimalTalk_6_17_2016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:24am MDT

USDA Settlement with Santa Cruz Biotechnology; Legal and
Regulatory System and Problems in Protecting Animals Used in Research
and Experimentation

Direct download: AnimalTalk_6_10_2016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:29am MDT

Guest: Bruce Friedrich, Executive Director, The Good Food Institute
Topics: Farm animal industry; factory farming

Direct download: AnimalTalk_6_3_2016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:57am MDT

USDA’s Food Safety & Inspection Service HACCP-Based Inspection Models Project, or HIMP; privatization of meat inspection process; impact of HIMP inspection model on welfare of animals, consumers and workers alike.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_05272016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm MDT

Wayne Pacelle discusses his newest book, "The Humane Economy: How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers Are Transforming the Lives of Animals" (published May 2016)

Direct download: AnimalTalk_05202016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm MDT

Campaign members Michelle Pawliger of Animal Welfare Institute, Jose Oliva of  Food Chain Workers Alliance, and Elizabeth Jardim of Green America  on “Good Food Now” campaign to address animal welfare, worker and environmental policies at Olive Garden and other Darden Company restaurants.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_05132016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm MDT

Elder and hospice care for previously homeless animals

Direct download: AnimalTalk_5_6_2016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm MDT

Elder and hospice care for previously homeless animals

Direct download: AnimalTalk_04292016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm MDT

Passing anti-chaining ordinance in Santa Fe county

Direct download: AnimalTalk_04222016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm MDT

Guest:  Paul Shapiro, Vice President of Farm Animal Protection, Humane Society of the United States

Topic:  Massachusetts ballot initiative to advance protection of farmed animals from cruelty; prohibition of sale of meat, dairy and eggs in Massachusetts from animals living in confinement conditions that are cruel.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_4_15_2016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm MDT

Representative Katherine Clark (D-Massachusetts) Sponsor of  Pets and Women Safety Act of 2015, a federal bill before Congress to create protections for family pets targeted in domestic violence.

Direct download: AnimalTalk_04082016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm MDT

Guest:  Iris Ho, Humane Society International

Topic: Washington Ballot Initiative; Combatting Wildlife Trafficking

Direct download: AnimalTalk_4_1_2016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:00pm MDT

Guest: Sasha Lezhnev is Associate Director of Policy, the Enough Project / Topic: Nature of wildlife trafficking today; markets for ivory and / transnational trafficking syndicates; President Obama's National / Strategy for Combatting Wildlife Trafficking

Direct download: AnimalTalk_03252016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm MDT

Guest:  Robert Dreher, Associate Director, US Fish & Wildlife Service
Topic: President Obama's National Strategy for Combatting Wildlife Trafficking; challenges in implementing the Strategy in Africa

Direct download: AnimalTalk_3_18_2016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm MDT

Guest: [Re-air] Lyle Muller, Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism
Topic: Puppy Mills; failed efforts in Iowa to regulate puppy mills

Direct download: AnimalTalk_3_4_2016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm MDT

Guest: Patricia Conoway, NM author
Topic: Book “Listening with My Eyes”; caring for abused horse and mother with Alzheimers; learning to communicate nonverbally; Patricia’s process of sensitization to nonverbal communication

Direct download: AnimalTalk_2_26_2016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm MDT

Guest: Re-air, Matthew Liebman, ALDF
Topic: Industrial animal agriculture; legal framework in which farmed animals are exempted from anti-cruelty statutes

Direct download: AnimalTalk_2_19_2016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm MDT

Guest: Paul Shapiro, Vice President of Farm Animal Protection, Humane
Society of the United States
Topic: Massachusetts ballot initiative to advance protection of farmed animals from cruelty; prohibition of sale of meat, dairy and eggs in Massachusetts from animals living in confinement conditions that are cruel

Direct download: AnimalTalk_2_12_2016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm MDT

Guest: David Wolfson, Attorney
Topic: Legal framework protecting/exempting treatment of farmed animals by agribusiness/industrial animal agriculture

Direct download: AnimalTalk_2_5_2016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm MDT

Guest: Matthew Liebman, Animal Legal Defense Fund
Topic: Industrial animal agriculture; legal framework in which farmed animals are exempted from anti-cruelty statutes

Direct download: AnimalTalk_1_29_2016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm MDT

Guest: Mike Wolf, Mercy for Animals
Topic: Part 2: Mike Wolf’s work and experiences as Undercover
Investigations manager; industrial animal agriculture; factory farms;
exemptions of farmed animals from anti-cruelty statutes

Direct download: AnimalTalk_1_22_2016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm MDT

Continued discussion on practice of industries supplying meat, poultry, and dairy

Direct download: AnimalTalk_01152016_Mike_Wolff.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm MDT

Dena Jones, Animal Welfare Institute  Topic:  (Series on Farmed Animals and Industrial Agriculture) A Critical Review of USDA's "Process Verified" certification program

Direct download: AnimalTalk_01082016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:30pm MDT

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