Ole-David Stenseth, Director, Department for Fisheries and Aquaculture of the Norwegian Ministry Of Trade, Industry and Fisheries discusses International Whaling Commission; IWC moratorium on commercial whaling and Norway's decision to continue commercial whaling; March 2014 International Court of Justice ruling against Japan in Australia v. Japan case and scientific whaling; whales as cognitively complex and IWC study of whale cognition; international consensus making.

Else Poulsen, Bear Biologist and Author of "Bärle's Story: One Polar Bear's Amazing Recovery from Life as a Circus Act" talks about Wildlife trafficking, polar bears, wildlife as commodity in entertainment, sentience in polar bears.

Rae Sikora discusses Compassionate Holiday Food Choices

Ennio Garcia-Miera, Legislative Director, Animal Protection of New Mexico talks about Legislative Priorities for 2015 Legislative Session

New Mexico overpopulation of unwanted animals. Making spay/neuter services more available

Migration of Sand Hill Cranes to Bosque

Ken Shapiro, Co-founder, Animals & Society Institute discusses an approach to studying and advancing compassionate change in the human relationship to other species; animals and society.

Phil Kline, Senior Oceans Campaigner, Greenpeace talks about Commercial Whaling, March 2014 International Court of Justice Opinion; International Whaling Commission Regulation of "Scientific" Whaling

A replay from October 3, 2014

Today's episode was a replay from October 3, 2014