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The Point of Zoos - ABC Radio National
Giving people the chance to stroke a purring cheetah, or to wander through a Madagascan spiny forest in the middle of New York City are both new ways zoos are using to focus the world on the growing extinction crisis.
The Science Show presents a two-part series exploring zoos and their potential for being true agents for conservation and public education about the natural world.
Part 1 : Adelaide Zoo, South Australia
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Adelaide Zoo has just flown in 2 pandas from China – but it’s also doing exciting work to save the many endangered animals closer to home. Lynne Malcolm meets the surrogate mothers who are saving Australia’s most threatened marsupials, is confronted by a screeching Tasmania Devil called Dexter and witnesses life and death in the frenzy of a Pelican breeding colony.
Part 2 : The Bronx Zoo, New York
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In the middle of New York’s toughest neighbourhoods Lynne Malcolm discovers one of the most active conservation organisations in the world. She encounters leaping lemurs in a recreation of their Madagascan home, meets the orphan Snow Leopard who’ll be helping to save his species from extinction and witnesses Gorillas from the Congo and New Yorkers coming face to face.
The Point of Zoos is a co production between ABC Radio National and BBC radio. It is presented by Lynne Malcolm from ABC Radio National Science Unit and was produced by Andrew Luck Baker from the BBC's Science Unit. The sound engineer was Louis Mitchell from ABC Radio National.
The Point of Zoos - ABC Radio National
The Point of Zoos - ABC Radio National
Giving people the chance to stroke a purring cheetah, or to wander through a Madagascan spiny forest in the middle of New York City are both new ways zoos are using to focus the world on the growing extinction crisis.
The Science Show presents a two-part series exploring zoos and their potential for being true agents for conservation and public education about the natural world.
Part 1 : Adelaide Zoo, South Australia
LISTEN TO PART 1 | DOWNLOAD PART 1 | VIEW ADELAIDE ZOO GALLERY | READ TRANSCRIPT
Adelaide Zoo has just flown in 2 pandas from China – but it’s also doing exciting work to save the many endangered animals closer to home. Lynne Malcolm meets the surrogate mothers who are saving Australia’s most threatened marsupials, is confronted by a screeching Tasmania Devil called Dexter and witnesses life and death in the frenzy of a Pelican breeding colony.
Part 2 : The Bronx Zoo, New York
LISTEN TO PART 2 | DOWNLOAD PART 2 | VIEW BRONX ZOO GALLERY | READ TRANSCRIPT
In the middle of New York’s toughest neighbourhoods Lynne Malcolm discovers one of the most active conservation organisations in the world. She encounters leaping lemurs in a recreation of their Madagascan home, meets the orphan Snow Leopard who’ll be helping to save his species from extinction and witnesses Gorillas from the Congo and New Yorkers coming face to face.
The Point of Zoos is a co production between ABC Radio National and BBC radio. It is presented by Lynne Malcolm from ABC Radio National Science Unit and was produced by Andrew Luck Baker from the BBC's Science Unit. The sound engineer was Louis Mitchell from ABC Radio National.
The Point of Zoos - ABC Radio National