Episode Summary:  This episode is an excerpt from a past episode on animals that might go extinct due to human activities

In the first conversation, Jenn and Rod discussed endangered animal species, how human pressure on resources and the destruction of their natural habitats threaten the survival of some animals, and what we can do about it. For example, a few years ago, Jenn’s son bought her for Christmas a year sponsorship of a …baby elephant.

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Jenn Swanson and Rod Aparicio

From Langley in British Columbia, Canada, Jenn is a Minister, Coach, Writer and Community Connector, helping people help themselves. 

Rod is a strategy advisor for indie brands. Rod is from Lima, Peru, living in Frankfurt, Germany

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The CarbonSessions Podcast is produced and edited by Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington and Rob Slater.

So what are, what are your thoughts about all, all

these animals on the edge of

extinction?

My thoughts are that the greatest threat to these animals.

And there are different lists with different animals that are endangered.

And some of these animals I'd never even heard of before, cuz they're in one place.

But my thought is that, um, human beings are the greatest threat and

it's to do with habitat destruction.

That's to do.

Poaching and it's to do with the effects of climate change.

And so that's on our topic of, of carbon, um, and things that

we can do to help the animals.

Did you notice that there were more birds singing when we

were all locked down in COVID?

Yeah, that's one of things like there was silence first.

Servers.

So you could listen to things.

Yeah.

Yeah, but I heard that the, some of the bird populations actually

increased because there was less, um, traffic and pollution, uh, going on.

yeah, not only that

I believe the patterns of migration also went back, , like went back out.

um, fishes, , like the sea population also get, get some, some stuff over

there and, oh, those were two months that were of beauty without noise, right?

The, the silver lining to the, the, the hard, hard pandemic.

Absolutely.

What did you discover about

endangered animals or animals in the edge of Extinction?

Well,

My take animals at the edge of extinction.

It's more let, it's all of us from humans taking humans in also

Cuz at the pace that we're doing things, if things keep going

is slowly like so slowly and incrementally, by the time we're all

done, nothing's gonna be lessened.

We're a threat to ourselves at some like somehow.

Um, as you were saying, like a bit ago, it goes on how we move

and spread, you know, cities.

So going bigger and going into different environments color

COVID because of this somehow.

Um, or just going into.

I can't remember where it was like it's spring county in India.

I think like, I I've seen that cities are growing so big that they go

into tiger or elephant, um, areas.

Right.

I know that in that America, you have poachers also, but not poachers

of exotic animals, but of the.

I can't remember.

What's the word for you have a fish population and you're

not allowed to, to fish them.

Right.

It's restricted.

It's restrictions.

So like they, they go and jump on those restrictions and.

Even though it natural reservations, like in Ecuador, per Chile in Columbia, right?

Or just off the 200 miles that has every country of the waters and

that you have this huge ships that are just, um, taking all, all.

Types with huge nets and it doesn't matter what goes in or not.

Right.

So that definitely has an impact on the population increase

or decrease in this case.

It does.

I, I, uh, one of the things that, um, my son bought for me for Christmas a

few years ago, which is something that everyone can do is, um, well, he said,

I bought you an elephant mom and what he did was he bought me a year long.

Um, A year long, uh, support of an

Sponsorship.

Thank you of an elephant in a wildlife reserve that is for preserving

animals that have, um, you know, this little elephant had lost its

mom because its mom had been poached for, um, I guess tusks parts.

I don't know, but the mom had been killed and this little

baby elephant was taken into a wildlife reserve and people around

the world can, can buy a sponsorship of these animals and, you know,

help to feed and look after.

These species and, and that was something that, , he did for me.

And I thought that was beautiful because I don't need anymore stuff.

and, uh, and it was, I just thought that was a beautiful gift

for the little elephant and for the planet as well as for me.

So that's

something that is, is something that people