Animals Are Calling

About the episodeAnimal Sentience might sound like a hard concept to understand and a concept that many might find hard to image in practice. In this episode we will dive deep with Hanli Prinsloo and her personal experiences as a deep diver with the animals in our oceans and how animal sentience can be the key concept to help others fight for a better future in our planet.In conversation with...Hanli Prinsloo - I AM WATER Foundation: World Leading Diver and Ocean Campaigner talks about her close experience with marine animals, their sentience, how climate change is impacting their future, and what she is doing to help. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wild animals in captivity and exploited for tourist entertainment are deprived of a life where they can express their full range of emotions, feelings, and natural behaviours. In this episode we’ll find out why wild animals deserve a wild life and why they should never be in captivity or farmed. We will find out how sentient wild animals suffer in captivity for tourist entertainment and what the travel companies are doing to offer responsible travel options. In this episode, we talked with:Dr. Helen Lambert: Animal welfare scientist and sentience expert, returns to this episode to explain what wild animals feel in captivity and what is learned helplessness.Carol Buckley - Elephant Aid International: Explains her journey working with elephants in captivity and how that led her to create a Sanctuary for Tara (the first elephant she worked with) and for the recent resident Mundi.Janek Andre - We Whale: Janek shares his experience about how a visit to a dolphinarium at 17 years old marked him forever. After years of looking for opportunities to improve the lives of dolphins in captivity, today he is offering whale and dolphin watching options to tourists who want to see these animals in the wild waters of Tenerife, Spain.Sofie Lund - Nordic Leisure Travel Group & Spies: Sofie’s personal experiences as well as seeing customers seeking more responsible travel options led her to partner with World Animal Protection Denmark to explore wildlife friendly travel options, here she explain more about it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Have you ever wondered if animals can feel complex emotions like us? How would we relate to them if we knew they are capable of experiencing pleasure, pain, joy, and fear? In this episode, we are exploring what sentience means and how by understanding sentience and putting what we learn into practice we can help change the way the world works to provide animals a life worth living.In this episode, we visited and talked with:Dr. Helen Lambert: Animal welfare scientist and sentience expert, explains what animal sentience means and how understanding animals' complex emotions can help change the way we relate to them and treat them.Henry Mance: Author and Chief Features Editor at the Financial Times, who wrote a featured article all about how understanding the intelligence and complex emotions of pigs can impact the future of investing in factory farming, talks about his findings.Laurence Candy: Former beef and dairy farmer transitioning away from using livestock towards growing cereal and preparing to become certified to Biocyclic Vegan Standard, explains how he changed his entire production system at Northwood Farm after connecting with animals and nature, and how understanding sentience has led him to these changes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 7: A Look Back at Series 1For this episode Carly Squires is joined by a selection of World Animal Protection’s experts, as she looks back over the first series of Animals Are Calling, unpicks the key things we have learned and discusses the small but fundamental things we can all do to make a difference. Thanks so much for subscribing to the podcast. We’d love to hear from you in the form of a review. It’s great feedback for us and helps other people find the podcast. Just click on the review section wherever you listen to the podcast. Thanks to Kristin Heggeli who has compiled this episode. Animals Are Calling is a podcast from World Animal Protection.It’s produced and mixed by Jonny Bunyan for Pardon Our FrenchThe executive producer is Emi Kondo.Thank you so much for listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For this episode Carly Squires is joined by World Animal Protection’s Cameron Harsh and Vince Cinches, to discuss how reducing your meat intake can truly make a difference to animals and the environment.But what are the ways in which we can practically reduce our meat consumption? And how are big brands joining the movement? Thanks so much for subscribing to the podcast. We’d love to hear from you in the form of a review. It’s great feedback for us and helps other people find the podcast. Just click on the review section wherever you listen to the podcast. Animals Are Calling is a podcast from World Animal Protection. It’s produced and mixed by Jonny Bunyan for Pardon Our French The executive producer is Emi Kondo. Thank you so much for listening.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 3: Wildlife trade, can global leaders make a difference?  A few days after the G20 meeting in Italy have our leaders made a difference for animals?We spoke with World Animal Protection’s Head of Campaigns, Gilbert Sape and Head of Campaigns and Head of External Affairs, James Royston, to discuss what the global wildlife trade is and why we have been asking the G20 to act on this. Plus, learn how you can be a part of the movement to end this cruel industry.We’d love you to get in touch with us with any questions or comments on our social channels. Just search for World Animal Protection on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Also, please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode. Animals Are Calling is a podcast from World Animal Protection hosted by Carly Squires.Produced and mixed by Jonny Bunyan for Pardon Our French. The executive producer is Emi Kondo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 1: Animal Welfare - the pressing issue of our timeWhy does Animal Welfare needs to be raised in the global agenda? Join this conversation with World Animal Protection’s CEO Steve McIvor. Our growing population, urbanisation and increasing wealth are driving demand in systems that commodify and exploit animals. If left unchecked, this worldwide problem will only continue to grow.On this episode we want you to imagine a better future, a better world where we help millions of animals lives in the next decade and listen simple ways in which we can all combat this problem together.We’d love you to get in touch with us with any questions or comments on our social channels. Just search for World Animal Protection on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Also, please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode. Note: Starting June 2024 Tricia Croasdell became the Global CEO of World Animal ProtectionAnimals Are Calling is a podcast from World Animal Protection hosted by Carly Squires.Produced and mixed by Jonny Bunyan for Pardon Our French The executive producer is Emi Kondo.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.