The Red List Project

About this episode

This episode discusses The Red List Project, a conservation initiative linking the fragrance industry with local environmental efforts.

For today's episode, we're joined by Luiza F. A. de Paula, Vanessa Handley, Raphael Ocelli, and Peggy Fielder, who are four of the authors of the recent BioScience article " Beyond Scents: Calling on the Fragrance Industry to Champion Plant Diversity ." In it, they describe The Red List Project, which is a conservation-first initiative that pairs partners from the fragrance industry with local environmental groups and communities to achieve biodiversity objectives and safeguard biocultural heritage, while creating viable fragrance products. Learn more about one of the initiatives discussed in the podcast, the Magnolia masphi fragrance, in this podcast episode from Beyond the Journey.

People in this episode

Guests: Luiza F. A. de Paula, Vanessa Handley, Raphael Ocelli, Peggy Fielder

Topics covered

• conservation
• biodiversity
• fragrance industry
• biocultural heritage
• environmental groups

Keywords

• The Red List Project
• plant diversity
• biodiversity objectives
• fragrance products
• Magnolia masphi

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Beyond Scents: Calling on the Fragrance Industry to Champion Plant Diversity

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