Ants: Conservation

About this episode

This episode explores whether ants need conservation efforts and discusses their ecological impact.

Summary: Do ants need conservation efforts? Join Kiersten to find out. For my hearing impaired followers, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean Show Notes: “Tales from the Ant World” by Edward O. Wilson “Adventures Among Ants” by Mark W. Moffett “Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson Music written and performed by Katherine Camp Transcript (Piano music plays) Kiersten - This is Ten Things I Like About…a ten minute, ten episode podcast about unknown or misunderstood wildlife. (Piano music stops) Kiersten - Welcome to Ten Things I Like About… I’m Kiersten, your host, and this is a podcast about misunderstood or unknown creatures in nature. Some we’ll find right out side our doors and some are continents away but all are fascinating. This podcast will focus ten, ten minute episodes on different animals and their amazing characteristics. Please join me on this extraordinary journey, you won’t regret it. The final episode of ants has arrived. As my loyal listeners know, this episode is typically about conservation and how we can help the animals or plantsman highlighted in this series, but the question I have about ants is whether they need conservation or…

People in this episode

Host: Kiersten Gibizov

Topics covered

• ants
• conservation
• wildlife
• invertebrates
• nature

Keywords

• ants
• conservation
• wildlife
• invertebrates
• nature
• species extinction
• ecology

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Tales from the Ant World, Adventures Among Ants, Silent Spring

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