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Cecil the Lion Inspires New Laws / More Anti-Poaching patrols

https://soundcloud.com/abeautifulworld/cecil-the-lion-inspires-new-legislation A Beautiful World Podcast: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a-bea…id986469943?mt=2 Senator Menendez (D-NJ) comments on new legislation inspired by Cecil the Lion. The CECIL Act will extend protection to animals still waiting to become officially listed on the Endangered Species list. Professor David Macdonald, director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at...

04 May, 2016
Man Survives Being Buried for Five Days

  Viral Dalal (VEE-rull DAH-loll): I heard this sound in the background which sounded like thunder, loud thunder and that woke me up. I was sleeping at that poiunt in time I woke up to thunder - furniture moving and became airborne. and I knew it...

25 September, 2017
The World is My Country

Arthur Kanegis: Garry Davis was an everyday man with an extraordinary story. He was a song and dance man on Broadway,  who was so horrified by bombing a city in World War II, and his own brother being killed, that he said "I've got to do something...

20 May, 2017
How Astronauts Change After Seeing Earth From Space

[embed]https://youtu.be/yg0yjOcOWsM[/embed] The Overview Effect is a cognitive shift that affects some astronauts when they see the earth from space. Many say they no longer identify with a specific nationality or culture after seeing earth from outer space, instead they see themselves, and all citizens on earth,...

11 April, 2016
Ann Bancroft

[embed]https://youtu.be/Etuu5_TcgYw[/embed] Ann Bancroft to keynote White House Arctic Science Ministerial September 23, 2016 Story Transcript Heather McElhatton: I'm Heather McElhatton and this is a beautiful world. President Obama: "Now Climate Change is no longer an abstraction. It's not an issue we can put off for the future, it's happening now....

25 September, 2016
People are Good! World Travel with No Money

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ6QxwZQVeA[/embed] Rob Greenfield had a simple idea, that people are good and the world is a good place. So he decided to put his idea to the ultimate test by flying one-way to a far off place with no money, no credit card, no cellphone, not...

22 August, 2016
Noah the Bird Nerd

Noah Strycker: My name is Noah Strycker. I'm a full time bird nerd. Heather McElhatton: Noah Strycker is a writer, photographer, and 'bird man' based in Eugene, Oregon.  He says about 66 million years ago, around the time a large asteroid collided with Earth, all dinosaurs...

22 April, 2018