Thursday,  February 15, 2007    www.wildsidenews.com  

The Passionate Warriors

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 Segment 1

News 

The battle to save the whales

brings you up-to-date on Captain Watson and Sea Shepherd's efforts to save hundreds of whales from slaughter for Japanese "research." 

www.seashepherd.org


. . . . then . . .an update. . . 

The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

with

Dr.Geoffrey Hill

Auburn University

(www.auburn.edu/ivorybill)

Dr. Hill is leading a team of researchers and field workers into the depths of the Choctawhatchee River swamp lands in Florida to capture definitive proof about the existence of the "extinct" ivory-billed woodpecker. 

Dr. Hill is gearing up his field teams with sophisticated technology and strategies to zero in on capturing and proving a sighting.

 

 Segment 2

Ivory-Billed Update

  Dr. Hill continues as he reveals his most recent findings of double-taps, kent calls and sightings and what will happen if and when he and his team succeed in their mission.

 

for further information 

visit Dr. Hill's website

www.auburn.edu/ivorybill

 

 

To hear the previous update

click here

 

   Segment 3

Wildbranch Writing Workshop

David Brown Director

Wildbranch Nature Writing Workshop

Vermont

 

30 participants will team up with a talented staff of instructors and visiting instructors for a week-long foray into the craft of nature writing. We talk with David Brown who has directed this intensive in Vermont for the past 20 years.

 

website for the workshop

www.sterlingcollege.edu/AD.wildbranch.html