Kierán Suckling is Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Center for Biological Diversity, a non-profit membership organization with over one million members and supporters. The Center is known for their no-nonsense approach to protecting endangered species through science, law and creative media. In this interview, Kierán discusses the strategies that have contributed to the successes of the organization, the main factors contributing to species decline today, why biodiversity is important, and the actions humans need to take now to protect all of the vibrant and vital life on our planet.
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"All life is sacred, from polar bears and humans, down to bees and butterflies." - Kierán Suckling
Show Notes:
- How the Center’s innovative approaches to conservation have contributed to their victories
- Why handicaps and limitations can be good for an organization
- How regional scale groups have changed the environmental movement
- The current outlook for endangered and non-endangered species
- The main factors contributing to species decline today
- How the U.S. legal system helps protect species
"If you stay inside the current consensus fence of what’s real and possible, you can get a certain amount of things done… But very often what’s needed is to change the whole consensus sensibility of what’s possible." - Kierán Suckling
- What the environmental movement has borrowed from The Civil Rights Movement
- How the built environment affects species decline
- Why making cities more livable for people is better for all species
- Why biodiversity is good for humans: the example of Lyme disease
- Who should get the Rubber Dodo Award?
- The daunting new threat to predator species and what you can do about it
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"The secret of activists is delusion." - Kierán Suckling