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Curious about the world around us? So are we! From the jungles of Belize, to bee hives in the heartland of America, we take you to meet inspiring people and organizations that are striving to make a difference in wildlife conservation and education. We are a team of science educators with over 15 years experience in international education who have taken hundreds of students into Central America to learn about the biology and culture of countries such as Belize and Costa Rica. We have passio ...
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Send us a text The scarlet macaw is one of the world's largest parrots, and one of the most beautiful animals of the Central American rainforests. During our visits to the Belize Zoo the macaws are one of our favorite stops due to their curiosity and intelligence. In this episode Kayla and Michael take a look at some of the challenges facing scarle…
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Send us a text We are back with another episode of Inspiring Animals and this week Kayla is going to introduce us to the Central American tapir, one of the most important animals of the rainforest, and one of our favorite animals to learn about! It is an elephant, a pig, an anteater? Actually, none of these! Curious? So are we! So let's explore thi…
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Send us a text Just in time for Halloween, we bring you the second episode of our Inspiring Animals series. And this time our host Kayla will be focusing on the Harpy Eagle. The harpy eagle (Harpia harpyjia) is one of the largest and most powerful raptors in the world. Named for the fearsome harpies of Greek mythology, harpy eagles are top predator…
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Send us a text We are introducing a new feature to the podcast today for our younger listeners who are eager to learn more about some of the interesting animals that we have encountered on our travels. We are calling it Inspiring Animals, and for the first episode we are featuring.... jaguars! Our host, Kayla Windelspecht, will explain some interes…
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Send us a text Audio newsletters? Why not! At IE we always explore new ways of introducing everyone to our message of conservation, education..... and especially inspiration. Here we take a look at what we have been doing this summer! From summer camps, to children's books, to a Run for Jags.... we've been busy. Prefer an email version? We've got y…
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Episode 6: Filly's Story - A Jaguar at the Belize Zoo
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Send us a text In this episode we are going to take you to meet Humberto Wohlers, the General Curator at the Belize Zoo. The care of all of the Zoo's animals are under his umbrella, but today we are going to focus on the fascinating story of Filly, a young jaguar in the Human Jaguar Conflict Program. Humberto also shares how the zookeepers in the H…
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Episode 5: The Inspiration for Nacho House Cat, a Children's Book About Jaguars!
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Send us a text Welcome to Season 2, which we are calling Sharing Science! In this episode we meet with Ashley Moseley, who is not only a member of our IE team, but the author of a new children's book on jaguars! Inspired by her work with jaguar education and conservation projects between IE and the Belize Zoo, Ashley set out to build a children's b…
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Send us a text We are about ready to begin our second season of the IE podcast, and we are calling this season "Sharing Science". Not only are we going to continue our talks with wildlife and ecosystem conservation experts from around the globe, but we are also releasing a new feature for kids called "Inspiring Animals" In this trailer for Season 2…
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Episode 4: Jaguars, Turtles, and Macroinvertebrates - Student Research in Belize
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Send us a text This past spring we took five McNair scholars from Talladega College to Belize to complete their senior research projects in terrestrial turtle monitoring, analyzing the biodiversity of the the rainforest using camera traps, and freshwater macroinvertebrates. For this episode, we reinvited Dr. Andy Coleman, Chair of the Biology Depar…
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Episode 3: The Human Jaguar Conflict Program at the Belize Zoo
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Send us a text Have you ever wondered what happens when the territories of humans and jaguars collide? As you will see, it usually doesn't turn out well for the jaguar. So in this episode, we are meeting with Jamal Andrewin-Bohn, Conservation Director at the Belize Zoo and Tropical Education Center, and zookeeper Jose Valdez to talk about the detai…
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Episode 2: Bringing the Talladega College McNair Scholars to Belize
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Send us a text In our second episode of what we are calling our Partner Season, we are featuring Dr. Andy Coleman, Chair of the Biology Department at Talladega College in Alabama, and more importantly, an individual who shares our passion for making educational experiences available to everyone. Last year, Andy partnered with IE to bring two McNair…
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Send us a text For our first episode, we thought that we would take a few minutes to introduce you to the three co-founders of Inspire EdVentures, Dave, Eric and Michael. Together, they are going to tell the story of what inspired them to form IE, and what they see as the future of conservation education. Each founder has a unique story, but here y…
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Send us a text We finally made it into the podcasting universe! Thank you everyone for your patience and encouragement! We have a lot of exciting guests and programs coming up this season, so to kick things off Michael and Ashley take a few moments to let you know a little bit about us, and what you can expect over the next few months. We would lov…
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