we'll come up with some really exciting ideas to hopefully inspire you guys to get a little bit more involved in wildlife conservation and in sustainability as a whole. So, who the heck am I? Um, I think this picturepretty much sums it up. I uh I travel the world and I'm a little bit crazy about animals, you know, but but in
Absolutely. So in veterinary school, you learn the basics of all the domestic animals and then as you continue to wildlife , um, and maybe they want to connect with nonprofit organizations
Cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, and other forms of farmed animals for our food production, basically, have grown eightfold globally. Wildlife has collapsed. When I was your age or in college, populations of wildlife have plummeted.Mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates-- leave out all insects, because they're
As she mentioned, I'm a photographer, cinematographer, who currently specialize in animal conservation, wildlife conservation. I've been doing animal films for a long time, but only in the last three or four years, have I've been focused solely on conservation.Today, I'd like to give you a presentation I call the "Struggle of Beauty." It's a series of about 40 photographs that I've spent the last, say, three or four
Apple. And what we've done is we've we actually started a veterary clinic in the Galapagos Islands to bring veterary care both to domestic animals and to wildlife . Uh it's going very well and we're expanding. So, we're beginning a clinic in Bise in January. And we'vealso brought veterary care to Thailand and Greenland.
year for shark fin soup and I thought that if we could get this message to the public something would change so as a wildlife photographer I got magazine articles published in all the major magazines and all the big newspapers I gave the photo stories away I didn'tcharge for them just so we can get this message out there we set up a fund with the charles darwin research station and
Everything else from back alleys of cities around the planet, mining it for the abstracts, a lot of cultural work, nudes, wildlife , landscapes, cultural, anything that piques my interest, I'll photograph.The most interesting story for me, being on that mountain for three months, is you get used to blue sky, gray rock, and snow.
They're used in science. Wildlife are all around us.They're used in the pet trade.
We're the anchor for this massive movement in Northern Kenya. Wildlife and community go hand in hand.These are stats on poaching.
and that is to photograph the biology of a critter. That's my specialty. Asking questions in my mind and trying to find it in the view finder to bring back answers Wildlife photography, of course, is still my greatest passion. But any kind of photography. Get you out there.
difference between dozing off in a jet 30,000 feet above the ground and zipping across the plains low enough to spot wildlife a good difference in a jet you feel slightly sheltered as you pass through the clouds and look out over thevast haze covering the earth in a bush plane you feel alive the engine roars loudly as you put her through the air
And they really wanted to bring the show into this modern stage where it was less about sensational interactions with wildlife , we're not wrestling animals, but instead, really understanding the science behind the conservation of wild animals while being with them and getting our hands on them as appropriate.
The rats, I mean, they got off the ships, looked around. Nuisance wildlife , conflict wildlife , whatever you want to call it, for a long time, there were efforts to just kill them all.
Hello everyone and happy World Wildlife Day. My name is Susette and I'm absolutely thrilled to welcome the incredible wildlife veterinarian, Dr. Gabby Wild. From pioneering elephant acupuncture to treating Jane Goodall's
learn all about amazing wildlife , the dangers these animals face in the wild, and the special relationship that exists between wildlife and people. If you're joining us live today, we'll be taking audience questions towards the end of the talk. So, please be sure to add your questions for Gabby throughout the discussion in the live stream chat
well of all these amazing animals. Um, and so going back a bit to your work as a wildlife vet, um, what does a typical day look like for you? And I know you you mentioned you're going to be releasing a video shortly, but is there even such a thing as a typical day for
Because there's so many issues in the ocean that need to be talked about, not only climate change, sea level rising, overfishing, mining, drilling, sand dredging, marine wildlife . But we also show films that are how we engage with the ocean, and appreciate it, and have fun with it, from surfing, and sailing, and the joy that it brings us, and the peace and tranquility that it brings us, which is all the more reason to protect it.
You need that ability to not pay attention to rejection, and not pay attention to what people are saying, and that extreme dedication. Photographing wildlife is not always easy. It takes a lot of patience, which I'll talk about more in depth later.
Not enough? I only sleep four hours from Anchorage. for wildlife conservation. You've done commercials to save tigers, to save elephants, to save rhinos and things like that.
Islands, we want to make sure that that cats and dogs aren't uh predating on the native wildlife or spreading disease. Yeah. And also a lot of it is is maybe not so much cultural as just a a pure
of wildlife centers. And coming up with applying new technologies to save endangered wildlife .
We are trying to positively influence the community towards wildlife conservation, because we believe the success of conservation work can only be possible if the communities can believe in it. Lewa Wildlife Conservancy now is working with 15 schools. All these schools are government schools.
Part of the technology that we're talking about include fixing of GPS tracking devices on wildlife , on elephants, on rhinos, so that we know exactly where they are on a real-time basis. We are more into fixing of camera traps.
are on board, we've got a perfect opportunity of recreating buck what used to be there. Because wildlife knows where the good grasses are.
largest wildlife awareness program ever.
a wildlife photographer existing in a fashion world is like oil and vinegar.
And wildlife photographers like myself are just taking it and running with it and doing the same thing.
with Wildlife Conservation Society and they've now stopped working. But what is interesting is that in all these regions the elephants cross boundaries. So normally, in Africa,
And wildlife ? male #21: Mosquitoes.
In wildlife photography and in people photography, I do the same thing when I find a subject.
area when there is wildlife , ecosystems, and also local community which are very
And I just said, OK, I don't want to quit, so I need to just have this experience. And I found a wildlife conservation study-abroad program. And it had to match my scholarship because I couldn't afford to pay more to study abroad.
I've been doing science and math. I was just doing wildlife science. It's all been science.
We want to save wildlife for future generations to enjoy.
And then I had the idea of turning it around. What if wildlife were the perpetrators and people were the victims? And so I, in thinking about that, came across this whole little pocket of science that I'd never heard of called human-wildlife conflict.
I love that. OK, so yeah, WHART, W-H-A-R-T, is the acronym, terrible acronym. Stands for Wildlife Human Attack Response Training. And it is a five-day training course for wildlife professionals, who are in a position, when there is a fatal attack by it's usually a bear
But it's held in various places. And different wildlife agencies host it. So this time, it was the Nevada folks.
of his own wildlife and natural history shows.
Fix human-wildlife conflict problems.
Vet Adventures, Dr. Wild takes young readers on a journey around the world to learn all about amazing wildlife , the dangers these animals face in the wild, and the special relationship that exists between wildlife and people. If you're joining us live today, we'll be taking audience questions towards the end of
really who I am and what we're here to talk about today. And I titled today's talk a pulse on planetary health because it directly relates to wildlife . And so, it's presented by myself and I want to firstly dedicate today's talk to
career and who you are and how you got there, it's it's a long story and for me it was that I had dreams. I had always had a passion for wildlife conservation and medicine and I just followed that passion and I was very blessed to have professors who taught me and inspired me and then other mentors that really
professions are really just as involved but that are working internationally to optimize health of people wildlife domestic animals plants and the entire environment and the the cure to maintaining this one health is understanding
Obama and I'm a wildlife veterinarian and I have worked with elephants all over the world.
culture, and people's relationships with wildlife . Uh, so why is it important to talk about wildlife in such a comprehensive way? And for children as well, it's important because the the idea of one health. We're all interconnected and understanding that
Because native wildlife is awesome.
and export laws of wildlife , they announced a full embargo against Mexico a week after we screened the movie there.
And for wildlife , which is what I like best, you need pretty good optical quality and a really long lens.
And whatever comes down is great, and you're lucky some things work, some things don't. But there's no wildlife photography career where you can just do one thing anymore, where you're photographing for one publication. You've got to have a lot of different projects going on.
And then I found myself at the end of those 18 months, I found myself thinking, well, I'm in the Masai Mara, which is one of the wildlife meccas, and so I thought well, turn my attention to the 1.8 million wildebeests that were pouring in, and do the great migration.