S3E8: Harmed Bears

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 In this episode Amanda unpacks how brown bears in Ukraine and grizzly bears in Canada have been impacted by conflict and war. This content was originally aired in Season 5 of The Animal Turn Podcast. 

Featured: 

• Bear by Robert E. Bieder 
• How are endangered bears escaping the Russian invasion of Ukraine? By Ben Anthony on Euro News. 
• Ukraine War: Situation and Support for Animals by Four Paws. 
• Bear Sanctuary Domazhyr 
• Grizzly Times Podcast. 
• Convergent geographic patterns between grizzly bear population genetic structure and Indigenous language groups in coastal British Columbia by Lauren H. Henson et al. 
• How Indigenous knowledge is helping to protect Canada’s grizzlies by Chloe Berge on The National Geographic. 
• How to Decolonize Conservation by Erica Gies in Hakai Magazine. 
• Decolonization is not a Metaphor by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang 
• The Controversial Ski Resort that Will Never Exist by Megan Michelson. 
•  Qat’muk by Ktunaxa Nation 

Credits: 

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, producer and host 
• Amanda Bunten-Walberg, co-host 
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer 
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork) 
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer 
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