Knowing Animals

In the episode of Knowing Animals I speak to Arian Wallach from the Centre for Compassionate Conservation at UTS. We talk about Arian’s co-authored paper ‘Promoting Predators and Compassionate Conservation’ which appeared in the journal Conservation Biology in 2015. Your browser does …continue

In this episode of Knowing Animals I speak to Amanda Richman from the NSW Young Lawyers Animal Law Committee. Amanda is Chair of the committee and a practicing lawyer. We talk about what lawyers can do to aid animals and …continue

In this very special episode of Knowing Animals I share a laugh and a chat with comedian, podcaster (Spokey Blokeys), musician and vegan-about-town Rodney Todd. We talk about vegan junk food, making people laugh about animal rights, and using celebrities …continue

In this episode of Knowing Animals, David Mence from the University of Melbourne talks about whaling, anti-whaling, the use of the harpoon, Sea Shepherd and whale communication.  Your browser does not support the HTML5 audio player. Knowing Animals is a …continue

In this episode of Protecting Animals we speak to Katrina Fox. Katrina has been involved in animal activism in the UK and Australia. She is a journalist and author and has recently published her first sole authored book: ‘Vegan Ventures: …continue

In this episode of Knowing Animals we speak to Shatha Hamade from Animals Australia. She has worked from the RSPCA South Australia; was Young Lawyer of the Year; and was very involved in exposing the blooding of greyhounds in Australia. …continue

Jonathan Balcombe from the Washington DC based Humane Society University discusses his article ‘Animal pleasure and its moral significance’ which appeared in Applied Animal Behaviour Science in 2009. Jonathan explains why we should take animal pleasure much more seriously.  Your browser does not …continue

In this episode of Knowing Animals we speak to Di Evans, the animal welfare office with RSPCA South Australia (SA). She is working to ban jumps racing in SA.  Your browser does not support the HTML5 audio player. Knowing Animals …continue