Ocean Advocacy Episodes

Engage with Indigenous-led efforts to protect and restore ocean ecosystems, highlighting the importance of marine stewardship and rights.
How to Experience Sacred Healing Using Ancient Bribri Wisdom" (Costa Rica Indigenous Tour)
April 22, 2025

How to Experience Sacred Healing Using Ancient Bribri Wisdom" (Costa …

Join us as we travel to the Caribbean rainforests of Costa Rica with Robert Mora, a proud Bribri community member and cultural guide. In this heartfelt conversation, Robert shares how the Bribri maintain their profound connec...

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How to Protect Living Rivers from Environmental Destruction (Impirita Samani)
Sept. 8, 2024

How to Protect Living Rivers from Environmental Destruction (Impirita…

What if rivers were more than just water—they were living beings with spirit, memory, and life? In this episode, Frank Oscar Weaver speaks with Impirita Samani, an Indigenous Ashaninka leader from Peru, about her people's dee...

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Tangaroa Ara Rau: Māori Indigenous Wisdom for Ocean Governance
June 18, 2024

Tangaroa Ara Rau: Māori Indigenous Wisdom for Ocean Governance

🌊 We have the honor of speaking with Beth Tupara-Katene, a dedicated champion of Māori rights and interests within the marine domain. Beth shares her profound connection to the ocean and the innovative Tangaroa Ararau Researc...

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Using Music to Fight Plastic Pollution with Togbe Ghana
Feb. 17, 2023

Using Music to Fight Plastic Pollution with Togbe Ghana

🎤 Using Music to Fight Plastic Pollution with Togbe GhanaTogbe Ghana is an Ewe activist, musician and entrepreneur on a mission to beat plastic pollution in Ghana. He founded Let's Go Clean the Beach Ghana and uses his music to spread awareness ab...

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Connection to the ocean is ancient and essential for all humans - Earth Knowledge with Native Like Water ’s Marc Chavez
Dec. 16, 2022

Connection to the ocean is ancient and essential for all humans - Ear…

🎤 Connection to the ocean is ancient and essential for all humans - Earth Knowledge with Native Like Water ’s Marc Chavez Mark Chavez, founder of Native Like Water, has been working to reconnect Indigenous youth with the oceans for the last two de...

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“The Whale Child” an Indigenous story of environmental stewardship written by Chenoa Egawa and Keith Egawa
June 9, 2022

“The Whale Child” an Indigenous story of environmental stewardship wr…

We all know that the timeless Indigenous value of environmental stewardship is needed now more than ever and that we must all stand up on behalf of Mother Earth! I had a very good conversation with Indigenous authors Keith Egawa and Chenoa Egawa, about ...

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Jóvenes Indígenas Al Rescate de los Ríos con MiLizbeth Flaco de Emberá, Panamá
May 23, 2022

Jóvenes Indígenas Al Rescate de los Ríos con MiLizbeth Flaco de Ember…

MiLizbeth Flaco es una guardiana del bosque, criada en el corazón de la selva de Panamá. Después de décadas de búsqueda a un lugar seguro por causa de la guerra civil en Colombia, pudo finalmente encontrar un lugar seguro al que llamar hogar. Pero ahora ...

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What Is Overshoot Day? How Can You Stop It? Overshoot Day with Sháán díín Cedar
Oct. 30, 2021

What Is Overshoot Day? How Can You Stop It? Overshoot Day with Sháán …

July 29th came in just like another dayPeople went through their daily lives, like just another day... But after 155 days in 2021, we have reached Earth Overshoot day(a day that marks the moment in time when demand for earth’s ecological resourc...

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Lets Help the Amazon Rainforest with Yuahula Alay Kalapalo : Storyteller of the Forest
Nov. 30, 2020

Lets Help the Amazon Rainforest with Yuahula Alay Kalapalo : Storytel…

Yuahula Alay Kalapalo is in ground zero of the Amazon deforestation, the Xingu region.We talk about what Yuahula is witnessing in the Amazon burning fires, and how he's creating music and film to bring awareness to the problems that the fires have cause...

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Climate Reality – Lead On Climate: A message from Sruthi Gurudev, marine conservation storyteller
Oct. 10, 2020

Climate Reality – Lead On Climate: A message from Sruthi Gurudev, mar…

Countdown to the Future with with Sruthi Gurudev, climate reality leader, and marine conservation storyteller. This podcast is part of Climate Reality's 24 Hours of Reality: Countdown to the FutureA twenty-four hours of digital presentations and conver...

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Save The Bees! With Indigenous Bee Steward Alex Ibarra
July 2, 2020

Save The Bees! With Indigenous Bee Steward Alex Ibarra

We start our new season with an amazing interview with Alex Ibarra, from Indigenous Bee Rescue, all the way from Australia. Alex shares his incredible work of saving bee colonies, and how he honors the traditions of the originals inhabits of Australia i...

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Hear About The Fight To Save The Monarchs Butterfly with Jose Luis Alvarez Alcala - Michoacán, Mexico
May 8, 2020

Hear About The Fight To Save The Monarchs Butterfly with Jose Luis Al…

"We can't talk about deforestation in Mexico without talking about herbicides and the mowing of Milkweed in the US. Both are harming the Monarchs, and solving these problems will help bring their populations back up. We have to cooperate."⁣In this episo...

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We Will Go To The North Of Sumatra, Indonesia To Talk To Ridanto Sembirign About His Efforts To Save Wildlife
April 9, 2020

We Will Go To The North Of Sumatra, Indonesia To Talk To Ridanto Semb…

In today's episode, we will go all the way to the Northern part of Sumatra in Indonesia to speak to Ridanto Sembirign, part of the Karo people, and founder of the Indonesian Species Conservation Program.We start our conversation with a beautiful nature p...

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