Ocean Advocacy Episodes

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 connection with water, healing traditions, and community rituals. Discover the spiritual significance of rivers and waterfalls, the sacred role of cacao ceremonies, and how shamanic practices provide healing for visitors from around the world. What You'll Experience Robert'...

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 deep connection to rivers and the devastating impact of illegal mining. "We treat the river as a living person, even though it may seem invisible, it is always present." – Impirita Samani Impirita shares how environmental destruction not only pollutes their sacred wate...

🌊 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 Research Project, which aims to create an ocean-centric governance regime rooted in Māori customs and practices. Learn more: https://uhitai.org Topics We Explore: 🌀 Indigenous Wisdom and Environmental Stewardship: Learn how Indigenous perspectives view everything as ...

🎤 Using Music to Fight Plastic Pollution with Togbe Ghana Togbe 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...

🎤 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...

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 ...

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 ...

July 29th came in just like another day People 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...

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...

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 Future A twenty-four hours of digital presentations and conver...

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...

"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...

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...