Wild Life! Wild Places! on Pet Life Radio (PetLifeRadio.com)

In episode 2, Donna takes us to North Carolina where she is helping monitor sea turtle activity on Topsail, one of the state’s barrier islands. Topsail is a northern rookery for the threatened species that is the Loggerhead; Green Sea Turtles are found here as well, but in smaller numbers. Because of all the threats--from predation to plastics, marine debris to mechanized fishing—it is estimated that only one in a thousand sea turtle hatchlings will survive a year; only one in 5,000 to 10,000 will survive to maturity. Questions or Comments? Send them to: donna@petliferadio.com. More details on this episode MP3 Podcast - Topsail’s Turtles on Pet Life Radio

With this episode, Preserving the Wealth of the Wild, we launch the new series, Wild Life! Wild Places! on Pet Life Radio. In the feature segment, Donna shares a compendium of surprise encounters with wild animals and invites the listener to consider how much poorer the world would be minus its wealth of the wild. She takes you from a watering hole and savanna in Zimbabwe to America’s Serengeti at Yellowstone, from the pine flatwoods and forested wetlands of Florida to the deeply silent, starlit Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley. In this program are tales of warthogs and wildebeests, a band of beggin’ burros, and plague-ridden prairie dogs. In the Nature News segment are stories on the upcoming "Olympics of the Conservation World;" bird migration routes; dark skies initiatives; and a clarion call out to zoos to ratchet up their conservation efforts to help stave off the mass extinction of threatened and endangered species. Questions or Comments? Send them to: donna@petliferadio.com. More details on this episode MP3 Podcast - Preserving the Wealth of the Wild on Pet Life Radio