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Join Eric Stiles, President and CEO of New Jersey Audubon, co-host Mike Skagerlind, and their guests, in a series of monthly conversations discussing the issues at the heart of New Jersey Audubon's conservation mission. read less

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Bats: Nighttime’s Good Neighbors

Bats: Nighttime’s Good Neighbors

In the series finale, MacKenzie Hall, a wildlife biologist from New Jersey Fish and Wildlife, shares her fascinating insights into New Jersey’s bat species, outlining the challenges they face and explaining why they are such good neighbors to humans. And in a farewell interview, Eric Stiles, now Emeritus President and CEO of New Jersey Audubon, reflects on the conservation path he and the organization have traveled over the past 21 years. For more information, please visit: https://njaudubon.org/coffee

Bats: Nighttime’s Good Neighbors

Bats: Nighttime’s Good Neighbors

In the series finale, MacKenzie Hall, a wildlife biologist from New Jersey Fish and Wildlife, shares her fascinating insights into New Jersey’s bat species, outlining the challenges they face and explaining why they are such good neighbors to humans. And in a farewell interview, Eric Stiles, now Emeritus President and CEO of New Jersey Audubon, reflects on the conservation path he and the organization have traveled over the past 21 years. For more information, please visit: https://njaudubon.org/coffee

One Song, Many Voices.

One Song, Many Voices.

Harvard University's Dr. Scott Edwards on evolution, his epic bicycle trip across the continental US, and what he learned about the people and wildlife he met along the way. For more information, please visit: https://njaudubon.org/coffee

Birding Is For Everybody. And Every Body.

Birding Is For Everybody. And Every Body.

Virginia Rose and Freya McGregor from Birdability on the challenges — and benefits — for people with disabilities while out in nature. For more information, please visit njaudubon.org/coffee

N8ture_Al On Seeing And Being Seen

N8ture_Al On Seeing And Being Seen

Alex Troutman, a Black wildlife biologist and nature advocate, discusses the importance of seeing people who look like you in the development and growth of careers like his in the biological sciences. For more info, please visit: https://njaudubon.org/coffee

How To Grow A National Park

How To Grow A National Park

Professor Doug Tallamy discusses his Homegrown National Park movement, described as the largest co-operative conservation project ever attempted, which reimagines our backyards and community outdoor spaces as vital links in the web of life — and is growing a national park in the process. For more info, please visit: https://njaudubon.org/coffee

Alarms In The Wilderness

Alarms In The Wilderness

In 2021, Tiffany Kersten broke the American Birding Association’s record for the most bird species seen in the lower 48 states in one calendar year. Often birding alone in remote places, she did it as a survivor of a recent sexual assault. Tiffany tells the story of how her birding Big Year spawned an even more important goal: to elevate women birders and to raise awareness about women’s safety in the great outdoors. For more information and resources, please go to: https://njaudubon.org/coffee

To Change A Narrative

To Change A Narrative

Renata Barnes, Co-ordinator of the Outdoor Equity Alliance, discusses the challenges that impede equitable access to nature, the need to face uncomfortable historical truths, and the mutual benefits of introducing young folks with little experience of the natural world to wild spaces and all the treasures they contain. For more info, please go to https://njaudubon.org/coffee

A Passion For Birding

A Passion For Birding

Eliana Ardila Kramer, one half of the Birding By Bus duo, reflects on her birding life, how a passion for birds helps us connect with our fellow humans, and the wondrous biodiversity of Colombia. For more information, please go to: https://njaudubon.org/coffee

Angling For Diversity

Angling For Diversity

Todd Pride, President of Legacy Land and Water Partners, on why bio- and human diversity are two sides of the same coin, creating lasting bonds between kids and the natural world through fishing and hunting, and a new focus on the natural spaces of the Underground Railroad. For more information, please visit: https://njaudubon.org/coffee

Under The Surface: Conserving Planet Ocean

Under The Surface: Conserving Planet Ocean

Dr. Carl Safina, President of the Safina Center, on ocean biodiversity, the threats oceans face, and what we can do to help conserve them. For more info, please visit: https://njaudubon.org/coffee

Tracking Wildlife In The Digital Age

Tracking Wildlife In The Digital Age

Dr. Trish Miller and Mike Lanzone explain how the bleeding-edge tech powering wildlife tracking today is yielding new insights into animal behavior. For more information, including links to eagle flight-path animations, please visit: https://njaudubon.org/coffee

Mostly Air: The Magic Of Owls

Mostly Air: The Magic Of Owls

Katy Duffy has been banding, surveying, and teaching about owls for over 40 years. She joined the podcast from Yellowstone to share her insights into, and love for, this iconic and much beloved group of birds. For more info, please visit: https://njaudubon.org/coffee

Sustainable Cities

Sustainable Cities

Climate scientist Dr. William Solecki on what makes sustainable cities work, how they use nature as a partner and ally, and the increasingly important role they will play in the fight against climate change. For more info, please visit: https://njaudubon.org/coffee

The Art Of Conservation

The Art Of Conservation

The artist Pat Brentano discusses her visual voice and speaking out for nature, the importance of the arts in education, and the benefits of native-planted yards. For more info, please visit: https://njaudubon.org/coffee

Jonathan Franzen Is In Love. With Birds.

Jonathan Franzen Is In Love. With Birds.

Acclaimed author and essayist Jonathan Franzen on his love of birding, the deeper meanings of beauty, and caring for habitats and wildlife in the teeth of the iron logic of climate change. For more information, please visit: https://njaudubon.org

A Cleaner, Greener New Jersey

A Cleaner, Greener New Jersey

Kelly Mooij, Director of the Division of Clean Energy at the NJ Board of Public Utilities, on New Jersey's wild habitat- and community-friendly energy initiatives — and listening for leaks. For more info, please visit: https://njaudubon.org/coffee

A Conversation With Dave Golden

A Conversation With Dave Golden

Dave Golden, Director of the NJDEP Division of Fish & Wildlife, on the vital importance of land (and ocean) stewardship in maintaining species diversity, the long history of hunting and conservation, and providing access to natural habitats for all, in crowded New Jersey. For more info, please visit: https://njaudubon.org/coffee

A People's Park

A People's Park

Sam Pesin and Greg Remaud tell the story of Liberty State Park and why it's so important to protect such a special and symbolic natural oasis for the three and a half million people who use it every year. For more info, please visit: https://njaudubon.org/coffee

Black Birders Week Takes Flight

Black Birders Week Takes Flight

Corina Newsome and Tykee James, two of the co-organizers of Black Birders Week, discuss how a week of rapidly organized social media events became a STEM phenomenon, as well as the prescriptions for racial justice that inspired it. For more info, please visit: https://njaudubon.org/coffee

The Story Of Bird Friendly Coffee

The Story Of Bird Friendly Coffee

Dr. Amanda Rodewald, Garvin Professor of Ornithology at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Dr. Ruth Bennett, Research Ecologist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, join Eric and Mike to discuss bird friendly coffee farming, its importance to the ecology of the areas where it's grown, and the benefits for the local farmers who grow it. For more info, please visit: https://njaudubon.org