Tag Archives: conservation

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:24 — 40.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn today’s feature report, WFHB Environmental Correspondent Carrie Albright speaks with Gillian Field, Urban Green Space Outreach Coordinator for the City of Bloomington. Field discusses environmental conservation efforts in the city and highlights the Adopt-a-Green-Space program, which invites residents to care for local parks with a one-year …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:58 — 41.2MB)Subscribe: RSSHello and welcome to Eco Report. In today’s feature report, we are looking at a growing threat to one of Monroe County’s most important natural resources. Invasive species are spreading through Monroe Lake, threatening native plants, animals, and the lake’s overall ecosystem. WFHB Environmental correspondent, Amelia Bucher has the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:09 — 69.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | More In this week’s feature report,  WFHB Environmental Correspondent Zero Roze gets an update from the Indiana Forest Alliance on a set of ongoing issues and opportunities to get involved in documenting local endangered species. The New York Times reports at the Republican National Convention, climate change …

Hello and welcome to Eco-Report. For W-F-H-B, I’m Julianna Dailey. And I’m Cynthia Roberts. That was Steven Stewart of the Indiana Forest Alliance. We’ll hear more from I.F.A. later in the program on how both wildfires and controlled burns pose Air Quality hazards. And we’ll learn about I.F.A’s new campaign for a new National Park as an Old Growth Forest Preserve. …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:51 — 41.1MB)Subscribe: RSS Hello and welcome to Eco-Report. For W-F-H-B, I’m Julianna Dailey. And I am Cynthia Roberts. Later in this half hour, we hear from Marilyn Bauchat of Uplands Network, an aspect of the Hoosier Chapter of the Sierra Club, about their conservation initiatives and upcoming events. And now for …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:43 — 40.9MB)Subscribe: RSS  Hello and welcome to Eco Report. For WFHB, I’m Julianna Dailey. And I’m Frank Marshalek. Coming up later in today’s episode, we learn about the EcoBlitz wildlife survey program monitoring biodiversity and bat populations in Indiana which discovered a new species of bee. We also get details about …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:14 — 52.6MB)Subscribe: RSSIn this week’s Eco Report EXTRA, correspondent Zyro Roze gets an in depth update from Steven Stewart, Hoosier National Forest Program Director for the Indiana Forest Alliance (IFA), on the latest developments regarding grassroots activists’ pressure on state officials to rethink the Buffalo Springs Restoration Project to allow more …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 33:01 — 30.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreComing up later in the program, correspondent Zyro Roze gets an in depth update from Steven Stewart, Hoosier National Forest Program Director for the Indiana Forest Alliance (IFA), on the latest developments regarding grassroots activists’ pressure on state officials to rethink the Buffalo Springs Restoration Project. And …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:48 — 30.0MB)Subscribe: RSSOn Friday June 10th, concerned Southern Indiana residents met to discuss how to protect the Hoosier National Forest from a logging and burning project the Forest Service announced back in October 2021. The group, Save the Hoosier National Forest, opposes the Buffalo Springs Restoration Project, and wants to make …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 19.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAccording to a new report from the environmental and indigenous rights group Amazon Watch, five of the world’s largest banks are funding crude oil extraction in the western Amazon rainforest. After immense conservation efforts, the numbers of critically endangered black rhinoceroses is slowly ticking up, according to …