Animal Sentience might sound like a hard concept to understand and a concept that many might find hard to image in practice. In this episode we will dive deep with Hanli Prinsloo and her personal experiences as a deep diver with the animals in our oceans and how animal sentience can be the key concept to help others fight for a better future in our planet.

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Habitat loss is the greatest threat to the world’s biodiversity and wild animals are experiencing a catastrophic decline in their natural habitats through human activity and climate change. Trillions of animals are exploited in the lucrative global wildlife trade every year, while agriculture is the single largest cause of habitat loss as it ruthlessly clears land to grow crops to feed farmed animal. And it’s sentient animals caught in the crossfire; beings who think, feel, have personalities and needs, that are suffering routinely at human hands.

This episode we will explore why hundreds of Amazon river dolphins are dying from rising temperatures and drought, speak to a world leading deep diver and ocean campaigner who has a strong connection with marine life, and understand more about how animals are suffering in Brazil due to intense agribusiness.

In this episode, we talked with:

• Dr. Miriam Marmontel - Mamirauá Institute: Talks about the recent drought they are experiencing in the Amazon, how this caused the deaths of hundreds of Amazon dolphins, and what they are doing to help.
• Roberto Vieto - WAP Global Animal Welfare Advisor: Talks about his personal experiences helping animals during the Amazon and Pantanal fires, how agribusiness is the main challenge we need to face, and how Xama and Cecilia can be the hope we need to keep fighting for our planet.
• Jonnie Hughes - Producer/Director at Silverback Studios: As producer/director for some award-winning wildlife films, some of them with Sir. David Attenborough, Jonnie has experienced our planet and its animals as no one before. In the episode, he talks about animal sentience and how we are losing habitats and species faster than ever before.

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Wild animals in captivity and exploited for tourist entertainment are deprived of a life where they can express their full range of emotions, feelings, and natural behaviours. In this episode we’ll find out why wild animals deserve a wild life and why they should never be in captivity or farmed. We will find out how sentient wild animals suffer in captivity for tourist entertainment and what the travel companies are doing to offer responsible travel options.

In this episode, we talked with:

• Dr. Helen Lambert: Animal welfare scientist and sentience expert, returns to this episode to explain what wild animals feel in captivity and what is learned helplessness.
• Carol Buckley - Elephant Aid International: Explains her journey working with elephants in captivity and how that led her to create a Sanctuary for Tara (the first elephant she worked with) and for the recent resident Mundi.
• Janek Andre - We Whale: Janek shares his experience about how a visit to a dolphinarium at 17 years old marked him forever. After years of looking for opportunities to improve the lives of dolphins in captivity, today he is offering whale and dolphin watching options to tourists who want to see these animals in the wild waters of Tenerife, Spain.
• Sofie Lund - Nordic Leisure Travel Group & Spies: Sofie’s personal experiences as well as seeing customers seeking more responsible travel options led her to partner with World Animal Protection Denmark to explore wildlife friendly travel options, here she explain more about it.

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