Sacred Forests, Pandas, Orangutans, White Elephants: A Seasoned Traveler's Exotic Quests

Places I Remember with Lea Lane

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Paul Spencer Sochaczewski has been a conservationist with the World Wildlife Fund for over 40 years. He tells of his boyhood adventure in upstate New York State. He talks of following in the steps of his idol, Alfred Russell Wallace, who studied species with Charles Darwin, and of later quests in the jungles of Borneo, Laos and other exotic destinations around the world.
Paul tells of pandas, palm oil, orangutans -- ending with everything you want to know concerning a search about mysterious white elephants.
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Paul Spencer Sochaczewski is an a conservationist, adventurer and author. [e-mail] www.sochaczewski.com
His latest books:
A Conservation Notebook (just published)
Searching for Ganesha / EarthLove
Dead, But Still Kicking / Exceptional Encounters
An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles
Curious Encounters of the Human Kind (five book series)
Redheads / Soul of the Tiger / Distant Greens
Share Your Journey: Mastering Personal Writing
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Podcast host Lea Lane blogs at forbes.com, has traveled to over 100 countries, written nine books, including Places I Remember, and contributed to many guidebooks.
Contact Lea! @lealane on Twitter; PlacesIRememberLeaLane on Insta; on Facebook, it's Places I Remember with Lea Lane. Website: placesirememberlealane.com.
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1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. The influence of Alfred Russell Wallace (00:00:00)

3. Paul's first quest (00:00:47)

4. The influence of Alfred Russell Wallace (00:02:40)

5. Sacred forests (00:05:37)

6. Charismatic mega-vertebrates (00:07:07)

7. Dealing with oil palms (00:10:03)

8. White elephants (00:12:23)

9. Ending with a quote (00:17:26)