Paris without the Eiffel Tower? India without the Taj Mahal? Unthinkable! So too is the thought of Puget Sound, WA without the iconic Dungeness crab. Join Hilary as she talks with Jason Morgan, Derelict Fishing Gear Manager for the Northwest Straits Foundation, about a highly successful campaign which has reduced the number of lost crab pots – and lost crabs! – to the benefit of wildlife and people.

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Stop the Steel: How Oregon's Clean Marina Program is Eliminating Abandoned and Derelict Vessels

Conservation Café is designed to inspire and empower everyone working at the front lines of the conservation and sustainability battles. This upbeat podcast shines a bright spotlight on where these challenging battles are being won, and how. Each episode features individuals whose work is making a real difference in protecting the air we breathe, the water we drink, or the critters who make our hearts go pitter patter (or fill our fishing nets and crab pots).

Host Hilary Wilkinson, Owner of Veda Environmental, will introduce you to innovative and determined conservation practitioners who have faced an endless parade of skeptics, confronted and overcome language barriers, and braved old adversaries to advance sustainability and conservation efforts across the globe. These successes share common themes of innovation in how science is communicated and engagement of diverse perspectives.