Episode 58: Tyus Williams On The Role That Diversity, Justice, and Equality Play In Winning The Tough Conservation Battles Ahead
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Tyus Williams, Wildlife Ecologist, University of Nevada Reno
About
Tyus Williams is a Wildlife Ecologist currently working with The University of Nevada Reno as a field ecologist. He went to school at the University of Georgia where he studied fisheries and wildlife science. After performing his undergraduate thesis on jaguars in Belize he is now pursuing graduate school in the interest of carnivore ecology and spatial analysis.
Topics
- Why fixing the equality and social justice problem is key to winning big conservation battles.
- The need for better science funding.
- The facts of incremental change vs. running out the clock. Will we make it in time?
- Dealing with the onslaught of racial anxiety and social unrest as a black wildlife ecologist.
Extra Credit
Tyus Recommends:
- ACLU
- NAACP
- Atlanta Community Food Bank
- Defenders of Wildlife
- Human Rights Campaign
- Backyard Basecamp
- Outdoor Afro
- Panthera
Director of Digital Outreach (D.O.D.O.) for The Rewilding Institute
Host and Producer of the Rewilding Earth Podcast
Jack started Rewilding work as Executive Director of Sky Island Alliance in the mid-1990’s, organizing the Sky Island Wildlands Network design, ripping up illegal roads on forest service lands, installing wolf acclimatization pens on Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch & conducting howling surveys to help make way for the final stage of the Lobo reintroduction program in the Southwest.
Through the years, Jack has worked with Dave Foreman and the Rewilding Gang to further Rewilding initiatives and education.