Poacher or Protector?

10/21/21 • 67 min

Deep in the jungles of Latin America, front-line wildlife conservation is often met with violent opposition from the extraction economy. Here, hundreds of thousands of parrots are illegally taken by poachers every year. LoraKim Joyner, a wildlife veterinarian, avian conservationist, and Unitarian Universalist minister stands in solidarity and resistance with the people. In a highly adaptive form of culture design, she combines science and spirituality to help marginalized communities—building their capacity to transform poachers into protectors.

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Transcript

Gail Koelln 0:05
I walked in. And here's this little short lady wearing a minister's collar, avian scrubs with parrots all over them, colorful parrots.
Hector Orlando Portillo Reyes 0:22
Something that I respect is the respect that she has for everybody... for the ant, for the bird, for the parrots, for the elephants... for everything. The respect for life.
Gail Koelln 0:38
I call her the Jane Goodall of parrots, the project literally has taken people who are poaching and mad