Pelecanus Radio

Welcome to The Possibilists! The Possibilists is a podcast collaboration between The Smithsonian Earth Optimism and Pelecanus. conservationcommons.si.edu www.pelecanus.org In this partnership we spotlight conservationists working with a possibilistic attitude for solutions-based efforts to tackle the world's critical environmental struggles. We’re attempting to reframe the narrative around conservation to show that conservation successes are possible through changes in attitude and implementation of intentional change. In this episode of The Possibilists we talk to Dr. Hila Shamon on World Bison Day! Dr. Shamon is a landscape ecologist and mammalogist at Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Conservation Ecology Center. Shamon’s research interests focus on anthropogenic activity and land use changes effects on terrestrial mammals’ distribution and densities across large landscape gradients. Today we talk about her work with the American Bison and Swift Fox in and around Montana where she lives. She