Following the trail of wildlife poachers, by way of elephant poo
“Feces is the most accessible wildlife product in nature” – how that could help stop the illegal trade of ivory. A dispatch from the project Booked and Buried. And a look at corruption at the highest levels of FIFA, with fallout that continues from 2015.
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Sam Wasser, fighting the ivory trade
How do you stop elephant poaching? Or the illegal ivory trade? University of Washington conservation biologist Sam Wasser’s method involves… poop. He tracks elephant populations using dung DNA extraction, and is having real success disrupting trafficking cartels.
Austin Jenkins, Booked and Buried
Native Americans are disproportionately likely to be in Northwest jails, and to die in Northwest jails. KUOW’s Austin Jenkins wrote about two cousins who passed away in the Whatcom County Jail, and what their stories say about this epidemic.
Ken Bensinger, Red Card
It’s the Women’s World Cup! Four years ago, the games were overshadowed by massive corruption busts of FIFA heads on counts of fraud, bribery, and elaborate extortion. Seattle-born Buzzfeed journalist Ken Bensinger wrote a book on the scandal called Red Card: How the US Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal; we spoke to him last summer.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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