Episode Details

Charles Foley interviews  Jon Hall about 30 years of mammalwatching and 16 years of mammalwatching.com, seeing a Giant Panda in the wild, and looking for Markhors while hiding from the Taliban.

For more information visit www.mammalwatching.com/podcast

Here's the YouTube trailer.

Notes: Jon's report for Pakistan (2011), China (2005) and Gabon (2018). There are hundreds more on mammalwatching.com. His mammal-rich letter to Father Christmas is here.  And here's a video of him talking about the links between mammalwatching and happiness.
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Cover photo - Jon’s Giant Panda - by Mr Zhang (Foping Nature Reserve).
Watch the trailer.

Dr Charles Foley is a mammalwatcher and biologist who, together with his wife Lara, spent 30 years studying elephants in Tanzania. They now run the Tanzania Conservation Research Program at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.

Jon Hall set up mammalwatching.com in 2005. Genetically Welsh, spiritually Australian, currently in New York City. He has looked for mammals in over 100 countries.

Produced and edited by José G. Martínez-Fonseca mammalwatcher, photographer and wildlife biologist.

Thanks also to Sierra Foley for her editing skills and patience.