The 3-masted topsail schooner Oosterschelde is on a two-year journey around the world, following the route taken by Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle nearly 200 years earlier. The voyage is known as the Darwin200 expedition. It’s the brainchild of Stewart McPherson, a British naturalist and science communicator. McPherson and his colleagues organized conservation projects and educational outreach led by young researchers known as Darwin Leaders in each location.

Thanks to The Explorers Club, Scott had the opportunity to join the Darwin200 expedition in in December 2023 as it sailed from Uruguay to Argentina. During the journey, he sat down with Grant Terrell, an ornithologist serving as the ship’s naturalist who is collecting data about seabirds along the two-year, worldwide journey.

Learn more about the Darwin200 project, and follow the Oosterschelde on its global journey:

https://darwin200.com/

Follow the expedition on social media:

https://www.facebook.com/darwin2002021/

https://www.instagram.com/darwin200_

https://x.com/darwin200_

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUTGh9MgZjuBFQE8i8Bn8Ag

There are also free educational activities and resources shared live each week that are designed to to inspire children’s curiosity and passion for learning: https://worldsmostexcitingclassroom.com/

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Madagascar is home to some incredible wildlife. Many of the animals in Madagascar occur nowhere else on Earth. Among them are lemurs– a group of primates that resemble monkeys but are in fact their own distinct group. But, unfortunately, these remarkable animals are facing enormous challenges.

Dr. Jonah Ratsimbazafyis a primatologist who is from Madagascar and is considered one of the world’s experts on lemurs and is helping lead the fight to protect them. He is the President of the International Primatological Society and was a Co-founder and President of the Madagascar Primate Study and Research Group at the University of Antananarivo, or GERP. He is a member of the African Academy of Sciences and a National Geographic Explorer. He also works with the Houston Zoo as Director of their in-country Madagascar program.

Madagascar Primate Study and Research Group: https://www.association-gerp.org/

International Primatological Society: https://internationalprimatologicalsociety.org/

Houston Zoo’s Madagascar program: https://www.houstonzoo.org/conservation/african-wildlife/#:~:text=The%20Zoo%20is%20committed%20to,primates%20de%20Madagascar%20(GERP).

World Lemur Festival: https://www.lemurreserve.org/world-lemur-festival/

Thanks to Eric Wuesthoff and Amy Dunham for lemur audio and video.

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Australia is famous for its strange creatures. And rightfully so. They’ve got kangaroos, koalas, echidnas, and of course one of the wackiest animals anywhere– the platypus! But it’s also home to equally weird and wonderful creatures of a different sort. They just tend to be a little smaller.

Ecologist storyteller Mark Moffett specializes in finding these small wonders– and sharing their stories with the world. To learn more about Mark Moffett’s incredible career as an ecologist storyteller, check out his website: doctorbugs.com. You can also learn about his most recent project on the life and death of societies at the Templeton Foundation’s website:

https://www.templeton.org/grant/the-life-and-death-of-societies-investigating-the-societies-of-animals-to-understand-our-own

You can read some of Mark Moffett’s recent articles here:

https://bigthink.com/the-well/human-ability-to-coexist-coffee-shop/

https://thesunmagazine.org/issues/532/one-of-us-issue-532

His latest book “The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall” is available from Basic Books (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/mark-w-moffett/the-human-swarm/9781549195082/?lens=basic-books) and wherever books are sold.

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