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series of mobilizations that took place yesterday on the 20th of September, fighting for things such as anti-corruption and as well as commemorating the 54th anniversary of martial law declaration in the Philippines.

And then at 7.45 we're going to hear from Shannon Hurley who's a nature conservation campaigner at the Victorian National Parks Association and Shannon's going to be talking to us about the new campaign Victorians for Nature and how that's going to bring people together to protect nature and hold the government to account.

And at 8am, we'll be chatting with Tallulah Ainsworth, a painter and artist working in NAMM, who recently put on an exhibition at Unassigned Gallery called Exquisite Corpse, just wrapped up yesterday, but is coming up with a Doggy Drawing Live drawing session very soon.

And then finally at 8.15, we're gonna speak to Catherine Noon from the Save Our Community Health campaign.

We've been speaking to Jed Peker, who's the General Secretary of Migrante Australia, about the anniversary of martial law in the Philippines, the Pax Silica Initiative, which is facilitating the wholesale sellout of Philippine natural resources in exchange for AI data centres, and the series of rallies and anti-corruption mobilisations that took place in various cities on Sunday.

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Up next, we're speaking to Shannon Hurley, a nature conservation campaigner at the Victorian National Parks Association.

Shannon joins us today to discuss the new campaign Victorians for Nature.

I'm currently in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, attending the 116th Annual Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies annual meeting.

The meeting brings together more than 700 conservation leaders from fish and wildlife agencies and organizations across all 50 states, U.S. territories, Canada, and Mexico.

It's a chance to talk about conservation policy, management, and the progress being made in the field.

The conference includes directors, assistant directors, program managers, and other professionals working in fisheries, wildlife habitat, law enforcement, legal affairs, industry and public outreach, and education.

These are tremendous opportunities for BHA to connect and to build relationships with wildlife and fisheries professionals who are on the front lines and those who hold key decision-making roles at the respective state agencies, which in turn helps us to better work on behalf of fishing and hunting heritage and, of course, our public lands and waters.

The company says it invested more than 16 years and significant resources studying the site.

The company also says it still holds other state, private, and mineral rights across Minnesota and remains committed to pursuing an underground mining project in northeastern Minnesota.

Now, while the Chilean-owned mining company is disappointed, the conservation and outdoor recreation community has been celebrating the DNR's move.

I've got an exceptional team of wildlife and wild sheep conservationists with us on this episode.

Our conservation staff and joining us From Texas, Corey Mason, our Executive Vice President of Conservation.

From Idaho, we have Kevin Hurley, our Vice President of Conservation Emeritus.

From beautiful British Columbia, we have Bill Jecks, Conservation Director.

director and head of our thin horn programs and from brussels belgium not from he's butte america but uh hails from brussels belgium our uh our european and central asian uh mastermind kurt alt um conservation director international program so welcome gentlemen

Glad

But suffice it to say, it's at least a century worth.

So we've got some great, great guys.

headquarters of Trout Unlimited.

My title is president and CEO of Trout Unlimited, and we're a nonprofit conservation organization that cares for and recovers rivers because we love to catch trout and salmon.

And would you, just get right into it, would you define the roadless rule? When did it actually go into play? What lands is it covering? What is it doing for those lands?

Yeah, so it went into effect in January of 2001, just celebrated its 25th birthday.

For a full generation, it had found its worth and value in Building roads to access timber off national forests.

And suddenly people didn't love that anymore, at least not the way they had been doing it historically with big clear cuts and these networks of roads that basically were just littering the landscape.

And so the roadless rule, as much as anything culturally, was the Forest Service reasserting and reestablishing itself as a conservation leader.

And that's probably the socially the least important thing aspect of what the rule did but in terms of uh the forest service i think it was one of the more important things that it did because it it basically said okay we're no longer adrift any longer we are conservation leaders and we're going to demonstrate that leadership by having the humility to say we're not going to go into these landscapes we can go in and manage them but we're not going to go build more roads in there because we can't afford to take care of the roads we already have

It's in its eighth, ninth year of transition.

A little bit rudderless, right? What the roadless rule, and again, this is more inside baseball, probably I shouldn't even have gone here, but what the roadless rule helped to do was to reestablish the conservation identity, the sense of conservation leadership coming from the Forest Service.

Because with the northern spotted owl and the salmon crisis in the Northwest, conservation was imposed on the Forest Service from the outside, from lawsuits, from litigation, from the executive branch.

It was not driven from inside the agency.

And yet the roadless rule, that one was made in the Forest Service.

As you can imagine, it wasn't exactly a level playing field.

It was kind of stacked against us.

The conservation interests, hunting and fishing interests, weren't overrepresented, trust me.

Go ahead.

Conservation was such a, a, a big thing in the circles we grew up in.

I grew up in hunting families.

We hunted deer, quail, ducks, you know the whole, the whole nine yards, and y- it was always you leave the area cleaner than you found it.