Sudan

Many of you will recognize Ami's extraordinary photograph, The Last Goodbye.

I mean, it, it, it literally brings tears to my eyes when you sit there and absorb it, and it was capturing the final moments between Sudan, who's the last male northern white rhino, and his keeper, Joseph.

And t- to be honest with all of you, that story has, uh, definitely a special connection, uh, for us, for the All Creatures podcast because Angie, when I was working with her and mentoring her, uh, she spent her PhD trying to help the white rhino reproductive research projects, and her work and her passion, uh, pushed me to create this podcast and to do research in endangered species.

And so it, it, this is something so special, I, I can't -- It's very difficult to put into words i- in this announcement, but it's definitely gonna come across, uh, when we're on stage together.

So I'm going to start with a question that is about where your volume begins.

You open the volume with a story about Sudan, and this is not Sudan the place, but rather an animal called Sudan.

So who was Sudan and why did you choose their story to begin a larger and longer story about the relationship between globalization and wildlife?

Yeah.

Um, Sudan is a, a rhino.

Uh, more in particular, um, he's a northern white rhino, and even more in particular, he's, uh, the last male northern white rhino to have lived.

He's, he's died now.

Um, and one of the reasons we, we chose him is because he, um, or his life is entangled with all these global phenomena or these transnational connections.