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Tiger Talk with Carney Anne Nasser

Carney Anne Nasser

From wildlife trafficking to the dark underbelly of America’s exotic pet trade and beyond, endangered species protection attorney Carney Anne Nasser takes you behind the scenes for a glimpse at how big cat experts from the legal, zoological, sanctuary, advocacy, and media communities are coming together to save tigers from extinction and exploitation.

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00:32:34

Foul Ballin': How Some Pro Athletes are Violating...

Tiger Talk with Carney Anne Nasser ·

2021/07/07

This episode is Carney Anne's presentation for the 2021 Symposium on Sports, Animals, & Ethics. Many don't know that Carney Anne has a degree in sports law and previous experience working with an NFL team's legal department. So, in this unique opportunity to participate in the intersection of sports law and animal law, Carney Anne delivers a timely discussion about the trend in pro-athlete encounters with tigers and other big cats at roadside zoos and how these encounters not only further

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00:37:59

Catching Up With Carole Baskin

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2021/07/05

On June 24, 2021, Carole and her husband, Howard, and I were in Washington, DC, with award-winning director Michael Webber, Tim Harrison, Keith Gad, Russ Muntz, Jeff Kremer and other professionals who appeared in the award-winning documentary, The Conservation Game. After we returned from a standing-room-only screening for federal legislators, lobbyists, NGOs and other members of the political community in the Capital (as well as a busy day of television interviews -- more so for Carole than for

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01:01:46

Big Cat Public Safety Crisis: A Year in Review with...

Tiger Talk with Carney Anne Nasser ·

2021/05/24

It's been a little over a year since I started Tiger Talk during Covid-19 isolation. In that year, we've seen every single roadside zoo owner (Joe Exotic, Jeff Lowe, Tim Stark, Doc Antle) featured in Tiger Talk (but for Mario Tabraue in Florida) end up in prison, indicted for animal cruelty and wildlife trafficking, shut down, fined for federal animal law violations. Just this past week, federal agents confiscated 68 big cats from Jeff Lowe's Tiger King Park (which was 100% of Jeff Lowe's remaining

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01:39:55

Freeland Film Festival Panel of Experts

Tiger Talk with Carney Anne Nasser ·

2020/09/21

On September 12, 2020, Carney Anne was invited to participate on a panel of experts including Carole Baskin (Founder and CEO of Big Cat Rescue), Dan Ashe (CEO of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and former Director of US Fish & Wildlife Service), Ellie Armstrong (PhD candidate at Stanford University), Carson Barylak (Campaigns Director at the International Fund for Animal Welfare), Steve Winter (Nat Geo award winning wildlife photographer), and Sharon Guynup (Nat Geo award winning journalist

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00:55:23

Mashup: Carney Anne’s recent live radio and...

Tiger Talk with Carney Anne Nasser ·

2020/06/17

Episode 23 is a mashup of Carney Anne’s recent Chicago WGN Radio, News 8 Las Vegas, and BYU radio interviews about Tiger King, roadside zoos, legal developments, conservation, legal loopholes, and the lucrative exotic pet trade.

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00:20:37

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: How to Use Freedom of Information...

Tiger Talk with Carney Anne Nasser ·

2020/06/02

#BlackLivesMatter. This episode is a departure from our usual big cat content; but it is the only content I felt was appropriate to share in the days following the murder of George Floyd and the hate crime against Christian Cooper. As an animal lawyer, I have been using federal FOIA and state public records laws to obtain law enforcement and other government agency documents, records, video, and photographs for the past decade. It is my hope that by sharing that information here, you will feel

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00:43:22

AMERICAN inHUMANE ASSOCIATION: How the supposed...

Tiger Talk with Carney Anne Nasser ·

2020/05/21

Life of Pi. Gladiator. Water for Elephants. These are all movies that used big cats or an elephant and they each involved horrible abuse behind the scenes. On episode 21 of Tiger Talk, I talk to Lewis Crary, the Assistant Manager of Animals in Films and Television at PETA. Lewis and I used to work together in the Captive Animal Law Enforcement Department at the PETA Foundation many years ago and we reconnection to have a discussion about how American Humane Association's (AHA) "No Animals Were

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00:48:50

The Legend of Cricket Hollow: How Animal Lawyers are...

Tiger Talk with Carney Anne Nasser ·

2020/05/20

For Tiger Talk's 20th episode, I bring you a conversation with Jessica Blome, the lead attorney on a precedent-setting Endangered Species Act citizen suit that resulted in a court order for the removal of tigers and lions from a horrific roadside zoo in Iowa where animals were being starved and denied veterinary care while being forced to live in feces encrusted cages. The "Cricket Hollow Zoo Case" paved the way for numerous other endangered species act citizen suits that have resulted in the rescue

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00:27:11

Carney Anne on “Rocket: Accelerated Geek...

Tiger Talk with Carney Anne Nasser ·

2020/05/14

On this episode of Tiger Talk, I’m sharing a conversation I had on the Rocket Podcast (“Accelerated Geek Conversation”) with co-hosts Brianna Wu, Christina Warren, and Simone de Rochefort. We talked about Tiger King, themes of misogyny and sexism in the docuseries and the resultant backlash against Carol Baskin, and close it out with how Brianna and I connected through our participation in Porsche auto racing. It’s fun, informative, and fast paced!

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00:27:41

Turning the Tables: An Interview with Award Winning...

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2020/05/08

Rachel Nuwer is an award-winning science journalist who makes prolific contributions to sources like the New York Times, Nat Geo, Audubon, and more. I first met Rachel while she was doing research for an excellent investigative piece called The Strange and Dangerous World of America’s Big Cat People (available on longreads.com), and subsequent chats leading up to her New York Times article, Why Tiger King is Not Blackfish for Cats, and her podcast with Outside Magazine journalist, Peter Frick-Wright

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01:02:01

Tiger King: Insights into Human Trafficking

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2020/05/04

I recently had the humbling privilege of doing a podcast episode with Cat Jacoby and John Pulley from Fierce Freedom, one of the nonprofits that is on the frontlines of combatting human trafficking in the United States. I believe that the animal protection movement has a lot of progress to make in forging synergies with other social justice movements, and on this podcast episode that I did with Fierce Freedom, we talk about the lessons from Tiger King that can be applied equally to fighting wildlife

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01:04:11

Behind the Scenes: Recent Legal Victories for Tigers...

Tiger Talk with Carney Anne Nasser ·

2020/05/02

Today we are joined by Brittany Peet, Deputy General Counsel of Captive Animal Law Enforcement at the PETA Foundation as well as Jay Pratte, who is our first repeat guest on Tiger Talk. You’ll remember Brittany from Tiger King, and you’ll remember Jay as the independent expert we talked to in Episode 9 of Tiger Talk. Jay is one of the leading experts in big cat and bear welfare, husbandry, and behavior, and provided key expert opinions in litigation that has resulted in landmark decisions that will

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00:56:57

Sex scandals, sports stars, and lawsuits: inside the...

Tiger Talk with Carney Anne Nasser ·

2020/04/28

Ed Stewart is the heroic director and cofounder of the 2200-acre GFAS-accredited Performing Animal Welfare Society in San Andreas, California. PAWS is home to elephants who have been rescued from circuses, tigers who have been rescued from abusive owners, a number of other animals — and a special bear named Ben. Ed and I bonded in 2012 during a cross-country FedEx flight with Ben, a 600-pound bear PETA had rescued from a roadside zoo in North Carolina. My conversation with Ed takes us through the

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00:45:33

Blood on their Hands: How the United States...

Tiger Talk with Carney Anne Nasser ·

2020/04/21

Professor Delcianna Winders is one of the foremost experts on the federal Animal Welfare Act in the United States. Prior to joining Lewis & Clark Law School where she is the director of the animal law and litigation clinic, she was the Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Captive Animal Law Enforcement at the PETA Foundation. Delci takes us on a legal journey through the Animal Welfare Act, using Tiger King Joe Exotic as case study of all of the ways the US Department of Agriculture is

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00:26:46

How Captivity Fails: Documentary Filmmaker Alex Tello...

Tiger Talk with Carney Anne Nasser ·

2020/04/20

Alex Tello is the producer and director of the Furthest from the Wild series, which takes viewers behind the scenes of exotic animal rescues. He follows their stories and their rehabilitation, and through that work has come to the conclusion that captivity just doesn’t work. He shares his opinions about Tiger King, and some of the ways in which it failed.

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00:22:26

Texas Tigers? Why there may be more pet tigers in the...

Tiger Talk with Carney Anne Nasser ·

2020/04/17

Noelle Almrud, Director of Black Beauty Ranch and the Big Cat Sanctuary Alliance, gives us insights into how her network of sanctuaries is being affected by Covid-19 and why there may be more backyard tigers in Texas than there are left in the wild. How’d we get here and what can we do to end the cycle of breed and dump?

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01:25:10

“Deliberately Misleading” : Award-Winning Filmmaker...

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2020/04/16

Mike Webber is an award-winning motion picture producer/director who has produced numerous films for studios like 20th Century Fox and Lion’s Gate — and he has some very strong feelings about Tiger King. As Webber’s documentary films have swept film festivals and received the highest praise from film critics and someone who has been studying and documenting America’s big cat trade for over a decade, he is uniquely situated to critique the ethics (or lack thereof) in the making of Tiger King. Mike

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01:08:14

“911? There’s a tiger in my tree!” Behind the scenes...

Tiger Talk with Carney Anne Nasser ·

2020/04/13

Tim Harrison is the foremost expert on dangerous wild animal encounters in the United States. He will take you behind the scenes of numerous dangerous animal incidents and rescues — tigers in Harlem, Gabon vipers in Ohio, pythons in Pennsylvania. We dive deep into the world of exotic animal auctions and the cause and effect relationship between reckless shows like Steve Irwin’s reality shows that promoted hands on contact with exotic animals and increased public interest in purchasing them as pets

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00:46:28

Covid-19 in Captive Tigers? What’s Next?!

Tiger Talk with Carney Anne Nasser ·

2020/04/10

Jay Pratte, leading independent expert for big cat and bear welfare, sat down with me to talk about the recent news that a tiger at the Bronx Zoo has COVID-19. We dive into what this means for the zoological and sanctuary communities, and answer questions about the difference and relationship between ACCREDITED zoos and ACCREDITED sanctuaries. They play different, but important, roles and Jay is going to get all of your questions answered!

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00:44:03

Where do they all go? A behind the scenes look at the...

Tiger Talk with Carney Anne Nasser ·

2020/04/06

Tanya Smith (founder of the GFAS-accredited Turpentine Creek sanctuary in Arkansas) and her colleague, Emily McCormack, take us behind the scenes of one of the biggest big cat rescues in the history of the US. They help us understand where these cats have been, how they are traded like baseball cards, and the critical condition many are in if they are lucky enough to end up in a reputable sanctuary. Tanya and Emily don’t pull any punches and neither do I.

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