Accelerating Conservation with Alex Dehgan
Line of Sight Podcast
English - May 19, 2020 04:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBSociety & Culture Education changemaker entrepreneurship ethics ideation incubator innovation policy silicon valley social entrepreneurship social justice Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Alex Dehgan is the CEO of Conservation X Labs, an innovation and technology startup focused on ending human-induced extinction. Alex recently served as the Chief Scientist at the U.S. Agency for International Development and helped launch the Global Development Lab there.
In this wide-ranging conversation, Alex, Thane, and Don discuss how to prevent future pandemics, Alex’s recent book “The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation,” the media’s role in conservation, the power of citizen science, and numerous examples of how Conservation X is accelerating conservation.