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Subject: (Interview). Subtitle: Andrea Turkalo. Timecode In: 00:00:58. Timecode out: 00:53:45. Notes: Forest Elephant research; Loxodonta cyclotis. Equipment Notes: 4-Channel Surround; 1=L, 2=R, 3=Ls, 4=Rs; Schoeps MK 2. Show: CAR Elephants Log of DAT #: 9A Engineer: Bill McQuay Date: February 24, 2002 AT = Andrea Turkalo AC = Alex Chadwick CJ = Carolyn Jensen Bill = Bill McQuay Interview with Andrea Turkalo 0:09 AC We are in Andrea's camp. It's the 24th, it's quarter of 10 in the morning and we're going to talk to Andrea and record it. Setting up. 0:52 AC 4, 3, 2, 1, mark. 0:57 AC We begin almost every interview by asking people, how should we identify you? Just say who you are and how we should identify you. And spell your name please. 1:06 AT Okay. My name is Andrea Turkalo. I am an associate conservation scientist for the Wildlife Conservation Society, which is part of the New York Zoological Society in New York at the Bronx Zoo. Spell my name ANDREA TURKALO. 1:34 AC I want to be careful to get the affiliations and mention people who would want to be mentioned. You're a WCS scientist and you're working on a WWF project, is that right? 2:00 AT Am, no. What happens is WWF plus GTZ, which is the German foreign aid organization, it's a para-statal organization, they manage the reserve in the park. WWF originally created it and then Ge Te Zed came on a couple of years later. So they manage the project, they do the conservation, they do the development and they do the roads, whatever. I am here separate from them but we have a very good collaboration. Most of our collaboration involves some training and it also involves the actual protection on the ground, because I'm here permanently; this is a permanent site. The site however, my main sponsor is WCS. That's who my basically boss is and I report directly to them. And they contribute most of my funding and I have to seek funding from other sources. And that's on a yearly basis. There's no guarantee that it will go on beyond next year. But I've been very lucky and they've been very supportive and they realize that this is a very important sight for forest elephants. 3:07 AC This is a question that I want to remember to ask. This is not when I had planned to ask it but let me ask it now since we're here and then I won't forget. If people will hear this piece on the radio they will write us and say, "Well how could I help Andrea Turkalo? What could I do to be helpful to help preserve the bai or to help her in her work?" What's the right answer to that? 3:34 AT Well, there's a couple of things people can do. The first thing is I think the American public could support the African Elephant Conservation Act, which was I think mandated by Congress after the initial ban on the sale of ivory in 1989. The US government has been very very generous in supporting elephant conservation on the ground. And they've probably contributed more than any other organization on earth doing this. And I'm very proud of this. They've given me money for many years. They don't now because I feel they've given me enough; it's time for other people to receive these funds. Um, another thing is to, well support this by writing your congress people or whatever. Another thing is be adamant about contacting the American delegation about the next Cites conference which will take place in the latter part of this year in Santiago, Chile, which will be crucial in keeping this ban on the sale of ivory. I'm afraid there's going to be some ivory stock sold again. But it's a very complicated question I don't want to go into because I've just come from an elephant meeting where all of our situations are different on the African level. And the other thing is to contribute to these NGOs that support conservation in Africa such as WCS, WWF, NCI. I me... (Notes truncated)
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- 19 Mar 2010 - Ben Brotman
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- 19 Mar 2010 - Ben Brotman
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- 19 Mar 2010 - Ben Brotman