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Episode Synopsis
This episode, an interview with Helen Schwantje. Helen was the Wildlife Veterinarian for British Columbia from 1992 to 2021. To this day she continues as an emeritus and conducts contract work for government and NGOs on a variety of wildlife health issues. Helen has spent a lot of her career focused on the health of BC’s wild sheep herds, and she joined me to talk about the relationship between a specific virus, the domesticated sheep that carry it, and the wild sheep populations that are under threat because of it. And how she hopes to see more action by our governments and by farmers to do what’s necessary to contain this threat.I’ll also be sharing some updates from our colleagues in the BC farming sector in the middle segment.Links:Transmission, the full length documentary about MOVI and its effect on wild sheep.Wild Sheep Society of BCA Helen Schwantje bio from the webThis recent interview with Helen provides a broader perspective on her career.
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