This week’s all new National Parks Traveler podcast features my interview with Alex Fogg, Marine Resource Coordinator at Okaloosa County, FL. We discuss his history of diving, the lionfish invasion, and how these voracious fish affect our national parks. Listen to the entire podcast here: https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2019/03/national-parks-traveler-episode-4-lionfish-invasion
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Press – Interviewed on American Shoreline Podcast Network
It helps to have high school friends in the conservation world! Last week Jenna Valente interviewed me for her show on the American Shoreline Podcast Network, focused on how I found myself in the environmental field and what the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance does to restore the coast in Northwest Florida. Check it out via the…
National Parks Traveler – Battling Lionfish at Biscayne Bay
Lionfish. Impossibly beautiful, incredibly invasive. Arriving on Florida’s shores in the 20th century, the initial lionfish population invasion probably resulted from an accidental or intentional release from a hobbyist fish tank. Since then, their numbers have exploded, stretching across the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Reef species, lionfish cruise these aquatic habitats for prey, both outcompeting…
E. Zambello Writing and Art 