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Live from the Conservancy of SWFL

An Asian short-clawed otter juggles rocks
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An Asian short-clawed otter juggles rocks

Earth Day is this coming Sunday. To celebrate, Gulf Coast Live is on the road at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida.

The Conservancy comes up frequently on the show. Every time there’s an environmental legislative issue, an announcement about panther sightings or even a story about tracking pythons in the Everglades, the Conservancy almost always has an expert in the field.

But, this place is more than just a think tank kind of resource. It’s also a destination.

Today, some of the Conservancy's world-renowned scientists and researchers join the show to talk a little bit about the important work they do every day next to the Naples Zoo and to talk a little bit about otters who you may have seen across social media in recent years, otters who juggle rocks.

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RachelIacovoneis a reporter and associate producer ofGulf Coast LiveforWGCU News. Rachel came toWGCU as an intern in 2016, during the presidential race. She went on to cover Florida Gulf Coast University students at President Donald Trump's inauguration on Capitol Hill and Southwest Floridians in attendance at the following day's Women's March on Washington.
Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.