Resistance Radio Interview of Keith Harmon Snow about Panthera Leo
Keith Harmon Snow is a writer, photographer and naturalist. Abandoning his career in the aerospace & defense sector in 1989, he set off to see the wild world as portrayed in National Geographic propaganda. The result led him to cycle across India, Africa, Madagascar and Mongolia, climb some very high mountains, raft hundreds of miles through war-torn Congo and down the Zambezi. He is the 2009 Regent’s Lecturer in Law & Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara, recognized for over a decade of work on war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. He has a 9 year old son, and he is developing a retreat center living off-grid on a remote island in Maine. This is my first interview with Keith focused on the Wild Cats of the World; today we talk about Panthera Leo Leo (the African Lion) and Panthera Leo Persicus (The Asiatic lion).
This series of episodes with Derrick Jensen focused on the Wild Cats of the world address biological factors, population biology, conservation biology, habits, range, endangered or protected status, extinction, the endangered species trade in their skins, bones and other parts, historical and current distribution, hunting and trapping, ecology, anecdotes about them, lies and propaganda, destructive agents, and some stories about my explorations and experiences in Tigerland, Lionland, Japan and the places these creatures are (still or once were) found.