The founder and president of the Global Penguin Society, Pablo García Borboroglu joins us for our third episode of Last Wild Places. Pablo's conservation efforts have helped protect 13 million hectares (32 million acres) of marine and land habitat for penguins worldwide, including the massive Patagonia Azul (Blue Patagonia) UNESCO biosphere reserve in his home country of Argentina that protects the world's largest colony of Magellanic penguins. He is also a marine biologist for Argentina’s National Research Council and a professor for the University of Washington, and has coordinated the development of eight management plans for protected areas in Chile and Argentina. His large body of work over the past three decades won him the 2023 Indianapolis Prize, the world's top award for animal conservation. 

 

Pablo talks to us about how the human connection with penguins helps the wider conservation movement; the major threats facing different penguins species today; and the activism, scientific and educational endeavors his organization are making to protect marine environments.