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Bradley Wilson has been fascinated by the oft-overlooked newt since he first heard of such a creature in a Monty Python movie his father showed him in the early 1980’s.  His parents home quickly became filled with aquariums and terrariums.  Freshwater community tanks, oddballs such as the now outlawed fish Snakeheads, lungfish, freshwater toadfish, lionfish and moray eels. Saltwater tanks housing Volitan Lionfish, Tangs, Triggers and more moray eels.  Guinea pigs, teddy bear hamsters, ferrets, rabbits all made a home with him at one point or another.  At one point he owned a Cayenne river caecilian; which met an unfortunate…

Jeremy Hance is a freelance environmental journalist. Currently he is a senior correspondent with Monagabay and writes a blog on the Guardian entitled Radical Conservation. He has been covering wildlife conservation issues, including the rising tide of mass extinction, since 2007. In pursuit of his stories, Jeremy has traveled to nearly thirty countries across five continents. He is also the author of a book of essays entitled, Life is Good: Conservation in an Age of Mass Extinction. You can follow him on Facebook or Twitter @jeremy_hance.

Speaker – Dr. Richard Glor Bio: Rich Glor is a lifelong helper who developed his passion for reptiles and amphibians as a teenage volunteer at the Buffalo Zoo and later as a member of the Cornell University Herpetological Society. He earned his PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Washington University in St. Louis through work on the evolution of species richness in anole lizards. He conducted postdoctoral work at the University of California, Davis in the Center for Population Biology before spending several years as a professor at the University of Rochester. He joined the University of Kansas in…

Chip Cochran of Herpetological Conservation International Bio: Chip Cochran is a PhD candidate in Dr. William K. Hayes lab at Loma Linda University where he is studying morphological, dietary, and venom composition differences among populations of southwestern speckled rattlesnakes (Crotalus pyrrhus). He received his BS from The University of Arizona in 2006 where he majored in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. During his time at the University of Arizona he worked in Matt Goode’s lab primarily radio tracking Tiger rattlesnakes (C. tigris) for a project investigating the effects of golf courses on Tucson herpetofauna. His research interests include: reptile venom proteomics…