Episodes 61
Avg. Duration 41m
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Since Apr 2021
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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Field Notes explores the themes of conservation and hope through a wide lens. Our guests include a moth-er, a wine theologian, Hebrew scholar, an environmental historian and a linguistic philosopher among others. Soundtrack – Jill Phillips & Andy Gullahorn: ‘Only Say the Word’ (instrumental track) from the album ‘The Good Things.’ Used with kind permission. www.andygullahorn.com – www.jillphillips.com

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S1E59 Ep 59: Anna Radkovic – Messy glorious conservation

Mar 03, 2026 39m

For Anna, no two work days at A Rocha Kenya are the same. She may be underwater doing a bit of coral gardening, helping scouts from Dakacha forest think through a Christian response to a machete…

S1E58 Ep 58: David Anderson – Sorrow and joy

Feb 03, 2026 41m

If you have lived longer than five minutes on this planet you will have realised pain and delight, suffering and consolation, anguish and ecstacy co-exist. For a conservationist and pastor like David…

Ep 57: An anthology of hope

Dec 16, 2025 1h 1m

Creation is groaning with ever increasing distress. Those at the frontlines of the fight to reverse the frightening trends need strategies for staying strong. Each episode of Field Notes concludes…

S1E56 Ep 56: Thomas Chhoa – Plastic pollution to possibility

Nov 05, 2025 54m

Plastic has a rather dirty reputation these days. There are few places on land or underwater where you won’t find discarded plastic waste causing harm and havoc. Thomas Chhoa has spent his life in…

S1E55 Ep 55: Peter Harris – Why does nature matter?

Oct 02, 2025 40m

Peter Harris founded A Rocha in the early 1980s and has given his life since to the cause of nature conservation. He has long known the vital importance of the question of how and why to value…

S1E54 Ep 54: Verónica Godoy - Battling Bull Creek's invasive species

Sep 04, 2025 32m

Verónica is a transplant to the USA from Argentina. As a plant molecular and cellular biologist and a plant lover, she soon began getting to know the fora of her new home, discovering the extent to…

S1E53 Ep 53: Jacynthia Murphy and Silvia Purdie – Aotearoa New Zealand’s women in creation care

Jul 03, 2025 34m

Rev Jacynthia Murphy is of Māori descent and serves in a Pākehā parish. In this conversation with Rev Silvia Purdie and the Field Notes hosts she discusses her indigenous perspective on faith and her…

S1E52 Ep 52: Jasmine Kwong – Food, faith and a flourishing world

Jun 05, 2025 36m

There is little in life with more direct environmental impact than food - how and what we produce, where we source it and how it gets there, how we prepare it and what we do with the waste. How do we…

S1E51 Ep 51: Jayaprakash Bojan – Up close with an Orangutang and his maker

May 06, 2025 41m

Jayaprakash Bojan (JP)’s photo of a giant male orangutang peeping at him from behind a tree in a Borneo river won him National Geographic’s Nature Photographer of the Year in 2017. The image was seen…

S1E50 Ep 50: Jeremy Lindsell – Lessons in conservation

Apr 01, 2025 39m

While the outlook for biodiversity is rather bleak, all the evidence says conservation works - we just need to do it well and do it more. It sounds simple, but often well-intended interventions have…

S1E49 Ep 49: Sylvia Muia – Gen Z, journalism and fighting for the future

Mar 06, 2025 38m

Growing up, Sylvia spent a lot of time on the family farm just outside Nairobi, Kenya. Where she remembers a wide open landscape, there are now blocks of flats and a hospital. Reliable rains have…

S1E48 Ep 48: Jo Herbert-James, Rick Faw & Jo Swinney – The Whole Easter Story

Feb 04, 2025 50m

Jo and Rick are joined by Jo Herbert-James to discuss the themes in Jo Swinney’s Lent book, “The Whole Easter Story: why the cross is good news for all creation.” What does our relationship with God…

S1E47 Ep 47: Tim Stojanovic – Whose oceans to gain from and govern?

Dec 03, 2024 47m

This is the United Nations Decade of the Ocean, bringing an increased focus on caring for the ‘blue’ bit of the planet. Governing marine and coastal areas involves convening a multitude of groups -…

S1E46 Ep 46: Cindy Verbeek – The costly calling of a conservationist

Nov 04, 2024 29m

Cindy Verbeek left her city life for a rural Eden in northern BC, Canada, where the air was clean, bears nonchalantly wandered along the local high street and preserving nature was hardwired into…

S1E45 Ep 45: Cyrie Sendashonga – The politics of protecting nature

Oct 01, 2024 34m

To halt and reverse the terrible trends in nature loss and climate change requires collaboration at international levels. With every country coming to the table with its own interests and agenda, it…

S1E44 Ep 44: Dorothea Seeger – Marine biology & motherhood

Sep 04, 2024 26m

The choice to start a family is always a great act of faith, hope and courage. In these unprecedented days of biodiversity collapse, climate change and societal upheaval, all the more so. Doro is a…

S1E43 Ep 43: Caroline Pomeroy – Stewarding the climate in turbulent times

Jul 11, 2024 35m

Is carbon offsetting just something to make us feel a bit better about our climate-harming behaviours? How does it actually work and is there good science behind the numbers? Caroline leads Climate…

S1E42 Ep 42: Cristina Jakob – When loving nature becomes a life

Jun 04, 2024 32m

Raised in Southern Chile in a family of farmers, teachers and pastors, Cristina never realized how all those areas could be linked with God's purposes to bring redemption to all his creatures. For…

S1E41 Ep 41: Abby Simonin & Carly Richardson – the fellowship of farm & food

May 01, 2024 34m

Most of us live largely disconnected from the production of our food, but whether or not we give it much thought, each mealtime puts us in relationship with our fellow creatures, the soil, the air…

S1E40 Ep 40: Rui Lino-Ramalho – Why conservation is best (and most joyfully) done in community

Apr 04, 2024 31m

In 2023, Rui, his wife Debora, and their two young children moved their life from a campervan to Cruzinha, A Rocha Portugal’s field study centre in the Algarve. It is hard to imagine a more radical…

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Field Notes has published 61 episodes since April 2021, covering topics in Nature, Religion & Spirituality.

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Field Notes is currently highly active with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 41m.

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