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Activists Around the World: Dr. Diana Beresford-Kroeger · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I'm all from stuff
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  Speaker 1: I never told your adiction of iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: And welcome to another activist around the world. And for
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  Speaker 2: today's activists, we are going back to I guess just
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  Speaker 2: my love of Ireland. I've been focusing on Ireland for
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  Speaker 2: a while, so I don't know this came. It happenstance.
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  Speaker 2: But with that, with it being April, which is Environmental
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  Speaker 2: Awareness a month we're trying to care about the world,
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  Speaker 2: we wanted to talk about biologists, chemists, all those peoples
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  Speaker 2: who are making the world a better place. So that
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  Speaker 2: brought me to talking about the iconic doctor Diana Beresford Kroger.
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  Speaker 2: So doctor Kroger is a biochemist, botanist, author and climate
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  Speaker 2: change visionary. And this is according to her own website,
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  Speaker 2: but also many of people her balies like the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of an Irish folk tale, which you know again I
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  Speaker 2: love it, with her being in an orphan in Ireland,
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  Speaker 2: raised by Irish elders who instruct her to use the
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  Speaker 2: Celtic understanding of preserving nature and saving their community and
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  Speaker 2: honestly the world, something she has taken to heart and
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  Speaker 2: has been doing the work like all the work, including
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  Speaker 2: writing documentaries, all the things. So this is from her
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  Speaker 2: site on Diane Beresford dash Kroger dot com. She possesses
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  Speaker 2: a unique understanding of modern Western science and ancient Celtic
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  Speaker 2: knowledge orphaned in Ireland and her youth. Beresford Kroger was
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  Speaker 2: educated by her Irish elders who instructed her in the
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  Speaker 2: Breyhone knowledge of plants and nature. Told at a young
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  Speaker 2: age that one day she would need to bring this
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  Speaker 2: ancient Celtic knowledge to a troubled future. Bereford Kroger has
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  Speaker 2: done exactly that. So again, like it opens up, like
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  Speaker 2: it's an iconic fairy tale. I feel like we are
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  Speaker 2: in the beginnings of the Irish where you see like
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  Speaker 2: the fog and the forests. Yeah, yeah, that's where I
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  Speaker 2: see it. So she has written several books about her
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  Speaker 2: work and activism, and with her own childhood being so
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  Speaker 2: heavily influenced by Celtic ideas and understandings, she wrote one
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  Speaker 2: a book specifically around that, titled to Speak for the Trees,
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  Speaker 2: My life's journey from ancient Celtic wisdom to a healing
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  Speaker 2: vision of the forest. And by the way, I mean
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  Speaker 2: all of her books have a touch of this, but
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  Speaker 2: this one was very specific to this. In it, she
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  Speaker 2: writes about her youth, talking about the ancient Celtic lineage
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  Speaker 2: of the Lachines, so this is what she writes. The
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  Speaker 2: name machine means much to people who speak Gaelic. It
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  Speaker 2: opens a doorway into a different world. First off, the
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  Speaker 2: name itself is ancient, though the British soldiers who came
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  Speaker 2: with their survey charts for colonization changed it. In Old Gaelic,
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  Speaker 2: leos means fairy mound or fairy ring, or from even earlier,
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  Speaker 2: the enclosed ground of an ancient dwelling place. The ending
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  Speaker 2: sines comes from she in Old Gaelic, meaning ishi or
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  Speaker 2: inhabitants of the fairy mounds. The valley is rife with
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  Speaker 2: stone artifacts from the time of the Druids, who were
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  Speaker 2: the elite educated class of the Celtic culture, the doctors
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  Speaker 2: and surgeons, astronomers and mathematicians, philosophers, poets and historians. The
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  Speaker 2: hillsides were dotted with altars, ring circles, cairns, sacred stones, owems, stones,
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  Speaker 2: and holy wells. The turf bogs turn up treasures like
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  Speaker 2: baskets of butter, gold, ornaments, or vessels of honey that
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  Speaker 2: have been preserved throughout the ages. When I was a child,
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  Speaker 2: the valley might well have been the most concentrated, untouched
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  Speaker 2: site of Celtic culture in all of Ireland. Again very
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  Speaker 2: like mythological, you know. And from there she talks about
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  Speaker 2: how they impacted her views. Here's a bit from nassywomenwriters
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  Speaker 2: dot com about the book. The extended family and the
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  Speaker 2: Lachines decided together to pass the traditions to her. She
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  Speaker 2: was entitled to it by her grandfather, who was a
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  Speaker 2: learned and respected Celtic scholar. According to the ancient Rayhome laws,
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  Speaker 2: once the child is orphaned, they become everyone's child. Her
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  Speaker 2: great aunt Nellie enlisted all of the elders of the
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  Speaker 2: ancient Lachines lineage to pass their special form of wisdom
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  Speaker 2: to the young Diana, one at a time. Beresford Kroeger
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  Speaker 2: believes that they were the last generation to hold the
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  Speaker 2: wisdom in its fullness, and that is why they wanted
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  Speaker 2: to pass it to her so thoroughly as well. So
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  Speaker 2: I love that, which is why her books are so important. Again,
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  Speaker 2: we've talked about the preservation of ancient traditions as well
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  Speaker 2: as keeping native ideas alive. We love that. So these
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  Speaker 2: teachings and understandings have made her an icon in the
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  Speaker 2: tree world. She's been called the First Lady of the Forest.
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  Speaker 2: What a title? Yeah, title again. I feel like this
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  Speaker 2: is such a tale, a Gaelic tale. I see her like.
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  Speaker 2: All the pictures I see of her are her hugging trees.
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  Speaker 2: So it's fantastic. Her books and her documentary called The Forest,
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  Speaker 2: released in twenty six six, has put a new perspective
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  Speaker 2: on how the forest can be healing in so many ways.
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  Speaker 2: So this is from her website detailing her works. Diana
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  Speaker 2: has been working to preserve the environment since the early
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  Speaker 2: nineteen fifties, which she identified climate change as one of
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  Speaker 2: the most important challenges we would face in the modern age.
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  Speaker 2: This set her on a course of rigorous scientific study,
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  Speaker 2: where she achieved a master's in botany in two PhDs,
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  Speaker 2: one in biochemistry and the other in biology. In nineteen
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  Speaker 2: sixty seven, she discovered genetic smearing, which changed the way
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  Speaker 2: scientists studied microcosms under a microscope. Diana also discovered cathodolubinescence
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  Speaker 2: in biological systems, which is now used to detect cancer.
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  Speaker 2: Like she has done significant amount of work. I can't
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  Speaker 2: believe it. Tik til twenty sixteen to understand how big
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  Speaker 2: she was in this field. In another article, they talk
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  Speaker 2: about the fact that she was the first to talk
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  Speaker 2: about how the therapy in going into a forest, how
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  Speaker 2: the trees actually release different types of sense and such
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  Speaker 2: for people to fill this calm that is from being
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  Speaker 2: in the forest. It's physical. It's not just a spiritual
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  Speaker 2: idea or a nice novel idea. Is actually scientific and
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  Speaker 2: she was one of the first people to actually acknowledge
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  Speaker 2: this and discover this. Hello sus So. The website goes
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  Speaker 2: on saying Diana's understanding of the ancient knowledge of trees
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  Speaker 2: has led her to unique scientific discoveries. In the nineteen seventies,
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  Speaker 2: Diana started her own arboretum and collected trees from all
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  Speaker 2: over the world. She discovered the importance of mother trees
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  Speaker 2: at the heart of the forest, and she scientifically proved
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  Speaker 2: the trees are a living library of medicine that have
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  Speaker 2: a chemical language and communicate in a quantum world. She
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  Speaker 2: created an ambitious bioplan encouraging and educating ordinary people how
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  Speaker 2: to replant the global force. This plan was actually adopted
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  Speaker 2: by the city of Ottawa. Yeah, mother trees, female trees,
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  Speaker 2: we need them badly. The pollen, the allergy stuff is
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  Speaker 2: due to how people decided to plant only male trees.
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  Speaker 1: Why, of course, why of course.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, moving on, and if you're wondering about this bioplan
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  Speaker 2: here's something from callthforest dot com. They actually describe it
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  Speaker 2: as this an ambitious plan encouraging ordinary people to develop
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  Speaker 2: a new relationship with nature, to join together to replant
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  Speaker 2: the global forest. So we're going to go very specific details.
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  Speaker 2: This is what they write. Nature is a thread that
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  Speaker 2: completes the tapestry of life. All things are connected on
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth, from the burning eye of the volcano and
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  Speaker 2: the brilliant colors of a butterfly's wing, to the chlorophyll
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  Speaker 2: of plants and life within the seas. In recent years,
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  Speaker 2: the tapestry of life has been damaged. The bioplant is
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  Speaker 2: the tool to mend the holes in the fabric. So
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  Speaker 2: the forest will be planted, the seas will have fish
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  Speaker 2: in marine life, the air will have more oxygen and
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  Speaker 2: less carbon dioxide. This is the pledge of mankind to
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  Speaker 2: share this planet, because it is our divine contract to
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  Speaker 2: ourselves and to all others. So you can go into
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  Speaker 2: our site and read more detail such poetry. Again, she
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  Speaker 2: writes poems, so it makes perfect sense. In her new book,
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  Speaker 2: Our Green Heart, So when You were it was released
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  Speaker 2: I believe a couple of years ago. She is praised
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  Speaker 2: for her ability to talk about science and nature in
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  Speaker 2: such a poetic and almost mythical way. She includes her
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  Speaker 2: own poetry, stories from her childhood, and even advice to
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  Speaker 2: the younger generations. She also talks about where we are
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  Speaker 2: today in research, saying this, I'm struck by the possibility
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  Speaker 2: that science has missed something important, namely that the planet
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  Speaker 2: our home contains a knowledge of self and that it
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  Speaker 2: supports somehow a march towards unity, which is one definition
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  Speaker 2: of the divine. So understanding this is not completely working.
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  Speaker 2: She's kind of calling this out and like she has
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  Speaker 2: done so much, but she could only do so much,
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  Speaker 2: And maybe it's because we need to rethink and start
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  Speaker 2: listening to the Earth about what it needs. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: she has many accolades for her amazing work, such as
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  Speaker 2: Arbor Day Foundation Award. She has conservation awards, she has
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  Speaker 2: fellowships from different universities, and just last year she was
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  Speaker 2: recently awarded the Mabel Francis with more award in Nature
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  Speaker 2: in Canada, so you know, and yes, if you have
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