Conversations on Conservation Oral Histories

“The protection of wild places is essential for the survival of humanity” - Shelly Sillbert (Conversations on Conservation interview, 2014.)

This month, the Denver Public Library is proud to make a series of important oral history interviews available, featuring important figures in the worldwide environmental conservation movement. Bob Baron of Fulcrum Publishing, who produced the video interviews, began interviewing conservation activists in 2011 to record their ideas about wilderness, climate change, endangered species and public policy. The interview project snowballed, and by 2017 the series had grown to 106 interviews with people working in conservation from across the world, including scientists, Secretaries of the Interior, journalists, artists, governors and directors of environmental organizations.