This episode of Conservation Uncut was recorded in the middle of a jungle in Malaysian Borneo after a morning spent hunting for dung beetles using traps baited with human crap. Sitting on a rotten log in leech infested rainforest, Gianluca chats with jungle explorer and adventurer Nathan Trowbridge.
A few facts about Nathan. He built the largest unofficial structure at the 2010 Burning Man Festival in the Nevada desert, turned his coffee table into a freshwater fish tank and his garden into a hydroponics testing lab, owned a 2 foot long African lungfish with an anal prolapse for 10 years (along with a whole menagerie of other exotic creatures) and, following a motorbike accident in Vietnam where he shattered his collarbone, owns only three shirts, all of which have been cut to be sleeveless in true jungle fashion. Recently, Nathan quit his corporate job, sold his house and everything he owns (except his shirts of course) and bought a one-way ticket to Southeast Asia to make conservation-themed Youtube videos about insects and other animals.
A few lungfish photos:
This is Nathan’s lungfish wearing a gas mask. After several hundred million years on our planet, this is quite possibly the first lungfish in existence to have a gas mask put on it.
This is the X-ray of the lungfish talked about in the podcast.
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