Today's Animal Wise Radio Guests are each doing groundbreaking and leading work in their fields. Stacey Coleman, Exec. Dir. of Animal Farm Foundation, is leading her organization in building knowledge and resources around today's shelter challenge of saving and rehoming the dogs recognized as pit bulls. Are perceptions toward this breed type starting to shift? AnimalFarmFoundation.org.

We welcome back Scott Hoffman Black, Exec. Director of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation xerces.org. We'll learn about their new campaign "Bring Back the Pollinators" and how fundamentally we depend on some of the tiniest creatures on earth.

Earth in Transition's Michael Mountain shares some groundbreaking news from Costa Rica and their commitment to keeping wild things in the wild.