Searching for the Golden Toad with Kyle and Trevor Ritland
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Searching for the Golden Toad with Kyle and Trevor Ritland
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About this listen
Frog and Toad Are Friends, at least according to a venerable children’s book. And so are Jason (Crazy Town’s resident biology nerd) and conservationist brothers, Kyle and Trevor Ritland, authors of The Golden Toad: An Ecological Mystery and the Search for a Lost Species. The three eco-explorers connect over wondrous habitats and critters in Costa Rica's cloud forest and swap stories that cover Lazarus species, global pandemics, self-taught naturalists, birding, and even pregnancy tests. Spliced into the nostalgia and stories are reflections on how to cope in a world where biodiversity is declining and how to regain the connections that modernity has severed between humanity and wild nature. Originally recorded on 10/9/25.
Sources/Links/Notes:
- Kyle and Trevor Ritland, The Golden Toad: An Ecological Mystery and the Search for a Lost Species, Diversion Books, 2025.
- Adventure Term, Kyle and Trevor's nonprofit experiential learning initiative
Related episode(s) of Crazy Town:
- Episode 40, "Nature Detachment and Ecocide, or… the Story of the Marauding Mountain Lion"
- Episode 49, "A Day at the Zoo Is No Walk in the Park: Humanity’s Overexploitation of Animals and Nature"