{"podcast":{"title":"Life’s Tough, Explorers Are TOUGHER!","slug":"life-s-tough-explorers-are-tougher-3600599","podcast_index_feed_id":3600599,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2440723.rss","website_url":"https://www.lifestough.com","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/07i5gzxwf9o2pbyvu3m11zjcez5k?.jpg","author":"Richard Wiese","episode_count":58,"summary":"“Exploring is an innate part of being human.” Richard Wiese, spends 30 minutes every week with some of the world’s most compelling adventurers, explorers, and socio-environmental advocates, listening to their distinct adventures, unique discoveries, projects & goals, while discovering their multitude of challenges, surprises, triumphs and set-backs they encounter along the way. Join Richard as he pulls back the curtain on what it’s like to travel around the world and beyond; explore some of the most exotic and often dangerous places; and uncover what makes people, places and our planet so special.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-s-tough-explorers-are-tougher-3600599"},"episode":{"title":"Hugues de Kerdrel: Mission to Save Whale Sharks","slug":"hugues-de-kerdrel-mission-to-save-whale-sharks","published_at":"2026-05-06T17:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-s-tough-explorers-are-tougher-3600599/hugues-de-kerdrel-mission-to-save-whale-sharks","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-s-tough-explorers-are-tougher-3600599","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2440723/episodes/19125109-hugues-de-kerdrel-mission-to-save-whale-sharks.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2440723/episodes/19125109-hugues-de-kerdrel-mission-to-save-whale-sharks.mp3","summary":"In this episode of Life’s Tough, Explorers are Tougher, Hugues de Kerdrel joins Richard Wiese to share the story behind Mission William - a global initiative aimed at protecting whale sharks and the ecosystems they depend on. What began as a promise to a young boy evolved into a large-scale conservation effort focused on creating safe migration corridors across the Southeast Atlantic. Hugues explains how little data exists on these animals and how his team is working with governments, scienti...","meta_description":"In this episode of Life’s Tough, Explorers are Tougher, Hugues de Kerdrel joins Richard Wiese to share the story behind Mission William - a global initiat…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1884,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/life-s-tough-explorers-are-tougher-3600599/episodes/hugues-de-kerdrel-mission-to-save-whale-sharks/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-s-tough-explorers-are-tougher-3600599/hugues-de-kerdrel-mission-to-save-whale-sharks.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}