{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Ireland on the Fly - the people & places of fly fishing in Ireland","title":"The Last Salmon: Rob Macfarlane & why rivers are alive and should have rights","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2956,"description":"Is a river alive?  What a question….it throws up so many if, buts, maybes, but most importantly, why not?\n \nThey are our lifeblood, our circulation, our healing waters.  \n \nBut they also need saving now in these troubled times of extraction, industrialisation and pollution.\n \nTo kick off Season 2, we’re taking the big picture view when it comes to rivers, and we’re asking shouldn’t the rights of nature be respected in our laws and constitutions?  If a limited company can have legal rights why then can’t our rivers?  \n \nWithout our rivers, without due care, without oversight…..well, we all know what can and is happening in terms of water quality and how that is affecting us all, not least of all the wild salmon.\n \nSo to help with some of these existential questions, celebrated nature writer, Rob Macfarlane joins Jim Murray to discuss how he set out on journeys around the globe, from Ecuador to India and Canada, and finally to his own home waters in Cambridge, to ask is a river alive?\nThe Last Salmon Season 2 is supported by The Missing Salmon Alliance.\nImage: Richard Davies via https://www.instagram.com/racdavies_photos/\n \nThe Last Salmon, presented by actor and salmon activist, Jim Murray MBE, offers hope and solutions to the tragic story that is unfolding for an iconic species in crisis - the wild salmon.  \n \nFor regular updates, follow the show at Instagram.com/TheLastSalmon.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/DHKwdc4HIq7Z4buYLgb3TxxOaYB83axe1M53Nx1spY0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzEwOTA4LzE1OTAw/NzM2NzgtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}