Podcast Episodes

Rewilding back to the Ice Age with Nikita Zimov

Season 6 Episode 7

"I don't want to make a zoo. I don't to take care of those animals for eternity, I want them to live on their own and in order to have a sustainable ecosystem it's extremely important to have all nic…

Published on 5 hours ago

The crisis facing the curlew with Mary Colwell

Season 6 Episode 8

"If it quacked like a Duck, to be honest I don't think we’d be that excited about it but because it sings like an angel and it looks so beautiful and it lives in liminal spaces - these wetland areas …

Published on 2 weeks ago

Liberating Michigan's mighty Boardman-Ottaway river with Frank Dituri and Brett Fessel

Season 6 Episode 7

"We thought the project was over... We would lose the trust of the public and they were sceptical to begin with. We stuck together."

Michigan's mighty Boardman-Ottaway River has been liberated by the …

Published on 4 weeks ago

Restoring Britain's wildest coast with Sandy Luk

Season 6 Episode 6

"Our seas around the UK are so busy. There are so many different activities that happen on it, from fishing to offshore wind, to cabling, to shipping... so looking after and building space for restor…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Why coexistence with wolves is vital with range-rider Daniel Curry

Season 6 Episode 5

"They don't hate wolves, they just hate the idea of losing their livelihood. So for me, if we can prevent the conflict, and we can empower rural areas and rural land owners and ranchers to be the bes…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Renaturing small spaces with James Canton

Season 6 Episode 4

"Something like 27 million people in Britain consider themselves gardeners. If you can harness those people, if you can get them thinking about their relationship with the natural world; with wildlif…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Protecting the new forests of New England with Shelby Perry

Season 6 Episode 4

"What we really need to do, and what we're really trying to do with our work, is bring back that old forest condition and the main ingredient for that is time - we're buying these forests time." 

In t…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Showcasing Otter-ly amazing aquatic engineers with Chanel Hason

Season 6 Episode 3

"Sea otters are the best long term solution for the health of the ecosystem and resiliency off of the coast as a keystone species." 

The release of this episode of Rewilding the World coincides with S…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

The plight of Sweden's wolves with Staffan Widstrand

Season 6 Episode 2

"The wolf is the devil in hundreds and hundreds of years of storytelling. If you're talking about the devil's right hand it's very difficult to talk about proper population sizes or quotas; you just …

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Protecting endangered giant tortoises with Celina Chien

Season 6 Episode 1

"These tortoises are absolutely the ecosystem engineers. They are incredible grazers, they are nutrient cyclers, they are seed dispersers, also just mechanically they are the largest creatures on the…

Published on 4 months ago