Podcast Episodes

‘Rogue rewilding’ - the illegal release of lynx with Pete Cairns

Season 5 Episode 15

“There absolutely is no substitute for just seeing it but also smelling it, feeling it, hearing it. You can read all the books and watch all the films you like but there is absolutely no substitute f…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Making history and nature work together with Rene Olivieri

Season 5 Episode 14

"Part of restoring nature - a really important part - is making sure that everyone has equal access to it."

The National Trust is now arguably one of Britain’s most ambitious and important nature char…

Published on 5 months ago

Replenishing the Garden of Eden with Azzam Alwash

Season 5 Episode 13

“We don’t give nature enough credit. All mankind needs is to do is to move aside and let the natural system return.”

Iraq is one of the five countries most touched by some effects of climate change, a…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Living alongside mountain lions in LA with Beth Pratt

Season 5 Episode 12

"We are destroying these ecosystems at our peril, and if we take out these apex predators, like mountain lions or lynx we are messing with our own capacity to survive, not just wildlife." 

Did you kno…

Published on 6 months ago

Between land and sea - the importance of saltmarshes with Angus Garbutt

Season 5 Episode 11

"British saltmashes accumulate about 700,000 tonnes of carbon a year alone, and in the top 10cm of soil saltmarshes hold about 2.3 million tonnes of carbon."

Ben Goldsmith is joined by Angus Garbutt, …

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Saving Africa's rhinos with Kevin Pietersen

Season 5 Episode 10

The smell of a dead animal, a carcase, an animal that's just been killed, is something you'll never ever forget and it's that that sticks with you. It's that that gives you the energy to continually …

Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago

Restoring California's Klamath River with Chuck Bonham

Season 5 Episode 9

"Up in Oregon, sixty miles from that old dam site, adult Chinook salmon were swimming in the Klamath River. It happened in ten days, when our scientists were saying it might take ten years."

The larg…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

Repairing and restoring Britain's rivers with Mike Blackmore

Season 5 Episode 8

"River restoration is essentially a violent act, what we do, but it's because it's undoing a violent act. It's essentially an equal and opposite violent act to what was done to the rivers in the firs…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Persuading investors to pay for rewilding projects with Adam Davis

Season 5 Episode 7

"Larger scale restoration projects mean better ecological outcomes, but they're also more efficient in terms of cost-per-acre."

What can be seen as one of the most important things currently happenin…

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

Meet the Pablo Escobar of beavers, Gerhard Schwab

Season 5 Episode 6

"I'm very happy, last week we brought beavers to France and that was my 1000th beaver I had exported either myself or through the organisation. And that was not just to bring back the beaver, but als…

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago