Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith
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Join Ben Goldsmith as he speaks to some of the most influential people behind the most exciting and dramatic rewilding and nature recovery projects across the globe.
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S7E6 Wild land for everyone: The Rothbury Estate campaign with Craig Bennett
"Our dream is that children growing up in Newcastle should be able to stand on those terraces, look out and see this wonderful sort of wild landscape, and be able to go to it and spend time in it and…
S7E5 Dams, pollution and the collapse of the European eel with Joe Pecorelli
"The work that I'm involved with is more at catchment, at river basin scale. So it's trying to do the best we can - for us it's within the Thames - to hold as many eels in it as possible within that…
S7E4 Translocating two thousand giants across Africa with Donovan Jooste
"There's no silver bullet. It's a combination of efforts and it's a moving target. We constantly have to be adaptive, we constantly have to try and get ahead of the game and looking at it at a…
S7E3 The cougar comeback with Renee Seacor and Emily Carrollo
"It's very important to remember - for the same reasons we bought back many of these other species like beaver, river otter, fisher, bald eagle - that all these species have a role ecologically in…
S7E2 Saving songbirds from slaughter in the Mediterranean with Lloyd Scott
"The amount of times I've been and just for a brief moment you almost sort of lose track and forget ... and you're just looking at this marvel on a really good migration day and the number of…
S7E1 Bringing back the lost wild of Europe with Marija Krnjajic
"I was driving once with my ranger - and we were in the car - and in front of us was a big, grey wolf. He was astonished. Both of us, we just stopped breathing."In the latest episode of Rewilding the…
S6E12 A bold vision to rewild South America with Deli Saavedra
"This place went from zero percent possibilities to sight a jaguar in two or three days to 100 percent possibility to see jaguars. This change in perception of the people, because now 'the jaguar is…
S6E11 Fighting for America's largest blackwater swamp with Josh Marks
"Myself and my colleagues were not fooled, we knew exactly what the were intending to do, and so we got the band back together and we rose up to build an army of activists and advocates to fight them…
S6E10 The rewilding powerhouse of Europe with Wouter Helmer
"If you give rivers more space to flood the lands, to bring sediment - sand, clay - they not only bring sediment, they also bring life!"In this episode of Rewilding the World, Ben Goldsmith…
S6E9 Finding solace in nature with Dave Mountjoy
"The animals are already existing in a mindful, non-thinking state and it's us who have to experience that moment where everything stops and you're just being, you're just experiencing in the most…
S6E8 Managing England's forests for nature with Bev Nichols
"What are the things that really might just make a difference that take us out of a conventional nature conservation headspace and start to really push the boundaries of what can be done? And of…
S6E7 Rewilding back to the Ice Age with Nikita Zimov
"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…
S6E8 The crisis facing the curlew with Mary Colwell
"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…
S6E7 Liberating Michigan's mighty Boardman-Ottaway river with Frank Dituri and Brett Fessel
"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…
S6E6 Restoring Britain's wildest coast with Sandy Luk
"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…
S6E5 Why coexistence with wolves is vital with range-rider Daniel Curry
"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…
S6E4 Renaturing small spaces with James Canton
"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…
S6E4 Protecting the new forests of New England with Shelby Perry
"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…
S6E3 Showcasing Otter-ly amazing aquatic engineers with Chanel Hason
"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…
S6E2 The plight of Sweden's wolves with Staffan Widstrand
"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…
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Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith has published 79 episodes since March 2023, covering topics in Earth Sciences, Nature.
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