Mammalwatching Podcast
1) Episode 18: Nachiket Kelkar & Kadambari Deshpande (India)
Charles and Jon speak to conservation power couple Nachiket Kelkar and Kadambari Deshpande from their home in Bangalore. Kadambari and Nachiket both work to better understand how wildlife and people c...Show More
2) Episode 17: African Golden Cat researcher Laila Bahaa-el-din
Charles and Jon talk with carnivore conservation expert Laila Bahaa-el-din. Laila studied the near mythical African Golden Cat for her PhD in Gabon from 2010 - 2015 and was the first to study the spec...Show More
3) Episode 16: Niger Marven
Charles and Jon talk with wildlife filmmaker and presenter Nigel Marven from his home in the UK. Nigel describes how a childhood fascination with wildlife led to his first job in TV, 'wrangling worms'...Show More
4) Episode 15: Rachel Ashegbofe Ikemeh, Nigeria
Charles and Jon talk with Rachel Ashegbofe Ikemeh, founder of the SW/Niger Delta Conservation Project. Rachel, a Nigerian conservationist and visionary, has built a team of almost 100 people working a...Show More
5) Episode 14: Shavez Cheema, Borneo
Charles and Jon talk to Shavez Cheema, founder of Borneo1Stop Wildlife, from his home in Sabah. Shavez talks about a childhood in Brunei surrounded by wildlife and how, at the age of nine, he was insp...Show More
6) Episode 13: Venkat Sankar & Nicole Haseley's Big California Year
Charles and Jon talk with mammalwatching power couple Venkat Sankar & Nicole Haseley from their base at Stanford University in California. Nicole and Venkat 'accidentally' turned 2024 into a Big Cali...Show More
7) Episode 12: Sid Francis, China
Charles and Jon talk to legendary mammal guide Sid Francis from his home in Sichuan. Sid runs through a career as geographically diverse as it is professionally. After studying agriculture in the UK h...Show More
8) Episode 11: The Horn of Africa
In the first episode of 2025 Charles and Jon talk about their December 2024 trip to Ethiopia's Somali Region and Djibouti. From Dik-diks to Dibatags we discuss some of the rare mammals we encountered ...Show More
9) Episode 10: Marcelo Gavensky and Argentina
In the last podcast episode of 2024, Charles and Jon talk to Marcelo Gavensky from his home in Buenos Aires. Marcelo is director of Birds Argentina, a tour company that recently expanded into running ...Show More
10) Rodney Jackson and Snow Leopards
Charles and Jon talk with Rodney Jackson the director of the Snow Leopard Conservancy, who is widely considered the leading world expert on the snow leopard, having devoted over forty years to researc...Show More