Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith Podcast
1) 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 nich...Show More
2) 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 w...Show More
3) 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 ...Show More
4) 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 restora...Show More
5) 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 best...Show More
6) 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 wildlife...Show More
7) 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 t...Show More
8) 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 S...Show More
9) 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 w...Show More
10) Protecting endangered giant tortoises with Celina Chien
"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 thes...Show More