Join Ben Goldsmith as he speaks to some of the most influential people behind the most exciting and dramatic rewilding projects across the globe.
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The goal of Rewilding Earth podcast is to highlight the work of the people involved in saving nature’s building blocks, whether they be intact wilderness or key corridors and buffers surrounding wilderness, as well as people invested in protecting and reintroducing extirpated species to these areas. You’ll hear from conservation biologists, activists, naturalists, organizers, artists, and authors as we interview key players in the fight to Rewild Planet Earth.
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Breathing your genius, inspired and then out, into poems. New life!
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Between the two of them, transformative coaches Angus and Rohini Ross have worked with hundreds of couples. They created the Rewilding Love podcast because they believe there is too much suffering in relationships. Too many good relationships fall apart because couples give up thinking their relationship problems can’t be solved. Many couples don’t know how to navigate low moods, conflict, and emotional reactivity. In each season of the Rewilding Love Podcast, Rohini and Angus will help a co ...
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Podcast by Peter Cooper
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Are you looking at our society racked with disconnection, poor mental and physical health, social injustice, and the wanton destruction of the natural world and asking yourself, “What can I do?” Join experimental anthropologist Peter Michael Bauer as he converses with experts from many converging fields that help us craft cultures of resilience. Weaving together a range of topics from ecology to wilderness survival skills to permaculture, each episode deepens and expands your understanding o ...
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The Good Life Revival Podcast explores the ways that we can align our core values and our daily habits towards a more sustainable, ecologically conscious way of life. Join host Sam Sycamore in discussion about living intentionally, finding purpose in the modern era, and taking meaningful action to heal the world by healing ourselves.
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Delve into the magical world of plant medicine, uncover ancient secrets of transcendence, and navigate the latest healing modalities from nutrition to energy healing. with the Rewilding Humanity Podcast. Unlock the secrets of the mind, body, and spirit as your guide, Krysta Francoeur, leads you through the shadows of her own spiritual quests and global explorations, and introduces you to her world-class community of extraordinary humans, changing the landscape of health and wellness. Join ou ...
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Over the 10-weeks leading up to The Reintroduction & Rewilding Summit on the 10th April, created by Birds of Poole Harbour and the Self-Isolating Bird Club, Charlie Moores will be interviewing a series of wildlife restoration leaders, discussing the details, aims and inspiration behind each scheme. With many of these topics or ideas sometimes being considered controversial, these open discussions aim to lay all cards on the table, allowing listeners to hear about the processes, practicalitie ...
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Wellbeing through returning, connecting, deepening. Slow living, creativity, nature, embodiment, community, mystery.
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Dr. Todd Bridges is a Professor of Practice in resilient and sustainable systems in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia. Prior to joining UGA in 2023, Bridges served for 17 years as the U.S. Army’s Senior Research Scientist (ST) for Environmental Science, one of 40 Senior Research Scientists in the Department of […] Read full ar…
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"If you look at restoring the whole Andes, the entire Andean mountain range, you can't just go at it by planting trees. There are so many other things that you need to do to holistically permit nature to actually come back." In this episode Ben Goldsmith talks with inspirational Earthshot Prizewinner, Florent Kaiser. Florent is leading an effort to…
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"We just put together a project in Indonesia on restoring mangroves and it's 2000 hectares, and over 40 years the local communities will get in excess of 100 million dollars." People are pretty much sold on the idea that we need to restore nature at scale. David Attenborough said it himself, we need to ‘rewild the world’ but the question is how do …
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Before he and his wife Lucinda began rewilding work on the Pitchfork Ranch 20 years ago, A Thomas Cole spent thirty-two years as a small-town lawyer in Casa Grande, Arizona, successfully defended two death-penalty murder cases, a dozen homicide cases, co-counseled the largest jury verdict in Arizona history, Chaired the Casa Grande Town Hall, Arizo…
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"Coming to terms with the wolf in Britain would be one of the biggest and bravest things we've ever done. But we desperately need to start a conversation about how we do this and when we do this and start to make progress towards attaining it as a real goal." Beavers are the ultimate ecosystem engineers. Derek Gow is a farmer turned conservationist…
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Episode 133 | Beyond National Parks: Kris Tompkins’ Ambitious Vision For Continental-Scale Rewilding
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“Whoever you are, wherever your interest lies, whatever you’ve fallen in love with, get out of bed every morning and do something. Act, step into the fray—fight for a human society in balance with the natural world.” —Kristine McDivitt Tompkins Kris Tompkins is the president and co-founder of Tompkins Conservation, an American conservationist, and …
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"If you want to save any species on Earth, there's really only one species you have to fully understand, and thats homo sapiens, because are the cause and therefore we are the solution to just about every rewilding or biodiversity or climate concern." This time on Rewilding the World, Ben Golsmith talks to Brett Jenks, CEO of Rare.org. They discuss…
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Humans evolved in social, cooperative bands, using this cooperation as an evolutionary advantage. These days, rugged individualism still seems to dominate many outdoor activities from regular camping to bushcraft and even to rewilding. When people think of ancestral skills, they think mostly of the hand crafts like basket weaving, pottery, or arche…
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About Dr. Jessica Hardesty Norris is a biologist with over 20 years of experience in ecological planning and research, program development, strategic planning and community outreach for natural resource conservation. She has demonstrated success in proposal writing, partnership building, and project management. Her recent project work includes park…
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"I remember genuinely thinking, 'we don't need insects. What's the point of them?' Little did I know!" Welcome to a new series of Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith. In this first episode Ben is joined by Stephen Fry. As well as being a national treasure, and one of the funniest people in England, Stephen has long championed nature projects bot…
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About Michael Kellett, the co-founder and Executive Director of RESTORE: The North Woods, has over 35 years of experience in the land conservation movement. In 1994, he wrote the first white paper proposing a 3.2 million-acre Maine Woods National Park & Preserve, and has been actively involved in efforts to restore the endangered wildlife such […] …
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Episode 130: Conservation Challenges and Successes Amidst Increased Border Militarization In The Sky Islands
About Emily Burns Emily joined the Sky Island Alliance in 2019 after practicing conservation science and restoration for nearly a decade in the redwood forests of California at Save the Redwoods League. She leads the team running all programs, including the Border Wildlife Study, the Trinational Internship Program, Sky Island FotoFauna, Spring Seek…
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About As the United States Policy Director for Wildlands Network, Erin Sito researches, develops and promotes laws and policies geared towards supporting habitat connectivity and biodiversity at the local, state, and federal level. Erin’s work also focuses on state agency reform and funding, and outreach to promote Wildlands Network’s policy initia…
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"Over a period of 10 years we were able to rear in captivity 331 Kestrels that we released back into nature." In the latest episode of Rewilding the World Ben Goldsmith speaks with legendary conservationist Carl Jones about the island of Mauritius. Carl famously led efforts to save a variety of species. These included the Mauritius kestrel which wa…
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Episode 128: A Howl of Hope – Eric Trefney’s Inspiring Campaign to Protect the Critically Endangered Red Wolf
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About Eric Trefney grew up in Michigan in the metro-Detroit area, where he often camped and canoed with his family and friends. After finishing graduate school in 2015, Eric joined the Peace Corps, where he was assigned to Senegal, Africa, in the Sahel desert region. Eric practiced and trained in agroforestry techniques with local Senegalese […] Re…
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"El Carmen Nature Reserve is a very good example of a success of conservation, with the interaction of several actors from the private sector and government agencies from both sides of the border." In this episode Ben Goldsmith is joined by Alejandro Espinosa Treviño who - on behalf of Cemex - is overseeing restoration of a great swathe of grasslan…
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Episode 127: How Rewilding The Night Skies Can Provide Major Benefits To Migratory Birds And Other Species
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Ruskin Hartley champions equitable access to dark skies and quality lighting for all through DarkSky’s award-winning programs. He works closely with volunteer leaders and donors to secure increased support for our priorities around the world. Ruskin believes that experiencing a dark sky, and appreciating quality lighting, are essential to DarkSky’s…
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"We have started to get a few things right, why can't we just watch the things we have done right and do more of them?" In the latest episode of Rewilding the World Ben Goldsmith speaks with legendary author and oceans campaigner Charles Clover who also co-founded the Blue Marine Foundation. Charles' seminal book, The End of the Line, marked a turn…
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Episode 126: Borderlands Connectivity – Conservation Challenges And Victories on the U.S.-Mexico Border
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About Myles Traphagen coordinates Wildlands Network’s borderlands program, focusing on channeling collaborative efforts to maintain and restore habitat for species like jaguar, black bear, and Sonoran pronghorn. He oversees strategic partnerships, communications, and projects to advance large-landscape conservation goals in Mexico and the United St…
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"Our dream is quite simple and that is to achieve co-existence between people and nature." This episode focuses on one of the grandest, most vast rewilding efforts anywhere on the planet. Join Ben Goldsmith as he speaks with Werner Myburgh of Peace Parks, an organisation dedicated to establishing immense trans frontier protected areas across southe…
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"It's now been seven years since we removed the rats and goats and I just walk around with my mouth open, it is beautiful. There are so many trees on the island - when we started there was only two - now I can't count them." The Caribbean is a magical place; but it’s also one of the most ecologically degraded regions in the world. In this episode B…
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Episode 125: Reflections on The 75th Anniversary of ‘A Sand County Almanac’ and the 100th Anniversary of the Gila Wilderness with Buddy Huffaker
About With an academic background in landscape architecture and plant ecology, Buddy Huffaker joined the Aldo Leopold Foundation as an intern in 1996 and today serves as its President and Executive Director. In this role, he headed the $7.5 million campaign to construct and endow the Aldo Leopold Legacy Center and served as the Executive […] Read f…
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Alua Arthur is one of America’s most prominent death doulas and the founder of Going with Grace, an end-of-life planning organization. She shares with us why and how we can explore our own relationship to death in ways that will help us reach a new, deeper, and more fulfilling level of living. Alua’s website: https://goingwithgrace.com/ Buy Alua’s …
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"Engaging with nature in that urban space can be so beneficial and if we scale those micro actions up to a macro level, imagine the change that would seed." More and more urban rewilding projects are engaging growing numbers of citizens in local nature restoration. In this episode of Rewilding the World Ben Goldsmith is joined by Elliot Newton of C…
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About Rowan Kilduff is a dad, long-time mountain, hawk & wildlife enthusiast, poet, and activist-artist. He has worked on various projects, including with Greenpeace, hands-on forest conservation in the Czech Republic, fixing a roof in Nepal, and photos used by The Irish Seal Sanctuary. His first writing about rewilding and first poems were publish…
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Technology has improved our lives in countless ways, but we might have begun to rely on it a bit too heavily in some places — subsequently outsourcing vital components of our humanness. If we want to establish a clearer connection with our intuition, if we want to reconnect with our bodies and minds and with the features of our own humanity, if we …
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"All of us involved in the project are driven by the opportunity to make a real difference for this special part of the planet." Eradicating giant mice from South Africa's Marion Island, a vital haven for seabirds. The vast, wild Southern Ocean is home to albatrosses, petrels and other remarkable seabirds which wander for years on end in search of …
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Episode 123: Who Pays for Conservation, Being the Lorax, and Introducing A New Voice For Western Lands Conservation
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About Today’s Guests George Wuerthner (President, Sage Steppe Wild) – George is a professional photographer, writer, and ecologist. He has visited hundreds of mountain ranges around the West, more than 400 wilderness areas, more than 200 national park units, and every national forest west of the Mississippi. George is the author of 38 books on […] …
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"A lot of Costa Rica's success on forest cover hasn't been emulated in terms of active rewilding. That's what I'm trying to start the wheels turning in Costa Rica; when do we need to use more of an active approach?" In this episode Ben Goldsmith is joined by Andy Whitworth of Osa Conservation, an organisation which is busy rewilding Costa Rica's ev…
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To attain the level of resilience that cultural rewilding calls for, requires moving away from an economy based on extraction for profit that lays waste to local ecosystems and destroys ancient ways that people have lived from the land. To move away we need alternatives, and examples of how other people have found and maintained sustainability. How…
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“I would be very excited if I found a grasshopper on the balcony and my parents would put it in a jar for me to observe.” In this episode Melpo Apostolidou from BirdLife Cyprus tells Ben Goldsmith about the remarkable ongoing effort to return the vital, majestic Griffon vulture to the skies of Cyprus, in the eastern Mediterranean. Melpo and her tea…
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This episode’s release coincides with World Rewilding Day 2024, with this year’s theme being Hope Into Action. A great example of this in practice is the work being carried out by Jonathan Thomson who has created the twenty-two acre wild paradise Underhill Nature Reserve on the border of Wiltshire and Dorset in southern England. A lot of people won…
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Rewilding is about seeking a reciprocal relationship to the environment and to one another. Material and cultural conditions kept humans in relative check with their ecologies for potentially millions of years, so what were they? If we are to understand this, we must hold up a lens and look at the diversity of hunter-gatherers (both past and presen…
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“We’re already starting to see dramatic habitat and water quality improvement across that Kissimmee valley.” The Everglades, North America’s largest and most vital wetland, is a place of extraordinary beauty but is facing enormous problems. The immense ‘river of grass’ has been desperately disfigured, principally by ill-considered hydrological engi…
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We know that we feel better when we are close to nature, and yet many of us also feel chronically distanced from the natural world. You don’t have to move to the woods to deepen this relationship — here are simple practices that can offer big results, even in a city. ASK ME ANYTHING | Submit your Qs here SUBSCRIBE | Join my newsletter STA | Join th…
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Episode 122: Seeds of Hope in the Land of the Jaguar – Rejuvenating Habitat in Sonora Mexico
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Note from Randy: Hi everyone thank you for listening. On the podcast I speak about not reporting possible poachers when they talk about jaguar killings. In addition to the fact that information channels would dry up if we were to report those who talk about killing jaguars, there is also the fact that actual poachers […] Read full article: Episode …
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About Before joining The Rewilding Institute, Megan “Turtle” Southern was the coordinator of the Northern Jaguar Project, where she helped to establish and grow the Northern Jaguar Reserve in Sonora, Mexico, organized scientific research projects and conservation education among youth, and worked extensively with ranchers to promote coexistence. It…
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“Feral cats are the primary driver of the decline of small mammals. We’ve lost more than 30 mammal species in Australia over the last couple of hundred years and the primary driver of that is cats.” Australia has a mammoth problem with invasive species brought by European settlers to the country which had been isolated from the rest of the world fo…
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How can we heal in aloneness without hiding in it? Solitude can be one of, if not THE most powerful force for our own personal and spiritual growth. But if we’re not careful, we can misuse this time and it can add to a sense of loneliness. ASK ME ANYTHING | Submit your Qs here SUBSCRIBE | Join my newsletter STA | Join the waitlist **** Did you enjo…
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Episode 120: Carnivore Conservation in the Pacific Northwest With Paula MacKay and Robert Long
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About Paula MacKay has studied wild carnivores for the past two decades and is currently a carnivore conservation specialist with Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo. Also dedicated to communications on behalf of her wild kin, Paula earned an MFA in creative writing from Pacific Lutheran University in 2015. She was managing editor for Noninvasive Survey Me…
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“Think globally, but act locally. We need to start putting some of that stuff back locally otherwise we don’t pass on anything great to our future generations.” The Scottish Highlands is one of Britain’s most beautiful and ecologically degraded landscapes. Change is in the air, however, as long lost keystone species such as wild boar, wildcats, whi…
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These days more than ever, we have enormous levels of system “input”, and most of it isn’t great: news, social media, emails, etc. Where does all of this stress and angst and horror go? Let’s discuss how we can let some of this energy flow through us instead of accumulating within us. ASK ME ANYTHING | Submit your Qs here SUBSCRIBE | Join my newsle…
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As humans, we all crave comfort and ease and safety, and it’s important that we establish these for ourselves through decisions and time. But for many of us, there is a point where the pursuit of safety or stability is no longer protecting us, and starts hurting us — turning into a cage that we become more and more scared to step out of. ASK ME ANY…
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About Lauren Strohacker is an eco-political artist whose work emphasizes the non-human in an increasingly human-centric world. She received a BFA (2006) from The Ohio State University and an MFA (2011) from Arizona State University. Strohacker’s co-creative and site-responsive practice routinely collaborates with both local and national wildlife co…
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“With abundance comes resilience and with abundance these animals and the wildlife populations can thrive and can survive these climatic changes.” Andreia Pawel is from ORKCA, the Orange River-Karoo Conservation Area, based in the south of Namibia. The country is made up primarily of desert but once was a the place where springbok migrations dwarfe…
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City landscapes are perhaps the most decimated and human centric habitats in today’s world. These landscapes are in need of thoughtful rewilding. Cities are some of the most domesticated places, but also positioned in some of the most historically fertile places. Cities were built where they are, because these places had access to a diverse array o…
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In this episode I share a perspective shift that will invite more presence, gratitude, and gentleness into your daily life. Email me: hello@taylorgage.com STA | JOIN THE WAITLIST SUBSCRIBE | Join my newsletter SUPPORT | Make a one-time donation **** Did you enjoy this episode? Leaving a review is a TOTALLY FREE way to share the love and support the…
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The longer a culture exists in a place, the more stories they have of that place. These stories act a way for people to interact with the land where they live and also act as social filters for how to perceive the land as well. Stories also engage people with the landscape through their imagination and when linked to a physical activity can make th…
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To start off our new year and new chapter, I wanted to sit down and chat with you about a few things, get honest, and also offer a chance to connect 1:1 with a few of you. Email me: hello@taylorgage.com STA | JOIN THE WAITLIST SUBSCRIBE | Join my newsletter SUPPORT | Make a one-time donation **** Did you enjoy this episode? Leaving a review is a TO…
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#92: The One About Beating the Inflation Game & Organic Eating on $92 a Month?! - with Steph Taylor
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Steph Taylor makes learning old fashioned skills like gardening, preserving and getting back to our roots SIMPLE for overwhelmed, time-crunched people. Get simple, action + mindset shifts you can implement immediately, which will calm your nervous system and heal your soul. Steph teaches peope to take back their freedom and innate connected power b…
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