The Nature Recovery Podcast
The Nature Recovery Podcast looks at some of the major challenges we face to global biodiversity. It takes a look at the various ways we are trying to halt the decline in biodiversity and the challenges inherent in these approaches. We also talk to a number of leading figures in the field of Nature Recovery and find out more about their work.
Podcasting since 2023 • 30 episodes
The Nature Recovery Podcast
Latest Episodes
Wytham Woods: Tales from the a long-studied woodland with Dr Keith Kirby
In this episode we talk to Dr Keith Kirby MBE about Wytham Woods, a Thames Valley hill of limestone, ancient woodland and one of the most intensively studied woodland sites in the world. Keith traces the site’s deep history (a coral reef 150 mi...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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43:02
From Surviving to Thriving: Inside the IUCN Green Status of Species
In this episode Elizabeth Bock speaks with Dr Molly Grace (University of Oxford), co-chair of the IUCN Green Status of Species working group. The conversation explains how the Green Status complements the Red List by measuring species recovery,...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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26:15
Wasps! What are they good for? Absolutely Everything, (Say it again) with Seirian Sumner
In this episode of the Nature Recovery Podcast, Stephen Thomas speaks with Professor Seirian Sumner, one of the world’s leading experts on social insects and a passionate advocate for rethinking our relationship with wasps. Seirian revea...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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41:03
Living in 'The What Ought to Be' with David Farrier
Professor David Farrier (University of Edinburgh) discusses his 2025 book Nature’s Genius: Evolution’s Lessons for a Changing Planet and explores how rapid, human-driven evolutionary pressures reveal both the fragility and inventive re...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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36:11
Talking Forests: Cristina Banks-Leite on Restoring the Amazon
Professor Cristina Banks-Leite (Imperial College London) discusses the realities of tropical forest restoration: from large-scale reforestation projects and the practical challenges of seedlings, land tenure and finance, to why measured “succes...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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30:43
