Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith
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.
Episodes
83 episodes
How to rewild your garden without walking away, with Tom Stuart-Smith
"This was very much an aesthetic concept in renaissance Italy; the three natures. The sort of ornamented nature, the cultivated nature and then the wild. So I've always thought about that as a fairly key principle. There comes a point where...
A vision for rewilding at Emblehope with Benedict MacDonald and Gil Martin
"Our aim is to re-create that sort of biosphere level peat land on a massive scale and unsurprisingly everything begins with water. And we need flowers and of course with flowers we’ll build insects so really straight and extraordinary comp...
The battle for the American Prairie with Alison Fox
"The bison will stay, no matter what happens here, and we will pursue all legal remedies for appealing this decision... but we will continue to manage a herd of bison, we will continue to open these lands to the public, we will continue to ...
Resetting our relationship with nature with Tim Christophersen
"We are in an abusive relationship with nature and we all know what abusive relationships look like. They are when one part always takes, takes, takes and never gives anything back. That is the relationship we have with nature right now and...
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 see how food is produced naturally and b...
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 can grow up and migrate back to the Sarga...
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 population level and not at an individual level...
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 these ecosystems. And so the same questions...
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 birds... and it's absolutely incredible and then...
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 World Ben Goldsmith intervie...
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 not a problem' is an opportunity."
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 over the last seven years."L...
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 interviews one of the most impactful a...
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 direct way the absolute beauty that the nat...
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 course of one of the huge advantages we have ...
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 niches filled in this ecosystem." ...
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 where we don’t really feel at home - all ...
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 removal of four huge concrete...
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 restoration and regeneration and reseeding the ...
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 stewards of the land that we can, that'...
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, with invertebrates, with bugs, with bi...
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 this episode of Rewilding...
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 Sea Otter Awareness Week....
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 want to get rid of him."Imagi...