In Ben’s Rewilding the World podcast series, he talks to the individuals behind some of the most inspirational and dramatic rewilding projects around the world. From the UK and Europe to Africa, the Americas and Asia, their work is helping return areas of land and sea to its natural state and creating spaces where wildlife can thrive.
"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 restore the high altitude forests of the Andes, stretching all the way from Venezuela down to Patagonia. Accion Andina is a truly earth-changing initiative.
Ben Goldsmith is a British financier and rewilding enthusiast. Join him as he speaks to people from all over the world who champion nature and are helping to restore habitats and wildlife to some of the most nature depleted parts of our planet.
"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 you pay for it?
In this episode Ben Goldsmith is joined by Tim Coles who is pioneering a new market for biodiversity credits. His firm, rePLANET, is already pouring money from large corporations into rewilding projects. This, alongside an existing and fast growing market for voluntary carbon credits, might just be the source of funding the rewilding movement has been looking for.
Ben Goldsmith is a British financier and rewilding enthusiast. Join him as he speaks to people from all over the world who champion nature and are helping to restore habitats and wildlife to some of the most nature depleted parts of our planet.
"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 and played a major role in reintroducing the Eurasion beaver to England.
In this episode Ben Goldsmith speaks to Derek about how he led the charge to bring beavers back to waterways here in Britain, one of the greatest triumphs of the nature movement. The pair also discuss why there are calls to reintroduce the wolf to the UK.
Ben Goldsmith is a British financier and rewilding enthusiast. Join him as he speaks to people from all over the world who champion nature and helping to restore habitats and wildlife to some of the most nature depleted parts of our planet.
"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 how the St. Lucian parrot was saved – in part – by a rebrand and how changing the attitudes of ordinary people can have transformatively positive impacts on the environment.
Brett Jenks has championed behavior change in the conservation community for more than 30 years. As CEO, he leads Rare’s international mission to equip people in the world’s most biologically diverse countries with the tools and motivation needed to sustainably manage their natural resources.
Ben Goldsmith is a British financier and rewilding enthusiast. Join him as he speaks to environmentalists and thought leaders from all over the world who are working to help restore habitats and wildlife to some of the most nature depleted parts of our planet.
"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 both in the UK and abroad.
Ben talks to Stephen about where his love of nature comes from, and how he thinks we can go about bringing even more people to the movement.
Ben Goldsmith is a British financier and rewilding enthusiast. Join him as he speaks to people from all over the world who champion nature and helping to restore habitats and wildlife to some of the most nature depleted parts of our planet.
In this episode, Ben Goldsmith is joined by Alejandro Espinosa Treviño who – on behalf of Cemex – is overseeing restoration of a great swathe of grassland, forest and mountain on Mexico’s northern border with the US. Alejandro and his team have recently reintroduced bison to the El Carmen Nature Reserve, a species extinct in Mexico for more than a century.
In the latest episode of Rewilding the World, Ben Goldsmith speaks with legendary author and oceans campaigner Charles Clover. Charles’ seminal book, The End of the Line, marked a turning point in our understanding of the collapse of marine wildlife. Finally now, meaningful efforts are underway across the world to restore sanity and the health of our oceans.
Ben Goldsmith speaks with Werner Myburgh of Peace Parks, an organisation dedicated to establishing immense trans frontier protected areas across southern Africa. It is one of the grandest, most vast rewilding efforts anywhere on the planet. The rehabilitation of these huge landscapes – liberated from fencing, with species restored and poaching driven out – is dramatic and uplifting.
The Caribbean is a magical place; but it’s also one of the most ecologically degraded regions in the world. In this episode Ben Goldsmith speaks with Jenny Daltry who is leading rewilding efforts in Antigua and across the Caribbean.
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 Citizen Zoo, an organisation which is bringing people together across London to restore habitats and reintroduce missing species such as water voles and beavers.
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“There are a growing number of extraordinary, huge-scale rewilding efforts taking place across the world, and nobody knows about them! I started my Rewilding the World podcast series to illuminate these, and to give people a regular dose of optimism.”
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