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.
Australia has a mammoth problem with invasive species brought by European settlers. In this episode Ben Goldsmith is joined by Tim Allard who leads the Australian Wildlife Conservancy which is working to restore millions of hectares of wilderness in the country.
In this episode Ben Goldsmith speaks with Highlander David Balharry. David leads the John Muir Trust, an organisation which is leading efforts to restore the great mosaic of woodlands and wetlands that once made the Scottish Highlands one of Europe’s wildest landscapes.
Andreia Pawel is from ORKCA, the Orange River-Karoo Conservation Area, based in the south of Namibia. Andriea and her team plan to create a 2.5 million acre reserve and are working to reintroduce the wildlife that one lived there.
Pedro Prata is helping to restore great swathes of Portugal and provide spaces for native species to thrive. Through buying patches of land Rewilding Portugal is creating a mosaic of areas to reintroduce native animals and plant species with the hope they will spill out to the surrounding areas.
In this episode Ben Goldsmith is joined by John Watkin, the outgoing Chief Executive of Sahara Conservation. John and his team were charged with restoring a truly immense landscape in Africa’s Sahel region, including the reintroduction of species that have almost disappeared or have been lost from the region entirely.
The Amazon of Europe stretches across five countries and is one of the places where there are still wild, pristine rivers. Dragana Mileusnic from The Nature Conservancy is part of the United for Rivers project helping to protect these precious freshwater gems for future generations.
Sanjay Gubbi hit headlines after he was attacked by a leopard and was seriously injured. Sanjay and his team at the Holematthi Nature Foundation work with local communities to establish safe habitat and corridors for leopards and other iconic Indian wildlife across the country's southern states.
The Lake District is an iconic landscape loved by millions and people traveling from all over the world to revel in its beauty. Lee Schofield is an author and head of RSPB Haweswater and is spearheading a project to create a landscape of thriving uplands wildlife alongside sustainable farming.
Removing parts of the sea’s ecosystem and the introduction of invasive species can have far reaching consequences both in and on the water. Zafer Kizilkaya is an award-winning conservationist and founded the Mediterranean Conservation Society which built and oversaw Turkey’s first community-managed Marine Protected Area.
Once Scotland’s great Caledonian forests stretched from coast to coast. In this episode Ben Goldsmith is joined by Steve Micklewright from Trees for Life. They, and organisations like them, are working to reinstate wild forest in the Highlands and build a new economy around wildlife and nature tourism.
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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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