Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith
by Ben Goldsmith
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The world’s most ambitious pest eradication plan with Jessi Morgan
The world’s most ambitious pest eradication plan with Jessi Morgan
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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.
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- The world’s most ambitious pest eradication plan with Jessi Morgan · 36 min · Season 7 Episode 18"Predator-free 2050 is this hugely ambitious goal. And I think one the world's a little bit envious of, because imagine if we could do it!? It just shows that when you remove the…
- Disagreeing agreeably on Rewilding with Rory Stewart · 1 h 1 min · Season 7 Episode 17"We are facing a catastrophe. We are about to face the largest clearance of small family farms from the English landscape that has ever been experienced, and it is driven…
- Could the wolf return to Japan? With Ryo Sakurai · 39 min · Season 7 Episode 16"While people consider deer, wild boars, macaque as crop raiding pests, wolves were considered as good animals, benign animals, because they were considered to protect…
- Reclaiming our dark skies with Megan Eaves-Egenes · 34 min · Season 7 Episode 15"Eighty percent of the world’s population lives underneath a light polluted sky of some kind. When you look specifically at Europe and North America that statistic rises to…
- Why Africa must lead its conservation future with Kaddu Sebunya · 36 min · Season 7 Episode 14"Come to Africa, find who should be responsible to carry out conservation and support that. Don’t take away the responsibility of Africans, because that hasn’t given us the…
- Europe is burning, here's what could stop it with Frans Schepers · 33 min · Season 7 Episode 13"Nature would like to change all the time, and that's guided by those landscape architects like large herbivores, but also other processes; wind, storm, disease, fire, flooding…
- How nature became Ukraine's secret weapon with Jasper Humphreys · 27 min · Season 7 Episode 12"This is a natural progression of how to protect your borders. And the other advantage is that it's cheaper; it's already there. So I can see that as demands on the defence…
- Hope for a wilder Britain with George Monbiot · 37 min · Season 7 Episode 11"For me, the driver has always been love. It's been a love of thriving nature, it's been a love of rich and interesting landscapes and it's been this despair at seeing so few of…
- How to rewild your garden without walking away, with Tom Stuart-Smith · 37 min · Season 7 Episode 10"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…
- A vision for rewilding at Emblehope with Benedict MacDonald and Gil Martin · 40 min · Season 7 Episode 9"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…
- The battle for the American Prairie with Alison Fox · 36 min · Season 7 Episode 8"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…
- Resetting our relationship with nature with Tim Christophersen · 40 min · Season 7 Episode 7"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…
- Wild land for everyone: The Rothbury Estate campaign with Craig Bennett · 46 min · Season 7 Episode 6"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…
- Dams, pollution and the collapse of the European eel with Joe Pecorelli · 35 min · Season 7 Episode 5"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…
- Translocating two thousand giants across Africa with Donovan Jooste · 39 min · Season 7 Episode 4"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…
- The cougar comeback with Renee Seacor and Emily Carrollo · 37 min · Season 7 Episode 3"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…
- Saving songbirds from slaughter in the Mediterranean with Lloyd Scott · 35 min · Season 7 Episode 2"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…
- Bringing back the lost wild of Europe with Marija Krnjajic · 35 min · Season 7 Episode 1"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…
- A bold vision to rewild South America with Deli Saavedra · 40 min · Season 6 Episode 12"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…
- Fighting for America's largest blackwater swamp with Josh Marks · 38 min · Season 6 Episode 11"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…
