Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith
Episodes
Saving songbirds from slaughter in the Mediterranean with Lloyd Scott
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"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...
Bringing back the lost wild of Europe with Marija Krnjajic
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"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 sto...
A bold vision to rewild South America with Deli Saavedra
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"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...
Fighting for America's largest blackwater swamp with Josh Marks
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"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 ...
The rewilding powerhouse of Europe with Wouter Helmer
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"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 t...
Finding solace in nature with Dave Mountjoy
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"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...
Managing England's forests for nature with Bev Nichols
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"What are the things that really might just make a difference that take us out of a conventional nature conservation headspace and start to reall...
Rewilding back to the Ice Age with Nikita Zimov
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"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 ...
The crisis facing the curlew with Mary Colwell
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"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 be...
Liberating Michigan's mighty Boardman-Ottaway river with Frank Dituri and Brett Fessel
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"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...
Restoring Britain's wildest coast with Sandy Luk
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"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 ship...
Why coexistence with wolves is vital with range-rider Daniel Curry
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"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 r...
Renaturing small spaces with James Canton
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Something like 27 million people in Britain consider themselves gardeners. If you can harness those people, if you can get them thinking about t...
Protecting the new forests of New England with Shelby Perry
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"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 ingredien...
Showcasing Otter-ly amazing aquatic engineers with Chanel Hason
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"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 rel...
The plight of Sweden's wolves with Staffan Widstrand
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"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...
Protecting endangered giant tortoises with Celina Chien
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"These tortoises are absolutely the ecosystem engineers. They are incredible grazers, they are nutrient cyclers, they are seed dispersers, also j...
Bringing nature restoration into the 21st Century with Natural England Chair, Tony Juniper
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I think what we need now is a new landmark Act of Parliament to set the vision for the coming 50 to 100 years; truly visionary in restoring natu...
Using AI to unlock animal communication with Katie Zacarian
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"We're essentially trying to create an AI powered research assistant to accelerate the rate of discovery and support biologists understandin...
Restoring Canada's iconic Bison with Tom Olson
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Our herd is north of 5,000 so I think it's the largest conservation herd in the country and it may be the largest herd period, even amongst...
Bringing the ocean back to life with Enric Sala
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I saw everything that was missing from the sea of my childhood."If you haven’t seen the latest David Attenborough film Ocean yet, you mus...
Fighting organised wildlife crime with Olivia Swaak-Goldman
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"We have to make this crime type too risky and lower the reward. We need to seize all the assets that they gain from their criminal enterprise......
Can rewilding and farming work together? With Toby Diggens
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Go for it. Go into any kind of career even if you don't have that ecological education and change the culture from within. That's just...
Diving into New York’s Billion Oyster Project with Katie Mosher
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Oyster reefs do this really special thing; they become a refuge for finfish species, for crabs, for all types of really important species and so...
Brokering finance deals to fund nature restoration with Rob Gardner
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“You’re going to invest in a fund but this fund is going to own peatlands, sphagnum moss, re-wiggled rivers. It's going to restore farmland, ...
Defending the world's oceans with Peter Hammarstedt
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"We fill a law enforcement void that exists in the world's oceans and we'll continue to fill that void until government fills that vacu...
‘Rogue rewilding’ - the illegal release of lynx with Pete Cairns
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“There absolutely is no substitute for just seeing it but also smelling it, feeling it, hearing it. You can read all the books and watch all the fil...
Making history and nature work together with Rene Olivieri
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Part of restoring nature - a really important part - is making sure that everyone has equal access to it."The National Trust is now arguabl...
Replenishing the Garden of Eden with Azzam Alwash
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“We don’t give nature enough credit. All mankind needs is to do is to move aside and let the natural system return.”Iraq is one of the five coun...
Living alongside mountain lions in LA with Beth Pratt
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"We are destroying these ecosystems at our peril, and if we take out these apex predators, like mountain lions or lynx we are messing with our ow...
Between land and sea - the importance of saltmarshes with Angus Garbutt
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"British saltmashes accumulate about 700,000 tonnes of carbon a year alone, and in the top 10cm of soil saltmarshes hold about 2.3 million tonnes...
Saving Africa's rhinos with Kevin Pietersen
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The smell of a dead animal, a carcase, an animal that's just been killed, is something you'll never ever forget and it's that that stic...
Restoring California's Klamath River with Chuck Bonham
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Up in Oregon, sixty miles from that old dam site, adult Chinook salmon were swimming in the Klamath River. It happened in ten days, when our sci...
Repairing and restoring Britain's rivers with Mike Blackmore
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"River restoration is essentially a violent act, what we do, but it's because it's undoing a violent act. It's essentially an equa...
Persuading investors to pay for rewilding projects with Adam Davis
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Larger scale restoration projects mean better ecological outcomes, but they're also more efficient in terms of cost-per-acre." What ca...
Meet the Pablo Escobar of beavers, Gerhard Schwab
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"I'm very happy, last week we brought beavers to France and that was my 1000th beaver I had exported either myself or through the organisati...
High altitude forest restoration in the Andes with Florent Kaiser
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"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 ot...
Who will pay to rewild the world with Tim Coles
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"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...
Reintroducing species to Britain with The Beaver King, Derek Gow
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"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...
Changing human behaviour to protect biodiversity with Brett Jenks
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"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...
Championing nature with Stephen Fry
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"I remember genuinely thinking, 'we don't need insects. What's the point of them?' Little did I know!"Welcome to a new s...
Rebuilding the natural treasures of Mauritius with Carl Jones
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Over a period of 10 years we were able to rear in captivity 331 Kestrels that we released back into nature." In the latest episode of Rewil...
Restoring habitats in Mexico with Alejandro Espinosa Treviño
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"El Carmen Nature Reserve is a very good example of a success of conservation, with the interaction of several actors from the private sector and...
Protecting the oceans with Charles Clover
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"We have started to get a few things right, why can't we just watch the things we have done right and do more of them?"In the latest ep...
Rewilding without borders with Werner Myburgh
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Our dream is quite simple and that is to achieve co-existence between people and nature."This episode focuses on one of the grandest, most ...
Rewilding the Caribbean with Jenny Daltry
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"It's now been seven years since we removed the rats and goats and I just walk around with my mouth open, it is beautiful. There are so many...
Urban rewilding across London with Elliot Newton
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Engaging with nature in that urban space can be so beneficial and if we scale those micro actions up to a macro level, imagine the change that w...
Saving albatrosses on a sub-Antarctic island with Anton Wolfaardt
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"All of us involved in the project are driven by the opportunity to make a real difference for this special part of the planet." Eradicating...
Protecting Costa Rica’s wilderness with Andy Whitworth
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"A lot of Costa Rica's success on forest cover hasn't been emulated in terms of active rewilding. That's what I'm trying to s...
Reintroducing Griffon vultures to Cyprus with Melpo Apostolidou
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“I would be very excited if I found a grasshopper on the balcony and my parents would put it in a jar for me to observe.”In this episode Melpo Apo...
Rewilding on a smaller scale with Jonathan Thomson
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode’s release coincides with World Rewilding Day 2024, with this year’s theme being Hope Into Action. A great example of this in practice...
Saving Florida’s Everglades with Steve Davis
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“We’re already starting to see dramatic habitat and water quality improvement across that Kissimmee valley.”The Everglades, North America’s la...
Tackling invasive species in Australia with Tim Allard
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Feral cats are the primary driver of the decline of small mammals. We’ve lost more than 30 mammal species in Australia over the last couple of hu...
Rewilding the Scottish Highlands with David Balharry
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Think globally, but act locally. We need to start putting some of that stuff back locally otherwise we don’t pass on anything great to our future...
Restoring one of Africa’s most magical landscapes with Andreia Pawel
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“With abundance comes resilience and with abundance these animals and the wildlife populations can thrive and can survive these climatic changes.”...
Protecting Portugal with Pedro Prata
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“What we are doing is to create the conditions, ecological and sociological, for the return of these two large predators that are present… but we ...
Rewilding Africa’s Sahel region with John Watkin
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Our hallmark is the reintroduction of the Scimitar-horned Oryx… It’s a beautiful, beautiful beast and it was a tragedy that it was allowed to g...
Protecting the Amazon of Europe with Dragana Mileusnic
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“The river is not only valuable for its biodiversity but also for the culture and spiritual significance that it has for communities.”The Amazon o...
Risking life to save the Indian leopard with Sanjay Gubbi
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“The first time I saw a tiger pugmark in Cauvery landscape I was totally thrilled, I can’t explain the thrill and the joy I had. That’s what you...
Rewilding the Lake District with Lee Schofield
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“What we need more than anything now from our landscape is carbon sequestration, flood risk reduction, biodiversity improvement and all those other ...
Creating a haven along Turkey’s Turquoise Coast with Zafer Kizilkaya
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Even in ten years we changed the entire ecosystem in Gökova Bay and fisheries.” The world’s oceans have been depleted of many important speci...
Restoring the Caledonian forest with Steve Micklewright
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Affric Highlands is an area of landscape between Loch Ness and the west coast of Scotland, looking over to the Isle of Skye. It’s about 500,000 a...
Creating wildlife corridors with Jodi Hilty
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“When I see things like the crossing that’s just going in north of Los Angeles for mountain lions, bobcats and other species it’s a sign to me t...
Shining a light on Kazakhstan’s Golden Steppe with Mark Day
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“As Kazakhstan became part of the Soviet Union a whole series of very large transformations took place. 45 million hectares of land within Kazakhsta...
Bringing people and nature together with Astrid Vargas
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“We call it rooting your identity. That really brings people close to the ground and feeling powerful and connected.”In this episode Ben Goldsmith...
Rewilding the desert with Dr Stephen Browne
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“If you combine all of these reserves together they constitute an area of about 200,000 square kilometres... it’s probably one of the world’s la...
Preventing extinctions on islands with Penny Becker
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“We really are focused on prioritising those species that are about to blink out. We must make sure that on our watch that doesn’t happen.”Welco...
What is Rewilding? With Isabella Tree and Alastair Driver
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“We belong here. The challenge is can we be here without impacting detrimentally on the rest of the ecosystem. And the simple answer is yes we can; ...
The rewilding project turning the desert green with Ties van der Hoeven
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“If we can restore large scale damaged ecosystems then why don’t we do it?” Sometimes it’s said that the environmental and rewilding movement...
Protecting millions of acres in Chile and Argentina with Kristine Tompkins
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“I thought well I can die tomorrow, it’s fine, they are back.”Kristine Tompkins is founder of Tompkins Conservation and former chief executive o...
Why Spain is breaking down its dams with Pao Fernández Garrido
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“I think people are afraid that we want to remove all the dams in the world.”Dams can effectively act as concrete straight jackets. Weirs and dams...
Creating ‘European Yellowstone’ in the Carpathian mountains with Christoph Promberger
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“If there is tens of thousands of hectares on the market then you might as well use them for conservation.”Christoph Promberger from Carpathia Wil...
Reintroducing wolves and bears to Spain with Deli Saavedra
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Wild areas where you are going to be walking for two days completely alone, there is no one else.”No country in western Europe has as much divers...
Rewilding the Great Plains of America with Alison Fox
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“This is where they have been for millions of years and they deserve a home on the Northern Great Plains.”The great American Prairies were once on...
Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith - Trailer
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ben Goldsmith for this brand new podcast as he speaks to some of the most influential people behind the most exciting and dramatic rewilding proj...