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Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith

by Ben Goldsmith

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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.

Latest episodes

  • Reclaiming our dark skies with Megan Eaves-Egenes

    October 7, 2026 · 34 min

    "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 ninety nine percent. So basically almost nobody can see the…

  • Why Africa must lead its conservation future with Kaddu Sebunya

    September 23, 2026 · 36 min

    "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 results we need, and it’s very expensive.  Find those government…

  • Europe is burning, here's what could stop it with Frans Schepers

    September 9, 2026 · 33 min

    "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 - you name it. Anything can change a landscape if we allow…

  • How nature became Ukraine's secret weapon with Jasper Humphreys

    August 26, 2026 · 27 min

    "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 budgets go up and up and up, that warWilding will become more and…

  • Hope for a wilder Britain with George Monbiot

    August 12, 2026 · 37 min

    "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 them in our own country."  Reading George Monbiot's book…

  • How to rewild your garden without walking away, with Tom Stuart-Smith

    July 29, 2026 · 37 min

    "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…

  • A vision for rewilding at Emblehope with Benedict MacDonald and Gil Martin

    July 15, 2026 · 40 min

    "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…

  • The battle for the American Prairie with Alison Fox

    July 1, 2026 · 36 min

    "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…