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Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith

by Ben Goldsmith

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  • Could the wolf return to Japan? With Ryo Sakurai

    October 21, 2026 · 39 min

    "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 agricultural fields from such crop raiding pests. In fact, in many…

  • 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…

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  • 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…

  • Resetting our relationship with nature with Tim Christophersen

    June 17, 2026 · 40 min

    "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 back. That is the relationship we have with nature right now…

  • Wild land for everyone: The Rothbury Estate campaign with Craig Bennett

    June 3, 2026 · 46 min

    "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 spend time in it and see how food is produced naturally and…

  • Dams, pollution and the collapse of the European eel with Joe Pecorelli

    May 20, 2026 · 35 min

    "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 possible within that can grow up and migrate back to the…

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About the show

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.