Conservation and Science

231: How to Think Like an Ecologist with Amy McEuen

How do you tell solid science from something dressed up to look like it? Are we living through the sixth mass extinction? And why is the climate crisis not the worst of t

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230: Lessons from Nature with Simon Mustoe

Why do we feel so hopeless about the future of the natural world? Is nature really collapsing everywhere we look or have we simply been told a one-sided story? And what i

229: Biogeotherapy with Benoit Lambert

What if the environmental movement has badly underestimated our ability to solve the climate crisis? Could renewable energy grow so fast that we are out of fossil fuels w

228: Red Deer and Habitat Connectivity with Frank Zabel

Why are red deer populations in Germany growing in number and antler size yet sitting in deep genetic trouble? What is the difference between census population size and e

227: Rewilding At the Edge with Peter Cairns

What has shifted in rewilding over the past five years? Why do recovery of species like lynx, beavers and wolves trigger reactions that go far beyond the animals themselv

226: Building Community Resilience with Transition Kerry

What makes farmers reluctant to talk about climate change, even though they see its effects first-hand? Can a trip to the Arctic change how you look at a small river in K

225: How Many Wolves Is Enough with Joachim Mergeay

How many wolves is enough? Is that even the right question to ask? And will the recent lowering of wolf protection status in the EU actually reduce the conflict between w

224: Conservation Labour with Anwesha Dutta and Nick Harvey Sky

Working in conservation? Take the survey: CONLAB survey Who are the people doing the actual work of conservation? How many of them are there and what are their working c

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture | Podcasthon 2026

What does it take to bring wild nature back to a country that has forgotten what it looks like? Can rewilding truly benefit local communities and rural economies or does

223: Waters of Life with Tom Bowser

What happens when a farming family decides to become the first private landowner in Britain to legally relocate beavers onto their farm? How do you navigate the bureaucra

222: Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels with James Kennedy

How did little over ten grey squirrels, brought to an Aberdeen zoo in 1971 to keep a tame squirrel called Jack company, turn into a population of over ten thousand? What

221: Snapshot Europe - Wildlife in Irish Woodlands with Adam F. Smith

What does it take to track wildlife across 250 square kilometres of Irish woodland? How do you position cameras to capture elusive species like otters and pine martens wi

220: Conservation Photographer Tony Bynum on Photography, Hunting and Responsibility

This episode features one of the most important conversations about hunting and impacts on nature that I can remember in 10 years of making the podcast. It's not surprisi

219: Wild & Co on Venison, Native Woodland and Regenerative Farming

Can holistic grazing systems restore degraded hillsides and create profitable farms? How can local food systems and venison products revitalise struggling rural communiti

218: Community Climate Adaptation Programme with Transition Kerry

How do rural communities prepare for climate change when global commitment seems to be wavering? What does real climate adaptation look like on the ground? Can local know

217: Canopy of Titans - Greenwashing and the Great North American Temperate Rainforest with Paul Koberstein

What if the world's most powerful climate solution is being logged away while politicians and industry groups feed us misinformation? How can an ecosystem store three tim

216: EU Wolves and the Conservation Success Conundrum with Hanna Pettersson

Can we find a middle ground between those who see the EU's wolf downlisting as a catastrophe and those who celebrate it as good news? The debate around wolf conservation

Can We Coexist with Large Carnivores? Estonia Shows How.

On my podcast, we talk a lot about coexistence with large carnivores and the challenges it poses. Some of those challenges might seem insurmountable to some. To shed some

215: Just Earth with Tony Juniper

Why are we failing to make progress on climate change and biodiversity loss despite fifty years of environmental campaigning? What changed in recent years that made it so