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Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith

by Ben Goldsmith

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

According to the European Commission as of 7 September, 650,458 hectares of land has burnt since the start of 2026, the worst year on record.  Restoring big herds of wil

Sep 9
32 min

How nature became Ukraine's secret weapon with Jasper Humphreys

"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

Aug 26
27 min

Hope for a wilder Britain with George Monbiot

"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 despa

Aug 12
37 min

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

"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 alw

Jul 29
36 min

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

"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

Jul 15
39 min

The battle for the American Prairie with Alison Fox

"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

Jul 1
35 min

Resetting our relationship with nature with Tim Christophersen

"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 any

Jun 17
40 min

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

"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 t

Jun 3
46 min

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

"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

May 20
35 min

Translocating two thousand giants across Africa with Donovan Jooste

"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 ahe

May 6
36 min

The cougar comeback with Renee Seacor and Emily Carrollo

"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 spec

Apr 22
35 min

Saving songbirds from slaughter in the Mediterranean with Lloyd Scott

"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

Apr 8
33 min

Bringing back the lost wild of Europe with Marija Krnjajic

"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

Mar 25
33 min

A bold vision to rewild South America with Deli Saavedra

"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

Mar 11
37 min

Fighting for America's largest blackwater swamp with Josh Marks

"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 activist

Feb 25
36 min

The rewilding powerhouse of Europe with Wouter Helmer

"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 this episode of Rewilding the

Feb 11
35 min

Finding solace in nature with Dave Mountjoy

"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 you're just being,

Jan 28
36 min

Managing England's forests for nature with Bev Nichols

"What are the things that really might just make a difference that take us out of a conventional nature conservation headspace and start to really push the boundaries of

Jan 14
37 min

Rewilding back to the Ice Age with Nikita Zimov

"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 a sustainable ecosystem i

Dec 31 2025
36 min

The crisis facing the curlew with Mary Colwell

"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 beautiful and it lives in lim

Dec 17 2025
34 min

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186
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A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

We have a crisis in the loss of biodiversity. Ben’s podcast is about people who defy hopelessness by dedicating their lives to bringing back wild nature. It is inspiring, informative and interesting.

Anselisagreatdog · Aug 2025

Ben Goldsmith is a visionary-and it’s his vision of hope that had me at hello. His podcast explores what is possible in helping wildlife reclaim their place in this world. And the people and stories he features are inspiring!

yosemite bethy · Apr 2025

This is an amazing podcast about some of our fellow beings or doing wonderful things to restore mother nature. If you want some good news about the planet, it’s a great place to start.

Eco-lutions · Nov 2024

If you ever need a boost of optimism in our increasingly degraded world, then definitely give this podcast a listen. Well-presented interviews, no waffle, filled with inspiring people and stories of great things happening for our natural world. Wish there was more like this!

african sky · Jun 2024

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