Episodes

A biochemist by training, Mark Fisher has worked in the pharmaceutical industry and in pure science. In a change of direction, he qualified as a Permaculture Designer, and did work in landscape design. Mark launched a manifesto for rewilding Britain in 2003 having been inspired by hiking the National Parks and open spaces of Canada […] Read full article: Episode 17: Mark Fisher on Rewilding Drift in Europe

Tyler Socash is the Adirondack Mountain Club's Outdoor Skills Coordinator. The day after completing his master's degree at the University of Rochester, Tyler embarked on a 7,000-mile thru-hiking immersion into wilderness. Read full article: Episode 16: Tyler Socash Adirondack Wilderness and Thru-Hiking Adventures

Nicole Rosmarino, Ph.D. helped found the Southern Plains Land Trust (SPLT) in 1998 and has served as its Executive Director since 2011. In her work for SPLT, she is striving to create large shortgrass prairie wildlife refuges that emulate the “American Serengeti” that once occurred in the Great Plains. Read full article: Episode 15: Nicole Rosmarino on Rewilding The American Serengeti

It's not often, especially these days, that we get to hear about a really big Rewilding victory. Today is one of those days. Read full article: Episode 14: A Rewilding Success Story on the Elwha River

Camilla Fox is the founder and executive director of Project Coyote, a national non-profit organization that promotes compassionate conservation and coexistence between people and wildlife through education, science, and advocacy. With over 20 years of experience working on behalf of wildlife and wildlands and a Masters degree in wildlife ecology, policy, and conservation, Camilla’s work […] Read full article: Episode 13: Camilla Fox from Project Coyote

Paul Jepson is course director of Oxford University‘s Master in Science in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management. He’s also a Senior Research Fellow with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He’s held Senior Research Fellowships with the Environmental Change Institute and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Said Business School. Paul is […] Read full article: Episode 12: Paul Jepson on Rewilding in Europe

Vance Russell is the head of biodiversity at Ecosulis which provides a variety of services including rewilding, wildlands plans, and approaches to landscape-scale conservation. Vance was California Director of Programs for the National Forest Foundation where he managed forestry projects throughout the state. He was also director of Audubon California’s Landowner Stewardship Program working with […] Read full article: Episode 11: Vance Russell – Rewilding in North America and Europe

Bob Leverett is the co-founder of the Native Tree Society, co-founder and President of Friends of Mohawk Trail State Forest, chairperson for the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Forest Reserves Scientific Advisory Committee, the co-author of the American Forests Champion Tree-Measuring Guidelines handbook. He is also co-author of several books including the Sierra Club […] Read full article: Episode 10: Bob Leverett On Vital Importance Of Old Growth, Carbon Sequestration,...

Joan Maloof, Professor Emeritus at Salisbury University, founded the Old-Growth Forest Network to preserve, protect and promote the country's few remaining stands of old-growth forest. She spends her time lecturing, writing, visiting forests, assisting private landowners, and supporting local groups trying to protect community forests from development. Read full article: Episode 9: Joan Maloof, Executive Director of Old-Growth Forest Network

Just in time for Halloween! Learn how to protect wildlands and wildways, and even how to "die green!"A conversation with Jamie Phillips, founder and Executive Director of the Eddy Foundation. With your host: John Davis Read full article: Episode 8: Jamie Phillips – Eddie Foundation, Wildlands Philanthropy, and Green Cemeteries

John Davis, Executive Director of The Rewilding Institute, interviews Dave Parsons, former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Rewilding Board member, about the Mexican Wolf reintroduction and recovery program in the United States Southwest. Read full article: Episode 7: Dave Parsons Mexican Wolf Recovery Status

John Davis is executive director of The Rewilding Institute and editor of Rewilding Earth. For Rewilding, he serves as a wildways scout, editor, interviewer, and writer. Read full article: Episode 6: John Davis On Rewilding In The Northeast

Professor Tom Rooney is an ecologist, conservation biologist, and advocate for good stewardship of wild places and the wild things that live there. His scientific reputation is built on the management problems and challenges posed by white-tailed deer. Read full article: Episode 5: Tom Rooney on Wolves, Pine Martens, and Rewilding in the Upper Midwest

Today, Rewilding Institute Director John Davis takes us to Ibera Argentina, where he interviewed Conservation Land Trust staffers Sofia Heinonen, Luli Masera, and Sebastian Di Martino about rewilding efforts in the region, including their work with Jaguars, Peccary, Macaws, and lowland Tapirs. Iberá, located in the center and center-north of the province of Corrientes, Argentina, is one of the most […] Read full article: Episode 4: Rewilding Argentina With Conservation Land Trust

Today I talk with Rick about conservation initiatives and activism in which Patagonia is leading or taking part, what it means to be an "activist company," and how listeners can continue to help make sure companies are in business for the right reasons. Read full article: Episode 3: Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Talks Rewilding, Climate Change, and Activist Companies

What is “Rewilding?” Episode 2 – Part 2 of the “What is Rewilding” series on the Rewilding Earth podcast. Introduction “Reed Noss has been publishing on conservation biology since the early 1980s, shortly after the first texts that used the name appeared. He is especially well known for his work developing concepts and approaches for […] Read full article: Episode 2: Reed Noss On History of Wilderness Recovery and Rewilding

Dave Foreman, Founder of The Rewilding Institute and coiner of the term "Rewilding," discusses its origin and history on Episode 1 of the new Rewilding Earth Podcast. Read full article: Episode 1: Dave Foreman On The History and Definition of Rewilding