Rewilding Earth Podcast

https://rewilding.org/episode-186-tracking-the-ancient-wolves-of-pakistan-with-omar-khayam/

Field biologist Omar Khayam joins the Rewilding Earth Podcast to discuss the Pakistan Wolf Project, an initiative that bridges a critical data gap for wolves in the country’s poorly documented southern reaches. Building on a decade of foundational genetic research by Dr. Hira Fatima and Dr. Lauren Hennelly, the Pakistan Wolf Project investigates the Indian […]

Read full article: Episode 186: Tracking the Ancient Wolves of Pakistan with Omar Khayam

https://rewilding.org/episode-185-when-floodwaters-recede-a-community-rises-in-the-land-of-the-jaguar/

Episode Summary Randy Young Villegas returns to the Rewilding Earth Podcast after a devastating flood at La Tierra del Jaguar in Sonora, Mexico. In late September, Hurricane Polo — amplified by recent upstream wildfire burn scars — forced the Río Sahuaripa to crest more than six feet, obliterating historical floodmarks and protective berms. The surge […]

Read full article: Episode 185: When Floodwaters Recede a Community Rises in the Land of the Jaguar

https://rewilding.org/episode-184-a-look-inside-the-wild-heart-of-texas-with-ben-masters/

Episode Summary Independent filmmaker and wildlife biologist Ben Masters, founder of Fin & Fur Films, joins the Rewilding Earth Podcast to discuss his journey from riding wild mustangs across the Continental Divide for “Unbranded” to capturing cinematic, Planet Earth-style natural history right here in North America. We dig into his latest feature, “Deep in the […]

Read full article: Episode 184: A Look Inside the Wild Heart of Texas with Ben Masters

https://rewilding.org/episode-183-the-wallis-annenberg-wildlife-crossing-beth-pratt/

Summary Fourteen years in the making, the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing over Southern California’s ten-lane Highway 101 is finally nearing completion. In this episode of the Rewilding Earth Podcast, Beth Pratt, California regional executive director with the National Wildlife Federation and founder of The Wildlife Crossing Fund, sits down with host Jack Humphrey to talk […]

Read full article: Episode 183: The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing – Beth Pratt on Reaching the Finish Line

https://rewilding.org/episode-182-millions-upon-millions-of-acres-on-the-chopping-block-how-to-save-the-roadless-rule/

Summary Chris Wood, president and CEO of Trout Unlimited and an original architect of the 2001 Roadless Rule, speaks with Rewilding Earth Podcast host Jack Humphrey about the origins of the Roadless Rule and why rescinding it is a problem for trout and salmon. With the imminent threat of deregulation for nearly 45 million acres […]

Read full article: Episode 182: Millions Upon Millions of Acres on the Chopping Block – How to Save the Roadless Rule

https://rewilding.org/doug-peacock-on-grizzly-survival-vanishing-habitats-and-the-fight-for-wild-country/

Legendary naturalist, author, and veteran grizzly bear defender Doug Peacock joins the podcast from his home in Montana’s Paradise Valley. In this frank, wide-ranging conversation with host Jack Humphrey, Doug cuts through modern anthropocentric environmentalism to refocus on what apex predators and wild country truly require: vast, unbroken, self-willed wilderness. We dig into the persistent […]

Read full article: Episode 181: Doug Peacock on the Survival of Grizzlies and Unbroken Wildlands

https://rewilding.org/episode-180-activists-take-to-the-canopy-to-defend-centuries-old-cottonwood-cats-and-connectivity/

Summary To make way for double 30-foot, steel border walls in Lochiel, Arizona, federal contractors have clearcut a grove of three 200-year-old Fremont cottonwood trees that reached their boughs across the U.S.-Mexico border in a sign of connectivity, friendship, and anchoring the headwaters of the Santa Cruz River. On the heels of this destruction, grassroots […]

Read full article: Episode 180: Activists Take to the Canopy to Defend Centuries-old Cottonwood, Cats, and Connectivity

https://rewilding.org/episode-179-the-esa-harm-rescission-ecologically-disastrous-and-a-trap-for-companies-attempting-to-destroy-the-wild-with-earthjustices-ben-levitan/

About Ben Levitan is a senior attorney at Earthjustice, the nation’s largest and most active public interest environmental law organization — know for its motto “Because the Earth needs a good lawyer.” As part of Earthjustice’s Biodiversity Defense Program, Ben advocates for the protection of imperiled species and ecosystems and opposes attempts to weaken environmental laws. […]

Read full article: Episode 179. The ESA Harm Rescission: Ecologically Disastrous and a Trap for Companies Attempting to Destroy the Wild — with Earthjustice’s Ben Levitan

https://rewilding.org/episode-178-the-high-stakes-of-state-wildlife-governance-and-the-fight-for-direct-democracy-with-michelle-lute/

About Michelle Lute is a wildlife scientist and conservation leader with two decades of experience in wildlife conservation, nonprofit leadership, and public policy. As executive director of Wildlife for All, she’s leading the charge to transform state wildlife governance and center justice, compassion, and democracy in conservation. Michelle holds a PhD in wildlife management and […]

Read full article: Episode 178: The High Stakes of State Wildlife Governance and the Fight for Direct Democracy with Michelle Lute

https://rewilding.org/episode-177-jack-loefflers-lifelong-quest-to-rewild-the-colorado-river-watershed-and-human-consciousness/

Episode Summary In this poignant and historic episode of the Rewilding Earth podcast, legendary Southwest author, activist, and audio naturalist Jack Loeffler connects with host Jack Humphrey, just ahead of Loeffler’s 90th birthday. A living thread to the bedrock of the modern conservation movement, Loeffler shares deeply personal stories of running wild rivers and backpacking […]

Read full article: Episode 177: Jack Loeffler’s Lifelong Quest to Rewild the Colorado River Watershed and Human Consciousness

https://rewilding.org/protecting-and-restoring-the-wild-heart-of-the-sky-islands-with-louise-misztal/

Episode Summary Louise Misztal, executive director of Sky Island Alliance (SIA), sits down with Rewilding Earth podcast host Jack Humphrey to explore the unique, biodiverse, and threatened Sky Island Region of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. They discuss how these isolated mountain ranges rise out of the surrounding valleys to create a biological […]

Read full article: Episode 176: Protecting and Restoring the Wild Heart of the Sky Islands with Louise Misztal

https://rewilding.org/episode-175-cooper-freeman-on-how-bedrock-environmental-laws-are-holding-the-line-in-alaska-for-now/

Episode Summary Cooper Freeman, Alaska director for the Center for Biological Diversity, returns to the Rewilding Earth podcast and joins host Jack Humphrey for a transparent, gritty, and surprisingly hopeful update from the frontlines of Alaskan conservation. Navigating a relentless onslaught of fast-tracked industrial projects and regulatory procedures gutted under the current administration, Cooper outlines […]

Read full article: Episode 175: How Bedrock Environmental Laws Are Holding the Line in Alaska (For Now) with Cooper Freeman

https://rewilding.org/episode-174-how-fiction-moves-the-needle-on-real-world-conservation/

About the Author Julie Carrick Dalton is a novelist, former journalist, and farmer whose work explores the deep, often complicated relationship between humanity and the natural world. With decades of experience telling stories rooted in fact and reality as a reporter, Julie later turned to working the land, a pivot that ultimately unlocked her passion […]

Read full article: Episode 174: How Fiction Moves the Needle on Real-World Conservation

https://rewilding.org/episode-173-laiken-jordahl-on-the-battle-for-big-bend/

Episode Summary Jack Humphrey and the Rewilding Earth podcast sit down with the Center for Biological Diversity’s National Public Lands Advocate Laiken Jordahl to discuss the current administration’s plan to extend border wall construction to Big Bend National Park and the West Texas borderlands. This is an immediate, gargantuan threat to one of America’s most […]

Read full article: Episode 173: Laiken Jordahl on the Battle for Big Bend

https://rewilding.org/episode-172-george-schaller-homesick-for-a-world-unknown-with-miriam-horn/

Summary In 1959, George Schaller entered the Virunga Mountains with nothing but a notebook and a folding chair. At a time when the world viewed the mountain gorilla as a savage, cinematic monster, George saw something else: a peaceful, social being whose world we were only just beginning to understand. By sitting lower than the […]

Read full article: Episode 172: “Homesick for a World Unknown: The Life of George B. Schaller” with Miriam Horn

https://rewilding.org/the-hidden-universe-of-springs-larry-stevens/

Dr. Larry Stevens is the curator of ecology at the Museum of Northern Arizona and the director of Springs Stewardship Institute (SSI). He received his Ph.D in zoology from Northern Arizona University in 1989, and served as the ecologist for Grand Canyon National Park from 1989 to 1994. Well-respected in the field of ecology, Dr. […]

Read full article: Episode 171: The Hidden Universe of Springs with Larry Stevens

https://rewilding.org/paul-watson-on-defending-planet-ocean-with-operation-krill-wars/

Paul Watson, Founder & Director, Paul Watson Foundation Captain Paul Watson is a marine wildlife conservation and environmental activist, renowned speaker, accomplished author, and master mariner. Watson was one of the founding members and directors of Greenpeace. In 1977, he left Greenpeace and founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. In 2022, he founded the Captain […]

Read full article: Episode 170: Paul Watson Defending the Southern Ocean with Operation Krill Wars

https://rewilding.org/reba-elliott-great-old-broads/

Reba Elliott Reba Elliott is the Executive Director of Great Old Broads for Wilderness, the only national environmental network for older women. Reba also serves on the Advisory Circle of Daughters for Earth, coordinates the Movement Building Committee of the National Wilderness Coalition, and is a fellow of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. […]

Read full article: Episode 169: Reba Elliott on the Strategic Power of Older Women in Defense of Public Lands

https://rewilding.org/episode-168-american-prairie-sean-gerrity-art-of-thinking-bigger-rewild-the-planet/

Show Notes Sean Gerrity – Author of Wild on Purpose: The American Prairie Story and the Art of Thinking Bigger Sean Gerrity, founder and former CEO of American Prairie, discusses building the largest wildlife reserve in the Lower 48 states — bigger than Yellowstone and Glacier Parks combined. He shares how an “interim CEO” role […]

Read full article: Episode 168: American Prairie’s Sean Gerrity on the Art of Thinking Bigger to Rewild the Planet

https://rewilding.org/paul-lister-on-rewilding-scotlands-highlands-at-alladale-wilderness-reserve/

Paul Lister, founder of the European Nature Trust and owner of Alladale Wilderness Reserve in Scotland, has spent 20 years restoring 23,000 acres through reforestation, peatland restoration, and deer management. He advocates for reducing meat consumption, addressing population growth, and redirecting wealth toward nature restoration, demonstrating through tourism and immersive experiences that rewilding degraded landscapes […]

Read full article: Episode 167: Paul Lister on Rewilding Scotland’s Highlands at Alladale Wilderness Reserve