Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith
Join Ben Goldsmith as he speaks to some of the most influential people behind the most exciting and dramatic rewilding projects across the globe.
Podcasting since 2023 • 42 episodes
Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith
Latest Episodes
Repairing and restoring Britain's rivers with Mike Blackmore
"River restoration is essentially a violent act, what we do, but it's because it's undoing a violent act. It's essentially an equal and opposite violent act to what was done to the rivers in the first place."Rivers are meant to...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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31:43
Persuading investors to pay for rewilding projects with Adam Davis
"Larger scale restoration projects mean better ecological outcomes, but they're also more efficient in terms of cost-per-acre." What can be seen as one of the most important things currently happening in rewilding is the openin...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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39:04
Meet the Pablo Escobar of beavers, Gerhard Schwab
"I'm very happy, last week we brought beavers to France and that was my 1000th beaver I had exported either myself or through the organisation. And that was not just to bring back the beaver, but also to bring back the benefits of the beave...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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34:12
High altitude forest restoration in the Andes with Florent Kaiser
"If you look at restoring the whole Andes, the entire Andean mountain range, you can't just go at it by planting trees. There are so many other things that you need to do to holistically permit nature to actually come back."In ...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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34:37
Who will pay to rewild the world with Tim Coles
"We just put together a project in Indonesia on restoring mangroves and it's 2000 hectares, and over 40 years the local communities will get in excess of 100 million dollars."People are pretty much sold on the idea that we need...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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35:23