Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith
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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Between land and sea - the importance of saltmarshes with Angus Garbutt
Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith
02/12/25 • 31 min
"British saltmashes accumulate about 700,000 tonnes of carbon a year alone, and in the top 10cm of soil saltmarshes hold about 2.3 million tonnes of carbon."
Ben Goldsmith is joined by Angus Garbutt, a coastal ecologist and world expert on saltmarshes. In this episode Ben and Angus discuss why these mysterious, alien places are absolutely vital. So much saltmarsh habitat in Britain and around the world has been destroyed, but now ambitious efforts are underway to restore it.
Ben Goldsmith is a British financier and rewilding enthusiast. Join him as he speaks to people from all over the world who champion nature and are helping to restore habitats and wildlife to some of the most nature depleted parts of our planet.
This podcast is produced by The Podcast Coach.
The Conservation Collective support locally-led environmental Foundations around the world. Together we'll protect and restore the wild places we know and love.
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Living alongside mountain lions in LA with Beth Pratt
Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith
02/26/25 • 35 min
"We are destroying these ecosystems at our peril, and if we take out these apex predators, like mountain lions or lynx we are messing with our own capacity to survive, not just wildlife."
Did you know there are mountain lions living in the very centre of Los Angeles? Some cougars have even gained celebrity status. In the latest episode of Rewilding World Ben Goldsmith is joined by wildlife celebrity Beth Pratt, whose job it is to foster harmonious coexistence between wildlife and people in California.
Following the Los Angeles fires they discuss the impact the devastation has had on the city's wildlife.
Ben Goldsmith is a British financier and rewilding enthusiast. Join him as he speaks to people from all over the world who champion nature and are helping to restore habitats and wildlife to some of the most nature depleted parts of our planet.
This podcast is produced by The Podcast Coach.
The Conservation Collective support locally-led environmental Foundations around the world. Together we'll protect and restore the wild places we know and love.
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Reintroducing species to Britain with The Beaver King, Derek Gow
Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith
10/23/24 • 38 min
"Coming to terms with the wolf in Britain would be one of the biggest and bravest things we've ever done. But we desperately need to start a conversation about how we do this and when we do this and start to make progress towards attaining it as a real goal."
Beavers are the ultimate ecosystem engineers. Derek Gow is a farmer turned conservationist and played a major role in reintroducing the Eurasion beaver to England.
In this episode Ben Goldsmith speaks to Derek about how he led the charge to bring beavers back to waterways here in Britain, one of the greatest triumphs of the nature movement. The pair also discuss why there are calls to reintroduce the wolf to the UK.
Ben Goldsmith is a British financier and rewilding enthusiast. Join him as he speaks to people from all over the world who champion nature and are helping to restore habitats and wildlife to some of the most nature depleted parts of our planet.
This podcast is produced by The Podcast Coach.
The Conservation Collective support locally-led environmental Foundations around the world. Together we'll protect and restore the wild places we know and love.
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High altitude forest restoration in the Andes with Florent Kaiser
Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith
11/20/24 • 34 min
"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 this episode Ben Goldsmith talks with inspirational Earthshot Prizewinner, Florent Kaiser. Florent is leading an effort to restore the high altitude forests of the Andes, stretching all the way from Venezuela down to Patagonia. Accion Andina is a truly earth changing initiative.
Ben Goldsmith is a British financier and rewilding enthusiast. Join him as he speaks to people from all over the world who champion nature and are helping to restore habitats and wildlife to some of the most nature depleted parts of our planet.
This podcast is produced by The Podcast Coach.
The Conservation Collective support locally-led environmental Foundations around the world. Together we'll protect and restore the wild places we know and love.
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Replenishing the Garden of Eden with Azzam Alwash
Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith
03/12/25 • 36 min
“We don’t give nature enough credit. All mankind needs is to do is to move aside and let the natural system return.”
Iraq is one of the five countries most touched by some effects of climate change, according to the United Nations. In this episode of Rewilding the World Ben Goldsmith talks with Azzam Alwash, founder of Nature Iraq, about the fabled Mesopotamian marshes. This great wetland is considered to have been the original Garden of Eden. Destroyed by Saddam Hussein, and now coming back to life, this is an extraordinary story of restoration.
Ben Goldsmith is a British financier and rewilding enthusiast. Join him as he speaks to people from all over the world who champion nature and are helping to restore habitats and wildlife to some of the most nature depleted parts of our planet.
This podcast is produced by The Podcast Coach.
The Conservation Collective support locally-led environmental Foundations around the world. Together we'll protect and restore the wild places we know and love.
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Defending the world's oceans with Peter Hammarstedt
Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith
04/23/25 • 37 min
"We fill a law enforcement void that exists in the world's oceans and we'll continue to fill that void until government fills that vacuum. And then we'll hold government accountable."
Sea Shepherd is a truly heroic organisation, with four ships, brave crews and volunteers who hunt down the world’s worst ocean abusers: illegal fishing vessels, and whalers are amongst the word offenders.
Captain Peter Hammerstedt joins Ben Goldsmith to share some white-knuckle stories of environmental heroism on the high seas.
Ben Goldsmith is a British financier and rewilding enthusiast. Join him as he speaks to people from all over the world who champion nature and are helping to restore habitats and wildlife to some of the most nature depleted parts of our planet.
This podcast is produced by The Podcast Coach.
The Conservation Collective support locally-led environmental Foundations around the world. Together we'll protect and restore the wild places we know and love.
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Restoring habitats in Mexico with Alejandro Espinosa Treviño
Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith
07/10/24 • 33 min
"El Carmen Nature Reserve is a very good example of a success of conservation, with the interaction of several actors from the private sector and government agencies from both sides of the border."
In this episode Ben Goldsmith is joined by Alejandro Espinosa Treviño who - on behalf of Cemex - is overseeing restoration of a great swathe of grassland, forest and mountain on Mexico’s northern border with the US.
Alejandro and his team have recently reintroduced bison to the El Carmen Nature Reserve, a species extinct in Mexico for more than a century.
Ben Goldsmith is a British financier and rewilding enthusiast. Join him as he speaks to environmentalists from all over the world who are working to help restore habitats and wildlife to some of the most nature depleted parts of our planet.
This podcast is produced by The Podcast Coach.
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Rebuilding the natural treasures of Mauritius with Carl Jones
Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith
07/24/24 • 36 min
"Over a period of 10 years we were able to rear in captivity 331 Kestrels that we released back into nature."
In the latest episode of Rewilding the World Ben Goldsmith speaks with legendary conservationist Carl Jones about the island of Mauritius. Carl famously led efforts to save a variety of species. These included the Mauritius kestrel which was on the brink of going the way of the dodo, as well as a bunch of landscape-scale rewilding projects in Mauritius and its surrounding islets.
Carl describes Mauritius as it must have been when Europeans first arrived on the island; forests of ebony, palm savannas grazed by herds of giant tortoises, dodos ambling down the beach to greet the new arrivals, and a cacophony of strange and marvellous bird and reptile species. Now, inspired by Carl, Mauritius seems set to begin rebuilding these natural treasures.
Ben Goldsmith is a British financier and rewilding enthusiast. Join him as he speaks to environmentalists from all over the world who are working to help restore habitats and wildlife to some of the most nature depleted parts of our planet.
This podcast is produced by The Podcast Coach.
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Championing nature with Stephen Fry
Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith
09/25/24 • 38 min
"I remember genuinely thinking, 'we don't need insects. What's the point of them?' Little did I know!"
Welcome to a new series of Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith. In this first episode Ben is joined by Stephen Fry.
As well as being a national treasure, and one of the funniest people in England, Stephen has long championed nature projects both in the UK and abroad.
Ben talks to Stephen about where his love of nature comes from, and how he thinks we can go about bringing even more people to the movement.
Ben Goldsmith is a British financier and rewilding enthusiast. Join him as he speaks to people from all over the world who champion nature and helping to restore habitats and wildlife to some of the most nature depleted parts of our planet.
This podcast is produced by The Podcast Coach
The Conservation Collective support locally-led environmental Foundations around the world. Together we'll protect and restore the wild places we know and love.
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Saving Africa's rhinos with Kevin Pietersen
Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith
01/29/25 • 34 min
The smell of a dead animal, a carcase, an animal that's just been killed, is something you'll never ever forget and it's that that sticks with you. It's that that gives you the energy to continually try and do my best to put a hold and a stop to what is still happening out in South Africa.
In this episode of Rewilding the World Ben Goldsmith talks to England cricket legend Kevin Pietersen. Kevin is now devoting his considerable energy and lifelong love of nature to saving Africa’s rhinos from extinction at the hands of poachers serving the illegal trade in rhino horn.
Warning: This episode contains graphic descriptions of dead rhinos.
Ben Goldsmith is a British financier and rewilding enthusiast. Join him as he speaks to people from all over the world who champion nature and are helping to restore habitats and wildlife to some of the most nature depleted parts of our planet.
This podcast is produced by The Podcast Coach.
The Conservation Collective support locally-led environmental Foundations around the world. Together we'll protect and restore the wild places we know and love.
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How many episodes does Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith have?
Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith currently has 50 episodes available.
What topics does Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith cover?
The podcast is about Earth Sciences, Nature, Podcasts and Science.
What is the most popular episode on Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith?
The episode title 'Repairing and restoring Britain's rivers with Mike Blackmore' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith?
The average episode length on Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith is 34 minutes.
How often are episodes of Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith released?
Episodes of Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith are typically released every 14 days.
When was the first episode of Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith?
The first episode of Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith was released on Mar 21, 2023.
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