Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith

“I thought well I can die tomorrow, it’s fine, they are back.” Kristine Tompkins is founder of Tompkins Conservation and former chief executive of the outdoor-apparel company Patagonia. She and her late husband Douglas have been pioneers of rewilding since the beginning of the movement. The couple purchased millions of acres of land across Chile and Argentina to restore to wilderness. Kristine spe...

“I think people are afraid that we want to remove all the dams in the world.” Dams can effectively act as concrete straight jackets. Weirs and dams and other obstructions cause all kinds of harm, some of which we understand and much of which we don’t.  More than one million barriers are thought to exist in Europe’s rivers, with many of them over 100 years old. Some are old and obsolete, serving no...

“If there is tens of thousands of hectares on the market then you might as well use them for conservation.” Christoph Promberger from Carpathia Wilderness Reserve , is rewilding an enormous woodland across Transylvania, Carpathia and Romania. He joins Ben Goldsmith from his home at the foot of the Carpathian mountains, a range which stretches through seven countries and home to some of Europe’s ra...

“Wild areas where you are going to be walking for two days completely alone, there is no one else.” No country in western Europe has as much diversity and abundance of wildlife and landscapes as Spain. Ben Goldsmith speaks to Deli Saavedra from Rewilding Europe about the exciting things which are happening there on scale. Deli is leading a project in the Iberian Highlands , the name given to an ar...

“This is where they have been for millions of years and they deserve a home on the Northern Great Plains.” The great American Prairies were once one of the greatest ecosystems in the world. We have all seen images and heard stories of great herds of bison roaming vast swathes of endless grasslands, but a lot of that landscape is now gone.  But all is not lost. Alison Fox from American Prairie Rese...

Join Ben Goldsmith for this brand new podcast as he speaks to some of the most influential people behind the most exciting and dramatic rewilding projects across the globe.  Text Rewilding the World here. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if there are any rewilding projects you would love Ben to feature in future episodes. We'd love to know what you think of the podcast. Do you ha...