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• Earth Day 2026 - You look beautiful

  You look amazing, you look beautiful. Those are the words of Victor Glover, pilot of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission. He spoke those words less than a month ago on his trip to the moon. His way of describing our planet as he peered out the...

  22 apr 2026 763 sec.

• Bird watching and listening with Libby Mills

  When I was eight, growing up in England, I was already really into birds. I was in the Young Ornithologists Club for goodness sake! I didn't have one friend who was into birds. But these days, things are different. Here in the USA,...

  3 mrt 2026 1990 sec.

• Grey seals of Scotland: my lost tapes from 1994

  Today, a fun trip down memory lane!  Lots of things have shaped my life and work as an ecologist, and this experience when I was 25 was one of them. As I wrapped up my master's degree at the University of Durham in England, I was...

  24 feb 2026 2808 sec.

• Rhino Man

  Anton Mzimba was the head ranger at the Timbavati Private Nature Reserve in South Africa. Anton and hundreds of wildlife rangers like him risk their lives every day to protect endangered species, mainly the rhino, from poachers and...

  17 feb 2026 2495 sec.

• Back to the future: Genetically modified wildlife

  De-extinction! You probably saw the headlines - big, splashy statements about bringing the dire wolf - the ancient wolf species - back from the dead. But are they really back? Dr. Helen Pilcher says no. She’s an author, science...

  10 feb 2026 3322 sec.

• The Buffalo Boys of the Kalispel Tribe

  I drive across the mountains and forests to a small corner of Washington state, where there's a group of ranchers from the Kalispel Tribe of Indians. They’re known as ‘The Buffalo Boys.’ Generations ago, members of the tribe would...

  3 feb 2026 2719 sec.

• Musical termites? What happens when you let nature sing

  Animals and music? What a tantalizing mix! In a fascinating conversation with scientist and musician Dr. Diego Ellis Soto we learn about the way animals move - through music. When animals swarm, mill, or migrate, patterns are revealed....

  27 jan 2026 2776 sec.

• How the quest for the giant panda changed modern conservation

  There was a time when the existence of the giant panda was nothing more than legend. A fairytale to those in the western world. Whispers of a black and white beast echoed around the early 1900s. In this episode, my conversation mixes...

  20 jan 2026 3174 sec.

• The Humpback comeback: Vancouver's whales come home

  Humpback whales in the Salish Sea have a complicated history. They were hunted to near extinction a century ago, with whalers turning some of the largest creatures on Earth into buckets of oil, slabs of meat, tubs of cheap margarine and...

  13 jan 2026 2730 sec.

• How America’s roads alter our ecology, with Ben Goldfarb (reprise)

  Happy holidays! Thanks for tuning into THE WILD. I’m so glad you’re here.  THE WILD team is hard at work on some more brand-new episodes that will come out in the new year. But for now, I want to revisit a very popular episode from...

  23 dec 2025 2603 sec.

• Japan's bear attacks: we unravel what's going on

  Bear attacks in Japan have been in the news a lot recently. There have been over 220 attacks so far this year, and a record 13 people dead.  Why is this happening? And what can be done about it? There’s a lot of information out there,...

  16 dec 2025 2107 sec.

• 50 years of Jaws: shark myths and misunderstandings

  JAWS can only mean one thing! The movie that forever changed how we feel about sharks. It did me, that’s for sure. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the movie, we thought it might be time to help separate fact from fiction in a fun...

  9 dec 2025 3196 sec.