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The Rewild Podcast

The Rewild Podcast

By: James Shooter
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Join James Shooter, host of The Rewild Podcast, as he travels across Europe discovering inspiring stories of rewilding across the continent. Produced in collaboration with Rewilding Europe.Copyright 2023 All rights reserved. Biological Sciences Science
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  • #18 Swedish Lapland - Sweden 🇸🇪
    Aug 26 2024

    Whilst the vast forests of Swedish Lapland might look like a wilderness from the air, get in and amongst the trees and they're anything but. Forestry plantations dominate the map, where trees are planted in dense rows and light on the forest floor is a rare sight. The rivers didn't escape the booming timber industry either, historically engineered beyond recognition to float logs downstream to awaiting sawmills. Boulders were ripped from the riverbeds, woody debris was removed and flooring was brought in to simplify the route as much as possible. The team at Rewilding Sweden is now busy restoring these ecosystems, where the forest and rivers are treated not as separate entities, but entwined waterscapes.

    Swedish Lapland is one of ten inspirational rewilding landscapes, brought together by Rewilding Europe to drive forwards the large scale recovery of nature across the continent.

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    44 mins
  • #17 Oder Delta - Poland 🇵🇱 & Germany 🇩🇪
    Jul 29 2024

    The Oder Delta is an important river catchment in the borderlands of Poland and Germany. Here, intricate waterways meander through hay meadows, alluvial forest, marshlands and lagoon, before heading out to the Baltic Sea.

    This landscape feels rich in life, but it could still be so much more. Pollution events have killed off huge quantities of fish and many of the waterways have been manipulated for milling, agriculture, hydro schemes and transport.

    Rewilding work is now focused on returning the rivers to a more natural state, and with it, the diverse bounty of life that rely on them.

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    49 mins
  • #16 Saving Wildcats - Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
    Jun 30 2024

    For the past few decades, Scotland's wildcat population has been clinging on by a claw. Through historic persecution, habitat loss and more recently, issues with hybridisation with feral and domestic cats, their numbers here have dwindled to practically nothing.

    Saving Wildcats is the first dedicated conservation breeding for release project for the species, and the team here are hard at work to restore this iconic mesopredator back to the wild.

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    46 mins
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İt was so inspiring to hear of people giving so much of their energy, knowledge and time to such a beautiful and important agenda. Thank you for bringing it to my attention, no, I will never look at an oyster the same way, or view sea grass and slimy, yucky stuff!

İnspiring and impressive

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Keeping up to date with rewilding projects, listening in ‘fly on the wall’ style, allowing appreciation of the scenery and individuals involved in the projects.
Just been missing the last month…

Good listen/learn

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This podcast is fantastic. We listened to it with my 10 years old son and we learned so much about various animal species, their habits and the efforts of conservation heroes to protect them or reintroduce them.
But this is not only enjoyable and fascinating podcast, this is also very important one. We all should engage in the rewilding process if we want to enjoy the nature now and in the future. This podcast can help with that too.
Thank you for making it and we hope there will be more podcasts like that in the future.

Very interesting and very important

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