The Rewild Podcast

Aug 25 2024 19 ep. 40 mins 394

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In a world of damning environmental news and the ever-looming threat of climate change, we could all do with a bit of hope. Host of The Rewild Podcast, James Shooter, teams up with Rewilding Europe to shine a light on the passionate people and inspiring initiatives fighting back for nature. There will be monthly stories of nature recovery from Rewilding Europe’s pioneering Landscapes and European Rewilding Network.

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#18 Swedish Lapland - Sweden 🇸🇪

Aug 25 2024 43 mins

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 d

#17 Oder Delta - Poland 🇵🇱 & Germany 🇩🇪

Jul 28 2024 49 mins

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 bee

#16 Saving Wildcats - Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Jun 30 2024 46 mins

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 h

#15 Rhodope Mountains - Bulgaria 🇧🇬

May 26 2024 46 mins

The Rhodope Mountains in southeastern Europe bridge the continents of Europe and Asia. This geographical crossroads makes it an area of high biodiversity, but over time the region has lost many of its key species due to poaching, habitat loss and persecution. Its position also means it's at the sharp end of climate change on the continent. Warming temperatures make wildfires and ne

#14 Danube Delta - Ukraine 🇺🇦 & Romania 🇷🇴

Apr 28 2024 47 mins

The Danube Delta is a complex network of river channels, wetlands, marshes, inter-channel islands and riparian forests. No matter the season, the region hums, thrums and squawks with life. Here, restoration works are focused on reversing years of drainage by agriculture and reconnecting the natural flow of water across the landscape.Further inland, at the Tarutino Steppe, the team

#13 Southern Carpathians - Romania 🇷🇴

Mar 25 2024 44 mins

The Southern Carpathians of Romania are at the tip of Europe’s third-longest mountain chain. Here, ancient woodland cascades over the hillsides and the full suite of apex predators still roam amongst the trees. For many years, there has been a missing element of these wild landscapes. The woodlands have been devoid of their biggest sculptor, until now. Since 2013, European b

#12 Central Apennines - Italy 🇮🇹

Feb 25 2024 48 mins

The Central Apennines are just a couple of hours from Rome, and yet this is a landscape where Italian wolves roam, Marsican brown bears awake from season-long slumbers and native crayfish gather in crystal clear pools. The team here is absolutely passionate about people and place. They intertwine the need for species conservation and restoring landscape-scale ecological functions w

#11 LIFE Lynx - Slovenia 🇸🇮

Jan 28 2024 46 mins

Whilst Eurasian lynx still have strongholds in the east of their range, subpopulations in western Europe have long been under threat. In the Dinaric Alps of Slovenia, these elusive felines are now considered endangered. So how do you go about saving the ghost of the forest? How do you even start to help an animal that does not wish to be seen? A transboundary initiative has been pu

#10 Velebit Mountains - Croatia 🇭🇷

Nov 30 2023 38 mins

The Velebit Mountains are a 145km long mountain chain in Croatia. On the face of it, these forested hillsides seem like a rich wilderness area, but beneath the canopy, humans have shaped the land and the array of animals that live here. The Rewilding Velebit team is reinvigorating trophic chains through reintroductions of herbivores and carnivores alike. They're on a journey to tra

#9 Lille Vildmose - Denmark 🇩🇰

Oct 30 2023 42 mins

Lille Vildmose is Denmark's biggest protected area and home to northwestern Europe's largest raised bog. This is a vital store for both carbon and water. As with many ecosystems across the continent, it has been exploited by humans over past centuries through sphagnum moss harvesting and peat mining. In this episode, we explore how four-legged tree trimmers are being utilised to re