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The Wild with Chris Morgan

The Wild with Chris Morgan

"THE WILD with Chris Morgan" explores how nature survives and thrives alongside (and often despite) humans. Taking listeners across the Pacific Northwest and around the world, host Chris Mor...

Episodes

20 of 144 episodes

For shuck's sake! Saving wild oysters

Chris Morgan ventures out with the folks going to some extraordinary lengths to save Washington’s Olympia oysters…and sits down at a downtow...

35:11Oct 27, 2026

A mating dance party with robotic sage grouse

How robotic sage grouse are helping to save actual sage grouse at the Jackson Hole airport.

34:00Oct 20, 2026

A 750-mile misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Chris Morgan sits down with Kevin Fedarko to hear the remarkable story of his relationship with the Grand Canyon, his journey to uncover the...

61:11Oct 13, 2026

There's a bear in my swimming pool!

Bears in swimming pools… in Los Angeles? Of course I had to find out more.

48:47Oct 6, 2026

THE WILD is back!

Join host Chris Morgan for Season 8 of THE WILD, where he'll travel the world to meet people defending space for wildlife, from deep in the...

2:15Sep 22, 2026

Remembering David Johnson and the burrowing owls he loved

We are republishing our episode of burrowing owls to remember owl expert David Johnson after his passing due to cancer.

36:00Jun 23, 2026

Earth Day 2026 - You look beautiful

Host Chris Morgan presents a special Earth Day episode.

12:43Apr 22, 2026

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...

33:10Mar 3, 2026

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 o...

46:48Feb 24, 2026

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 ri...

41:35Feb 17, 2026

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...

55:22Feb 10, 2026

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...

45:19Feb 3, 2026

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...

46:16Jan 27, 2026

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...

52:54Jan 20, 2026

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 o...

45:30Jan 13, 2026

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...

43:23Dec 23, 2025

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....

35:07Dec 16, 2025

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 a...

53:16Dec 9, 2025

How our planet came to life with Ferris Jabr

"Life is earth, animated." When I heard this statement for the first time it made me think about my relationship to our planet differently....

48:42Dec 2, 2025

The story of Whatcom Creek: an explosion, a tragedy, and a rebirth

This is not an easy story to tell. In the town where I live, Bellingham, Washington, there's a beautiful urban creek. It flows just four mil...

43:55Nov 18, 2025