Painted Dogs of Hwange: Where the Wild Pack Runs
Recorded on the outskirts of Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, this episode drops David into the high-stakes reality of animal conservation....
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The Executive Branch: Beccy Speight (RSPB), Darren Moorcroft (Woodland Trust) and Craig Bennett (The Wildlife Trusts)
Around a table at the Woodland Trust's headquarters in Grantham, David sits down with three of the most powerful voices in British conservat...
Rakan Zahawi: Giant ambitions at the Charles Darwin Foundation
Following on from two episodes recorded on San Cristóbal Island, this episode finds David having set sail across the Galapagos archipelago f...
Prof. Carlos Mena: Trust the Locals, Trust the Science, Protect the Galápagos
This episode finds David in conversation with the Galápagos-born geographer, Director of Universidad San Francisco de Quito’s Galápagos camp...
Prof. Diana Pazmiño: Rays, Research and the Real Guardians of the Galápagos
A Galápagos native – born on Isla Isabela – marine biologist and conservation geneticist Diana Pazmiño focuses her research on rays, sharks,...
Abraham Joffe: The Secret Trade in Polar Bears (or, “How to Save an Animal Everyone Thinks Is Already Protected!”)
In the second of two CITES-centric episodes , this episode finds David in conversation with Australian filmmaker Abraham Joffe – director of...
Iris Ho: Primates, Policy, and the Power of CITES
Recorded on the outskirts of Samarkand, Uzbekistan, this episode finds David at the 20th Conference of the Parties to CITES – the global tre...
Elephant in the Room: Wildlife Trust of India’s Rapid Response to Grounded Humans & Uprooted Wanderers
Following on from the conversation with Dr Bhaskar Choudhury in the previous episode... Recorded further south, near Bandhavgarh National Pa...
Dr Bhaskar Choudhury: The Floodplain Guardians and the Elephants of Kaziranga
David travels to the floodplains of Assam to meet the Wildlife Trust of India’s Dr Bhaskar Choudhury, veterinarian and project head of the C...
"Her Deepness" Dr Sylvia Earle & Dr Tessa Hempson: Protect the Oceans Like Your Life Depends Upon It... (Because It Does!)
Amid the energy of the IUCN World Conservation Congress, David meets legendary marine biologist, oceanographer, and explorer Dr Sylvia A. Ea...
More M.G. Leonard: Further Furry Tales from the Riverbank
Last Summer, MGL shared a very exciting secret with me. A year on, it is with no small amount of delight that I can now finally cease my sil...
M G Leonard: Storytelling and the power of Beetles! “Elytra Literature” from Shakespeare to Starship Troopers.
A writer concerned with wondrous beetles and beautiful birds, M G Leonard and her award-winning books, for the past decade, have been inspir...
Dr Hannah Trayford & Rachel Bigsby: The State of the Badger, with the Badger Trust
Britain and its rural communities have been obsessed with Badgers for centuries. Sometimes cast as hero, sometimes as villain, tales of thei...
Matthew Oates: A Paean to the Purple Emperor. One Man’s Passion-filled Past Devoted to Great British Butterflies
Matthew Oates is a naturalist, nature writer, and poet with a lifelong passion for butterflies. In the short sward of the Cotswolds, Matthew...
Tim Kendall & Fiona Mathews (PART TWO): Eye spy an eco-engineer! Deep in the Forest of Dean in search of the contentious Wild Boar...
In the second part of David Oakes' interview with Professors Fiona Mathews and Tim Kendall, the mammal-enthused trio head into the Forest of...
Fiona Mathews & Tim Kendall: Wild Mammals are far from 'Boar-ing'
Fiona Mathews is a professor of Environmental Biology at the University of Sussex and the founding Chair of Mammal Conservation Europe; Tim...
Rob Stoneman: Resurrecting Rainforests, Protecting Peat and Constructing Conservation Kingdoms along our Coastlines
Rob Stoneman wanted to make lots of money in the oil industry… and then he found peat! This episode is a deep dive into that blancmange-like...
The Horstmann Trust: Vultures in the Valleys!
The Horstmann Trust is a brand new charity primarily focused upon breeding and ultimately releasing back into the wild four species of endan...
Andy & Peter Holden: A Filial History of Nest Building
At the launch of his latest video installation at the Tate St Ives, artist Andy Holden meets with David Oakes to discuss the creativity pres...
Dr David Hetherington: Reintroducing the Lynx lynx lynx to our Cairngorms (a cat so enigmatic that they named it thrice!)
Dr David Hetherington is an expert on the Eurasian Lynx and the beneficial links Lynx (Lynx lynx lynx) can manifest within our complicated B...