Derek Gow's inspirational and often riotously funny first-hand account of the movement to rewild the British landscape with beavers – and how it became the most subversive nature conservation act of the modern era.

After being hunted to the point of extinction for almost 400 years, beavers are now widely recognised as nature’s architects, and Derek passionately believes they are a key to ecological recovery. Their dams help us to filter water, stop run-off and reduce flooding! They also help build much needed habitat for a range of wetland wildlife.

Beavers and Rewilding

This week Asher invites an old friend, Eva Angaphora, an ancestral skills enthusiast and creator of Wild Beings onto the show to chat about the importance of connecting to nature and how necessary it is for our overall wellbeing, including practical ways to do this. 

Eva shares with us about her own personal journey of re-connecting to the land and how it has transformed her life for the better. This journey led her to create Wild Beings, a foundation that runs programs which share skills and practices that re-connect us to nature. They focus on ancestral skills, bushcraft, nature connection and living more self-sufficiently with the land, where the core intention of the gatherings are to create a culture around land-based living and re-connecting people with their wild roots. 
Workshops and programs are run at Ouirimbah, Laguna, Holgate and more. 

CONNECT WITH EVA: 
Website: https://www.wildbeingsaustralia.org 
Facebook:   / wildbeingsaustralia   
Instagram:   / wildbeingsaustralia   

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Episode 10 - Eva Angophora: Re-Wilding Ourselves For A Brighter Future

I want you to welcome back  Gloria Frazee of ReWild Long Island.  At ReWild,   Gloria is co-chair of the Social Media & Web Committee and co-leader of the ReWild/South Fork chapter and now is a regular contributor to this program. Gloria will be joining me every 2nd Thursday of the month during the 12 noon hour.

Gloria Frazee of Rewild Long Island #2

The Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lost Rainforests of Britain reveals how landowners wreck the countryside, and how the public can restore it 

 'Brave and brilliant’ George Monbiot

‘Urgent and essential … should be required reading’ Caroline Lucas

For centuries we’ve been sold a lie: that you need to own the land to care for it.

Just 1% of the population own half of England, and this tiny landowning elite like to present themselves as the rightful custodians of the countryside. They’re even paid billions of pounds of public money to be good stewards. But what happens when they just don’t care?

A small number of landowners have laid waste to some of our most treasured landscapes, leaving our forests bare, our rivers polluted, our moorlands burned, and our fenlands drained. Here Guy Shrubsole journeys all over Britain to expose the damage done to our land, and meet the communities fighting back: the river guardians, small farmers and trespassing activists restoring our lost wildlife. Full of rage and hope, this is a bold vision for our nation’s wild places, and how we can treat them with the awe and attention they deserve.

It’s time to demand better for nature. We can start by replacing the lie of the land with a profound truth: that any of us can care for the countryside, regardless of whether you own it.

'The unjust impositions of historic land ownership blight all our lives – here Guy shows why’ Chris Packham

'Both dynamite and medicine' Amy-Jane Beer

The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside?, By Guy Shrubsole, Read by Guy Shrubsole

Gloria Frazee joins me as a regular monthly guest on Digging in the Dirt. Gloria is co-chair of the Social Media & Web Committee and co-leader of the ReWild/South Fork chapter and its Summer Program for high school students. She is also the founder of ReWild/East Hampton Compost…. in collaboration with the Town of East Hampton.

Rewild LI w/ Gloria Frazee #4

On a clear night, the purity of this nightingale's song pierces all but the hardest of hearts. 

Recorded with permission from Knepp Wilding on 19 May 2024 at 3.31am.

Knepp Nightingales #26 - On a clear night

As part of our 'Community' series, we’re bringing together a global community of ecologists to discuss their experience and relation to ecology.

In this episode, Lydia Groves is joined by eight committee members of the newly-launched Rewilding Special Interest Group. A range of topics are discussed, including what rewilding is, how it can be used effectively, and what the committee hopes to achieve through the SIG. 

You can find out more about the BES Rewilding SIG here: https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/membership-community/special-interest-groups/rewilding-group/ 

And join their mailing list here: https://britishecologicalsociety.us17.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b3fd69e742034d545c02c0932&id=e4ee09c0cb

Special Interest Groups | Rewilding

This episode of Big Blend Radio's "Nature Connection" Show features acclaimed author Christopher Brown who discusses his new book, "A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places." 

A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMPTY LOTS is a genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the city, the self, and society. Through his keen examination of abandoned industrial sites, empty lots, and deserted agricultural land, Brown discovers that even in these so-called "ruined landscapes" nature's resilience shines.

Inspired by its unfailing persistence to return, Brown shows us how easy it can be to bring the wilds back to these damaged places and why it is critical that we do. Over the course of twenty years, Brown documented these liminal spaces, explored them with his son, and even built his home in Austin, Texas on a brownfield site bisected by oil pipelines. 

Infused with Brown's deep love of nature and a constant sense of awe, A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMPTY LOTS combines field notes from Brown's travels with his personal story as he traverses the nexus of the city and the wilds. More at https://christopherbrown.com/ 

Big Blend Radio's "Nature Connection" Podcast airs every 4th Friday in collaboration with Margot Carrera, a fine art nature photographer who is passionate about the environment. More: http://margotcarrera.etsy.com/


Author Christopher Brown - A Natural History of Empty Lots

Onderweg naar je werk fietsend langs de beverdammen en meanderende rivieren. Met aan de zijkant enorme holle zomereiken, eekhoorns en vliegende gele kwikstaarten. Of het spotten van een Eland en een Pelikaan onderweg. De natuur in Nederland is niet meer wild, maar dat kan het wel weer worden. 

Rewilding is de term voor het verwilderen van onze natuur. Rijk Landsmeer praat in deze aflevering over alle ins en outs van Rewilding met buitengewoon hoogleraar Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Liesbeth Bakker en met illustrator en schrijver Jeroen Helmer.

Radio Swammerdam

Rewilding - Het verwilderen van de Nederlandse natuur

Climate Stories Ambassador, Jane Frere, an artist activist from Scotland, tells her climate story about biodiversity loss in Scotland.

Jane Frere, Drumnadrochit, Scotland

In this episode, I’m sharing some of what I’ve learned about how we can aspire to have roots as deep, large, and well-connected as the wise women of our lineages. I explore how our lives might change if we knew how to fully inhabit where we are, remembered how sleep helps us grow roots, and could be more stable in the face of these wild times.

If you enjoyed this episode, please help get it to others by subscribing, rating the show, or sharing it with a friend! 

You can also pitch in to support the show once or monthly at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/meganleatherman 

Resources mentioned:
Needing More: A 4-week pilgrimage into darkness: https://mailchi.mp/awildnewwork/l9o6i3uzyo 


134. We Need Grandmother Roots

The conversation revolves around the concept of sustainable, nature-driven farming practices. Teresa Lubano reflects on her father's farm in Kitale, emphasizing a less intensive, more natural approach to farming. Described is a rotational grazing system for cattle, allowing them to graze freely on various paddocks, which results in meat perceived as more organic and flavourful. The farm also includes indigenous trees, which support biodiversity and produce high-quality honey. She argues that this method, which involves minimal human intervention, aligns with natural cycles and is a form of kindness to nature. She concludes by advocating for this approach (nature-driven farming) to be studied and taught as a blend of science and art, suggesting it as a more sustainable and ethical way of farming.

Get the link to the full article here: https://medium.com/@teresalubano/treat-nature-with-kindness-761f73daf727

Treat Nature with Kindness

Free offerings 
Imbolc meditation (28 Jan): buytickets.at/theresurgencecentre/1506542/r/wolf

Sign up to Georgie's Wild Whispers newsletter: mailchi.mp/8367a0d7e33d/thewildwhispers

The White Wolf and the Full Moon

Regardless of the fact that I’ve been a DJ for more than a quarter of a century, it took me decades to truly connect with my body. Here’s a soundtrack capturing how I finally succeeded this past year. Music to sink into your body. To float out of your mind. To dance through the grass. To frolick over the mountains. I believe that by learning to rewild our minds and love our bodies, we can create a better, more joyful, and more just world. Together.

Lessons in Love #5 - Embodiment

A recording from 2023 of a nightingale, captured whilst carrying out a survey for this species.

Nightingale Survey at Knepp Wilding

Short recording of the fallow deer rut at Knepp Wilding

Deer Rut at Knepp Wilding

The toads have come early to the Dew pond at Waterhall rewilding site outside Brighton. Glorious and unlikely squeaks of the toad mating calls backed by  rhythmic photosynthesis bubbles.

Audio captured from (nearly) permanent live stream being created for Wild House project with Soundcamp, kindly funded by Ecological Citizen Network +

Toads and photosynthesis

Georgie weaves together guided-meditation and visualisation along with self-reflection and Nature-connection practices to create journeys that serve to deepen our ways of relating to ourselves, to the rest of Nature and to ourselves as Nature. These journeys of rich self-enquiry and inner exploration inspire outward action and evoke insight, connection and change.
Creating spaces for nourishment and renewal, Georgie’s passionate rootedness and carefully curated offerings reawakening the wild within, calling us home to our belonging and service to the earth.

Podcasts from the British Ecological Society

Publishers of award-winning fiction and non-fiction audiobooks for adults and children. Listen to exclusive clips from our books and free audioook extracts here on Soundcloud.

WPKN is a nonprofit, freeform, community radio station (arts organization) that is more than 50 years old.  The vision of WPKN is to build community, a loyal and growing audience, and an engaged and educated citizenry by providing the highest quality of free-form programming that broadcasts entertainment, music, news, thoughts, sounds, ideas and event listings that support free speech, diversity, and the interests of the local and global communities WPKN serves.  Our radio frequency of 89.5-FM (Bridgeport)includes a coverage map of 1.5 million people in Farfield, New Haven and Litchfield counties in Connecticut and Suffolk county (The North Fork and Hamptons) in New York.  WPKN also maintains an on-demand streaming and archive of WPKN programming as well as our WPKN PODCASTS that focus on 22+ 'talk-oriented' community, cultural and news programs. We also feature an expanding list of interviews with music personalities and artists from all over the world.

Welcome to A Wild New Work. You'll learn about the Seasons, how the natural world "works," capitalism, animism, and what it can all mean for you and your life. Hosted by Megan Leatherman, a writer, mother, and teacher in the Pacific Northwest. Learn more on Instagram @awildnewwork or at awildnewwork.com.

Radio Swammerdam is het wekelijkse wetenschapsprogramma op Salto (99.4FM), op zondag 11u live vanuit Pakhuis de Zwijger.



Radio Swammerdam is vernoemd naar de zeventiende-eeuwse wetenschapper Jan Swammerdam die er een rariteitenkabinet in Amsterdam op nahield.

Select Big Blend Radio interviews that are featured in the digital, interactive Big Blend Radio & TV Magazine and Parks & Travel Magazine. Hosted by Nancy J. Reid and Lisa D. Smith, mother-daughter travel team and publishers.

DJ. Father. Author. Disco lover. Stotteraar. Wandelaar. Fungi fan. Mountain dancer. Curating music from Mozart to Mister Fingers &ME. Deeply inspired by the joy and abundance nature offers us.

Climate Stories Project (CSP) is an educational and artistic forum for sharing personal stories about the effects of climate change on our lives and communities. CSP focuses on personal oral histories, which bring an immediacy to the sometimes abstract nature of climate change communication. Some of us may recount dramatic events such as floods and wildfires, or we may address our observations of changes in seasonal patterns and our fears for the future of our families and communities. We may discuss how climate change is forcing our communities to adapt to extreme weather and sea level rise. Or we may speak about how we are getting involved in the movement to fight the fossil fuel industry through community organizing or nonviolent protest.There is no "right" way to talk about climate change, as it is a vast topic that is increasingly touching every corner of our lives. CSP also facilitates educational workshops where students learn to speak about their own responses to climate change and interview guest speakers about theirs. In addition, some climate stories are featured in music and soundscape projects that allow audiences to witness the effects of climate change in a novel way.

Alice Eldridge works with sonic systems, acoustic, ecological and informatic. 
This is a backyard space for sharing sonic experiments. 


Older field recordings and things are here: 
https://soundcloud.com/aliceeldridge-1

http://soundcloud.com/collectress
http://collectress.co.uk
http://soundcloud.com/duot/
http://rothkoveil.bandcamp.com/
http://www.maryhampton.org/

New tracks tagged #rewilding