In a city that loves celebrities, one mountain lion became the mascot for conservation efforts that eventually led to the creation of California’s first wildlife corridor. But one wildlife corridor, even if it’s the largest in the world, isn’t enough.
Some populations of mountain lions in Southern California are struggling to ...
In 2016, Hurricane Earl devastated Belize, causing over $100 million worth of damage and displacing thousands of Belizeans across the country. But humans were not the only victims of the storm. Deep in the mangroves, an infant manatee was separated from her mother and washed onto the mainland. She was so tiny when ...
Long before the infamous Central Park incident went viral (where a white woman called the cops on him during a birdwatching outing), Christian Cooper had been obsessed with birds. It was a love nurtured through his involvement in The Audubon Society, an environmental organization dedicated to bird conservation.
But recently, Christian’s dedication ...
When Samuel Ramsey was a child, he was afraid of bugs. But a trip to the library with his mother changed everything and led him to become a bee entomologist. He grew up gay in a non-affirming religious community, he was the only Black entomologist in his Doctoral program, and ...
In a remote part of the Amazon rainforest in Peru, there’s a river with water so hot, it actually boils. In fact, it's so extreme and so remote that for a long time, people thought the river was a myth. Dr. Rosa Vásquez Espinoza risked life and limb journeying to ...
Welcome back to Going Wild, a podcast about the human drama behind saving animals. This season, on top of stories about animals, we’re taking you on a journey through the entire ecological web — from the tiniest of life forms to apex predators.
We’ll be guided by one central question: How ...
From the kitchen floor to the remote jungles of the Congo, Rae grapples with divorce and single-motherhood on an international trip to study lowland gorillas.
*Content warning: this episode briefly mentions the topic of suicide.*
For the last episode of season 2, Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant talks about a career-changing opportunity to track ...
Ornithologist (bird scientist), poet, and author Drew Lanham was recently awarded the Macarthur Genius Grant—$800,000 with no strings attached. But despite his deep love for birds he almost never studied the creatures at all. As a young man, he won a full-ride scholarship to any school he wanted, only this ...
*Content warning: this episode contains descriptions of violence that might be disturbing to some listeners.*
Herpetologists do a lot of unique things while studying lizards—cut their toes, pump their stomachs, and capture them by lassoing their necks. That one small word, “lasso,'' wasn't always the word used in the discipline. Herpetologist Earyn ...
