Wolves return to Europe: what to do about them is a people problem – podcast

More Europeans are having to learn how to live alongside predators again. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.

Gemma Ware, Editor and Co-Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation • conversation
Jan. 4, 2024 • ~4 min

Can golf courses help save the planet? Ask a herd of wild pigs

A herd of javelinas wrecked a pristine golf course. Is this rewilding in action?

Mike Jeffries, Associate Professor, Ecology, Northumbria University, Newcastle • conversation
Dec. 28, 2023 • ~7 min

Farmed rhinos will soon 'rewild' the African savanna

What would you do with 2,000 farmed rhinos? An African charity wants them to help their wild cousins.

Jason Gilchrist, Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University • conversation
Sept. 22, 2023 • ~6 min

When wolves move in, they push smaller carnivores closer to human development – with deadly consequences

Reintroducing wolves can restore important ecological processes, but it can have unintended effects when smaller predators like coyotes are driven closer to people, a team of ecologists found.

Laura Prugh, Associate Professor of Quantitative Wildlife Sciences, University of Washington • conversation
May 18, 2023 • ~8 min

Reintroducing top predators to the wild is risky but necessary – here's how we can ensure they survive

New research studies the factors that determine whether large carnivore reintroductions will be a success.

Seth Thomas, Research assistant, University of Oxford • conversation
Feb. 17, 2023 • ~7 min

Finding Britain's 'shadow woods' offers the fastest way to reforest the countryside

Atlantic rainforests once lined the island’s west coast – and could one day return.

Ian D. Rotherham, Professor of Environmental Geography and Reader in Tourism and Environmental Change, Sheffield Hallam University • conversation
Jan. 25, 2023 • ~7 min

Wolves are returning to European farmland – but they're not motivated by a taste for sheep

Wolves killing livestock are seizing an opportunity for a meal in a landscape with little natural prey.

Peter Sunde, Professor of Applied Wildlife Ecology, Aarhus University • conversation
Feb. 22, 2022 • ~7 min

Cranes: why Britain's tallest bird just had its best breeding year since the 1600s

These wetland birds were eradicated in the 1600s, but breeding pairs returned in 1979.

Richard Gregory, Honorary Professor of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, UCL • conversation
Feb. 3, 2022 • ~6 min

How to live with large predators – lessons from Spanish wolf country

A farming community in north-west Spain may hold the answer to coexistence with wild carnivores.

Hanna Pettersson, PhD Candidate, Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds • conversation
Nov. 15, 2021 • ~7 min

The lynx may have survived in Scotland centuries later than previously thought, new study suggests

A new study suggests lynxes were in Britain as recently as the 18th century.

Lee Raye, Associate Lecturer in Arts and Humanities, The Open University • conversation
Oct. 11, 2021 • ~7 min

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