Into The Wild

Okay, brace yourself, we are talking about the climate crisis. Discussing this topic is never easy & it's common to talk about the systematic issues that have & continue to cause it BUT an area that is rarely discussed is how wildlife conservation should take on board the climate crisis & it's impacts to help have more practical success. To explain in much better way, this week I am joined by conservation scientist & climate change activist, Dr Charlie Gardner. If you'd like to keep up to date with Charlie, then you can follow him on social media at @CharlieJGardner To follow us on social media visit @intothewildpod for Twitter & @intothewildpodcast for Instagram. You can also find Ryan on @mrryanjdalton Love the show or simply enjoyed this episode? You can buy us a coffee to say ta at https://ko-fi.com/intothewildpod MERCH: intothewildpodcast.teemill.com Into The Wild is your weekly wildlife, nature & conservation podcast, bringing you chat from professionals about a huge variety of wild topics. This episode is sponsored by Leica Sport Optics.

The best thing about hosting Into The Wild is that I get to talk to people that adore the natural world & the conversations always fill me with glee & this week's guest did more than that. Joining me on today's show is wildlife presenter, author & ranger, Ajay Tegala. Ajay & I decided to talk about 2 things, the first being his enthusiasm for bats & the second was his job as a ranger. If you're here to listen to someone be x100 passionate & positive, this episode is for you.  If you'd like to keep up to date with Ajay, then you can follow him on social media at @AjayTegala To follow us on social media visit @intothewildpod for Twitter & @intothewildpodcast for Instagram. You can also find Ryan on @mrryanjdalton Love the show or simply enjoyed this episode? You can buy us a coffee to say ta at https://ko-fi.com/intothewildpod MERCH: intothewildpodcast.teemill.com Into The Wild is your weekly wildlife, nature & conservation podcast, bringing you chat from professionals about a huge variety of wild topics. This episode is sponsored by Leica Sport Optics.

Those keen eared listeners will recall we did a part one of an episode called Into The Wild in Namibia Part 1.......you smart eggs among you all will also have figured out, that it meant there would be a part 2, AND YOU WERE RIGHT. Here it is. Following Ryan's journey across Namibia, post screening Beyond The Trigger in the countries capital of Windhoek. Attending a World Rhino Day event in a town called Khorixas in the Kunene followed by a chat with conservation consultant with 10 years of experience working in Namibia, Gail Thomson.  Watch Beyond The Trigger here To follow us on social media visit @intothewildpod for Twitter & @intothewildpodcast for Instagram. You can also find Ryan on @mrryanjdalton Love the show or simply enjoyed this episode? You can buy us a coffee to say ta at https://ko-fi.com/intothewildpod MERCH: intothewildpodcast.teemill.com Into The Wild is your weekly wildlife, nature & conservation podcast, bringing you chat from professionals about a huge variety of wild topics.

It's been too long since we've had a good 'ol rant on the show & with all the doom & gloom of the world, I thought it was super necessary to do a Nature Room 101. Joining me to complain about nature stuff is Right to Roam activist & environmentalist Nadia Shaikh & presenter & naturalist Indy Greene. Sit back & play along as we share our moans in the topics of Pointless Practices, Sh*t Sea life & Garden Gripes! If you'd like to keep up to date with Indy & Nadia, you can follow them on social media @GreeneIndy & @ButeBlackBird To follow us on social media visit @intothewildpod for Twitter & @intothewildpodcast for Instagram. You can also find Ryan on @mrryanjdalton Love the show or simply enjoyed this episode? You can buy us a coffee to say ta at https://ko-fi.com/intothewildpod MERCH: intothewildpodcast.teemill.com Into The Wild is your weekly wildlife, nature & conservation podcast, bringing you chat from professionals about a huge variety of wild topics. This episode is sponsored by Leica Sport Optics.  

We've spoken a lot about rewilding or species reintroduction recently & that's partly down to it being a very exciting topic, so to keep that theme going, this week we are chatting about wild boar & their existence in the UK. To help tell me about the story of these wonderful woodland animals is someone who has spent a long time researching the history of them & the benefits & challenges they may bring, is environmentalist Chantal Lyons. If you'd like to keep up to date with Chantal, you can follow her on social media @CSLyons To follow us on social media visit @intothewildpod for Twitter & @intothewildpodcast for Instagram. You can also find Ryan on @mrryanjdalton Love the show or simply enjoyed this episode? You can buy us a coffee to say ta at https://ko-fi.com/intothewildpod MERCH: intothewildpodcast.teemill.com Into The Wild is your weekly wildlife, nature & conservation podcast, bringing you chat from professionals about a huge variety of wild topics. This episode is sponsored by Leica Sport Optics.   

The UK is famous for a lot, but one thing many around the world may not think of when they think of us is the fact we had & have now lost a lot of species throughout the years. One place I have visited that really shows you what we have/hand roaming this land is Wildwood Trust in Kent. To tell me all about this fascinating wildlife collection of native or once native species & the projects they are working on is director, Paul Whitfield. From how the place started to their most recent big project, the semi release of Bison into ancient woodland. If you'd like to keep up to date with Paul & Wildwood Trust, you can follow them on social media @FoxWhitfield & @WildwoodTrust To follow us on social media visit @intothewildpod for Twitter & @intothewildpodcast for Instagram. You can also find Ryan on @mrryanjdalton Love the show or simply enjoyed this episode? You can buy us a coffee to say ta at https://ko-fi.com/intothewildpod MERCH: intothewildpodcast.teemill.com Into The Wild is your weekly wildlife, nature & conservation podcast, bringing you chat from professionals about a huge variety of wild topics. This episode is sponsored by Leica Sport Optics.

If you say the word "wasp" you're rarely met with a response like "gah I just love them" however, it only takes a little peek into the world of wasps for someone to learn that there is MUCH more than meets the social opinion of them. To join me this week to share the diverse world & love of the wasp is Professor Seirian Sumner. From Seirian's favourite species to the mad behaviours of some others, we even discuss why people have certain feelings about thee wonderful insects. To grab a copy of Seirian's new book, Endless Forms, Click Here If you'd like to keep up to date with Seirian, you can follow her on social media @WaspWoman To follow us on social media visit @intothewildpod for Twitter & @intothewildpodcast for Instagram. You can also find Ryan on @mrryanjdalton Love the show or simply enjoyed this episode? You can buy us a coffee to say ta at https://ko-fi.com/intothewildpod MERCH: intothewildpodcast.teemill.com Into The Wild is your weekly wildlife, nature & conservation podcast, bringing you chat from professionals about a huge variety of wild topics. This episode is sponsored by Leica Sport Optics.

When we talk of a wolf, a number of things could come to mind. Maybe a folklore store? A character in a childhood film? An image of a woodland with a huge moon in the background? Or I'd imagine, for most of this audience, we think of an animal of great importance, both culturally & environmentally. A lost animal in the UK & throughout Europe, but one that is also coming back, to Europe that is. Yet, do we consider how difficult or easy this can be? To bring back the wolf? What has to be done or considered & who has to be spoken to? Well one person that has spent a long time working that out is conservation social scientist Hanna Petterson & Hanna joins me on this show to have this very chat with me. To book a free ticket to watch Into The Wild's Beyond The Trigger on Thursday 20th October LIVE on YouTube, Click Here To buy a copy of London Wildlife Trust's new book, London in the Wild, Click Here If you'd like to keep up to date with Hanna then you can do so on social media at @HannaP3TT To follow us on social media visit @intothewildpod for Twitter & @intothewildpodcast for Instagram. You can also find Ryan on @mrryanjdalton Love the show or simply enjoyed this episode? You can buy us a coffee to say ta at https://ko-fi.com/intothewildpod MERCH: https://intothewildpodcast.teemill.com/ Into The Wild is your weekly wildlife, nature & conservation podcast, bringing you chat from professionals about a huge variety of wild topics. This episode is sponsored by Leica Sport Optics.  

If you follow us on social media, you'll know that I recently got back from a trip to Namibia to screen our first ever film, Beyond The Trigger. Now what kind of podcaster would I be if I didn't grab some insightful wildlife conservation chats with people on my travels. With that in mind I am super excited to share with you the first part of this special episode, Into The Wild in Namibia. In this episode, actually recorded at the later part of my trip, I travelled along with CEO of NACSO (Namibian Association for Community Based Natural Resource Management Support Organisations), Maxi Louis to a conservancy called ≠Gaingu, where I got to chat with the newly appointed conservancy manager Neville Hendricks about life as a farmer & how valuing wildlife has helped the community & the surrounding biodiversity. To book a FREE ticket to our online premiere of Beyond The Trigger on Thursday 20th Sept, Click Here  To learn more about NACSO & their conservancies & work, Click Here  To follow us on social media visit @intothewildpod for Twitter & @intothewildpodcast for Instagram. You can also find Ryan on @mrryanjdalton Love the show or simply enjoyed this episode? You can buy us a coffee to say ta at https://ko-fi.com/intothewildpod MERCH: intothewildpodcast.teemill.com Into The Wild is your weekly wildlife, nature & conservation podcast, bringing you chat from professionals about a huge variety of wild topics.

I LOVE wildlife.......but I LOVE dogs. My two jobs, the podcast & running a professional dog walking company both (obviously) envolve, heavily, these two things, but do they, or can they, go together happily? There's always a lot of chat about how much domestic dogs disturb wildlife or damage habitat & the answers always seem to be lost in amongst the arguments so I decided to mix the two sides together & have vet & conservationist Sean McCormack on to tell us about what the issues are & then to have professional dog walker, dog trainer & business owner Zoe Macdonald on to tell us dog owners, the best ways we can be walking our dogs without allowing them to disturb or damage wildlife. Write to your MP to voice your anger about the #AttackOnNature here  If you'd like to keep up to date with Sean & Zoe then you can do so on social media @WoofsInTheWoods & @ThatVetSean  To follow us on social media visit @intothewildpod for Twitter & @intothewildpodcast for Instagram. You can also find Ryan on @mrryanjdalton Love the show or simply enjoyed this episode? You can buy us a coffee to say ta at https://ko-fi.com/intothewildpod MERCH: https://intothewildpodcast.teemill.com/ Into The Wild is your weekly wildlife, nature & conservation podcast, bringing you chat from professionals about a huge variety of wild topics. This episode is sponsored by Leica Sport Optics.