The Origins Foundation Podcast

Tune in to the weekly Roundup as Ashlee and Robbie discuss the latest news in the hunting and fishing arena over the past couple of weeks, including their weekend at Dallas Safari Club's Summer Expo, the Budget Reconciliation Act, a new bill introduced in the Senate aimed to increase North American duck populations, Reauthorization of the Sportfish Restoration Boating and Trust Fund, the Grizzly Bear State Management Act, the controversy surrounding Jay Cutler hunting sables in Africa, and more!  Do you have questions we can answer? Send it via DM on IG or through email at info@bloodorigins.com Support our Conservation Club Members! Bar JP Safaris: https://www.barjpsafaris.com/  Cabassa Safaris: https://cabassasafaris.com/  Robin Hurt Safaris Namibia: https://www.robinhurt.com/hunting-safaris-namibia.html  See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Music: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.io This podcast is brought to you by Bushnell, who believes in providing the highest quality, most reliable & affordable outdoor products on the market. Your performance is their passion. https://www.bushnell.com  This podcast is also brought to you by Silencer Central, who believes in making buying a silencer simple and they handle the paperwork for you. Shop the largest silencer dealer in the world. Get started today! https://www.silencercentral.com  This podcast is brought to you by Safari Specialty Importers. Why do serious hunters use Safari Specialty Importers? Because getting your trophies home to you is all they do. Find our more at: https://safarispecialtyimporters.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tarquin Millington-Drake is a UK-based photographer and founder of a communications hub around grouse shooting and moorlands. He and some other former podcast guests have teamed up to build this communications highway around the benefits of shooting - just like The Origins Foundation is doing worldwide! The communication message is simple - Why do moorlands matter? This discussion is a fascinating deep dive into a type of hunting in a place you might not know much about.  Get to know the guest: http://blog.millingtondrake.com Do you have questions we can answer? Send it via DM on IG or through email at info@bloodorigins.com Support our Conservation Club Members! Bar JP Safaris: https://www.barjpsafaris.com/  Cabassa Safaris: https://cabassasafaris.com/  Robin Hurt Safaris Namibia: https://www.robinhurt.com/hunting-safaris-namibia.html  See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Music: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.io This podcast is brought to you by Bushnell, who believes in providing the highest quality, most reliable & affordable outdoor products on the market. Your performance is their passion. https://www.bushnell.com  This podcast is also brought to you by Silencer Central, who believes in making buying a silencer simple and they handle the paperwork for you. Shop the largest silencer dealer in the world. Get started today! https://www.silencercentral.com  This podcast is brought to you by Safari Specialty Importers. Why do serious hunters use Safari Specialty Importers? Because getting your trophies home to you is all they do. Find our more at: https://safarispecialtyimporters.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robbie in releasing The Last Wild Islands was connected to Michie. Michie is Zambia's Sweetheart" Zulu on Phoenix FM where she is an extremely popular radio host. Michie and Robbie connect for a short interview about the Last Wild Islands which broadens Michie’s ideas around hunting specifically in Zambia. Do you have questions we can answer? Send it via DM on IG or through email at info@bloodorigins.com Support our Conservation Club Members! Kayuga Broadheads: https://www.kayugabroadheads.com.au/  Lanthrop & Sons: https://lathropandsons.com/  Silent Pursuits: https://www.silentpursuits.com/  See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Music: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.io This podcast is brought to you by Bushnell, who believes in providing the highest quality, most reliable & affordable outdoor products on the market. Your performance is their passion. https://www.bushnell.com  This podcast is also brought to you by Silencer Central, who believes in making buying a silencer simple and they handle the paperwork for you. Shop the largest silencer dealer in the world. Get started today! https://www.silencercentral.com  This podcast is brought to you by Safari Specialty Importers. Why do serious hunters use Safari Specialty Importers? Because getting your trophies home to you is all they do. Find our more at: https://safarispecialtyimporters.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grouse hunting on moors is likely one of the most heated hunting topics in the United Kingdom. Every year the industry comes under attack, and they have to stand up and fight to highlight the benefits that come from Grouse shooting on moors. In Part 1 of a series on "Fighting for the Moorlands", Robbie connects with two key individuals in the "Why Moorlands Matter" movement - Emily Graham and Ian Coghill (or commonly referred to as Coggers). If you have ever been interested in learning more about the fight against hunting in the United Kingdom, have heard about grouse shooting, or may have just heard about moors, this is the podcast to learn more about all of those subjects. Get to know the guest: https://www.scribehound.com/countryside/shooting-talk/s/shooting-debates/why-moorland-matters-my-interview-with-ian-coghill  Do you have questions we can answer? Send it via DM on IG or through email at info@bloodorigins.com Support our Conservation Club Members! Kayuga Broadheads: https://www.kayugabroadheads.com.au/  Lanthrop & Sons: https://lathropandsons.com/  Silent Pursuits: https://www.silentpursuits.com/  See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Music: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.io This podcast is brought to you by Bushnell, who believes in providing the highest quality, most reliable & affordable outdoor products on the market. Your performance is their passion. https://www.bushnell.com  This podcast is also brought to you by Silencer Central, who believes in making buying a silencer simple and they handle the paperwork for you. Shop the largest silencer dealer in the world. Get started today! https://www.silencercentral.com  This podcast is brought to you by Safari Specialty Importers. Why do serious hunters use Safari Specialty Importers? Because getting your trophies home to you is all they do. Find our more at: https://safarispecialtyimporters.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re back for PART II of our miniseries covering the historic cheetah relocation that The Origins Foundation has undertaken from South Africa to Mozambique. Wildlife veterinarian, Andy Fraser, joins Robbie on the ground once again to discuss the difficulty of the sheer size of the project relocating the first 12 cheetahs. This podcast will bring you on the ground with them as they discuss the challenges and rewards of such an ambitious conservation project. From the epic photo of napping on a pile of cheetah’s during an exhausting 50 hour trip, to 10 hours of driving in each direction - this is a no-holds-barred discussion. Be warned, this podcast was recorded at 11:30pm at night waiting for a plane to arrive from Zimbabwe to put the last 4 cheetahs onto! Get to know the guest: https://www.instagram.com/p/DCjvZZwMu33/ Do you have questions we can answer? Send it via DM on IG or through email at info@bloodorigins.com Support our Conservation Club Members! Kayuga Broadheads: https://www.kayugabroadheads.com.au/  Lanthrop & Sons: https://lathropandsons.com/  Silent Pursuits: https://www.silentpursuits.com/  See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Music: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.io This podcast is brought to you by Bushnell, who believes in providing the highest quality, most reliable & affordable outdoor products on the market. Your performance is their passion. https://www.bushnell.com  This podcast is also brought to you by Silencer Central, who believes in making buying a silencer simple and they handle the paperwork for you. Shop the largest silencer dealer in the world. Get started today! https://www.silencercentral.com  This podcast is brought to you by Safari Specialty Importers. Why do serious hunters use Safari Specialty Importers? Because getting your trophies home to you is all they do. Find our more at: https://safarispecialtyimporters.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You have no doubt heard about the historic cheetah relocation that The Origins Foundation has undertaken from South Africa to Mozambique. This is the first of a series covering that project. We’re relocating 18 cheetahs and in this episode, Robbie chats with returning guest and wildlife veterinarian Andy Fraser and his partner, Maria, while driving back from capturing 11 cheetahs over the course of 56 hours and recap that incredible experience for you at home. This podcast will step you through the experience as Andy, Robbie, and Maria are driving back to Rooiberg after a 56 hour marathon where if something was going to go wrong, it did. Get to know the guest:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DCjvZZwMu33/ https://www.instagram.com/the.vet.maria/ Do you have questions we can answer? Send it via DM on IG or through email at info@bloodorigins.com Support our Conservation Club Members! Mike Currie Adventures: https://www.mikecurrieadventures.co.za/index.html  Hartland Hunting Outfitters: https://www.hartlandhunting.net/  The Engineering Co: https://www.theengineeringco.nz/  See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Music: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.io This podcast is brought to you by Bushnell, who believes in providing the highest quality, most reliable & affordable outdoor products on the market. Your performance is their passion. https://www.bushnell.com  This podcast is also brought to you by Silencer Central, who believes in making buying a silencer simple and they handle the paperwork for you. Shop the largest silencer dealer in the world. Get started today! https://www.silencercentral.com  This podcast is brought to you by Safari Specialty Importers. Why do serious hunters use Safari Specialty Importers? Because getting your trophies home to you is all they do. Find our more at: https://safarispecialtyimporters.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's not often that Robbie is able to geek out around the thing that he spent half his life studying - that is wetlands. If you didn't know, Robbie has his Ph.D in Wetland Ecology and has been fascinated with all things wetlands since he was 16 years old. Today, Robbie is joined by James Green, head of waterfowl and wetlands at BASC, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation, to talk about the state of the water fowling and duck hunting world in England. Coming from a large hunting family, one that is quite well known in the shooting and hunting industry in the United Kingdom, James is perfectly suited to advocate for wetlands and waterfowling in his position at BASC. Get to know the guest: https://wgfd.wyo.gov/news-events/angi-bruce-steps-new-role-game-and-fish-director Do you have questions we can answer? Send it via DM on IG or through email at info@bloodorigins.com Support our Conservation Club Members! Mike Currie Adventures: https://www.mikecurrieadventures.co.za/index.html  Hartland Hunting Outfitters: https://www.hartlandhunting.net/  The Engineering Co: https://www.theengineeringco.nz/  See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Music: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.io This podcast is brought to you by Bushnell, who believes in providing the highest quality, most reliable & affordable outdoor products on the market. Your performance is their passion. https://www.bushnell.com  This podcast is also brought to you by Silencer Central, who believes in making buying a silencer simple and they handle the paperwork for you. Shop the largest silencer dealer in the world. Get started today! https://www.silencercentral.com  This podcast is brought to you by Safari Specialty Importers. Why do serious hunters use Safari Specialty Importers? Because getting your trophies home to you is all they do. Find our more at: https://safarispecialtyimporters.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's not often that Robbie is able to geek out around the thing that he spent half his life studying - that is wetlands. If you didn't know, Robbie has his Ph.D in Wetland Ecology and has been fascinated with all things wetlands since he was 16 years old. Today, Robbie is joined by James Green, head of waterfowl and wetlands at BASC, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation, to talk about the state of the water fowling and duck hunting world in England. Coming from a large hunting family, one that is quite well known in the shooting and hunting industry in the United Kingdom, James is perfectly suited to advocate for wetlands and waterfowling in his position at BASC. Get to know the guest: https://thecountrygirlsuk.com/country-pursuits/basc-podcast-james-green-discusses-all-things-wildfowling/ Do you have questions we can answer? Send it via DM on IG or through email at info@bloodorigins.com Support our Conservation Club Members! Champion Ranch: https://championranch.com/  Brush Country Studios: https://brushcountrystudios.com/  EuroOptic: https://www.eurooptic.com/  See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Music: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.io This podcast is brought to you by Bushnell, who believes in providing the highest quality, most reliable & affordable outdoor products on the market. Your performance is their passion. https://www.bushnell.com  This podcast is also brought to you by Silencer Central, who believes in making buying a silencer simple and they handle the paperwork for you. Shop the largest silencer dealer in the world. Get started today! https://www.silencercentral.com  This podcast is brought to you by Safari Specialty Importers. Why do serious hunters use Safari Specialty Importers? Because getting your trophies home to you is all they do. Find our more at: https://safarispecialtyimporters.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leland Brown is a PhD student who has worked for some time on the idea of lead-free ammunition. Leland and Robbie cover the start of the lead-free controversy, addressing myths about lead-free ammunition (from efficacy, ballistics, terminal efficient, etc) and sets the tone for Leland’s PhD research. There is always significant controversy when one starts talking about lead free ammunition - specifically as it pertains to reducing hunting opportunities and it always comes down to availability and efficacy. Robbie and Leland talk about it all. Get to know the guest: https://www.trcp.org/2025/03/27/in-the-arena-leland-brown/ Do you have questions we can answer? Send it via DM on IG or through email at info@bloodorigins.com Support our Conservation Club Members! Grayl: https://grayl.com/  Big Bear Services, LLC: https://big-bear-services.com/  Double U Hunting Supply: https://www.dusupply.com/  See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Music: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.io This podcast is brought to you by Bushnell, who believes in providing the highest quality, most reliable & affordable outdoor products on the market. Your performance is their passion. https://www.bushnell.com  This podcast is also brought to you by Silencer Central, who believes in making buying a silencer simple and they handle the paperwork for you. Shop the largest silencer dealer in the world. Get started today! https://www.silencercentral.com  This podcast is brought to you by Safari Specialty Importers. Why do serious hunters use Safari Specialty Importers? Because getting your trophies home to you is all they do. Find our more at: https://safarispecialtyimporters.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robbie sits down with some of the board members of the newly birthed North American Pronghorn Foundation, one of the newest nonprofits in the conservation space! America is the bastion of species-specific foundations like this that dive deep into the conservation of one or another much loved and iconic species from Ducks Unlimited to NWTF to all the deer foundations and beyond - but with 14 states with pronghorn populations and only two with positive increases in those populations - this group couldn’t have come at a more important time.  Get to know the guest: https://www.pronghorns.org Do you have questions we can answer? Send it via DM on IG or through email at info@bloodorigins.com Support our Conservation Club Members! Grayl: https://grayl.com/  Big Bear Services, LLC: https://big-bear-services.com/  Double U Hunting Supply: https://www.dusupply.com/  See more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Music: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.io This podcast is brought to you by Bushnell, who believes in providing the highest quality, most reliable & affordable outdoor products on the market. Your performance is their passion. https://www.bushnell.com  This podcast is also brought to you by Silencer Central, who believes in making buying a silencer simple and they handle the paperwork for you. Shop the largest silencer dealer in the world. Get started today! https://www.silencercentral.com  This podcast is brought to you by Safari Specialty Importers. Why do serious hunters use Safari Specialty Importers? Because getting your trophies home to you is all they do. Find our more at: https://safarispecialtyimporters.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices