The Origins Foundation Podcast

In this episode, Robbie asks the tough questions every hunter who’s never been wants to know or learn about hunting in Africa. Oliver from Wettstein Safari's, a family run hunting safari business in South Africa was gracious enough to donate this month’s Blood Origins Supporter Program dream hunt on his family’s ranch in South Africa. Have you ever dreamed of hunting in South Africa? Here's your chance.Podcast is brought to you by:Carbon Unwind: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1512187506Dog And Gun Coffee: www.dogandguncoffee.comDuck Dens: www.theduckdens.com Pladra: www.pladra.comCivilware: www.civilware.comSee more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_SubscribeMusic: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bribery, corruption. Hunters just come in and pay people off, right? Wrong. Jeff McCollum is a land manager in Mocambique. His perspective is critical, because it provides the context we need to understand what it takes to manage a preserve in Africa, and dispels many of the myths and stereotypes about doing business in Africa that fuel anti-hunting tropes.Podcast is brought to you by:Carbon Unwind: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1512187506Dog And Gun Coffee: www.dogandguncoffee.comDuck Dens: www.theduckdens.com Pladra: www.pladra.comCivilware: www.civilware.comSee more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_SubscribeMusic: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're starting something new. We get a lot of questions - whether through instagram, FB messenger, email or otherwise making us aware of so many topics - we decided to create a place where we address them all every week. In this inaugural roundup, Robbie and Cody tackle the New Mexico trapping bill, the wolf quota in Wisconsin, Africa, disingenuous attacks by anti-hunters, and the hypocrisy of ecotourists hating hunting for killing but loving mother nature being as violent as she can be. Have information we need to know about? Podcast is brought to you by:Carbon Unwind: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1512187506Dog And Gun Coffee: www.dogandguncoffee.comDuck Dens: www.theduckdens.com Pladra: www.pladra.comCivilware: www.civilware.comSee more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_SubscribeMusic: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Terrance Butler is a game warden with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Robbie caught up with him at Sorinex WinterStrong to discuss how he is changing perceptions around hunting through both his personal life and his work as a Federal Game Warden with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Podcast is brought to you by:Carbon Unwind: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1512187506Dog And Gun Coffee: www.dogandguncoffee.comDuck Dens: www.theduckdens.com Pladra: www.pladra.comCivilware: www.civilware.comSee more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_SubscribeMusic: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For well over a century, the Tigers of India have been the subject of intense debate. What you’re about to hear is the first of many conversations between Rajeev and Robbie and some mind-blowing information about the state of wildlife in India, from bears to wolves to leopards and, of course, tigers.Podcast is brought to you by:Carbon Unwind: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1512187506Dog And Gun Coffee: www.dogandguncoffee.comDuck Dens: www.theduckdens.com Pladra: www.pladra.comCivilware: www.civilware.comSee more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_SubscribeMusic: Migration by Ian Post (Winter Solstice), licensed through artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cayce De Simone is an avowed lifelong vegetarian and mother who has come through her years to understand who hunters are, even marrying one. She is from the interior of British Columbia, where hunting ban issues of large carnivore hunting and possibly other species are coming to a head. So her perspective as a non-hunter in the interior of British Columbia is likely the most valuable perspective we as hunters could have. In this podcast, we hear directly from Cayce about what her perspective of hunting used to be like, what it is today, and why it has changed. Remember that she is a vegetarian, because she will sound like a hunter.Podcast is brought to you by:Dog and Gun Coffee: www.dogandguncoffee.comPladra: www.pladra.comCivilware: www.civilware.comSee more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sportsmen’s Alliance is an advocacy organization that fights for sportsmen’s rights in the political arena nationwide. Brian Lynn and Bruce Tague push the stone up the hill every day in defense of hunting, fishing and trapping. In this episode, Robbie gets into the weeds of advocacy efforts to save hunting, what messages work, and what threats are out there looming over the sportsmen of America.Learn more about Sportsmen’s Alliance: www.sportsmensalliance.org Podcast is brought to you by:Dog and Gun Coffee: www.dogandguncoffee.comPladra: www.pladra.comCivilware: www.civilware.comSee more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aleksi is a Finnish hunter, author and IT professional with a passion for the wolves of his Scandinavian homeland. In this episode, Robbie and Aleksi tackle the controversies surrounding wolves and try to chart a path forward for these incredible animals. From human-wildlife conflicts to agricultural damage, the parallels to the United States’ own wolf controversies is staggering.Podcast is brought to you by:Dog and Gun Coffee: www.dogandguncoffee.comPladra: www.pladra.comCivilware: www.civilware.comSee more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Big Cat Biologist. Non-hunter. Vegetarian. Self-professed “bunny hugger”. Advocate for the benefits of hunting? Amy Dickman is a jack of of all trades in the wildlife space and noted conservationist in Africa. She is pro-hunting, even when her heart is against it, because of the cost-benefits analysis we has been face with during her career as a biologist. In this critical conversation, colored , Amy and Robbie cover everything from lions to poaching to disingenuous attacks by anti-hunters on her funding sources.Photo credit: Johann VorsterPodcast is brought to you by:Dog and Gun Coffee: www.dogandguncoffee.comPladra: www.pladra.comCivilware: www.civilware.comSee more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Renee Snider is arguably the toughest female hunter on the planet. Weatherby Award Winner Renee Snider grew up at the foot of the Bitterroot Mountain Range in Montana. Her father, an avid outdoorsman, fed his family off the land. She grew up with a great love for the outdoors because of those experiences. She uses these experiences to frame the ugly perceptions of hunters and how we can respond and educate non-hunters.Podcast is brought to you by:Dog and Gun Coffee: www.dogandguncoffee.comPladra: www.pladra.comCivilware: www.civilware.comSee more from Blood Origins: https://bit.ly/BloodOrigins_Subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices