Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant Podcast
The chart-topping and multi-award-winning podcast Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant returned for a third season in September 2023. Produced by PBS’ Nature, Going Wild explores the human drama behind saving animals.
On the new season of Going Wild, host and acclaimed wildlife ecologist Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant goes beyond animal stories to take listeners on a journey through the entire ecological web, from tiny plants to apex predators. In this expedition, Going Wild poses the question — How can humans look at our relationship to nature differently?
Each episode, Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant speaks with a notable scientist, activist, or adventurer of color to see how they grapple with that question in their own lives and work. Episodes also invite listeners to reconsider long-held understandings of conservation, nature and our relationship to it, and who’s considered a scientist.
Featured guests and topics include:
Christian Cooper, host of Nat Geo’s Extraordinary Birder and author, explores how his work as a Marvel comics writer helped him become an everyday superhero and advocate for wildlife, and how a life spent birdwatching (long before the infamous incident in Central Park) prepared him to thrive as a gay Black man in America today.
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Urban Ocean Lab co-founder, marine biologist, policy expert and co-creator of the acclaimed podcast How to Save a Planet, explores solutions to the climate emergency, including how we can protect our bodies of water.
Dr. Samuel Ramsey, professor of entomology at The University of Colorado Boulder, shares his groundbreaking discovery for one of the biggest global pandemics in history, and discusses how diverse perspectives like his own are needed to move the scientific community forward.
Dr. Rosa Vásquez Espinoza, chemical biologist, Nat Geo explorer and award-winning artist, speaks to her mission to unlock the full potential of Earth’s microbe species for medicine and to encourage us to pay more attention to the Amazon rainforest’s biodiversity.
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