The Wild with Chris Morgan
Summary: "THE WILD with Chris Morgan" explores how nature survives and thrives alongside (and often despite) humans. Taking listeners across the Pacific Northwest and around the world, host Chris Morgan explores wildlife and the complex web of ecosystems they inhabit. He also tells the stories of people working in and protecting the wild around us.
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We can’t reset the clock on all the changes we’ve made to our natural ecosystems, but when we can, life is ready to thrive again.
There’s a way to understand nature through both the perspectives of indigenous knowledge and western science alongside each other. It’s a concept known as “two eyed seeing”.
A common misunderstanding about the sea is that it is silent down there, a quiet world beneath the waves, but it actually couldn't be further from the truth. The coral reef is the noisiest ecosystem in the sea.
Woodpeckers will peck at a tree up to 12,000 times a day and just one woodpecker peck produces about 15 times the force needed to give a human a concussion. So, how do woodpeckers bang their heads so much, and so hard and not come away with brain damage?
Fifty years later, we checked in on a rescue mission to save sea otters from nuclear annihilation and recolonize them along the west coast of North America.
An Earth Day message from Chris
How we are sharing the world with a successful predator
For the first time in 100 years, wolverines are back in Mount Rainier National Park. How did they get there?
How did what used to be the rarest cat on earth leap a staggering 1000% in number in just 20 years?
There are 540 shark species in the world and 143 of them are endangered. Rachel Graham is their evangelist.
Anne Innis Dagg had a curiosity and love for giraffes that took her to South Africa in the 1950s. Little was known about them in western science at the time. Anne would change that.
A decommissioned military base in northeast Oregon provides sanctuary for a recovering burrowing owl population.
A curious story of fires, Stone Age art, rural abandonment, and a mission to bring back an entire forest ecosystem.
New episodes of THE WILD begin on Tuesday, January 18th.
This is a special episode from the podcast Living Planet from Deutsche Welle. In this episode they explore the efforts to bring life back to seabeds off the coast of Scotland and learn about an app that can tell what species a frog is by its song. A sort of Shazam for amphibians.