Wild Lives

From his home in the remote Great Bear Rainforest, First Nations hereditary chief Mike Willie runs wildlife tours that go much further than showing visitors what animals live in British Columbia.

Through his Indigenous-owned and operated wildlife travel businesses, Mike uses tourism as a vehicle to share the stories of the lands that he and his ancestors have looked after, and that have looked after them, for more than 14,000 years.

Canada is still undergoing a process of truth and reconciliation relating to the country’s treatment of its Indigenous people, and Mike talks about the raw issues related to this history, as well as celebrating the cultures that have seen First Nations people live in harmony with nature for countless generations.

You can find out more about Mike's work by visiting seawolfadventures.ca

Photo: Mike Willie

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The deep sea is one of our final frontiers – along with deep space – and in this episode we talk with Dr Jeffrey Marlow, an American microbiologist who studies the smallest lifeforms that live in its most inhospitable places.

Jeffrey wears many hats – as well as being a scientist and deep-sea explorer, he’s an advisor to the United Nations and works with NASA on robotic missions to Mars.

He talked about what it’s like to explore the deep sea in the modern age, and how the microbes that live at the deepest parts of the oceans may hold the clues to the search for life on other planets.

His latest book, The Dark Frontier: Unlocking the Secrets of the Deep Sea, is published in the UK by Faber & Faber.

Photo: Ana Pantelic

To get in touch with the Wild Lives team, you can email us at wildlives@discoverwildlife.com

And to get more great content from BBC Wildlife, visit our website: https://www.discoverwildlife.com

Subscribe to BBC Wildlife magazine and save 20% on the shop price. Pay just £25.99 every 6 issues and receive free UK delivery direct to your door. Order now at ourmediashop.com/bbc-wildlife-magazine-POD20

BBC Wildlife is the world’s longest-running and most popular nature magazine. This episode was hosted by Paul McGuinness and produced by Lewis Dobbs.
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One of Britain’s most-loved writers, Simon Barnes has been obsessed by flight for as long as he can remember.

He talks about where this love of flight came from, and reflects on how human cultural history is littered with the dream of flight, from Daedalus and Icarus to Leonardo Da Vinci and Arthur Dent, the hero of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

His latest book, How To Fly: taking wing with birds, bats, insects and humans, is published in the UK by Bloomsbury.

For more of Simon’s books, head to https://simonbarnesauthor.co.uk/ where you will also find his very enjoyable blog.

Photo: Simon Barnes

To get in touch with the Wild Lives team, you can email us at wildlives@discoverwildlife.com

And to get more great content from BBC Wildlife, visit our website: https://www.discoverwildlife.com

Subscribe to BBC Wildlife magazine and save 20% on the shop price. Pay just £25.99 every 6 issues and receive free UK delivery direct to your door. Order now at ourmediashop.com/bbc-wildlife-magazine-POD20

BBC Wildlife is the world’s longest-running and most popular nature magazine. This episode was hosted by Paul McGuinness and produced by Lewis Dobbs.
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Dr Rosa Vásquez Espinoza’s work with stingless bees in the Peruvian Amazon led to them becoming the first insect anywhere in the world to be protected by legal rights.

Born in Peru, Rosa is a chemical biologist, and a descendent of Andean and Amazonian people, who passed their knowledge of natural healing down to her. As well as combining her scientific and Indigenous understanding of nature, Rosa is a conservationist, and a science communicator and storyteller who shares her passion for the natural world with audiences around the world.

Her latest book is The Spirit of the Rainforest: How Indigenous Wisdom and Scientific Curiosity Reconnects Us to the Natural World. You can follow her work at rosavespinoza.com and her work with Studio Blue Green at studiobluegreen.org

Watch the giant baby armadillo clip here: https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/baby-giant-armadillo-camera-trap-amazon

Photo: Miryan Delgado

To get in touch with the Wild Lives team, you can email us at wildlives@discoverwildlife.com

And to get more great content from BBC Wildlife, visit our website: https://www.discoverwildlife.com

Subscribe to BBC Wildlife magazine and save 20% on the shop price. Pay just £25.99 every 6 issues and receive free UK delivery direct to your door. Order now at ourmediashop.com/bbc-wildlife-magazine-POD20

BBC Wildlife is the world’s longest-running and most popular nature magazine. This episode was hosted by Paul McGuinness and produced by Lewis Dobbs.
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Wild Lives, the podcast from the team at BBC Wildlife Magazine is back for Season 2! Hosted by BBC Wildlife editor Paul McGuinness, Wild Lives returns with more incredible stories from the people who work and live on the frontlines of the natural world.

We speak with Peruvian chemical biologist and conservationist Dr Rosa Vasquez Espinoza, about combining science with her ancestral knowledge of indigenous Amazonian and Andean healing.

We also hear from deep sea explorer Jeffrey Marlow about how his studies of the microbes that live at the depths of our oceans is helping in the search for life on other planets.

And we head to British Columbia to meet First Nations hereditary chief Mike Willie, who shows us how indigenous-run tourism in Canada supports nature and local communities.

Also this series we’ll be discovering how flight evolved 2 or possibly 3 times; we’ll meet the sea rangers changing the landscape of our oceans, we’ll go birding in the Amazon and we’ll find out how wildlife tourism and conservation go hand in hand in east Africa.

Episode 1 releases on Friday 16th October.

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