The Thing About Wildlife
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The Thing About Wildlife
The Thing About Wildlife offers long and insightful conversations with Indians working closest to nature: researchers, educators and conservationists.
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#62 The Thing About Old Bonds and Elephants
This week I'm in conversation with the deep, strong and heartwarming partnership of Amir Chhetri and Priyanka Das, both part of the 2022 cohort of the...
#61 The Thing About Finding Common Ground
This week I'm in conversation with the unlikely but effective partnership of Sunil Harsana and Nitesh Kaushik, both part of the 2022 cohort of the Coe...
#60 The Thing About An Army of Kindness
This week I'm in conversation with the spirited Avantika Thapa. She was part of the first cohort of the Coexistence Fellowship, and went through the p...
#59 The Thing About Indigenous Science
Dive into a thought-provoking conversation with one of the Coexistence Fellowship pairs - Mahesha & Vinay - in our very first episode of Season 6, whe...
#58 The Thing About Tree-walking Through Life
Today we bring you you an enthu-cutlet conversation with the excitable and passionate Sayee Girdhari. With important nudges from the universe towards...
#57 The Thing About Learning with Children
Today I bring you you a warm and wholesome conversation with the incomparable Nitya Satheesh. She's had a fascinating journey within the wildlife spac...
#56 The Thing About Living with Leopards
Today's episode features the wonderful Shweta Shivakumar with whom we continued on our Season 5 journey hitting upon our recurring themes of coexisten...
#55 The Thing About Speaking with Nature
Today, I'm in conversation with India's foremost historian, Dr Ramachandra Guha: an environmentalist, prolific writer and public intellectual whose re...
#54 The Thing About Haath Mein Chidhiya (Hindi)
This is the first of two episodes recorded in the Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, with the fantastic field staff that works with Dr U...
#53 The Thing About Spiders and Spinning Stories
Today's guest is a very cool spider specialist and all-round natural history enthusiast with a penchant for storytelling, photography and zooming into...
#52 The Thing About Elasmobranchs and the Coast
Today we're in conversation with Alissa Barnes - a marine biologist who wears several hats - from illustrator and social scientist to diver and shark...
#51 The Thing About Coexistence and Negotiation
Dhee is a researcher interested in the human dimensions of wildlife conservation, specifically the psychological and socio-cultural factors that shape...
#50 The Thing About Big Picture Conservation
Rushikesh Chavan tells us about how he's been diving deep into large-scale conservation issues ever since he got into this field a couple of decades a...
#49 The Thing About Writing Storybooks
Today, I'm in conversation with Priyadarshini Panchapakesan - a young English language school teacher who grew up inspired by the nature around her in...
#48 The Thing About Birding for Science
Today, I am joined by an old friend - Tarun Menon - birder supreme. Having completed his masters from the National Centre for Biological Sciences, he'...
#47 The Thing About Camouflaged Identities
The spaces of wildlife and conservation are home to LOTS of queer-identifying individuals around the world, each one doing inspiring and important wor...
#46 The Thing About Risky Waters
Welcome back to our new series: The Thing About Pride. These are episodes showcasing the work and lived experiences of queer or LGBTQIA+ identifying p...
#45 The Thing About Underwater Exploration
Welcome back to our new series: The Thing About Pride!
On our third episode, I bring to you a marine biologist and conservationist who truly wan...
#44 The Thing About Queer Wildlifers
On this episode, I speak with 3 fabulous queer wildlifers - all of whom you've heard from before during our second season from early 2022! The fields...
#43 The Thing About Birds and Chai
Welcome to a new series within this podcast: The Thing About Pride. These are episodes showcasing the work and lived experiences of queer or LGBTQIA+...
#42 The Thing About Regenerative Farming
Malika Virdi is an urban citizen turned farmer who co-founded Maati Sanghthan, a women’s collective, in Sarmoli, Munsiyari. This collective actively w...
#41 The Thing About Glacial Melts
This is the first of two very special bonus episodes produced in collaboration with the Sydney Environmental Institute and the India and Bharat Togeth...
#40 The Thing About Fisheries and Gifting Chickens
Dr Sahir Advani is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Maine. While he works at a larger, global scale now, we dipped into his ex...
#39 The Thing About Galloping Dolphins
Today's guest is Mahi Mankeshwar - a cetacean biologist who has one of the most natural affinities to the marine space that I've ever encountered. She...
#38 The Thing About Mamuli Baatein (Hindi)
I am joined by my guest co-host, Tanmay Wagh, who you all met last Season as part of episode 21: The Thing About Marine Adventures! Together, we speak...
#37 The Thing About Seagrasses and Dugongs
Dr Elrika D'Souza is the Programme Manager of Oceans and Coasts at the Nature Conservation Foundation. Her research interests lie in exploring plant-a...
#36 The Thing About Monkeys on the Beach
Today, I speak with the dedicated and observant, Dr Arijit Pal, a postdoctoral fellow at the national institute of advanced studies in bangalore. For...
#35 The Thing About Ethnographies and Mayabandar
Shiba Desor is a social scientist who worked with the Karen community in the middle Andamans to set up the Andaman Karen Crafts initiative, a coopera...
#34 The Thing About Great Nicobar In Peril
We're back today with another in our Andaman and Nicobar series, with a conversation featuring Professor Pankaj Sekhsaria. His main areas of research...
#33 The Thing About Culture and Nature
Madhuri Ramesh is a faculty member at the School of Development at Azim Premji University. Madhuri has worked in deserts, rainforests, coasts and isla...
#32 The Thing About Restoration and Development
Manish is a phenomenal storyteller, who uses his lived experiences to talk about the people and ecology of the islands with extreme clarity. Our recor...
#31 The Thing About Discovering the Islands
In the first episode of our Andaman and Nicobar series, storyteller-supreme, Manish Chandi speaks to Ishika and Akshay about his early years in the is...
#30 The Thing About The Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Happy 2023, listeners! This year, The Thing About Wildlife is kick-starting with a 10-part series on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Stay tuned for m...
#29 The Thing About The Living Museum
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#28 The Thing About Reflections #2
After a little break, TTAW is back with The Thing About Reflections #2, where I'm joined by guest co-host Dr Krishna Anujan to look back upon Season 2...
#27 The Thing About Building Camera Traps
Tejaswini Nagesh is a product designer who works with the World Wide Fund for Nature - India in Tezpur. Her current work focuses on understanding the...
#26 The Thing About Art for Conservation
Labonie Roy is a multi-media illustrator and educational content designer with a passion for nature-based learning. She has worked alongside various e...
#25 The Thing About Himalayan Ungulates
Munib Khanyari has just emerged from having completed his fascinating doctoral work in the Himalayas. He did his PhD from the University of Bristol/Un...
#24 The Thing About Tea and Elephants
Parvathi K Prasad is a Research Affiliate at Conservation Initiatives and PhD student at Deakin University. She began her journey into this field thro...
#23 The Thing About Softshell Turtles
Ayushi Jain is a National Geographic Photo Ark EDGE Fellow focusing on the endangered Cantor’s giant softshell turtle, which is part of the work she f...