Our Wild Lives

About Our Wild Lives

Our Wild Lives takes listeners into the heart of wildlife conservation, sharing compelling stories from wildlife professionals doing critical work around the world. Your hosts Katie Perkins and Ed Arnett, of The Wildlife Society, bring you thought-provoking conversations with leading experts and emerging voices. Each episode dives into the wild lives of diverse species, explores complex ecosystems, and unpacks the urgent issues facing wildlife conservation.

Publisher

The Wildlife Society

Category

science · science · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Sept 2025

Latest episode

16 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 42 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   16 Oct 2026

   An Inside Look at One of the Last Stands of American Ocelots

   Ocelots can be feisty, and researchers Lindsay Martinez, Meghan Murphy and Haylee Pearce are well aware that they can scratch worse than the Tamaulipan thornscrub they live in. In this episode of “Our Wild Lives,” East Foundation researchers and field technicians take host Katie Rohrbach and associate editor Joshua Rapp Learn to El Sauz Ranch—one of the only footholds ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) have north of the Mexican border—to check trap lines. Murphy, Pearce and Martinez discuss t...

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   2 Oct 2026

   Communication in Conservation with Rae Wynn-Grant

   As a kid, Rae Wynn-Grant dreamed of traveling the world to tell stories about wildlife science. But the path to realizing this dream wasn’t always clear. In this episode of “Our Wild Lives,” Rae Wynn-Grant, large carnivore ecologist, author, podcast host and co-host of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom Protecting the Wild recounts the long days in the field, advanced college degrees and harsh rejections that led to her dream career as a nature show host. This episode spans tales from...

3. 

   18 Sept 2026

   Where the Wind Blows: Navigating Wildlife and Wind Energy

   Since the first mass wildlife casualty events at commercial windfarms in the early 2000s, conservationists have raised concerns about the impacts of wind energy development. In this episode of “Our Wild Lives,” Misti Sporer, senior director of Environment and Permitting at Deriva Energy and Greg Forcey, senior principal scientist at Normandeau Associates, Inc. talk about their experiences working as wildlife biologists in wind energy projects. Together they share the advancement...

Inside a recent episode

Following the Birds | A 30,000 KM Journey

Published 3 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] That's always been my means of transport. So it comes very natural. What similarities do you see between these huge lofty athletic goals and then working in wildlife science? How do those kind of come together? I think for me, what was really unique about the birds that I've learned is that they're one of the best indicators for the health of the environments. And we know if the environments aren't thriving or healthy around us, it affects our own human health. So... that they're both linked closely and that we need to look after the environments around us to protect our own human health so that we can run outside, that it is healthy to breathe the air outside so we can eat and live as well. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

12 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

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