In the Company of Actual Wolves
In the Weeds
English - October 19, 2019 20:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsSociety & Culture Arts culture ecology environment history of ideas history language cultural studies nature mythology religion Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Last time, we looked at Little Red Riding Hood and the “big, bad wolf” of the fairy-tale tradition. This time, we turn to actual wolves and their situation in North America today.
I interview Maggie Howell, the Director of The Wolf Conservation Center. We talk about why wolves are important to the ecosystem (and how the Northeast has suffered in their absence) and what is being done to protect endangered wolf species, including a rather unusual approach to reintroducing captive wolves into the wild.
For more information, go to in-the-weeds.net and nywolf.org.