Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant:
Hi, I am Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant, and Going Wild is back. For our third season, we’re going to take a journey through the entire ecological web from the tiniest of life forms to apex predators. We’ll be guided by one central question. How can we humans look at our relationship to nature differently?
Speaker 2:
I think most people think in general that microbes are bad for us, can make us sick, but that is a very small percentage of microbes since most of them really keep everything around us and within us healthy.
Speaker 3:
So this is in my lifetime, since I’ve been birding, the total number of birds in North America has gone down by about a third. I see it. I feel it when I’m out there.
Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant:
Each episode will invite us to reconsider our long-held views on what is conservation, what is nature, and what’s our relationship to it?
Speaker 4:
The water, the air, the animals, the plants, those we consider our relatives because our relatives can’t speak for themselves, we have the responsibilities to speak on their behalf.
Speaker 5:
Seeing something as beautifully diverse as the insect world has always helped me embrace and understand that diversity is a strength.
Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant:
Let’s explore our place in the wild in season three of Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant. We have brand new episodes every week starting September 5th. Subscribe now, wherever you get your podcast, and follow us on www.pps.org/nature.