The Thing About Wildlife

The Thing About Wildlife offers long and insightful conversations with Indians working closest to nature: researchers, educators and conservationists.

The Thing About Wildlife is a science podcast hosted by Ishika, with 66 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Ishika hosts The Thing About Wildlife, a science show with 66 episodes published.

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  Episode #63

  #63 The Thing About Rituals and Coexistence (English+Tamil)

  Mar 23, 20261h 32mS6

  <p>This week I’m in conversation with the thoughtful and deeply grounded partnership of Devaki Nair and Manikandan R, part of the 2023 cohort of the Coexistence Fellowship.</p><p>Manikandan, or Mani, is from Gudalur in Tamil Nadu, and brings with him a rich, lived understanding of the landscape—its people, histories, and more-than-human worlds. Having worked closely with local communities over the years, his knowledge is rooted in relationships, shaped by everyday engagements with forests, livelihoods, and shifting ecological realities.</p><p>Devaki, on the other hand, is trained in the social sciences, with a keen interest in peop...

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  Episode #62

  #62 The Thing About Old Bonds and Elephants

  Jan 26, 20261h 44mS6

  <p>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 Coexistence Fellowship.</p><p>Amir hails from a forest village in northern West Bengal, and his indigenous knowledge on the biodiversity of the landscape and skills in community engagement are unparalleled. From a young age, Amir has worked with the Forest Department and as a safari guide for tourists, and later, has also worked with a range of research and conservation projects. </p><p>On the other hand, Priyanka is trained in ecology and c...

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  Episode #61

  #61 The Thing About Finding Common Ground

  Jan 19, 20261h 42mS6

  <p>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 Coexistence Fellowship.</p><p>Sunil is a homegrown conservationist from Mangar Bani who has spent over a decade of his life preserving the floral and faunal diversity in the (NCR)-Aravallis region, the last remaining natural forest of this landscape. He has also worked extensively to spread awareness among the Mangar Bani community and, during his work, has even unearthed evidence of a pre-historic civilisation in this area! He has a burning, deep focus with...

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  Episode #60

  #60 The Thing About An Army of Kindness

  Nov 2, 20251h 30mS6

  <p>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 programme with her partner, Chandra Maya Sharma. Avantika hails from the hills of Darjeeling and has been knowingly and unknowingly linked with nature from a young age. Serendipity and more kind humans along the way helped her find her footing, and she then went on to pursue a PhD and this Fellowship to better study the people and wildlife of the eastern himalayas. Both she and Chandra Maya noted the disparity between the stories...

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  Episode #59

  #59 The Thing About Indigenous Science

  Oct 19, 20251h 41mS6

  <p>Dive into a thought-provoking conversation with one of the Coexistence Fellowship pairs - Mahesha & Vinay - in our very first episode of Season 6, where we discuss the importance of viewing the world through multiple ways of knowing, redefine what we mean by 'science' and look closer at community-held knowledge and indigenous practices in wildlife management and conservation!</p><p>This season, we are in conversation with the Coexistence Fellowship - a transformative programme that empowers pairs of fellows, including local community members, to collaboratively develop culturally grounded, equitable conservation practices focused on human-wildlife coexistence across India. It aims to...

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