The Wandering Ecologist Podcast

From the creator of the Knepp Wildland Podcast, join me, Penny Green, on some wildlife adventures where I will be celebrating positive nature conservation news...one story, one friendship, one wild place at a time.

The Wandering Ecologist Podcast is a science podcast hosted by Penny Green, with 13 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.

Penny Green hosts The Wandering Ecologist Podcast, a science show with 13 episodes published.

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  Episode #11

  The Sussex Study - 56 years of monitoring invertebrates and flora on South Downs farms

  May 25, 202613 minS0

  <p>In this bitesize episode I’m out in the field at the Wiston Estate with a team from the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust. They’re here to collect data as part of an exciting long-term study which, at the time of recording, has been running for 56 years. </p><p>This study is the world’s longest-running scientific monitoring project measuring the impact of changing farming practices on arable flora and invertebrates. We learn how decades of data collection from a dedicated team carrying out annual suction sampling and botanical surveys, over several farms on the South Downs, are helping us bett...

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  Episode #10

  Drumming Up Enthusiasm: harnessing technology to monitor Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers

  Apr 17, 202659 minS1

  <p>In this episode we shine the spotlight on the remarkable Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, one of Britain’s rarest and most secretive woodland birds. Join us as we hammer into the details of a pioneering survey with passionate woodpecker-philes, Ken and Linda Smith, who have been deploying innovative audio recorders to find out if these small woodland birds are more widespread than we thought.</p><p>Ken and Linda share field stories from years of monitoring such an elusive species and how recent breakthroughs in technology and sound analysis have been a real gamechanger for finding where lesser spots are ne...

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  Episode #9

  The Way of Water: bringing water and life back to High Fen

  Mar 20, 202652 minS1

  <p>I head up to Norfolk to visit my pal Matthew Hay, at High Fen Wildland. This 292 hectare site was originally farmed for arable and daffodil growing but was too wet to farm commercially. So, in 2022 nature restoration company Nattergal purchased the site with a wonderful vision to recreate a mosaic of diverse fenland habitats, akin to how it might have looked before it was drained for farming in the 17th Century. </p><p>Installing a series of sub-surface bunds to re-wet the site will boost species richness and, just as importantly, preserve the site’s peat. Peat is an eno...

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  Episode #8

  Living the High Life: saving House Martins and Swifts

  Feb 19, 202636 minS1

  <p>In this episode I visit my friend Paul Stevens, just down the road from home, to gawp at a fantastic set-up on his house. His sidewall is bedecked in Swift nest boxes and House Martin nest cups, providing a beautiful bird metropolis where these declining red-list birds can thrive.</p><p>Paul makes these boxes and nest cups from scratch himself, drawing on his experience he has gained from working with these birds. The successes he has had at home for Swifts and House Martins has really fired up a widespread surge of interest by communities in Sussex villages...

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  Episode #7

  Warblers, Wolves and a Wild Finca - Part 2

  Jan 18, 20261 hourS1

  <p>Transport yourself to the beautiful mountains of northern Spain as we visit our lovely friends Katie and Luke at their Wild Finca – an old farm they are managing through agri-wilding, creating the most wonderful diverse habitat mosaics for nature and a refuge their young family. </p><p>This episode is a departure from the normal format with a long and wide-ranging discussion on how they manage the land with Asturcón ponies and Casina cattle, the importance of environmental education for local children, and the celebrations and challenges as apex predators return to the land. There was so much to t...

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