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Zack Polanski: Wild Card at the Wild Summit

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Painted Dogs of Hwange: Where the Wild Pack Runs

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The Executive Branch: Beccy Speight (RSPB), Darren Moorcroft (Woodland Trust) and Craig Bennett (The Wildlife Trusts)

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Rakan Zahawi: Giant ambitions at the Charles Darwin Foundation

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Prof. Carlos Mena: Trust the Locals, Trust the Science, Protect the Galápagos

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Prof. Diana Pazmiño: Rays, Research and the Real Guardians of the Galápagos

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Abraham Joffe: The Secret Trade in Polar Bears (or, “How to Save an Animal Everyone Thinks Is Already Protected!”)

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Iris Ho: Primates, Policy, and the Power of CITES

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Elephant in the Room: Wildlife Trust of India’s Rapid Response to Grounded Humans & Uprooted Wanderers

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Dr Bhaskar Choudhury: The Floodplain Guardians and the Elephants of Kaziranga

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"Her Deepness" Dr Sylvia Earle & Dr Tessa Hempson: Protect the Oceans Like Your Life Depends Upon It... (Because It Does!)

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More M.G. Leonard: Further Furry Tales from the Riverbank

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M G Leonard: Storytelling and the power of Beetles! “Elytra Literature” from Shakespeare to Starship Troopers.

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Dr Hannah Trayford & Rachel Bigsby: The State of the Badger, with the Badger Trust

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Matthew Oates: A Paean to the Purple Emperor. One Man’s Passion-filled Past Devoted to Great British Butterflies

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Tim Kendall & Fiona Mathews (PART TWO): Eye spy an eco-engineer! Deep in the Forest of Dean in search of the contentious Wild Boar...

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Fiona Mathews & Tim Kendall: Wild Mammals are far from 'Boar-ing'

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Rob Stoneman: Resurrecting Rainforests, Protecting Peat and Constructing Conservation Kingdoms along our Coastlines

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The Horstmann Trust: Vultures in the Valleys!

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Andy & Peter Holden: A Filial History of Nest Building

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Dr David Hetherington: Reintroducing the Lynx lynx lynx to our Cairngorms (a cat so enigmatic that they named it thrice!)

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Dr Ruth Tingay: From Birds in Boxes to Rivers of Raptors; One woman’s mission for Wild Justice against Raptor Persecution

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Katie Holten: The Three Questions

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Katie Holten: Hedge Schools, Tree Time and the Language of our Forests

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Paul Donald: Birds, Buddhists and Bypasses; Tales of Trafficking & Traffication with that Lark Sex Ratio Guy

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Samuel West: The West Wing live at the Global Bird Fair

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Paul Vorster: The Secrets of Sanbona, or: “Hippos!” and How Best to Become an Impact Player in Conservation

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Nardstar*: Illuminating Cape Town's Evolving Streets, One Caracal at a Time

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Chris Fallows: The flight and plight of the Great White Shark, as documented by Cape Town’s legendary Shark Man

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Piet Beytell & Tommy Hall: Two very different perspectives united in thwarting Rhino poaching across Namibia

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Save the Rhino Trust Namibia: Desert days with the Black Rhinos and the Rangers who protect them from Poachers

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Sophie Pavelle: Ten Remarkable British Species and the Fable of Janet who fondly found their Faeces

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Tan Twan Eng: The Master of the Nature Metaphor with his roots deep in the Concrete Jungle

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Dr Brian Briggs: The Return of the Marsh Warbler and his Secret Identity hidden amongst the Reed Beds

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Emma Marsh: Feathers and Feminism with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Kazakh Antelopes

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Chris Packham (Part Two): Through sand and snow with Rothko and Rimbaud... (No, that's not what Chris calls his dogs!)

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Chris Packham (Part One): Deep in the New Forest with the Really Wild Showman

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Bison Whisperers: The Return of the Native

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Dr Trevor Dines (Part Two): Mapping “The Trevor Dines Effect” with North Wales’ Meadow Maker

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Dr Trevor Dines (Part One): Nobody ties themselves to buttercups (unless you’re born a botanist!)

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Sarah Gillespie: Of Moths and Mezzotints - an Artist’s Metamorphosis

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Dan "Swampy" Hooper: The power of protest and learning to live with it (and pooing in tunnels with friends)

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Leigh Morris: Sexy carrots & feral wallabies - the adventures and curiosities hidden behind Manannan’s cloak

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Dr Amy-Jane Beer: The 3 R’s of Nature Writing - Reading, Roaming and the Radial symmetry of Sea Urchin larvae

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Dr Gavin Broad: Broadening horizons with Darwin's wasps and other tales of cannibalism, incest and zombies

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Lost on Lundy: The hidden treasures of a wildlife landmark; aka, “David adventures to Puffin Island!”

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Bonus Beatrice: Bearded Seals & Ice Flowers - further stories from the ice sheets

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Beatrice von Preussen: All the little things that inspired an artist to travel from pole to pole

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George Monbiot: Feeding our future with heaven-sent bacteria and home-brewed scrumpy!

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Norwegian Spruce: Our Viking Christmas Tree; aka ‘The Return of the Native’

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Holly: Merry berries & mistle thrushes deck our true native Christmas tree

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The Viburnums: Ways fared to Guelderland via chalk paths and waterlogged fens

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Elder: The people’s purple medicine chest lined with pariahs, period pop-guns & poo

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Wild Privet: Your country needs Spitfires, stick-insects and an untrimmed bush!

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Ash: Unlocking dieback with firelight, hurley sticks & Heiðrún the Viking goat

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Strawberry Tree: No, not that kind... rather, a god-sent Irish oddity with several subterranean secrets

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Dogwood: Victorian dating & rodent reanimating; the secrets of the bloody whippletree

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Brigit Strawbridge Howard: As busy as a bee, whilst remaining humble as a bumble

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The Limes: Bast-ardly BIG trees smothered in glamrock moths & decapitated bees

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Sycamore: The mucilage & mysteries stuck upon our misunderstood martyr maple

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Field Maple: Is it a BIRD (tongue)? Is it (an experimental Second World War) PLANE (cargo drop)? No! It's the colourful corky bungs of the SAPINDACEAE!

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Hornbeam: Hardwood for smelting Boy Scouts & yoking chariots to hunt Ben Hur!

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Hazel: "Monsieur, with your mellow fruitfulness, Dormice and ancient epigenetic poetical-pescatarianism, you are really spoiling us!"

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The Birches: Magic Shrooms to Witches Brooms, the A to Z of the Birch nurtured

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Alder: Swamp thing! You make my heart (-sized root nodules) sing / fix nitrogen with a symbiotic bacterium!

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Sweet Chestnut: Legendarily tasty, but as prickly and trustworthy as a Borgia

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The Oaks: From two tiny acorns grow Viking Gods, Druidic ritual sacrifice, Nazis and... Mr Darcy?!

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Peter Wohlleben: The hidden life of the ‘Green Sheep’ who wanted to become an Ent

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Beech: Never judge a ‘buche’ by its leaf-cover - (Buchen sollst du suchen-ish!)

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Wych Elm: Which wonky wych is the survivor; our world's first wood woman?

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English Elms: Dreams in Crystal Palaces, but coffins by Cathedrals

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Sea Buckthorn: Fuelling flying horses & fixing sand dunes - the tree that started it all?

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The Buckthorns: Fire, brimstones and the invasive aliens hiding in a pig's bladder

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Rowan: All hail the Witchwood; the high-flying hero of Thor & dairy-maids!

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Wild Service: A checkered past spent pizzled with politicians & ancient french knights

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Whitebeam: The gorge-ous (geeky) sub-science behind our mighty 'Plant Elephants'

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The Hawthorns: May Fairies protect your Midland bush against any Common Haws

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Crab Apple: 'A' is for sin, cider, gravity and pip-popping Auroch-pat parties

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Wild Pears: Infanticide, scampi & Barbarossa’s bloody bearded pear conference

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The Cherries: Drupes adored by birds; blossom revered by Kamikaze suicide pilots

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Blackthorn: Burgeoning with Booze, Black Magic and Butcher Birds

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Richard Nairn: One man & his 'meitheal' replanting the ancient Wild Woods of Ireland

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White & Grey Poplars: Twelve labours of Heracles, vs. Two non-native Poplars

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Aspen: The tremulous beauty & ‘beaver-bonds’ of our immortal Quaking Poplar

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Black Poplar: Devil’s fingers & flame-breathing horses heralding the fall of a giant

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The Willows: Highly immoral, incestuous, SEX-obsessed, b*stards!

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Spindle: Linnaeus' favourite charcoal with splashes of Indian celebration

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Box: The music, art and sensory secrets hidden within Queen Anne’s box

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Scots Pine: Wolves, woodants and the wonder of our keystone species

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Juniper: A gin-fuelled journey to Oregon, via Holland and Georgian London

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Yew: From Agincourt to cancer-cure, the ancient tree of life and death

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Oakes on Oaks: Introducing our 56(ish) Trees

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Dr George McGavin (Part Two): Putting the “Ooo!” into Zooology with evil cats and spider penises!

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Dr George McGavin (Part One): A World of Colour! The vertebrate in an invertebrate world!

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Doug Allan: A witness beneath the waves on World Manta Day

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(More) Mark Carwardine: On the realities of anti-poaching patrols & his conservation heroes

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Georgina Lamb: A Lamb leading lions, elephants, pangolins, snow leopards, rhinos and the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation

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Will Travers OBE: Born free and committed to compassionate conservation

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World Oyster Day: Prof. Rowan Lockwood & Dr Bryce Stewart “shell-ebrate” the mighty mollusc!

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Prof. Kate Jones (Part Two): Bats - mixing your margaritas since 55,000,000 BC