Best of 2025: Planet Hope - the penguin guardian of Patagonia
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
From oil spills to climate change, penguins are on the frontline of environmental change. Pablo García Borboroglu has spent more than three decades rescuing colonies, moving shipping lanes, and protecting over 32 million acres of penguin habitat. He joins Adam Vaughan to share what it takes to keep these charismatic seabirds alive in a rapidly changing world.
Planet Hope is a podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times in paid partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative. Throughout 2025, each episode was hosted by The Story.
Host: Adam Vaughan, Environment Editor, The Times.
Guest: Pablo García Borboroglu, Founder of the Global Penguin Society and Rolex Award Laureate.
Series Producer: Priyanka Deladia
Sound Designer: David Crackles
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Manvine here. I hope you had a very merry Christmas. If you're about ready to escape the family and go for a walk or maybe you're trying to do imaginative things with leftovers, we thought you might like some company. So here's an episode of our sister podcast, Planet Hope. This is the first episode from their most recent series, and if you want to hear more, |
| 0:22.0 | we'll put a link to the feed in the episode notes. We'll be back tomorrow with one of our |
| 0:26.6 | favourite episodes of the year, so do listen in. |
| 0:44.2 | Planet Hope is brought to you in paid partnership with Rolex and its perpetual Planet Initiative. |
| 0:50.4 | For nearly a century, Rolex has supported pioneering explorers, pushing the boundaries of human endeavour to help them achieve countless historic feats. Over time, the companies moved from championing exploration for the sake of discovery |
| 0:59.0 | to protecting the planet. |
| 1:01.0 | Through the Perpetual Planet Initiative, |
| 1:04.0 | Rolex stands alongside explorers, scientists and entrepreneurs, |
| 1:08.0 | supporting their work to build a better future for all life on Earth. |
| 1:12.8 | Whether it's by supporting coral restoration, rewilding ecosystems, or technological breakthroughs that can help people walk again, |
| 1:20.7 | the Perpetual Planet Initiative is all about long-term solutions and long-term commitment, |
| 1:26.2 | as you'll find out in this episode. |
| 1:28.3 | Hello, I'm Adam Vaughn, Environment Editor at the Times, and this is Planet Hope. |
| 1:47.7 | In this series, we meet the remarkable people working on the front lines of science, conservation, and innovation, |
| 1:56.0 | as they tackle the biggest challenges facing our planet. |
| 1:59.7 | With the support of the Perpetual Planet Initiative, |
| 2:02.7 | they're turning their ideas into action and giving us hope for the future. Who doesn't |
| 2:10.6 | love penguins? They shuffle across the sand, torpedo through the water, and huddle together |
| 2:16.5 | when the wind turns icy. |
| 2:18.3 | But those familiar images hide a bigger story. |
| 2:22.3 | They are living proof of how quickly our planet is changing. |
| 2:28.3 | To understand this, we need to head to the wild coastlines of Patagonia, Argentina's far-flung coast, |
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