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Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant

Season Four is Here!

Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant

WNET

Science, Pets & Animals, Nature, Kids & Family, Natural Sciences

4.9636 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn Grant, a different kind of nature show about the human drama of saving animals. This season, we're talking to all sorts of nature advocates. From a paleoanthropologist who hunts fossils in conflict zones to someone who helped save an endangered species while in prison. We will hear from real-life heroes with widely different expertise and life experiences that led them to be champions for the natural world.  What transformation did they undergo to create change within themselves, their community and the world? Together, we'll discover how these ordinary people fell in love with nature and became their most extraordinary selves. This is Going Wild.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Dr. Ray Wyn Grant, and Going Wild is back.

0:07.0

For our fourth season, we'll be talking to all kinds of nature advocates,

0:11.0

like Internet Sensation Alexis Nicole Nelson, also known as Black Forager,

0:16.0

who has risked life and limb, bringing edible wild plants to the masses.

0:27.4

The second that we got onto the kind of muddy path going out into the woods, we were like,

0:33.3

oh, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, bear here recently.

0:37.7

Or Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Ed Yong.

0:42.9

You tell me that every animal around me is perceiving part of the world in a way that I don't understand. I want to know all about all of it.

0:46.1

We're going to hear from real life heroes with widely different expertise and life experiences

0:50.8

about what led them to be champions for the natural world, like policy analyst

0:56.3

Carolina Landa, who worked to restore a butterfly species while incarcerated. I remember just thinking,

1:03.2

like, that's me. I am metamorphosing into this person that I meant to be. And marine ecologist Alana Velicott, who plays a starring role in Samuel L. Jackson's

1:16.1

documentary, enslaved.

1:18.4

I was traveling the world and letting people know that slavery was a global enterprise and the ocean

1:25.1

members.

1:26.9

Together, we'll find out how these guests, whilst more, fell in love with nature and became

1:32.9

their most extraordinary selves in season four of Going Wild with Dr. Ray Wynne Grant.

1:38.9

We have brand new episodes every week starting on Earth Day, April 22nd.

1:43.6

Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts and follow us on social media at PBSNature

1:48.5

or learn more on www.p.org slash nature.

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