Welcome back to THE WILD for Season 6

The Wild with Chris Morgan

KUOW News and Information

Science, Nature

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

This season's going to be a little different...we're headed to our national parks.

We've got eight special episodes recorded on location in America’s national parks: stories about their biodiversity, their complex histories, and how they are protecting nature. We'll explore all sorts of different ecosystems, from the tallest trees on the planet to the hottest place on earth.

Plus we've got more surprises for you including fun conversations where I try to keep up with the sharpest minds in wildlife conservation, and fresh releases of some of your favorite WILD episodes from our archives.

New episodes of THE WILD come out starting on May 28th.

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THE WILD is a production of KUOW in Seattle in partnership with Chris Morgan Wildlife and Wildlife Media. It is produced by Matt Martin and Lucy Soucek, and edited by Jim Gates. It is hosted, produced and written by Chris Morgan. Fact checking by Apryle Craig. Our theme music is by Michael Parker.

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0:00.0	Human life depends on biodiversity.
0:04.8	The total combination of life from plants and animals to fungi and microscopic algae.
0:17.5	And there's no better way to witness that biodiversity than in America's national parks. I think this is a wolf track. So how high do you think we are now?
0:23.5	Holy smokes, that's a long way down.
0:28.0	Over five seasons of this show,
0:30.0	we've traveled across the world exploring the resilience of nature and the people fighting to protect it.
0:36.0	But this season we're doing something a little different.
0:40.0	We're focusing on our national parks, some of America's most extreme natural spaces.
0:45.6	We're going to walk among some of the tallest trees on earth.
0:49.2	I've never seen trees that huge in my life before.
0:52.0	We're going to scuba dive in the desert.
0:57.0	It's pretty much you don't see any sunlight.
1:01.0	Can't see your hands in front of your face complete blackness.
1:05.0	We'll experience the energy and wonder that's just pulsing throughout our
1:09.6	national parks. That's one of the most unusual things I've ever seen in my life.
1:16.0	Literally, I swam and I swam and I swam and I swam and there was no end to where the corals were.
1:27.0	But there are warning signs as well. Biodiversity is at risk.
1:30.0	Biodiversity is like a Jenga tower,
1:32.0	you know, we have all these pieces interlocking that make it work.
1:35.0	Every extinction, every species we lose is like pulling a block out of the Jenga tower.
1:40.0	And we don't know when we've reached the point of collapse.
1:44.0	Habitats are shrinking.
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