Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith

The cougar comeback with Renee Seacor and Emily Carrollo

April 22, 2026·35 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

"It's very important to remember - for the same reasons we bought back many of these other species like beaver, river otter, fisher, bald eagle - that all these species have a role ecologically in these ecosystems. And so the same questions should be asked for species like large carnivores to help restore those ecological interactions and ecosystem services." America’s apex predator is the cougar, or mountain lion. They’re thriving in the West, but were wiped out two centuries ago in the East...

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