The Podcast for nature nuts from wildlife cameraman Jack Perks. Jack interviews celebrities, artists, scientists and conservationists giving a light hearted look into their specialisms, stories and backgrounds seeing what drives people to become so utterly fascinated by the natural world.
Episodes
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This week I'm in Estonia as I talk to jeff Tuhtan from Taltech University about how AI is being used to record fish numbers
Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
This week I'm in Victoria, Australia as I head to Healesville Sanctuary to chat to Platypus expert Jessica Thomas all about them!
Tuesday May 20, 2025
Tuesday May 20, 2025
This week I've Colin Bean to talk about European Whitefish, Pollan and Vendace the UK's rarest freshwater fish!
Tuesday May 13, 2025
Tuesday May 13, 2025
Tuesday May 06, 2025
Tuesday May 06, 2025
This week I have Tom Lathan on the podcast as we chat about his latest book "Lost Wonders" In Lost Wonders Tom Lathan tells ten powerful stories of species that have lived, died out and been declared extinct since the turn of the twenty-first century.
Tuesday Apr 29, 2025
Tuesday Apr 29, 2025
This week I have Tim Birkhead on the podcast as we chat about the extinct Great Auk and his latest book "The Great Auk: Its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife"
Tuesday Apr 22, 2025
Tuesday Apr 22, 2025
This week I have Hannah Dale from Wrendale Designs on the podcast as I visit her farm in Lincolnshire to talk about what rewildling work has been done and her latest book "A Wildling Year"
Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
Tuesday Apr 15, 2025
This week I have Stuart Crofts on the podcast as we talk about Riverflies on the banks of the Derbyshire Derwent.
Tuesday Apr 08, 2025
Tuesday Apr 08, 2025
This week I have Pete Cooper on the podcast as we talk about the Native Invertebrate Recovery Centre and its role in bringing back some lost species of inverts to Britain.
Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
This week I'm chatting to Anna Maka at the University of Nottingham about all things spiders! Busting some of the myths, finding out fascinating facts and meeting a few!
Tuesday Mar 25, 2025
Tuesday Mar 25, 2025
This podcast was recorded in Plymouth while I was fishing with Josh Pickett as we chat about some of the morphological fish quadries like koi, shore clingfish and bullheads as well as one of josh's obsessions the ancient bichir.
Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
Tuesday Mar 18, 2025
This podcast was recorded live at Brackenhurst Campus Nottingham Trent University with special guest Ross Birnie as we talk about his incredible career in wildlife filmmaking from going to David Attenborough's house to working all over the world in the TV industry.
Tuesday Mar 11, 2025
Tuesday Mar 11, 2025
This week I speak to Andrew Mccoll a Professor of Evolutionary Ecology, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences as we chat all things stickleback!
Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
This week I chat with Flilip Riberio about the wels catfish and issues its causing in the Iberian peninsula.
Tuesday Feb 25, 2025
Tuesday Feb 25, 2025
This week I'm in the Cairngorms talking about atlantic salmon
Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
This week I'm in a pub with Will Pender as we talk about Blennies and species hunting in angling.
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Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
This week I'm chatting to Daniel Wise about British skate!
Tuesday Feb 04, 2025
Tuesday Feb 04, 2025
This week I speak to Shaun Leonard from the Wild Trout trust all about brown trout!
Tuesday Jan 28, 2025
Tuesday Jan 28, 2025
This week I speak to Andrew Davies from B.A.S.S all about european bass! https://www.ukbass.com/
Tuesday Jan 21, 2025
Tuesday Jan 21, 2025
This week I speak to Catue Gutmann Roberts all about the barbel!
Tuesday Jan 14, 2025
Tuesday Jan 14, 2025
This week I speak to LRF angler Ben Bassett about the mine field that is british goby species and how to I.D them.
Tuesday Jan 07, 2025
Tuesday Jan 07, 2025
New season is back! This week I visit the norfolk countryside as I speak to carl sayer about the crucian carp.
Thursday Oct 24, 2024
Thursday Oct 24, 2024
Upcoming dates to remember!
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3rd Nov - March for clean water
20th Nov - Free Screening of Britains Hidden Fishes at Grantown - on - Spey
8th/9th Feb - British Fly Fair international
26th Feb - LIVE PODCAST at NTU Brackenhurst with How Many Geece
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Today I release another special episode ahead of the general election about what to ask candidates about rivers with Emma Brisdion from the Rivers Trust.
https://theriverstrust.org/about-us/news/vote-for-rivers-general-election
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
This week I speak with underwater photographer and Programme Officer for Shoal Georgie Bull. We have a natter about the 1000 fishes project looking to conserve and project some of the worlds rarest and least known fish.
Tuesday Jun 25, 2024
Tuesday Jun 25, 2024
Last year I went to Shetland and saw some incredible wildlife including searching for orca! See how I go on in this weeks episode.
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
This the final episode of this season I talk to paelobiologist Jack Cooper about the Megalodon!
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Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
This week I have Ben Rowson on who is the senior curator of terrestrial molluscs from the National Museum of Wales to talk about everything slug related!
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
This week I've got guest Chantal Lyons on as we talk about her book Groundbreakers: The Return of Britain’s Wild Boar finding out if boar are dangerous, what locals think of them in the Forest of Dean and if they could make a return to other parts of Britain.
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
This week I'm talking about how to break into wildlife presenting, camera ops and photography!
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Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
This week I speak to Rob Collins from The Rivers Trust about the subject of forever chemicals in rivers, what they are, what we can do about them and how they got there.
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
This episode see's me talking to Senior Curator in Charge of Mollusca, Jon Ablett from the Natural History Museum as we talk about giant squid and colossal squid and I even get to see a actual giant squid in the flesh!
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
This week I'm joined by Nicola Crockford as we talk all about wild swimming and how it connects her to aquatic wildlife.
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Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
This week I head to the Natural History Museum in London and go behind the scenes to the tank room as see rupert collins about the fish specimens they have in the collection including burbot, some famous carp teeth and some record breaking fish!
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Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
in this episode I head to Northumberland to go rockpooling and see one of my favourite ducks the eider!
Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
This week I have guest Jake Davies, Jake is a Welsh based Marine biologist and underwater videographer. Where he is the technical specialist for Project SIARC (Sharks Inspiring Action and Research with Communities) and project coordinator for Angel Shark Project: Wales.
Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
In this weeks episode I speak with friend and other half of UK Wildlife Podcast Neil Philips about Wildlife Photography Competitions. Are they worth doing, does it really change anything and what goes on behind the scenes?
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Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
Tuesday Jan 02, 2024
This week I speak to CEO of Widlfish Nick Measham, a charity that fights for freshwater habitats and its fish. We talk about barriers to migration and how salmon are now on the endangered species list.
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Thursday Dec 28, 2023
Thursday Dec 28, 2023
This week I speak to Dominic Garnett a successful angling author and angling times journalist about all kinds of topics from fly fishing for coarse fish, sewage pollution and smothering yogurt all ourselves one time.
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
I speak to Matt James from Colossal as we talk about de-extinction bring back mammoths and other extinct species.
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Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
This week I have multiple guests on the podcast telling us their funny nature stories!
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
I head out with NottsARG member Maiya Evans as we go on a toad patrol!
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Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
In this weeks episode I head to Romney Marsh in Kent to find Europes largest frog the Marsh Frog!
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
In this weeks episode I talk about my own wildlife garden and how I've turned it from a sea of grass into a mini wildlife haven.
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
This week I'm joined by Indy Greene again as we head into Sherwood Forest to experience the dawn chorus!
Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
Welcome back to season 3! This week I head to Alnwick Gardens, Northumberland to visit the Poison Gardens and find out about some of the most deadly plants in Britain!
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Sunday Jun 25, 2023
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
Welcome back to a special episode of the podcast where we cover the rather big topic of predation in angling! Otters, Cormorants we cover them both as we chat to Mark Owen from the Angling Trust and Dave Webb for The UK Wild Otter Trust!
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Papers Mentioned
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.6375
https://www.publish.csiro.au/mf/mf09038
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00063657.2013.798258
https://community.rspb.org.uk/getinvolved/wales/b/wales-blog/posts/the-future-of-fish-eating-birds
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
In the last episode of season 2, I speak with three guests from the UK Sturgeon Alliance in the form of Jenny Murray from Blue Marine Foundation, Hannah McCormick from London Zoological Society & Steve Colclough from Institute of Fisheries Management. We discuss the history of sturgeon in the UK and its potential future of returning.
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
This week in the penultimate episode for this season I have long time friend and wildlife filmmaker Laura Turner and her cat Henry! We talk about what cat owners can do to limit the damage cats do and how to protect your garden from cats if your gardener.
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
In todays podcast I speak to Rachel Mulrenan & Matt Palmer from Wildfish Cons to talk about salmon farming and how it impacts wild salmon stocks.
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
In this weeks episode I talk to one of the top professional underwater photographers in the world Alex Mustard. We talk about who inspired him in the industry, how to get into it and what aspects he maybe doesn't like about it.
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
This week my guest is Ashleigh Whiffin Ash is an entomologist and curator at National Museums Scotland, based in Edinburgh. For the last 8+ years she's been responsible for the care and development of the museum's insect collection, containing approximately 2.5 million preserved specimens. She's an advocate for the less glamorous insects and her greatest love are carrion beetles. Follow more beetle appreciation and a peek behind the scenes at the museum, follow her on social media (Twitter: @AshWhiffin / Instagram: ash_whiffin )
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Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
In today's episode Jack heads out with Luke Butel an estates manager who controls deer numbers in the East Midlands. We talk about the damage deer do to the wider environment, how its undertaken and whats done with the meat afterwards.
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Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
This week on the podcast we have Hannah Rudd. Hannah Rudd is a marine biologist and writer, based in Suffolk, who has studied sharks in global marine hotspots, including South Africa and the Maldives. Her first book, Britain’s Living Seas, in collaboration with the Wildlife Trusts and Bloomsbury Publishing is out now. Hannah is currently the Policy & Advocacy Manager for the Angling Trust, a co-founder and marine scientist for Shark Hub UK, and a Youth Ambassador for the High Seas Alliance. She regularly writes articles on marine science and conservation in print and online as a freelance writer. More information can be found on her website: https://www.hannahrudd.com/
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Twitter https://twitter.com/hannahsrudd
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hannahexploreswild/
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahrudd/
Website https://www.hannahrudd.com/
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Friday Feb 03, 2023
Friday Feb 03, 2023
In this bonus episode I talk about the reasons I don't generally tell people where, how or what gear I use for filming wildlife. (I'm not a complete w*nker honestly!)