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In this episode of the ADDA podcast from the Deep & Meaningful Consultancy, Prof. Alastair Driver, Senior Advisor to the GRA, is interviewed about his life and career, with a focus on conservation and morality.
What happens when we look at our relationship with nature from a moral lens? It turns out, everything becomes far less complicated.
In this episode Deepa Merchandani speaks with Alastair Driver, veteran conservationist and rewilder extraordinaire. Ali’s been in the nature business for close to 50 years and has been an advisor and inspiration for local communities, regional and national governments at home and abroad, the EU, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the UN. This conversation itself was sandwiched between advising an international government and then going off to check out some hedgehogs in the village!
They cover a range of topics from the drivers of conservation in government, the responsibility of the private sector to acknowledge and manage its impact, to the implications of humans “playing God” by introducing species into an area in the interest of rewilding.
Ali’s no nonsense charm makes this a great listen, particularly when he talks about the responsibility we all have in encouraging younger generations to get out there with curiosity and wonder and discover all that nature has to offer.
We hope you enjoy the conversation.