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Last Wild Places podcast explores wild places around the world from a variety of perspectives: conservation, science, expeditions, adventure, indigenous culture, outdoor sports, and more. Published in print and digital since 2011, Patagon Journal is a bilingual magazine in English and Spanish about Patagonia and the world’s last wild places. Find out more at www.patagonjournal.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"China's Last Wild River Carries Conflicting Environmental Hopes" is from the June 18, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Edward Wong and narrated by Paul Ryden.

Two centuries ago, nearly half the North American diet was foraged, hunted, or caught in the wild. Today, so-called “wild foods” are becoming expensive luxuries, served to the wealthy in top restaurants. Meanwhile, people who depend on wild foods for survival and sustenance find their lives forever changed as new markets and roads invade the world’s last untamed landscapes. In Feasting Wild, geographer and anthropologist Gina Rae La Cerva embarks on a global culinary adventure to trace our relationship to wild foods.

A tale of Gilded Age corruption and greed from the frontier of Alaska to America's capital. In the feverish, money-making age of railroad barons, political machines, and gold rushes, corruption was the rule, not the exception. Yet the Republican mogul "Big Alex" McKenzie defied even the era's...