{"podcast":{"title":"The Nature Recovery Podcast","slug":"the-nature-recovery-podcast-6206158","podcast_index_feed_id":6206158,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2135393.rss","website_url":"https://www.naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/7siz4dp6foy0qp3zwrl27k72rwqv?.jpg","author":"The Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery","episode_count":38,"summary":"The Nature Recovery Podcast looks at some of the major challenges we face to global biodiversity. It takes a look at the various ways we are trying to halt the decline in biodiversity and the challenges inherent in these approaches. We also talk to a number of leading figures in the field of Nature Recovery and find out more about their work.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T16:18:50.121668+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-nature-recovery-podcast-6206158"},"episode":{"title":"Wytham Woods: Tales from the a long-studied woodland with Dr Keith Kirby","slug":"wytham-woods-tales-from-the-a-long-studied-woodland-with-dr-keith-kirby","published_at":"2026-03-04T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-nature-recovery-podcast-6206158/wytham-woods-tales-from-the-a-long-studied-woodland-with-dr-keith-kirby","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-nature-recovery-podcast-6206158","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2135393/episodes/18700321-wytham-woods-tales-from-the-a-long-studied-woodland-with-dr-keith-kirby.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2135393/episodes/18700321-wytham-woods-tales-from-the-a-long-studied-woodland-with-dr-keith-kirby.mp3","summary":"Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk to Dr Keith Kirby MBE about Wytham Woods, a Thames Valley hill of limestone, ancient woodland and one of the most intensively studied woodland sites in the world. Keith traces the site’s deep history (a coral reef 150 million years ago), the human influence on the landscape over centuries, and the key decisions that shaped the wood we see today: enclosure and planting by estate owners, the university bequest in the 1940s, and the later tussles between ...","meta_description":"Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk to Dr Keith Kirby MBE about Wytham Woods, a Thames Valley hill of limestone, ancient woodland and one of the most…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2582,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-nature-recovery-podcast-6206158/episodes/wytham-woods-tales-from-the-a-long-studied-woodland-with-dr-keith-kirby/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-nature-recovery-podcast-6206158/wytham-woods-tales-from-the-a-long-studied-woodland-with-dr-keith-kirby.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}