Below you'll find links to a range of extended interviews from nature and conservation experts who have appeared on Saving Species.

If this whetted your appetite for all things Saving Species, why not also read articles by Open University staff that look at interesting cases in more detail.

Tracking a group of bonobos Featuring: Audio Creative commons imageCredit: Work found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo / CC BY-SA 3.0

Theo Webb and Gottfried Hohmann track a group of bonobos in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Listen now: Tracking a group of bonobos

Polar bears and sea ice Featuring: Audio Creative commons imageCredit: polar bear / fruchtzwerg's world / http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

In this extended interview, find out about the relationship polar bears have with sea ice.  Listen now: Polar bears and sea ice

String of sausages lichen Featuring: Audio Copyrighted imageCredit: BBC

Could this unusually named lichen be making a comeback?  Listen now: String of sausages lichen

The natural environment at the heart of human creativity Featuring: Audio Copyrighted imageCredit: New Networks for Nature

Tim Birkhead discusses a new collective whose creative work is influenced by the natural environment.  Listen now: The natural environment at the heart of human creativity

The Greenland white-fronted goose Featuring: Audio Creative commons imageCredit: Greenland White Fronted Goose / Hilary Chambers / CC BY-ND 2.0

Waterfowl expert Tony Fox talks to Saving Species about a goose that has been on conservation concern for many years.  Listen now: The Greenland white-fronted goose

Goliath grouper: huge, majestic, overfished Featuring: Audio Creative commons imageCredit: Goliath Grouper / Gerald Carter / http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

In this extended interview, Saving Species looks the goliath grouper, a huge and endangered fish that's getting some much-needed protection in Florida.  Listen now: Goliath grouper: huge, majestic, overfished

Tracking bats by Blagdon Lake Featuring: Audio Copyrighted imageCredit: Nigel Milbourne

Daniel Hargreaves takes the Saving Species team for a nighttime visit to the bats of Blagdon.  Listen now: Tracking bats by Blagdon Lake

Raptor conservation in the UK Featuring: Audio Creative commons imageCredit: Hen Harrier (Circus cyaneus - Albanella reale) / Lorenzo Magnis / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Birds of prey are a spectacular sight, and they have become more abundant in the UK. What effect does this have on the prey populations?  Listen now: Raptor conservation in the UK

Southern oak bush cricket: The hitch-hiking insect Featuring: Audio Creative commons imageCredit: Work found at http://en.wikipedia.org/ / CC BY-SA 3.0

The southern oak bush cricket is spreading across the UK—possibly by vehicle! The OU's David Robinson explains all to Saving Species's Brett Westwood.  Listen now: Southern oak bush cricket: The hitch-hiking insect

Brownfield land: barren, or buzzing? Featuring: Audio Creative commons imageCredit: Photo by Hugh Venables / CC BY-SA 2.0

Pioneering environmentalist Chris Baines discusses the value of brownfield sites for wildlife  Listen now: Brownfield land: barren, or buzzing?

British bats: What's happening to their habitat? Featuring: Audio Creative commons imageCredit: Veins In The Membrane / Taro Taylor / CC BY-NC 2.0

Bat expert John Altringham discusses his fascination with bats and the implications of habitat destruction  Listen now: British bats: What's happening to their habitat?

Glow worms: Britain's brightest beetle Featuring: Audio Copyrighted imageCredit: Devon Wildlife Trust

Steve Hussey from the Devon Wildlife Trust discusses glow worms, their habitat, and the impacts on their population  Listen now: Glow worms: Britain's brightest beetle

Restoring historic landscapes Featuring: Audio Creative commons imageCredit: good_day under CC-BY-NC-ND

Jon Stokes discusses the Tree Council's work to recreate wood pasture habitat which once covered much of the landscape  Listen now: Restoring historic landscapes

Seahorses in the United Kingdom Featuring: Audio Creative commons imageCredit: Hippocampus / Stavros Markopoulos / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Neil Garrick Maidment of The Seahorse Trust discusses the seahorse populations indigenous to the UK  Listen now: Seahorses in the United Kingdom

Life in the polar sea ice Featuring: Audio Creative commons imageCredit: polar bear / fruchtzwerg's world / http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

Mark Brandon discusses the tiny life trapped in the sea ice that is the foundation for the entire food chain at the poles  Listen now: Life in the polar sea ice

Conservation of the fen raft spider Featuring: Audio Copyrighted imageCredit: Chris Sperring/BBC

The Saving Species team talks to Helen Smith about the understanding and conservation of the fen raft spider  Listen now: Conservation of the fen raft spider

Polar Plankton: indicators of environmental change Featuring: Audio Creative commons imageCredit: idua_japan under CC-BY-NC-ND

The Saving Species team talks to Chris Reid and Graham Hosie about studying microscopic polar plankton - the source of all food in the oceans  Listen now: Polar Plankton: indicators of environmental change

Protecting the Spectacled Eider Featuring: Audio Creative commons imageCredit: usfwsendsp under CC-BY

The Saving Species team talks to Matt Sexson from the University of Alaska about his work studying the spectabled eider, an endangered sea duck  Listen now: Protecting the Spectacled Eider

Coat of many colours: Harlequin ladybird Featuring: Audio Copyrighted imageCredit: © Hakoar | Dreamstime.com

The Saving Species team talks to Helen Roy and Richard Comont from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology about their work on Harlequin ladybird pathogens,...  Listen now: Coat of many colours: Harlequin ladybird

Out of the woods? Featuring: Audio Creative commons imageCredit: good_day under CC-BY-NC-ND

Chris Baines talks to the Saving Species team about the uncertain future of British woodlands, which provide us with much-needed access to nature and biodiversity  Listen now: Out of the woods?

From Mongolia to India, then straight back again Featuring: Audio Creative commons imageCredit: Work found at Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 3.0

Bar-headed geese have one of the most demanding migratory patterns of all birds. Lucy Hawkes describes how they have adapted to the challenge  Listen now: From Mongolia to India, then straight back again

Saving the spoon-billed sandpiper Featuring: Audio Creative commons imageCredit: _IGP4163 / ken / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Martin McGill and Christoph Zockler discuss their work bringing the spoon-bill sandpiper to the UK for captive breeding.  Listen now: Saving the spoon-billed sandpiper

Saving the mountain gorilla Featuring: Audio Copyrighted imageCredit: Rick Murphy, University of Wisconsin. Used with permission

The Saving Species team hear from Ian Redmond on protecting mountain gorillas in Africa, including the deaths of Dian Fossey and Digit  Listen now: Saving the mountain gorilla

The wild boar comes bounding back Featuring: Audio Creative commons imageCredit: Wild boar / Marieke IJsendoorn-Kuijpers / CC BY 2.0

The increasing wild boar population in the UK divides opinion. Listen to an interview with wild boar expert Martin Goulding, who discusses their effect on woodland...  Listen now: The wild boar comes bounding back

The desert tortoise without the hare Featuring: Audio Copyrighted imageCredit: BBC [Photographer: Howard Stableford]

How important are desert tortoises to the desert ecosystem? The Saving Species team talks to biologist Kimberley Field in this extended interview  Listen now: The desert tortoise without the hare

The beaver: nature's landscaper Featuring: Audio Copyrighted imageCredit: Christian Schmalhofer | Dreamstime.com

In an extended interview, the Saving Species team talks to water vole specialist Derek Gow about how the beaver was hunted to near extinction, and...  Listen now: The beaver: nature's landscaper

Island life Featuring: Audio Copyrighted imageCredit: Thomas Langlands | Dreamstime.com

The Saving Species team join Malcolm Ogilvie on the island of Islay off the west coast of Scotland to discuss his career as a British...  Listen now: Island life

Delta blues: Mississippi marshlands Featuring: Audio Copyrighted imageCredit: David Mcshane | Dreamstime.com

The Saving Species team are joined by Quenton Fontenot who is an Associate Professor in Biological Sciences at Nicholls State University, Louisiana. They discuss the...  Listen now: Delta blues: Mississippi marshlands

Across the skyline: Bird-watching in London Featuring: Audio Creative commons imageCredit: stevec77 under CC-BY-SA licence

On Friday 15th October 2010 the Saving Species team met with Ian Wallace, a pioneer of ornithology in this country, on Primrose Hill, just...  Listen now: Across the skyline: Bird-watching in London

Sacred forests Featuring: Audio Copyrighted imageCredit: Jupiter Images

Martin Palmer is from the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC). He is joined by the Saving Species team to explore the role religion can...  Listen now: Sacred forests

The secrets of the krill Featuring: Audio Copyrighted imageCredit:  Matt Wilson and Jay Clark NOAA

Antarctic krill are the one of the most abundant animal species on earth. The Saving Species team talk to Robert King in Australia to learn...  Listen now: The secrets of the krill

Staying ahead of the game: Seabirds Featuring: Audio Copyrighted imageCredit: Patryk Kosmider | Dreamstime.com

The Saving Species team continue their investigation into seabird populations in an interview with seabird ecologist Sarah Wanless. Here she discusses how the changing sea...  Listen now: Staying ahead of the game: Seabirds

The secret ingredients Featuring: Audio Copyrighted imageCredit: Thomas Perkins | Dreamstime.com

The Saving Species team is joined by paediatrician and diversity of nature advocate Aaron Bernstein, as they take a slice of the pie of life...  Listen now: The secret ingredients

Do not disturb: Life with the puffins Featuring: Audio Copyrighted imageCredit: Jupiter Images

In an extended interview recorded by the Saving Species team, seabird biologist, Mike Harris, shares his experience of studying puffins on the Isle of May....  Listen now: Do not disturb: Life with the puffins

Nature's alarm clock Featuring: Audio Copyrighted imageCredit: Thinkstock

From Thomas Hardy's idyllic cottage at Higher Bockhampton, the Saving Species team listen to birdsong and discuss how nature and the dawn chorus have changed...  Listen now: Nature's alarm clock

Hedgehogs: Beating the odds Featuring: Audio Copyrighted imageCredit: Thinkstock

Hedgehog ecologist and campaigner, Hugh Warwick, talks to the Saving Species team in an extended interview, and offers an insight into the world of hedgehogs;...  Listen now: Hedgehogs: Beating the odds

Dancing in the Spring: Purple emperor butterfly Featuring: Audio Copyrighted imageCredit: Thinkstock

From an ancient woodland in Wiltshire, conservation advisor for the National Trust, Matthew Oates, talks to the Saving Species team in an extended interview, and...  Listen now: Dancing in the Spring: Purple emperor butterfly

At the water's edge: Blakiston's fish-owl Featuring: Audio Copyrighted imageCredit: Thinkstock

From a nature reserve in Japan, the Saving Species team is joined by experienced field ornithologist, Mark Brazil, in an extended interview as they observe...  Listen now: At the water's edge: Blakiston's fish-owl

The unseen world Featuring: Audio Copyrighted imageCredit: Thinkstock

In an extended interview recorded by the Saving Species team, biodiversity advocate, Aaron Bernstein, talks about the wonders of the microbial world and how it...  Listen now: The unseen world

Neighbourhood nature Copyrighted imageCredit: Thinkstock

Explore the world of nature with this new course from The Open University: Neighbourhood nature.  Read more : Neighbourhood nature