The Origins Foundation Podcast
The Origins Foundation is an non-profit organization bringing unique storytelling and conservation together to change not only how hunting is viewed, but also how we fund conservation programs around the world more efficiently and effectively.
Episodes
August 8, 2025 • 56 mins
On this week’s Roundup, Robbie and Ashlee discuss the IL “Rewilding” bill that was just signed into law, the controversy surrounding the take of “Blondie” the lion, a new bill proposing a national ban on baiting bears, increased Bear tags in LA and more!
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August 7, 2025 • 66 mins
Marco Pani, Director of International Programs for Conservation Force, joins Robbie to discuss their behind-the-scenes conservation work on wide-ranging issues, such as the import-export of trophies, state-level game management and CITES. More specifically, the two dive deep in to their work with elephants in Zimbabwe and more - all from the floor of the inaugural Dallas Safari Club Summer Expo. Conservation Force is a little known...
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August 5, 2025 • 57 mins
Ashlee, with the Origins Foundations, discusses the conservation impacts of Alligator Alcatraz and whether Florida is about to get a real bear season for the first time in decades. Fifth Generation Floridian, Professional Hunting Guide & Conservationist of the Year, Travis Thompson, joins Ashlee to discuss the conservation and environmental risks associated with the highly controversial Alligator Alcatraz project in the Everglades ...
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July 31, 2025 • 50 mins
While Robbie was in Zululand starting to film a docu-series on rhinos, sustainable use of rhinos and all of the controversy around the trade in rhino horns, the team was fortunate enough to witness a couple of Rhino dehornings. The vet that performed the dehornings was Mike Toft, a wildlife veterinarian out of Kwazulu, Natel. A 30-year vet (no pun intended) of the wildlife veterinarian game, he has seen it all when it comes to rhin...
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July 30, 2025 • 25 mins
Big News - We’re growing and our name has changed! Blood Origins is officially The Origins Foundation. Tune in to hear why.
Do you have questions we can answer? Send it via DM on IG or through email at info@theoriginsfoundation.org
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July 29, 2025 • 46 mins
Cullen Kelly is one of the brothers now in charge of Garry Kelly Safaris. Garry Kelly Safaris (or GKS) is one of the oldest safari companies in South Africa, and Garry Kelly, Cullen’s Dad, is one of the original stalwart professional hunters in South Africa (he was involved in the very first Rhino hunt with Ian Player in Zululand). Robbie and Cullen connected on the banks of the Mkuze River, as Robbie and The Origins Foundation tea...
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July 24, 2025 • 31 mins
John Luyt is one of the professional hunters that works in the APNR - the Associated Private Nature Reserves of the Kruger National Park. These reserves were setup to incorporate into Kruger National Park and allow for more movement of wildlife. With the dropping of fences, Kruger's burgeoning elephant population has spilled into the APNR, where legal, highly regulated hunting of elephants occurs. The hunting of elephants in this a...
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July 23, 2025 • 53 mins
Tune in to the weekly Roundup as Ashlee and Robbie discuss the latest news in the hunting and fishing arena over the past couple of weeks, including their weekend at Dallas Safari Club's Summer Expo, the Budget Reconciliation Act, a new bill introduced in the Senate aimed to increase North American duck populations, Reauthorization of the Sportfish Restoration Boating and Trust Fund, the Grizzly Bear State Management Act, the contr...
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July 22, 2025 • 58 mins
Tarquin Millington-Drake is a UK-based photographer and founder of a communications hub around grouse shooting and moorlands. He and some other former podcast guests have teamed up to build this communications highway around the benefits of shooting - just like The Origins Foundation is doing worldwide! The communication message is simple - Why do moorlands matter? This discussion is a fascinating deep dive into a type of hunting i...
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July 18, 2025 • 10 mins
Robbie in releasing The Last Wild Islands was connected to Michie. Michie is Zambia's Sweetheart" Zulu on Phoenix FM where she is an extremely popular radio host. Michie and Robbie connect for a short interview about the Last Wild Islands which broadens Michie’s ideas around hunting specifically in Zambia.
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July 17, 2025 • 57 mins
Grouse hunting on moors is likely one of the most heated hunting topics in the United Kingdom. Every year the industry comes under attack, and they have to stand up and fight to highlight the benefits that come from Grouse shooting on moors. In Part 1 of a series on "Fighting for the Moorlands", Robbie connects with two key individuals in the "Why Moorlands Matter" movement - Emily Graham and Ian Coghill (or commonly referred to as...
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July 15, 2025 • 56 mins
We’re back for PART II of our miniseries covering the historic cheetah relocation that The Origins Foundation has undertaken from South Africa to Mozambique. Wildlife veterinarian, Andy Fraser, joins Robbie on the ground once again to discuss the difficulty of the sheer size of the project relocating the first 12 cheetahs. This podcast will bring you on the ground with them as they discuss the challenges and rewards of such an ambi...
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July 10, 2025 • 84 mins
You have no doubt heard about the historic cheetah relocation that The Origins Foundation has undertaken from South Africa to Mozambique. This is the first of a series covering that project. We’re relocating 18 cheetahs and in this episode, Robbie chats with returning guest and wildlife veterinarian Andy Fraser and his partner, Maria, while driving back from capturing 11 cheetahs over the course of 56 hours and recap that incredibl...
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July 8, 2025 • 50 mins
It's not often that Robbie is able to geek out around the thing that he spent half his life studying - that is wetlands. If you didn't know, Robbie has his Ph.D in Wetland Ecology and has been fascinated with all things wetlands since he was 16 years old. Today, Robbie is joined by James Green, head of waterfowl and wetlands at BASC, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation, to talk about the state of the water fowling...
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July 3, 2025 • 57 mins
It's not often that Robbie is able to geek out around the thing that he spent half his life studying - that is wetlands. If you didn't know, Robbie has his Ph.D in Wetland Ecology and has been fascinated with all things wetlands since he was 16 years old. Today, Robbie is joined by James Green, head of waterfowl and wetlands at BASC, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation, to talk about the state of the water fowling...
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June 26, 2025 • 59 mins
Leland Brown is a PhD student who has worked for some time on the idea of lead-free ammunition. Leland and Robbie cover the start of the lead-free controversy, addressing myths about lead-free ammunition (from efficacy, ballistics, terminal efficient, etc) and sets the tone for Leland’s PhD research. There is always significant controversy when one starts talking about lead free ammunition - specifically as it pertains to reducing ...
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June 24, 2025 • 35 mins
Robbie sits down with some of the board members of the newly birthed North American Pronghorn Foundation, one of the newest nonprofits in the conservation space! America is the bastion of species-specific foundations like this that dive deep into the conservation of one or another much loved and iconic species from Ducks Unlimited to NWTF to all the deer foundations and beyond - but with 14 states with pronghorn populations and onl...
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June 19, 2025 • 49 mins
Cinematographer, storyteller and director Daniel Workman has worked on his project, BEARDOGS, for ten full years. Following a bear hunter in Appalachia, the place where he has his roots, has been an incredibly meaningful project for him. Daniel dives into the raw, the real, the harsh and the meaningful in this episode of Blood Origins with Robbie! Support the documentary here: https://seedandspark.com/fund/beardogs#story
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June 17, 2025 • 62 mins
Therese Marie “T” Becker is a Belgian hunter currently residing in Southeast France. She’s a businesswoman, business coach, and avid hunter (who is amazingly articulate for a non-native English speaker) and shows time and again during the show a deep understanding of the issues surrounding hunting in a European context. So spend an hour with Robbie and Therese as they run down the rabbit hole together.
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June 12, 2025 • 51 mins
Chris Comer, the Director of Conservation for Safari Club International Foundation (SCIF), joins Robbie on today’s podcast to discuss driving the conservation program landscape forward for SCIF, especially SCIF’s important niche of carnivore surveys and population estimates. From Texas mountain lions to leopards in Botswana and beyond. It's exciting to see SCIF, and the direction of Dr. Comer, Dr. Davidson and others really startin...
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