Chris Morgan
Host, "The Wild"
About
Chris Morgan is a British-American ecologist, conservationist, filmmaker, TV host and podcaster. His stories from six continents have reached hundreds of millions of people worldwide as part of his mission to connect listeners to nature and to help conserve our beautiful planet.
For over thirty years his ecology and conservation work has focused on bears and other large carnivores worldwide, from the Rockies to Pakistan, and Spain to Ecuador. He emigrated to the US from the UK in 1997 and established Chris Morgan Wildlife for his wildlife research and environmental education work. In 2000, he co-founded the award-winning community-based education program, the Grizzly Bear Outreach Project (GBOP; now Western Wildlife Outreach, WWO), which was designed to bring scientifically credible information about grizzly bears and restoration to local communities of the North Cascades in Washington State.
Through his work as a wilderness guide, he has escorted hundreds of people into wild locations around the world from the Arctic to Antarctica, to share the wonder of nature, and trigger conservation initiatives.
He is the co-founder of Wildlife Media, the non-profit organization that produced BEARTREK, a feature-length documentary (premiered in 2018) that follows Chris’ journey by motorcycle to Alaska, Peru, the Canadian north, and Borneo. The film’s campaign has generated support and exposure for critical bear conservation projects in these areas. Wildlife Media is a proud sponsor of THE WILD. Chris co-created THE WILD podcast with KUOW in 2019 and loves the craft of creating and voicing immersive audio stories that bring people back to nature through their ears, hearts, and minds.
Podcasts
Stories
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Environment
Animal psychology and how to stay safe in the wild
I don't look for trouble, but I've gotten in enough to share how to stay safe in the wild.
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Environment
A Siberian tiger named Bloody Mary
I travel to Russia to meet the man who captured on film the nearly invisible Siberian tigers.
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Leave it to beavers, seriously
I hang out in Seattle's backyard with some very eager beavers.
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Environment
Return of ze big bad wolf
It’s thought that the last wolf in Germany was shot 150 years ago. But nature had another idea.
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Environment
‘Absolute terror.’ The first time I caught a grizzly bear
It was 1994 in the Canadian Rockies and I was a nervous 24 year old standing between two well-armed men.
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Environment
The first time I caught a grizzly bear
I was going to be graphic designer. Then a bear came along.
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How humans and cougars live together
This week, SoundQ's shares KUOW's newest podcast, The Wild. Host Chris Morgan tracks down a cougar den and tries to work out how we continue to coexist with cougars.
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Environment
Neighbor calls a biologist: ‘There’s a cougar in my backyard.’ And he says...
Our backyards are getting bigger, and the cougar’s front yard is getting smaller.
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The wild around you
Hear what adventures are in store for season one.