The Origins Foundation Podcast

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Episode 572 - James Green || Wetlands, Ducks And United Kingdom Jul 03, 2025

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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 and duck hunting world in England. Coming from a large hunting family, one that is quite well known in the shooting and hunting industry in the United Kingdom, James is perfectly suited to advocate for wetlands and waterfowling in his position at BASC.

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Episode 571 - Leland Brown || To Lead Or Not To Lead - What Bullet Is Best? Jun 26, 2025

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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 hunting opportunities and it always comes down to availability and efficacy. Robbie and Leland talk about it all.

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Episode 570 - North American Pronghorn Foundation || A New Nonprofit Jun 24, 2025

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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 only two with positive increases in those populations - this group couldn’t have come at a more important time.

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Episode 569 - Daniel Workman || BEARDOGS Jun 19, 2025

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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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Episode 568 - Therese Marie Becker || A French Perspective On Hunting Jun 17, 2025

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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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Episode 567 - Chris Comer || SCIF New Work: Carnivores from the U.S. to Africa Jun 12, 2025

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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 starting to look at where the research gaps are currently in the carnivore space across the world and start plugging them to enhance and improve sustainable use.

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Roundup 153 || Cheetah’s, Connecticut Sunday Hunting, And Australia’s Hunting Expansion! Jun 11, 2025

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Now that Robbie is back from traveling and Ashlee is over another bout of COVID, they got together to bring us all the news fit to print about hunting around the world including a surprise Sunday hunting season in Connecticut - before they even allowed black bear hunting?! An update on the Cheetah project we’ve been pursuing in Africa (complete with Robbie checking on the cheetahs mid-podcast), TX adds public hunting land, the Australian hunting coalition expansion, and much more!

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Episode 566 - Paul Hubbard || The History Of Hunting In Zimbabwe Jun 10, 2025

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Robbie and Paul first met each other almost 3 years ago when Robbie attended his first Zimbabwe Professional Guides Association meeting in Victoria Falls. At that meeting Robbie was introduced to Paul's extensive knowledge about all things history, anthropology, and natural sciences. Paul is an absolute wealth of knowledge. Paul Hubbard lives in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and is a guide, anthropologist, archaeologist, and general “knower of all things” as it relates to the history of hunting and hunting culture in Zimbabwe. Today, he and Robbie cover history from Stone Age to Iron Age hunters in Southern Africa in the first of what will be a long running series of podcasts we have here at Blood Origins!

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Episode 565 - Fiona Tande || Kenyan Anti-Hunting VS. Hunting Jun 05, 2025

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Robbie met Fiona Tande randomly in South Africa on what can only be described as a “crazy journey” tied to the Panyame Cheetah Conservation Project. During that connection Robbie and Fiona had a really solid conversation in the middle of the bush in which Fiona questioned Robbie about hunting. The result of that conversation was Fiona stating - "I had no idea hunters spoke or thought that way." That led to Robbie and Fiona connecting later, on this podcast. As you will see in this podcast - it quickly gets turned on its head with Fiona inquistively questioning Robbie about all things hunting - and will serve as an exceptional educational podcast to others about how to talk and answer someone who is not familiar with hunting, about hunting. Listen to the whole thing as you may be surprised at the outcome ...

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Short Truths 23 || Are Elephants In Africa Doing Okay? Jun 04, 2025

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Today’s Short Truths question is, “Are elephants in Africa doing okay?” And the answer is different than if they’re endangered or not - because it speaks to the practical nature of wildlife conservation, from the politics of it to the environment and so on. So how does this reconcile with the constant barrage of “save the elephants” messaging we see online and in the ether? Find out from Robbie in this Short Truths episode.

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