Repair – A podcast about rangelands
Repair - A podcast about rangelands
Podcast Description
Repair is a podcast about the past, present and future of land, food and people. We focus on the challenges facing rangelands - open areas where people herd animals.
Rangelands and grasslands support wildlife, informal economies and millions of people around the world. In these places, land use and animal grazing is often organised in communal ways. Looking after the environment is a team effort. But these landscapes are often misunderstood. In this podcast, we aim to address misunderstandings about rangelands, explore the challenges facing them, and understand what can be done to make them more resilient and thriving places.
Our particular focus is on rangelands in Southern Africa, and how people in these rangelands can design and lead activities that look after the ecology of these important places.
This podcast is organised by the REPAiR project. For more information, see repairproject.org repairproject.substack.com
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on topics related to rangelands and their ecological and social importance. Key episode examples include discussions on communal land use practices, the role of livestock in rangeland restoration, and the impact of planned grazing and controlled fires on both ecosystems and local communities.
Rangelands and grasslands support wildlife, informal economies and millions of people around the world, often governed in communal ways. But these landscapes are often misunderstood. We explore the challenges facing them, and how to make them more resilient and thriving places. For more information, see repairproject.org
This episode of the REPAiR Podcast is the fifth in a series that explores myths about rangelands and the ideas behind them, and what alternative stories and ideas can be found. This time, we’re talking about the myth that ‘people and livestock are bad for biodiversity’.
This episode includes part of a recorded online discussion that took place on 28 May 2026. The event is co-chaired and introduced by Linda principal investigator of the REPAiR Project. The event is introduced by Linda Pappagallo, coordinator of the Rangeland Myths initiative.
Our guest speakers are John Harold, Farm Partnership Manager at Plantlife International based in the UK; Munib Khanyari, a post-doctoral researcher with CONDJUST at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, whose work focuses on pastoralism and wildlife conservation in the Himalayas; and Pablo Manzano, an Ikerbasque Fellow at the Basque Centre for Climate Change in Bilbao, Spain, who researches pastoralist socio-ecosystems and compares their environmental benefits and impacts with the ones of wildlife-dominated grazed ecosystems.
We are grateful to Rashmi Singh and Francis Massé for chairing the discussion that followed.
Links
Rangeland Myths (REPAiR Project series)
Myth: People and livestock are bad for biodiversity, think piece by Linda Pappagallo
International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit repairproject.substack.com
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