Ep. 157: Kevin Garrad, Founder of Wild Response

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 157: Kevin Garrad, Founder of Wild Response

Growing up in rural England, Kevin Garrad was a child of the wild moors, a ferreter and a trainer of lurchers, a hunter of invasive minks, and destined to be a soldier. Fast forward to an early-in to the U.S. military just out of high school and eight deployments in 18 years, including a decade in the U.S. Army Special Forces during America’s longest wars. Now “retired” to the bush in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, Kevin is the point man for Wild Response, an organization that equips and trains the roaming, high-risk game rangers who are protecting the bitterly imperiled wildlife of these last iconic wild landscapes, often at the risk of their own lives. Internationally recognized man-tracker, soldier, medic, teacher and passionate conservationist of wildlife and wild places, Kevin has an utterly unique tale to tell. Join us!

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0:00.0	To walk guests on foot or to be out the vehicle on foot, it's very dangerous.
0:08.2	We have buffaloes, hippos, lions.
0:10.7	Yeah.
0:11.7	That's why tracking is so important for me. I'm not just
0:14.3	bumbling around the bush. I'm always tracking as I walk. Oh, that's fresh.
0:19.0	For the last 20 years that has been under attack in America like I have never seen before both
0:25.5	the notion of good governance and then the public trust of any sort and wildlife
0:31.5	as a public trust has been under attack for years.
0:35.2	I wish people would know more about the problems of privatization as you were talking
0:40.8	about in South Africa.
0:42.1	Though at least before we set fire to this thing,
0:45.0	we know what we're losing.
0:47.0	Really, I just explained myself,
0:49.0	it's having respect for the animals
0:51.0	as something that's equal,
0:52.0	not just something that's there for me to look,
0:54.3	shooting for you. It's not just my, it doesn't belong to me, like I'm entering their space and their place
0:59.8	and I should be respectful of that.
1:07.0	Hey everybody, Hal hearing, Back Country Hunters and Anglers Podcasts and Blast.
1:08.0	Hey, I really wanted to thank Filsen for its long support of this podcast. Without Filsen, I don't get to do what I want to do with it.
1:18.0	And I've had a mighty good time over the last couple years thanks to their support. So I'd ask everybody to check
1:26.0	out Filson.com or your local outdoor retailers. If you know the history is for 125 years,
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