Description

The WildeBeat is an audio journal — like a radio news magazine — presenting news and features to help you explore the Earth's remaining wild places. Each week, we publish a 10 minute documentary piece catered to the needs of people who enjoy wilderness recreation.

A typical outdoor recreation publication focuses on extraordinarily fit and highly-skilled people taking spectacular risks in distant or exotic places. Or they focus on the latest high-priced gear proffered by their supporting advertisers. Perhaps they sensationalize the brutality of wildlife and nature. Or they preach about environmental politics, and forget the enjoyment of natural settings in the process.

We show you that you don't need to do extreme sports to enjoy nature and being outdoors; anyone can enjoy backcountry activities, such as camping, hiking, backpacking, horseback riding, rafting, kayaking, canoeing, climbing, skiing, or snowshoeing. Listen to The WildeBeat to get enthused about exploring new places, learn safe and responsible skills, and get ready to get into the wilderness!

The Name "The WildeBeat"

The program name The WildeBeat, is a conjunction of two words, and a play on a third. Wilderness, as in the places we like to go. And Beat, as in a news reporter walking his beat. Together they sound like the sometimes humorous African animal, a Wildebeest, (also sometimes spelled wildebeast) which helps impart the light and playful intent of the show.

Audience & Circulation

The column below on the left represents the total number of subscribers through RSS feeds — but only those who checked-in yesterday. Note that these subscription numbers under-report, because large web-based feed readers like Google Feed Reader don't correctly report subscriptions through their service. Over 80% of our blog and podcast subscribers come from My Yahoo, and some days they fail to report their numbers at all.

The column on the right represents total audio file downloads since October 4, 2005. These download stats also under-report the number of listeners, because some podcast directories cache our content. That under-reporting is somewhat compensated for, because some clients download the file more than once.

WildeBeat is a project of the Earth Island Institute (EII)