Jun 10, 2026 · 22 min · 12 segments
This time environmental journalist Hillary Rosner joins us to discuss her latest book Roam: Wild Animals and the Race to Repair Our Fractured World. In it, Rosner discusses how a human centered world…
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Hillary says she's always been an animal lover, but she didn't see a ton of them growing up in New York City.
Growing up, it was mostly pigeons [laughs] and sparrows, I feel like, and the odd cockroach.
But I think it is maybe in some ways a wilder place now than it was when I was a kid, or maybe I just wasn't really aware of all the wildlife around me.
Like, I know there's just so many different bird species that migrate through Central Park.
As I write in the book, there are now coyotes, um, in New York City, including some resident coyotes in Central Park.
And actually, a coyote making its way through Central Park about 25 years ago was kind of like the genesis of my burgeoning interest in this concept of wildlife corridors.
I had just become fascinated by the ways in which wild animals were moving through human landscapes.
And as I started doing journalism and started focusing on science journalism, I did a whole bunch of stories that somehow touched on this idea of wildlife connectivity in one way or another.
I need to write about this," and just started thinking about human infrastructure and wild creatures and how those were clashing and maybe how we could find solutions to the problems.
Hillary says she's always been an animal lover, but she didn't see a ton of them growing up in New York City.
Growing up, it was mostly pigeons [laughs] and sparrows, I feel like, and the odd cockroach.
But I think it is maybe in some ways a wilder place now than it was when I was a kid, or maybe I just wasn't really aware of all the wildlife around me.
Like, I know there's just so many different bird species that migrate through Central Park.
As I write in the book, there are now coyotes, um, in New York City, including some resident coyotes in Central Park.
And actually, a coyote making its way through Central Park about 25 years ago was kind of like the genesis of my burgeoning interest in this concept of wildlife corridors.
I had just become fascinated by the ways in which wild animals were moving through human landscapes.
And as I started doing journalism and started focusing on science journalism, I did a whole bunch of stories that somehow touched on this idea of wildlife connectivity in one way or another.
I need to write about this," and just started thinking about human infrastructure and wild creatures and how those were clashing and maybe how we could find solutions to the problems.
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