Bonus | Nature Breaking: America is Losing its Grasslands – Why it Matters

Bonus | Nature Breaking: America is Losing its Grasslands – Why it Matters

July 1, 2026 · 33 min · Season 4

About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of America's grasslands and the efforts to preserve them through a conversation with WWF representatives.

In collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund's Nature Breaking podcast, we're bringing you a conversation between Nature Breaking host Seth Larson and vice president of WWF's Great Plains program, Martha Kaufmann. In this episode, Megan reflects on her personal connection to the Northern Great Plains, before Martha and Seth explore why the grasslands are overlooked, why people should care about them, the state of the grasslands today and the work World Wildlife Fund is doing to keep grassland ecosystems intact.

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