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YOUTUBERI 46

Staying Wild:

Brave Wilderness Host Coyote Peterson Endures

Painful Stings and Dangerous Environments in the

Name of Education and Conservation

COYOTE

PETERSON

COYOTE PETERSON

Staying Wild: Brave Wilderness Host Coyote Peterson Endures Painful Stings

and Dangerous Environments in the Name of Education and Conservation

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BY JORDAN MAISON

BRAVE WILDERNESS

SUBSCRIBERS: 13,234,632

UPLOADS: 470

VIDEO VIEWS: 2,375,888,261

CHANNEL TYPE: ANIMALS

USER CREATED: SEP 8TH, 2014

COYOTE PETERSON

Staying Wild: Brave Wilderness Host Coyote Peterson Endures Painful Stings

and Dangerous Environments in the Name of Education and Conservation

A primary goal of any YouTube channel is to give something to audiences

they can’t get anywhere else. For Brave Wilderness, this meant filling the

gap in educational wildlife shows once filled by icons like Steve Irwin and

Jack Hanna. The result is one of YouTube’s fastest-growing channels.

Despite the channel’s incredible

success, Brave Wilderness host

and founder, Nathaniel “Coyote”

Peterson, remains humble and

enthusiastic about what the future

holds. During my lengthy chat

with the wildlife host, he detailed

how Brave Wilderness came about, crazy encounters,

the production process involved and how he hopes his

passion can inspire the next generation.

WILD SINCE BIRTH

Tracking down and dealing with wild, often deadly,

animals isn’t a career path someone falls into. Coy-

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