Collie Ennis

It's very much an island thing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Rats, anything like that onto the island.

Stoats.

Stoats being released onto New Zealand by, you know, Chumley Womley.

They're terrible, but that was a disaster done by so-called environmentalists.

Yeah.

People have gone into restaurants and taken out lobsters and ran outside and I'm freeing the lobster and let it go.

And it's a completely different species to the native lobsters.

And it breeds and it kills everything off.

In Ireland, no, it's happened worldwide.

You can't just take an animal, even though it might be horrible and cruel, and I couldn't agree more that mink farming shouldn't have been happening the way it was.

It's a horrible system, especially for, you know, mammals are active and smart creatures.

but you just can't let things out and just hope for the best.

I mean, the massive problem we have in this country, like, and it's not just mammals.

I mean, the main one, anybody will tell you who's trying to do something good for biodiversity is like, and there's a lot of talk of rewilding and that's a really noble pursuit.

And it's hugely important, but it's rewilding, but you actually still have to manage the land for nature.

You have to pull up the invasive plants.

Because no matter what you do, you keep the deer out, but the plants will come in.

You'll have to make sure that you do something to keep them out.