Collie Ennis

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The Blindboy Podcast · Climate action for Spring with Collie Ennis · 22 Apr 2026 podcast

And like, it goes to show, like, if you're careful about putting invasive species, not invasive, potentially invasive species into an area to solve a problem.

Nowadays, we call it nature-based solution.

So say for a species of plant like rhododendron or for Japanese knotweed, which people have big problems with.

Now in their local areas, they're controlled by species that are in there.

But the problem is you can release a species into Ireland and go, it's going to take over.

It's going to take care of the Japanese, not weed, but it won't.

It might kill everything else.

Yeah.

So you have to really, really look at it carefully.

I know in the UK they're doing a lot of work with certain fungal diseases that will affect certain plants.

But, you know, these invasive species, they're no joke.

I mean, we have the alpine newts in Ireland.

Ah, okay.

One of my brilliant students, Ian, back in the day, he was doing survey work in the Midlands.

And he took a photograph of a newt.

And he goes, I think this is a bit of an odd looking newt.

And it was an alpine newt in the middle of a bog, in the middle of nowhere, in the Midlands.

And I'm like, what the hell is that down there?

That's not good news.

So anyway, we went down in the Frogmobile to investigate and we discovered that the population of alpine newts were so dense in some areas.

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