Collie Ennis

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820 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 24 Jun

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

bugs, stuff that wouldn't satiate an adult, but will feed and make a young one grow.

And then it comes down and then they predate on that.

And the biggest and toughest survive.

Not mad.

Now that's that kind of saying.

That's unnatural.

That is an unnatural system.

that's a natural system for komodo dragons but what was happening with the alpine youths in these ponds where they'd eaten everything they were eating their own young eating their own eggs and they were just just torn into these massive amounts of them it's crazy so um now we're in this kind of position where we really have to get them under control because but how do you do this

New Zealand eradicated them using traps with pheromones in it.

So we'll have to look into something like that.

Exactly.

Now, the last thing about the alpine newts is, and another one is the white-toothed shrew, which is in the country, and it's bullying our pygmy shrew out of the country.

But the gas thing is, those two species live with the same species in Europe and they get on fine.

So you think to yourself, well, if we release, in theory, if we release them out here, there'll be no problems.

But in Europe, you have also lots of other creatures in the food web.

You've grass snakes, you've adders, you've other big newts like the great crested newts.

So it's a completely different system.

So Ireland is a really odd little place in Europe when it comes to biodiversity because a lot of the animals here are what we would call quite naive, as in they wouldn't have experienced heavy competition from their European cousins ever before.

So that's the risk you take when you're, you know.

Yeah, never had to compete for food or space.

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