Collie Ennis
speaker
820 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 24 Jun
Collie Ennis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Go on.
Correct me.
Correct me.
No, no, no.
Look, it just goes to show that everything is important in the food web we were talking about earlier on.
And snails are great indicators of a healthy... Is the egg thing... Am I going a bit far with the egg thing?
Maybe a little bit far, but they do provide great nutrients and...
like a great lesson with eggs with boards was the DDT.
The DDT, yeah.
I mean, I said that to my kid once and he thought it was a rap band from the 80s, but the DDT was a general poison that was used to nuke everything, plants, bugs, mosquitoes, everything.
40s and 50s, and it was a wonder spray.
But what they were doing was when they were spraying it then, it was getting into snails, beetles, bugs, all sorts of creatures.
And it went up the food chain to birds.
And then what was happening was because it was so toxic and it would affect their ability to produce calcium, when the birds were sitting on their eggs, they crushed them.
And it was particularly birds of prey, wasn't it?
Birds of prey, because they were at the top of the food chain.
Any pollutants will always end up in higher levels in animals that live longer, but particularly predators.
So all of your tuna in the sea, for example, tuna, the big sharks, all those big predators are very heavily loaded with...
Exactly.
Whales are the same.
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