Cílán Doyle

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142 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 May

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The Pat Kenny Show · How a conversation 35 years ago saved a Ghanaian rainforest · 9 May 2026 podcast

And once it was dried, it was very easy and economical to ship at that point.

Now, the reason you were going was to try and document everything before everything was destroyed because the American company was going to dam the river, displacing how many people?

So there was two native tribes.

There would have been about 20,000 people that lived within this area.

And as I said, initially there was two of us hoping to go out there.

But what was amazing and, you know, life is fascinating and it's things that happen to us in life that have such an influence on our lives.

And by going on your radio show, we got that phone call, we got £40,000 funding to go out.

A lot of money, 35 years ago.

Massive money.

And Pat, that not only enabled us to go out there, it allowed us to bring 42 scientists from all around the world who are experts in different areas.

So for example, I was surveying the fish, somebody else was doing dragonflies, somebody was doing bats, somebody was doing butterflies, rodents, etc.

So we did a complete study of every species that was found in

And there were discoveries.

Massive.

I mean, for example, there were two new dragonfly species that had never, ever been identified ever in the world.

So this was the first time in science that these species had been found.

There were species of fish that were found in the area that had never been discovered in Africa before.

There was just so many interesting findings and it was so significant that the World Health Authority seen this and they decided that the Americans weren't allowed down this area.

So because I went on that radio interview, we got the money, we went out there, we made all these discoveries.

And to this date, 35 years ago, despite many attempts, the Americans have never managed to dam it.

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