Derek Mooney

speaker

989 appearances 18 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

Derek Mooney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 18 in all, peaking in Apr 2026 with 5.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Mooney Goes Wild · Should We Cull Invasive Alien Grey Squirrels To Save Our Native Reds? · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah, yeah.

There was, you know, at capacity when we really decided to go for eradication, there was five people on the team and four of them would have been trapping all of the time, including myself.

No, no, I'd rather be known as Dr. Pine Martin.

Why you?

I finished my PhD on pine martins and squirrels in Galway in 2014.

And I moved over to Aberdeen to do a postdoc on pine martins and squirrels.

That was great.

And then I ended up working for the Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels project to lead the eradication in Aberdeen City project.

in 2020.

So it's just the way that it worked out.

And it was an incredibly exciting project to be part of.

Like it's a world first to remove an invasive rodent from an urban environment.

And yeah, it's an incredibly successful project.

And the amount of public support for it actually in Aberdeen was huge as well.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because people saw in real time red squirrels returning to the urban environment.

And people, it wasn't that long ago that they were gone.

So some of the older people in the city at least

remembered red squirrels having been there.

Showing 281–300 of 989 · page 15 of 50