Derek Mooney

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982 appearances 17 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 14 Sep

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Mooney Goes Wild · An Irish Atlantic Rainforest · 17 Aug 2026 podcast

What makes a woodland a rainforest?

So if I go along to the west of Ireland or even the east coast of Ireland and I find epiphytes growing on trees in a woodland, I redesignate it.

Yeah, it's i

Now back to the other part of that question which was you weren't planning to create a rainforest, you didn't know you had purchased a rainforest.

So was your idea just to buy a bit of land and let nature take its course and whatever happened, happened.

But then you stumbled across these epiphytes and thought, Oh, I've got something very rare and important here.

And I can tell you I've seen the movie that's going to be broadcast on RT television and it really is beautiful.

What struck me is the sounds of the rainforest.

I thought we should be there for the dawn chorus next year because it it really does sound wonderful in there.

And I was saying to Richard Nile earlier, I've been to the rainforest in Costa Rica, and the thing that strikes you is the sound, not just the sound of the rain, but the sound of all the creatures that live in that forest, the atmosphere.

You can actually hear

And you can hear it in this documentary as well.

It's it's a credit to the program makers and to yourself for allowing nature to take its course.

I was thinking as you were speaking also that sometimes too much knowledge can hinder you.

Richard, you want to get in there?

Oh.

Very few people have been attacked by wolves.

Uh like it's like twenty to thirty people in the last two decades.

So it's not an awful lot of attacks when you consider how many people have been attacked, maimed, and killed by dogs, not to mention the motor car, but I'm not going to get into that.

But I can see where you're coming from with the lynx, it's a beautiful creature.

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