Jim Wilson
speaker
304 appearances
6 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 25 Jun
Jim Wilson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, I mean, it can range from very short term damage.
You know, nature is in some ways, unfortunately, very resilient and tough.
And no matter what we throw at it, it tends to come back in some shape or form.
Not necessarily what it was, but in some shape or form.
And so you can get short term, you know, damage.
But the problem is that we've got so little upland left now that is pristine, so to speak, and just natural, that any threat to it is a problem.
And, you know, also for things like blanket bogs and wet heat land and upland grassland, it can take, you know, decades and decades to recover.
And if you've got a burn where it actually burns through the peat layer,
You're talking centuries, you know what I mean?
So on average, they say like 10 to 25 years for recovery.
And that's assuming it's left completely alone after the burning incident.
So, yeah, the damage can be extensive and almost irreversible.
Yeah, we're talking about all sorts of things.
Obviously, we hear about the birds in particular, like the meadow pipit and the northern wheat here, the windchat and things like that.
They're really what we would call flagship species that represent the whole ecosystem, which goes all the way down to single-celled animals.
You've got the plants, you've got the insects, spiders.
Everything, you know, nothing is compartmentalized.
Everything is connected.
And if you take out bits and parts, the whole system can collapse.
And, you know, so it's literally everything that has learned to live in what is a very marginal, tough environment.
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