Jim Wilson

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359 appearances 7 recordings 4 series first heard Feb 2013 last heard 25 Jun

Jim Wilson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Today with David McCullagh · Incinerated landscape and charred mountain sides - the battle of summer wildfires · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

You know, anyone who's been hill walking, especially in the winter, realizes it's, you know, it's not a pleasant place to be at times.

But these creatures have learned to specialize, to live in these

and these plants as well.

The whole system has.

And it's very, very delicate because of that.

And any pressures brought on it, including, as I think it was Damien, it said is brought on it, just can tip it over and cause, you know, unbelievable damage to what is already a very fragile system.

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, I don't know of anybody who goes out to light a fire to destroy biodiversity, you know what I mean, as a deliberate action.

But, you know, more and more now, and I'm glad to hear that the incidences like in Wicklow are coming down.

People are becoming more aware that, you know, it's not just, I'm not just looking at, you know, I've seen when you read a lot of different sources, it's like, you know, a dry, dry brush that needs to be got rid of, you know, all sorts of terms that suggest it's waste and it's useless, you know what I mean?

And that is changing now a lot, thankfully, but

there's still work to be done.

And with the recent report on nature restoration in Ireland, we're down in the bottom 10% of global biodiversity intactness as a country.

We're one of the worst.

And so when you look at their report as well, it's not just complaining about all the damage.

funding is required, support for farmers, foresters, all that.

That all needs to be done.

We need to pay more attention to it because it's vital for us and it's vital for biodiversity.

It is, it is.

And, you know, I would guarantee you when we see, you know, fires from the Amazon where there's deliberate destruction of the rainforests to turn into cattle grazing land, we're horrified.

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