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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It has worked elsewhere where you use animals suitable for that, which are the least damaging to the area.
And if it's a case of just maintaining your grazing area as opposed to trying to wipe out areas that you've never used before,
Well, all of those things are possible.
I mean, if you read, there's lots of information out there on successful case studies where they have used smaller breeds of cattle, things like that, to do the grazing in these areas.
And in fact, these can act as fire breaks as well.
If there's a few houses in an area, obviously you don't want tinder right up to the side of the house.
So there are ways of doing it, but it requires a lot of effort.
And if you even look at Chagas, you know, how they say you should do it, you nearly need a degree in it, to be honest.
And it needs expert people to keep things like daunted.
The fire has to be less than 1.5 metres high.
And apparently we don't have the expertise at a level we need to to engage in controlled fire burning if you need it.
And controlled is underlined, you know, in red.
That has to be controlled.
Whereas most of it, as Damien rightly points out, is it's just lit and walk away, you know.
Yeah, Ciarán, nice to talk to you.
Yeah, the Nature Reserve Harpers Island Wetlands has been in existence since 2017.
And a housing estate went up across the road from the entrance some time ago.
And since then, we've been noticing not many, two or three cats
hunting or roaming on the nature reserve and it's not the first time we've had a cat take an interest in the nesting burrows that we have set up for these long distance migrants as you rightly pointed out and this time Alex Olinchik who's a regular visitor was there enjoying the sand martins and watching them come and go and next thing this cat appears
and was able to leap and jump up and stick its head into a number of the burrows.
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