Neil Middleton
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1,370 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Aug
Neil Middleton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So, first of all, starting with Mel.
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Mel Finlay is a seasoned consultant ecologist.
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She has her own ecological consultancy.
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She's got well over 25 years' experience.
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She's known but not only for this, but she would regard herself as a specialist in auto surveys and as
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also a longstanding member of the IUCN Otter Specialist Group.
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An early adopter of camera traps, Mel realised the potential for this technology to provide much needed information on otter ecology.
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In addition to all of this, she's also a visiting senior research fellow at Edinburgh Napier University.
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Coincidentally, the same university where Pat White is an associate professor, as I've said, based at the Centre for Conservation and Restoration Science at Napier.
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His research primarily focuses on developing evidence and practical methods in wildlife monitoring and conservation.
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Pat is also a member of the IUCN's Orter Specialist Group, and he is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management.
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Thank goodness they abbreviate that to Saeem.
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Wow, there we go guys, that's your introduction.
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But what I want to ask each of you separately, starting with you, Mel, is where did your interest in natural history and in particular otters, where did all of that stem from?
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Yeah, yeah.
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That's something I am so disappointed in myself.
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I spent
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days building the most rubbish bird hide you could ever imagine in my parents' back garden, right?
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And it never worked.
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I never thought that all I needed to do was throw a blanket over the top of me and sprinkle some bird seed.
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