Niall Hatch
speaker
1,514 appearances
30 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Niall Hatch’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You see wild cattle here as well.
There's the Javan wild cow, which their domestic cattle here are descended from.
They have a different species of domestic cow here to the ones that we have in Europe.
It's called the Banting.
And you see them around.
You get a herd of...
of probably about 30 of them today in this national park in the very east of Java.
And another species that I saw that was in Bali, which was threatened with extinction.
In fact, it went extinct pretty much in the wild, but it's now back again.
It's a bird called the Bali Mino or the Bali Starling.
One of the rarest birds in the world and one that when I was a kid, I thought that I would never see.
I thought, there's no way this will survive.
This will be extinct before I'm old enough to get to Indonesia and see it.
But lo and behold, yesterday and the day before,
probably a few dozen of them.
They've really come back.
There's about 600 of them back in the wild now, which is amazing.
And the reason why they almost went extinct, it's because they're beautiful.
People were trapping them in enormous numbers for the cage bird trade.
The thing is, in Indonesia, it's a way of life, particularly here in Java.
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