Richard Collins

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767 appearances 17 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 14 Sep

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Mooney Goes Wild · Should We Cull Invasive Alien Grey Squirrels To Save Our Native Reds? · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

This is weak, shall we say.

Is that right?

Well, as the famous general once said, it's usually better to do nothing, you see.

Well, now we have dispute here between two introduced species.

Now, if we do absolutely nothing, leave them alone and stop interfering, no messing.

I get the impression in Britain they think there's going to be no red in the entire thing from John O'Groats to Land's End.

There's going to be no reds in 25 years.

But this isn't really true.

And it's certainly not true in Ireland, particularly with the Beinmarten around.

there's bound to be a survival of these two things here.

And what will it look like 25, 50 years from now?

Will there be two squirrels living in relative harmony?

Or will once the greys swamp out the reds?

Emma, the public, I mistrust the public, they have all these cats and the cats do immense damage to wildlife.

And here the poor old squirrels come along and they're only a drop in the ocean compared to the damage that cats do to other species.

But leaving that aside.

You did wonderful work with Colin Lawton on the pine martin and you established the pine martin's credentials in keeping down the grey squirrel population.

But you also remarked that the notion of having pine martins in St.

Stephen's Green and the Phoenix, well, you mentioned the Phoenix Park, I think that there was one record of them there.

Is it that impossible?

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