Ricky Whelan
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189 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 25 Aug
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And she's like, No, Ricky, not yet.
You can't.
Like it's not She says, She's not fully convinced it's in the people's psyche fully yet, that pollinators are
Still in trouble.
And like you say, they've got brilliant successes.
The amount of resources, it's been a huge it's probably been I think in my professional life, it's been the most successful conservation project in in this country.
And yet the woman, you know, largely behind it to a great degree is not convinced it's it's over the line yet.
So that just that really sort of brings it, you know, sharpens my focus on how long these things need to
And I do think in fairness to to wader conservationists and and people who are trying to look after ground nesting birds of be it a meadow pippet or a hen harrier or a curloo, it's not as tangible for people.
Like it's not if you say like the success of swift conservation or pollinator plans, it's because it's tangible for people.
They can go and do something.
Unfortunately
If you say to Mary down the road in tidy towns, Mary, go out and save the curloo there up the mountain, it's not really something Mary can grab a hold of.
So it does take a little bit more, you know, expertise and and a and a bit of nuance to it.
So like you say, no more May and pollinator patches, that's in people's psyche now.
It's in people So from a wader conservation point of view, ten years from now, what does a wader action look like to a farmer standing looking out over his fields?
We'll just qualify that there are people who mightn't realise.
The point Owen's making is that back traditionally you'd do one hay cut at the end of the season.
The birds had all um fledged and gone about their business and all all summer long that hay meadow would be full of insects and stuff for those chicks to eat and all that sort of stuff.
But now we do multiple cuts of silage as early from I mean they're cutting it here at Goodow now, so we're in the middle of May, right in the middle of nesting season.
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