Ricky Whelan

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In Your Nature · In Your Nature Ep 59 - Breeding Waders EIP · 25 Aug 2026 podcast

And foxes are are are are are controlled.

Go back there, actually.

First of all, the best thing you can do for green winners is manage the landscape.

And in terms of even in predator management, it's removing sometimes it's the perches, removing the purches that the crows can get near the nest, that they can stalk where the nest is going to be.

And as soon as the adult curloo leaves the nest, they'll they'll swoop in and the chicks or the eggs are gone.

So, like I mean, you go through those rounds for before anything is shot or trapped.

So on an island maybe you wouldn't be expecting every fox in Galway to swim out to the island.

Exactly.

Um so if you can get rid of whatever's on the island and and keep an eye on the crows, you're in good enough shape.

From where I'm standing, and I'm the first one to say something was a waste of time or be cynical about a project, and I'm well known for it, and I I it's it's not a good it's not a good personality, but I would say this in five years time at your end of project conference and you're talking about the successes and and that and I'll put up my hand and I'll go, Well on where did the curloo go?

You tell me, Well, we did all those things, but we didn't manage to close.

I mean, no one's gonna thank you for it.

And if that is what's required to keep Curloo in this country, I think we have to just grin and bear it and go about it.

faced with.

And I think and like I think I think people will take some solace in knowing that there's plans put in place on a nest-by-ness basis.

Like that's fairly

We culturally bristle at the word gamekeeper because it's it's synonymous with sort of British sort of shoots and grouch moors and hen harrier sort of stove and bad stuff.

So I think the the the the nest keepers is a much yeah i and it's more tangible.

I I I I get more what it means.

Yeah, and I think look, I think the more we say it, I think we've been sort of scuttling around in the shadows, kind of half pretending it doesn't happen.

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