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NATURE ON ONE: IRELAND’S WILD PEOPLE

Colin David Cabot Image Name: Colin David Cabot

People have their passions. Some of us like football, some become obsessed with music, cooking or vintage cars, but what inspires someone to devote their lives to wildlife? Following on from Colin Stafford Johnson’s 10-part radio documentary series ‘Nature on One’, broadcast in 2013, in this second series, ‘Ireland’s Wild People’, Colin meets those wildlife enthusiasts and experts who have spent a lifetime trying to learn about and protect our natural heritage.

Colin explores the psychological benefits of nature for human beings, attitudes towards the countryside, and the outlook for Irish wildlife We meet each interviewee in a wild place that has special meaning for them and it is here they explain their passion – that special place or species that has captured their imagination.

PROGRAMME 1: ENDA MULLEN
Enda Mullen is District Conservation Officer with the National Parks and Wildlife Service based in the Wicklow Mountains National Park and is well known for her zoological research on badger movements and bat ecology. Enda shows Colin around Coronation Wood in Co. Wicklow, pointing out the resident Long-eared Bats in a local roost. Enda then brings Colin to the Holy Faith Convent, in Kilcoole, where she explains her calling to work with wildlife.

(Recorded on location at: Badger field research areas, N11, Co. Wicklow; Coronation Wood, Co. Wicklow; Holy Faith Convent, Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow.)

RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 30 August, 7.30pm