I've just looked up the program, it was Wild Ireland: The Edge of the World, with Colin Stafford-Johnson.Rooster wrote:Interesting as I checked it out and remembered we used to have pine martins and red squirrels years ago, like early 70's then the pine Martins and reds vanished and grey tree rats as I call them appeared. The pine martins are back and the greys have gone so here is hoping the wee reds appear again.Samstew wrote:I watched a nature program on BBC2 the other weekend, some guy in a boat on the West coast, anyway, among different things covered, he mentioned the return of Pine Martins and the positive effect this had on the red squirrel population and the negative effect on the grey squirrel population.Rooster wrote:Pine martins making a return around here despite any actual pine trees and whether it is coincidence or not grey squirrels seem to have vanished
Indigenous creatures, for once, benefitting at the expense of non indigenous
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By the way a pine martin is an indigenous animal in Ireland , though they did get almost wiped out.
I don't know if it is still available on iplayer, but certainly worth a watch if it is
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