Barra's Return of the Wild

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Description

This programme is part of a collaboration of Public Broadcasters from across Europe (European Broadcasting Union members) that highlight projects involved in safeguarding the regions biodiversity. I was featured in a programme about one of the Northern IReland projects. The programme will also be broadcast in Europe by the following organisations: BBC Scotland, SVT (sweden), STV (Slovenia), TVR (Romania), BNVARRA (The Netherlands), DTV (Bavaria), RTE (Ireland), TVE (Spain), RTV (Switzerland). 

Subject

The subject was my work on the eradication of feral ferrets and brown rats on Rathlin island as part of the LIFE Raft project. LIFE Raft Project | Protecting native species (rathlin360.com) 

Period30 Aug 2024

Media contributions

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Media contributions

  • TitleBarra's Return of the Wild
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletBBC One NI and other Public Broadcasters
    Media typeTelevision
    Duration/Length/Size29 minute episode
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date30/08/24
    DescriptionI appeared in Episode 1 of the third series of this programme.
    The programme covered my work on the LIFE Raft project + on Rathlin island where i was leading the eradication of feral ferrets and rats on the island. This work was undertaken to protect the internationally and nationally important seabird colonies that are found there. The show highlighted the work we did.
    Producer/AuthorSimon Miller & Gemma Cunningham, BBC
    URLhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000wj4c
    PersonsDavid Tosh
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