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Out of Doors: Stoats, Beavers and a Whale called Jonah

Stoats, Beavers and a Whale called Jonah

BBC Radio Scotland - Out of Doors, Stoats, Beavers and a Whale called Jonah

Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith with stories from the great outdoors.

Until 10 years ago, there were no stoats in Orkney.  Euan finds out from Sarah Sankey of the Orkney Native Wildlife Project how the population of stoats is a major threat to the island’s other wildlife.

The next in our series of Celtic Conversations between Scotland and Cornwall focuses on over-tourism. We hear from Jon from Applecross and Lizzie from St Germans in Cornwall about how their businesses and local areas are affected by increasing levels of tourism. 

Mark visits Milton of Crathes, where archaeologists and volunteers from Mesolithic Deeside are carrying out an archaeological dig in the hopes of finding more clues to what life was like on the Deeside 10,000 years ago. 

Argaty farm near Doune has just been granted a beaver translocation licence.   Soon, they will be welcoming beavers on to their land.  Tom Bowser of Argaty discusses with Mark the long process to make this happen. 

Over a thousand years ago it seems Vikings were concerned about climate change and a disappearing sun.   Euan delves in.

We are joined live by Steve Deput, author of The Barnsley Whale to talk about the fate of  Jonah the Whale who travelled throughout the country  on the back of a lorry in the 1970s.

Mark meets salmon fisherman George Chamier who engaged in the ancient art of net and coble fishing  on the Cromarty Firth.

The Lost Words book by writer Robert MacFarlane and artist Jackie Morris was designed to summon back words from the natural world which were disappearing from common usage. It then grew into a musical project Spell Songs with musicians from Scotland, England and Senegal all taking part.  Helen met up with the collective in Keswick.

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