Richard Collins on a pioneering mind almost lost to history.

HOLLAND is a popular destination for weekend breaks, the great tourist magnets being its magnificent art collections, the tulip fields and Amsterdam’s red light district.

Richard Collins on fellow members of the weasel family, the otter and the mink.

ADAM and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Paradise for eating the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Could we, their descendants, get back to paradise by doing the same thing; seeking knowledge? If we are to make the Earth healthy and wholesome again, we need to know how to do it.

Richard Collins on an amphibian that may provide the solution to diabetes.

NEXT Friday’s Mooney Show on RTÉ Radio 1 will celebrate the work of the legendary wildlife broadcaster David Attenborough. The great man himself will be in studio.

Richard Collins on the growing herd at the purpose-built elephant enclosure in Dublin Zoo

ACCORDING to Dr Ferdia Marnel of the National Parks and Wildlife Service, Ireland has a new wild mammal.

WHILE visiting the great dykes of the southwest of Holland last week, memories of a terrible event returned. Fifty-five years ago, this month, the worst natural disaster to hit Europe during the 20th Century occurred there.

Richard Collins sheds some light on why birds seem to have tricked nature.