Smart human intervention can bring Europe's wildlife ‘Back from the Brink’
Back from the Brink: Derek Mooney and John Lusby of BirdWatch Ireland tagging barn owl chicks
It might have been a billionaire who urged entrepreneurs to “take a simple idea and take it seriously” but that advice really is an all-rounder.
, the nature programme presented by Derek Mooney, is back for a third series and essentially it’s a celebration of ‘simple’ ideas that do need to be taken seriously.
![<p> The International Union for the Conservation of Nature says that “an ecosystem is collapsed when it is virtually certain that its defining biotic [living] or abiotic [non-living] features are lost from all occurrences, and the characteristic native biota are no longer sustained”.</p> <p> The International Union for the Conservation of Nature says that “an ecosystem is collapsed when it is virtually certain that its defining biotic [living] or abiotic [non-living] features are lost from all occurrences, and the characteristic native biota are no longer sustained”.</p>](/cms_media/module_img/9930/4965053_12_augmentedSearch_iStock-1405109268.jpg)