
Hugh McLinden
Conservation Ranger and District Conservation Officer with the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) in Wicklow Mountains National Park, Ireland, leading peatland restoration initiatives.
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Jun 14, 2026
Where the river rises | The Lyric Feature
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Hugh McLindenGUEST
Uh, so this time last year myself and one of the local sheep farmers, Tony Anderson, um, we put our heads together to try and come up with a novel way of, A, using sheep fleece, and B, creating sediment traps that, that work on the bog.

Hugh McLindenGUEST
There's different s- shapes and sizes, and we think we have a, a very effective, uh, replacement for the, the coir, uh, dam that actually ends up being used mo- in most places.

Hugh McLindenGUEST
So what happens is that coir is imported from India and Sri Lanka and brought through maybe the UK and, uh, it, it, it goes vast distances and it, obviously there's miles on the, on the clock in terms of how far it has to travel, and the carbon that's wasted just bringing them here.

Jane ClarkHOST
So in five years' time or 10 years' time, how do you think this landscape might be if this work continues?