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Simon Mustoe

Simon Mustoe

Wildlife ecologist, author, and founder of Wildiaries — a nature media and travel company based in Melbourne, Australia.

Jun 20, 2026

17:22
So it is useful and helpful, I think, expose people and say, like, hey, did you notice that we're destroying this ecosystem? Are you aware that this beautiful green rolling hills is actually what you're looking at is a collapsed ecosystem? Like, for example, in Ireland and the UK, right? This is just, you have a wild Atlantic way or whatever, you know, like organization
17:50
system Or is it a changing landscape? Is it a landscape that's changing? There's a lot of shifts in mindset that are happening in Western Europe at the moment.
18:00
And these struggles, the arguments that I hear on your podcast and others of people arguing one thing is better than another, it's all part of a mix.
18:09
But overall, even the most hardened and conservative today you can have a robust and quite lucid conversation with anybody about the importance of nature and they'll agree with you.
18:25
So things have changed.
18:27
So I talk about Hans Rosling's work, which is really fascinating.
18:34
The late Hans Rosling did a study where he He toured the world with a load of questions which he knew very precise answers.

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36:36
Screw the red squirrels and leave off because nature will balance itself out, right? So these are like

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