32: Rewilding with Eoghan Daltun, Beara, West Cork

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Feb 28, 202328:57Science & Medicine

Eoghan has a farm of 73 acres (including 40 acres of mountain commonage) overlooking the Atlantic near Eyeries on the Beara Peninsula, West Cork. For the last 12 years he has given 30 acres over to nature, mostly in the...

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