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Yes, I agree and that would be a different kind of progress. Not in managing or reducing deer numbers, though.

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@adamfsmith.bsky.social feel free to pull me up on this ~2000 figure.

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Don't quote me on numbers though, this is not from any research, I was just playing with numbers some time ago. We'd need thousands of wolves in any case to do anything with deer numbers we have. The 'enormous (cull) effort & resources' you mentioned is a more realistic scenario IMO.

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Agree. And that also means that any wolf restoration project would have no chance of making dent either. Leaving the realm of reality, to keep the current population at same level you'd need ~2000 wolves and that's side-by-side with existing hunting. That's almost as many as Poland has (unofficial).

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Brother Wolf, Ireland has no single cull or target figure and there's no such thing as a national(?) cull. Deer are shot under Section 29 (recreational hunters), Section 42 (damage control, out of season) and by state staff (NPWS + OPW, ~3% of the total), in a rather ad hoc, mostly voluntary manner.

Where? In Ireland? There was no cull or culling programme to speak of.

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I read your post as culling doesn't work (limited success) and instead (needed are predators). In the particular context, predators wont make the difference without extensive culling first.

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Well, yep. That the entire different dimension to the whole convo, isn't it!

I don't disagree with that, Eoghan.

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I don't disagree with that, Eoghan.

The post you quoted agrees with what I said while you seem to disagree. The quoted article does neither, so I'm a bit confused as to what point you're trying to make.

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Let's stay in the realm of reality, Wolf. Culling guarantees greater success than restoring the predator population and in a much shorter time.

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Tommy's Outdoors @tommysoutdoors.com · 30/09/2026

Documenting instead of experiencing...

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My feed here is dedicated to nature, science and conservation, and I swear, sometimes I'm tempted to start posting about AI to call out the grift Dario and Clammy spouted, which the dumb media and journos swallowed hook, line and sinker. And now you good people are repeating it as if it were facts.

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Tommy's Outdoors @tommysoutdoors.com · 29/09/2026

re dying in agony, I believe it's like less than 1/3 infected animals the ever develop visible signs of the disease.

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Tommy's Outdoors @tommysoutdoors.com · 29/09/2026

Extinction is the normal fate of a species. Nearly everything that has ever lived is extinct.

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Tommy's Outdoors @tommysoutdoors.com · 29/09/2026

There is no overpopulation problem. There is overconsumption problem.

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Tommy's Outdoors @tommysoutdoors.com · 27/09/2026

Doesn't sound like this at all. AI replacing tech jobs did not materialise and in fact the number of open positions is going up. How it sounds like is that they over-hired like most companies in the last number of years and now they're downsizing. AI hype bros want us to believe it's because of AI.

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Tommy's Outdoors @tommysoutdoors.com · 24/09/2026

Why does Ireland have so many deer, and would bringing back the wolf fix it? How did rat poison end up in 80% of our barn owls? And are farmers really the villains? I asked biologist and broadcaster Éanna Ní Lamhna. Her answer to the deer problem: eat venison. 🌍🦤 🎧 pod.fo/e/64d361

Podcast cover art for 'Tommy's Outdoors Conservation and Science Podcast', episode titled 'Eat Venison, Grow Carrots'. The design uses a dark olive-green frame with white and gold lettering. At its centre is a photo of a smiling older woman with short grey hair, wearing large over-ear headphones and a pale grey-green jacket over a colourful patterned top. She is seated in a home study, with bookshelves full of books behind her and framed pictures hanging on a blue wall beside a white cupboard.

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Tommy's Outdoors @tommysoutdoors.com · 21/09/2026

When I was a kid, I caught a few three-spined sticklebacks in a local pond and tried to keep them in an aquarium, using my best knowledge learnt from keeping guppies and Sumatra barbs. It didn't end well for the sticklebacks. I could have done with a video like yours back then. 🤭

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Tommy's Outdoors @tommysoutdoors.com · 19/09/2026

After returning from my podcasting holidays, I made some changes to how I do things and how I promote the show. Some of them are more visible than others. As things stand now, Bluesky is the only social media platform I'm on. I focus on long and thoughtful, not short and punchy.

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Why I’m Not Coming Back to Instagram

I grabbed my phone, something I had learned not to do habitually, and opened Instagram to post about the latest episode of my podcast. But…

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Tommy's Outdoors @tommysoutdoors.com · 18/09/2026

I tried hard to make an episode about TB. No one wants to talk about it and as far as I can remember, it's the only topic a guest has ever flagged before recording as something they didn't want to discuss and asked me not to bring up.

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Tommy's Outdoors @tommysoutdoors.com · 18/09/2026

This is extremely shitty situation and I'm so sorry, Tom.

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Dario thinks he's ahead so he wants all to stop. Huang is screwed if they do. I laughed when I saw this headline.

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I've just checked the latest from Mistral and their top model is already the Chinese GLM-5.2 max, which scores ~30 on trust-me-bro benchmarks, while their own best Mistral model is ~15. Oh, and the EU has ~5% of global inference compute capacity which is a bit of a problem too, if you ask me.

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Definitely not SAP. They're tinkering at the edges with domain-specific models, not LLMs and go to Anthropic for the frontier stuff. Mistral is hopelessly behind and is mostly after regulatory lock-in to alleviate that. The EU is more likely to turn to Chinese open-weights models than build its own.

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Yup, the overchoice issue is real, and I feel it from both sides, as a consumer of content and as a content creator.

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re quality, I'm doing my best.