Friday, February 10th 2012
In the latest JNLR (Joint National Listenership Research - 02/02/12), the Mooney show increased its audience by a whopping 27,000 listeners year-on-year, putting us into 12th position on the table of the top 20 programmes listened to in Ireland. We now have a daily reach of 238,000 listeners - thanks for listening!!
On Mooney Goes Wild from 3...
The show is presented today by Olan McGowan, who asks if birdsong really does cheer us up – scientists have the answer; we hear about the death zone on Mount Everest; and we learn about the Irish company which uses a scanner to record data on the world’s forests - but for what purpose?
National Tree Week
National Tree Week takes place from March 4th - 10th, and the theme is 'Trees - Our Past, Our Present, Our Future'. It's being launched by President Higgins on March 4th, and you can find out more by visiting www.treecouncil.ie/treeweek/
BirdWatch Ireland's Bird Atlas
There’s no doubt about it but Birdwatch Ireland and their legions of volunteers spend an awful lot of their free time counting birds. A four year survey – or stocktake if you like - of the country’s birds has just finished and the result will be published in a book that’s known as a "Bird Atlas". Dick Coombes is Countryside Bird Survey Co-Ordinator with Birdwatch Ireland, and he talks us through this massive tome, that is happens every twenty years, and is four years in the making... For more information about the Atlas, click here.
Beautiful Birdsong!
The psychological impact of animals on human mood has long been taken for granted. We assume that the sound of birds in the morning is something that cheers us up! But one PhD student in the United Kingdom has decided that assumption is not good enough, and she wants to prove the fact scientifically. Her name is Eleanor Ratcliffe, she is at the Department of Psychology in the University of Surrey, England, and she joins Olan by phone to explain how she intends to prove this!
Treemetrics
The average waste in any given forest worldwide at harvest time is 20% - that works out at about ten billion euro wasted worldwide. Well one man is fed up of all this waste, and is trying to do something about it. Enda Keane, is CEO and co-founder of Treemetrics, a company that has developed software that better measures and manages forests. They have indexed 11 million trees worldwide, measuring and managing forests globally from the offices in Cork. Enda Keane pops into studio to explain more about this revolutionary software and how it will change the world. To find out more, visit www.treemetrics.com
Climbing Everest
Aerial view of Mount Everest from the south
Today, we meet a very determined Limerick man, Mark Quinn. Now 27, Mark was a heavy smoker who decided to make some serious changes in his life by getting fit through mountain climbing! Starting with Carrauntuohill, in County Kerry, he conquered the greatest summit on earth, Mount Everest, a mere 741 days later. He has now founded a web site for anyone wishing to follow in his footsteps, or the footsteps of any of the great climbers of the past:
http://highaltitudeireland.org/
Mooney App: Animals Predicting The Weather
It’s often said that animals can predict bad weather. Frogs croak louder and longer than usual, swallows fly closer to the ground, seagulls look for shelter and come inland, and bees and butterflies disappear from flowerbeds. To find out more, download the Mooney app, for iPhone and Android phones, to read the rest of Terry Flanagan's fascinating article, and much more!
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