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🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Rachel Stewart meets Stephen Corcoran of the British Dragonfly Society at Insh Marshes
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0:00.0 | He tells her that she will be sent to France as a secret agent, and if she's caught, she's going to be shot. |
0:09.3 | I'm Helen Obalam Carter, and this is history's secret heroes, where I shine a light on extraordinary stories from World War II. |
0:17.6 | What they wanted was someone to get themselves arrested and sent to Auschwitz. |
0:22.0 | Tales of deception, an incredible acts of resistance and courage. |
0:26.3 | She was a born soldier. |
0:27.4 | She's a freedom fighter in its widest sense. |
0:29.9 | The brand new series of History's secret heroes. |
0:32.8 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
0:35.6 | This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:44.9 | Hello and thanks for choosing to listen to this. |
0:48.5 | I'm Rachel Stewart. |
0:50.4 | In this podcast, I go in search of the northern damselfly. |
0:55.2 | Now, this rare Scottish species is listed as endangered, |
0:59.0 | and there are now serious concerns about its future. |
1:03.1 | Recently, work has been taking place in the north of Scotland to, well, give it a helping hand. |
1:10.0 | I met up with ecologist Stephen Corcoran and together we went |
1:14.5 | goodling at the RSPB Inch Marsh's Nature Reserve in the Highlands in the hope of spotting this |
1:21.3 | elusive insect. We're looking at one of the new ponds that have been put in for northern damselfly, |
1:30.3 | so that's a rare species of damsel fly found primarily in the north of Scotland. |
1:34.3 | And this pond here is one of two in this location that was put in in 2022, |
1:40.3 | so they're less than two years old. |
1:42.3 | And the reason we put this in that northern dams of fly |
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