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Radio 4,1 min

Why chimney swifts are worth saving

Shared Planet

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Howard Stableford asks Margaret Rubega, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut, why the apparently unattractive chimney swift is worth saving. She explains how we're playing Jenga with the natural world, "we're pulling things out one at a time and you can't see how they're all connected to one other."

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