Two of State’s largest landowners sign co-operation deal on restoring nature
Coillte and National Parks and Wildlife Service agree framework to co-operate on conservation
Coillte and National Parks and Wildlife Service agree framework to co-operate on conservation
Daniel Finn (70s) pleads guilty to offences contrary to the Wildlife Act after ‘extensive’ and ‘reckless’ clearance for farming
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the oleander moth, a fine feather and a fish that could bite a finger off
It is wrong to expect animals to show us how to live, no matter how cute they are
Escapees ‘pose a significant risk to wild Atlantic salmon populations’ returning to spawn, says fisheries agency
What the daisy family, Asteraceae, have in common is daisy-shaped flowers and ability to feed bees, butterflies, hoverflies and many other pollinating insects
While pollinators have captured the public imagination, other groups such as ants, aquatic flies and beetles are overlooked
Ella McSweeney: London and Amsterdam offer good examples, and Bray developers could factor in new research showing the extraordinary array of species in the town
Q&A with Olive Heffernan; ‘We’re looking at taking this practice which is notoriously destructive, and allowing it encroach on one of our most fragile ecosystems’
Environmental group lodges objection to large wind farm proposed for Irish Sea off north Dublin
Imogen Rabone came from a farm in Herefordshire in England, and during her years in Dublin felt an urgency to find a way to help people include trees in the landscape
‘You could over-complicate it,’ Joe Devine says. ‘This is about reversing the drainage of a bog, and seeing what benefits are going to emerge’
New digital archive of first ordnance survey maps of island of Ireland coincides with completion of first detailed national land cover map
Many bird species have thrived since Ballydangan Bog was re-wetted and the drains removed
Wildlife activists oppose culling of animals despite rise in aggressive incidents
Even the most common butterfly in Ireland ‘has declined in numbers by 83% since 2008’, says a leading expert
A home for native wildflowers isn’t always easy to cultivate, but careful planning makes for fun and magical results
Free from human interference, the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea has become a haven for endangered species
If life on our one and only planet is to be pulled back from the brink, the time for voluntary ecological measures from businesses has surely passed
FarmZeroC wants its approach to be deployed across thousands of farms
Well-being framework designed to use measures other than economic to gauge Ireland’s progress
Thinking in a Climate Emergency: For purely self-interested reasons, we should care about insects; they are intimately involved in all our food chains
Acoustic ecology can assist traditional biodiversity monitoring methods
New approach to have significant implications for farmers as it will allow for revisions to controversial 1945 Arterial Drainage Act
Female struck within six hours after being fitted with monitoring device in national marine park off Co Kerry
Since her teenage years in the early 1980s, Anna Giordano has heroically battled the hunting of migrating raptors in Sicily and southern Italy. The result has filled the sky with birds
‘The temperature and food options for them are ideal, so we think it’s just a matter of time before we find one here,’ says expedition leader
Educational film forms part of ongoing efforts to keep the Dodder clean for wildlife and walkers, runners, cyclists and anglers
Republishing of Larry de Lacy’s newspaper columns offers rich trawl through history for nature lovers
Well-managed forests on the right kinds of soil sequester and store carbon, extracting damaging carbon dioxide from our atmosphere
The islands off Wexford’s coast attracting droves of summer visitors but this could be putting puffin and gannet populations under strain
Thousands of people and several communities throughout the country are already involved in a range of EU-funded restoration programmes
Coillte chief executive Imelda Hurley juggles climate goals, planting material for sustainable homes and developing a green rural economy
The forest is a hidden place where water slows and splays into rivulets separated by knolls and islets that are frequently flooded and are clothed in dense vegetation
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices