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Activists call for better protection of Ireland’s marine life at Dublin protest
Demonstration represents funeral procession for dead sea life, organisers say
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Vegetarian rodents in Britain help hold back floods of climate change and clean up rivers
Another Life: The bareness of Irish hills is an issue with all our rain
For years the EU’s farm payment schemes have conspired to keep upland fields bare and commonage hideously overgrazed
Cranes on the horizon: Mythic bird could be on verge of Irish comeback
Return would be a great success for Bord na Móna’s peatland biodiversity measures
‘Year after year, we see fire after fire at the same time’
The Lakes of Killarney and the lands around them will be destroyed unless gorse fires are stopped, say environmentalists
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Legislators must act urgently to stem biodiversity loss, committee told
Investing in nature ‘doesn’t cost the earth, but it gives us and the Earth a chance’
Joe Duffy exposes the fiction of the HSE’s vaccine ads
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Rewilding Irish landscape would bring big benefits ‘for nature and humans’
Case for removing river barriers and dams outlined by wildlife expert
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When Ireland returns to normal, it should be a better place than it used to be
Another Life: The hardy alder relishes getting its feet wet on river banks
Michael Viney: Sometimes, and surprisingly, Irish farmland can produce its own native trees, regenerating dreams of a lost forest
State is ‘biggest transgressor of environmental law’, says report
Biodiversity loss continuing due to political failures, ecologists warn
Government announces major review of National Parks & Wildlife Service
Strong nature conservation agency critical to addressing ‘biodiversity emergency’ – IWT
Global leaders agree to scale up response to biodiversity collapse
Commitment to protect land and marine ecosystems made at One Planet Summit hosted by French president Macron
IWT report lists ‘serious deterioration’ in Ireland’s protected marine habitats
Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to ‘give careful consideration’ to findings
Campaigners call for wildlife crime unit over biodiversity crisis
Environmental groups call for an independent National Parks and Wildlife Service
Ireland urged to push for end to overfishing in EU waters
Annual negotiations on agreeing quotas and allowable catches are continuing in Brussels
Forestry policy shift towards native woodlands likely to get cross-party support
Move would have far-reaching consequences for State-owned Coillte and Bord na Móna
Madigan rules out plans to reintroduce hares to Bull Island
Dogs blamed for extinction of hares from world-recognised Dublin Bay nature reserve
Bruton’s speech on forestry interrupted by Extinction Rebellion
Minister for Climate Action spoke of forestry as a solution to climate emergency
New strategy for forestry needed in climate plan
Researcher urges multistakeholder form as way forward if sector is to develop
National biodiversity data centre seeks to turn tide of wildlife decline
Biodiversity is more than a concept – it’s a revelation of what the world could look like
Report confirms acceleration of species loss and habitat deterioration
Study says 50 per cent of freshwaters are polluted, leading to decline in salmon stocks
A baby born today: The climate and their future
An ever-depleting natural world has huge implications for the coming generation
Government must declare ‘climate and biodiversity’ emergency
Children may have to be taught about life forms ‘in the past tense’, claims Senator
Up to a million species are at risk of annihilation – UN report
Sixth wave of extinction dawns as planet’s life-support systems near danger zone
Radical transformation in management of uplands needed – IWT
Irish Wildlife Trust says habitats and wildlife devastated through years of annual wildfires
Wind turbines on bog would defeat park plan for endangered birds – IWT
Irish Wildlife Trust opposes wind turbines on proposed Shannon Wilderness Park
Afforestation: a source of environmental damage and depopulation
Claims wildlife driven into extinction as habitat replaced by unnatural conifers
Irish grassroots activists leading the climate change uprising
Lack of policial action on climate change has spawned a movement of strong, committed environmental activists
Mass extinction of species is happening in Ireland, NGO says
One-third of groups examined ‘are threatened or near-threatened with dying out’
Poisoned and preyless: obstacles to rewilding Ireland with eagles
Restoring the golden eagle to the west has found the limits to bringing back a carnivore
New rules on hedge-cutting and burning of gorse condemned
Environmental group says hedge-cutting in August will cause problems for nesting birds
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