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The European Court of Justice has today ruled that Ireland’s uniform thresholds for environmental impact assessment of rural projects ‘exceeds a member states’ discretion’. The judgment says that projects for the restructuring of rural land holdings and projects for the use of uncultivated land or semi-natural areas for intensive agricultural may, regardless of size, result in the loss of field boundaries, and therefore of hedgerows, a loss which is ‘liable to have adverse effects on [...]
An environmental group has accused the Minister of State with responsibility for Fisheries and Forestry, Tony Killeen TD of being unduly influenced by fishermen’s lobbying. Friends of the Irish Environment argue that rather than ‘paying tribute’ to the fisherman’s lobbying, the Minister should have taken on board unbiased scientific advice. Recent scientific advice from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) concludes that the current measures have been inadequate to reduce fishing [...]
The Bog of Allen Nature Centre is holding its Christmas open day on Sunday 30th November from 12 noon – 4pm. The day is packed full of activities for the whole family so why not come along and join in the fun. Guided tours of our peatland museum including our new exhibition, Bogland – A Future in Ireland, guided tours of our carnivorous plant exhibition one of the largest in Ireland, craft workshops to make [...]
The deadline to register for the Young Environmentalist Awards 2009 is fast approaching – 28th November 2008. ECO-UNESCO, Ireland’s environmental education and youth organisation, is celebrating 10 years of its Young Environmentalist Awards programme and is inviting all young people aged between 12 and 18 years old to celebrate this special date by carrying out an environmental action project with their schools or youth groups and register now for ECO-UNESCO’s Young Environmentalist Awards 2009. Since [...]
Tony Lowes of Friends of the Irish Environment has produced a podcast asking where the Green Party has gone. It makes for interesting listening. Other Friends of the Irish Environment podcasts and radio interviews are available at their website. [display_podcast]
A small group of forestry contractors supported by the environmental group Friends of the Irish Environment are protesting current felling in the Ballyhoura Mountains in North Cork at a Cork Forestry Conference this morning. The protestors are calling for a halt to the ongoing felling in the Awbeg River catchment, a tributary of the Blackwater, until proper protection is put in to stop the environmental damage. Friends of the Irish Environment [FIE] have posted to [...]
An Irish environmental group has called for a kick start to a pesticide ‘National Action Plan’ after a leaked EU Report on pesticides due to be published shortly reveals that a record proportion of 49% of fruits and vegetables sold in the EU are contaminated with pesticides. [1, 9.1] 23 pesticides were detected at levels high enough to present an acute risk to adults – according to the EU’s own risk calculations. The results are [...]
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A number of IEN members are working together on Biodiversity issues.