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The Irish Seal Sanctuary is proud to participate in worldwide celebrations for World Oceans Day on the 8th of June. World Oceans Day is an opportunity to celebrate our personal connection to the marine environment and to marine wildlife. To celebrate the day, the Irish Seal Sanctuary will host a beach clean-up on Blackrock beach and King’s beach beside the Martello Tower in Balbriggan, North Co. Dublin, and in the evening, there will be a [...]
Death rattle of native oysters heard outside the Dail The death rattle of native oysters was heard outside the Oireachtas today. Representatives from Coastwatch, native oyster fishermen, Ulster wildlife Trust and Save the Swilly group left an “oyster graveyard” at the gates of the Oireachtas at 11am, on the eve of International Biodiversity Day. They staged the demonstration as part of their ‘Native Oyster Campaign’ to highlight the urgent work that needs to be done to [...]
Local people are being invited to take part in Biodiversity Week (18th to 25th May 2009) events taking place in the Wee County. Two public events will be held this Sunday, 24th May. From 11 am to 1 pm the Louth Nature Trust will be holding an Open Day at their highly successful little tern wardening project on the sand dunes at the mouth of the Boyne estuary at Baltray. On Sunday evening, Breffni Martin [...]
Legislation designed to regulate quarries is unenforceable, according to the Ombudsman. Under the 2000 Planning Act, quarries which were already operating were required to apply for registration. The aim of the legislation was to achieve a final decision at the end of the registration process which was as accurate, comprehensive and enforceable as reasonably possible and which minimised the environmental impacts of the quarry. For example, Cork County Council received 97 applications for the registration [...]
Title: The Potential for Green Jobs in the Economy Location: The Gresham Hotel, Dublin Description: New Employment Opportunities in the Environmental Goods and Services Sector Date: 2009-06-24 Congress with the assistance of the Workplace Innovation Fund is organising the above seminar. The seminar is part of an ongoing project which will seek to identify the potential for new employment opportunities in this emerging sector of the Irish Economy. As part of the project Congress will [...]
Sargent launches Biodiversity Week at National Botanic Gardens. “Our Famine history demands an appreciation of biodiversity” Dublin, Ireland – On Saturday 16th May Minister for Food Trevor Sargent TD, launched Biodiversity Week, a week of events celebrating the variety of nature that sustains life in Ireland. “It’s the variety in nature that gives us life, and all living things, including humans are part of and depend on biodiversity,” said Trevor Sargent TD, in his address [...]
CSD-17 May 2009 Report by Feargal and Juliet Duff, IEN This year, the CSD-17 focused on Agriculture, Land, Rural Development, Drought, Desertification and Africa within the over-riding context of Climate Change. The chair of CSD-17 was Minister Gerda Verburg of the Netherlands, and to many participants, having a woman chair the commission was seen as a significant step forward. The outcome of this meeting was a Shared Vision Statement from the governments represented at the [...]
A proposal that the Government should have a National Timber Procurement Policy has received unanimous support from the members of the Joint Committee on the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. In a presentation to the committee by Offaly-based forest education/awareness group Irish Woodworkers for Africa T/A Just Forests The chairman, of the Committee Deputy Sean Fleming, T.D., stated “We will comply with Mr. Roche’s three requests. First, we will ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries [...]
Disappointed children at a Dublin primary school have been given sponsorship to send a turtle to rehab. Mount Anville Primary School in Stillorgan had planned a fund raising balloon release for today. However, last week the environmental group Friends of the Irish Environment wrote to the school pointing out the dangers of balloons to wildlife. The school subsequently cancelled the event. In a letter to the children, FIE said they were ‘very sorry if you [...]
Friends of the Earth are urging senators to progress the Climate Protection Bill when it comes up in the Seanad this month. It has created an online application that allows the public to email their local senators and ask them to support this important piece of legislation. The Climate Protection Bill, originally drafted by Ivana Bacik, for Friends of the Earth, was introduced in the Seanad in October 2007 by Senator Bacik. The Government did [...]
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A number of IEN members are working together on Biodiversity issues.