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Title: Lough Swilly Summer Coastwatch Survey Location: Inch Island Start Date: 2009-07-13 End Date: 2009-07-15 Lough Swilly Summer Coastwatch Survey With special focus on Seagrass and Gigas Oysters Mon. 13th July 2009, 3 pm Gateway Hotel Buncrana till Wed 15th July 10 am Inch House, Inch Island. Further surveys in volunteer own time over the next 10 days. The environmental group Coastwatch has joined forces with the Swilly traditional native oyster fishermen and divers to [...]
Offaly-based forest awareness education group Just Forests, has lodged a formal complaint with the European Commission’s DG-Environment Unit. The group is calling on the EC to stop the widespread use of illegal Timber in Ireland and make it an offence for Ireland and all EU member states to import illegal Timber. According to Tom Roche, coordinator of Just Forests, “Ireland has a particular responsibility for deforestation and illegal logging. Our economic development and consumption in [...]
Ric O’Barry, the dolphin trainer who was responsible for training the animals that played ‘Flipper’, is in Ireland for the showing of ‘The Cove’ at the Galway Arts Festival. Ric feels responsible for the industry that has grown around the captivity industry and the ‘swim with dolphin’ programmes which have caused untold suffering to dolphins., and has spent the latter years of his life fighting this industry. Because of the huge sums of money involved [...]
by Pauline Beades – Irish Seal Sanctuary With debates raging about the need for adequate disposal facilities for rubbish – incinerator versus landfill – the question of marine rubbish remains largely unexamined. Plastic dominates our marine world. Albatross chicks, the size of geese, have been found dead, their stomachs full of plastic bottle tops. An area described as twice the size of the US has been identified in the Pacific Ocean, thick with rubbish. The [...]
Do you want to work in a challenging environment? Are you energetic, enthusiastic and motivated? Are you passionate about the environment? Do you enjoy working with young people? If you answer yes to all of the above questions then maybe a job with ECO-UNESCO is the one for you. ECO-UNESCO is Ireland’s national environmental education and youth organisation. ECO-UNESCO seeks applications from individuals for the position of Environmental Youth Officer. Interested candidates should forward a [...]
Working together is a big part of any environmental group. As the world wide web develops groups now have more ways to collaborate, communicate and share information. There are 1.5 billion people online, and half of them will visit blogger, facebook, youtube, flickr, or digg today. Some of your members may not be online, yet, but many are and once online people tend to stay online. The rest of this article will outline 11 popular [...]
[display_podcast] This article below is an extract from a posting by Leigh Davis entitled “Aarhus Convention Training Day” in “General Discussion” at the FEASTA forum. If you wish to post a reply to the whole General Discussion forum, please use the following link to do so at: http://www.feasta.org/forum/posting.php?mode=reply&t=849 What is the Aarhus Convention? The Aarhus Convention was created to protect the right of all people to a healthy environment that is essential to human well-being. [...]
The Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government has a number of consultation calls that will be of interest to IEN members. Full details can be found at www.ien.ie/consultation Proposed incineration cap In advance of finalising the Strategic Environmental Assessment a consultation on Section 60 Policy Direction on a proposed cap to incineration capacity as a proportion of municipal waste arisings (MSW) and other matters has been launched. The deadline for submissions is 17th July, [...]
IEN welcomes three new members to its network; The Golden Eagle Trust, the Curlew Trust, and Native Woodland Trust. The Native Woodland Trust is dedicated to the preservation of Ireland’s remaining ancient woodlands. They are also committed to the restoration of Ireland’s original climax ecosystem, through the re-creation of woodlands, using only native seed. The Golden Eagle Trust Limited is a registered charity, set up to advance the reintroduction of the Golden Eagle, and other [...]
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A number of IEN members are working together on Biodiversity issues.