The Network of National Environmental Organisations
Sonairte would like to welcome new Education Officer Dr Emma Reeves. Emma will be bringing her skills and experience as a field ecologist to expanding our range of education offerings. Teachers, please call us to find out about CSI Sonairte. She can also help schools with last minute preparation for the Junior and Leaving Cert Ecology curriculum. Contact her at 041 9827572 Despite wet weather all the spring vegetables are growing madly in the garden [...]
Friends of the Irish Environment have put together a little Earth Hour video which they hope to build on. It is at http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=earthhour#p/u/23/g8H6bzj3DDw , where you can see videos of other countries as well. The video features the Customs House on the River Liffey in Dublin which turned off its lights, and comments from environmentalist Ciara Aucoin, ‘Eco-Eye’s’ Duncan Stewart , and the Minister for the Environment John Gormley. SHOTLIST: 00:00- 00:05 WWF/Earth Hour logos [...]
On Friday the 26th and Saturday the 27th March the Native Woodland Trust held a tree planting event in The Kildare Steiner School, County Kildare, sponsored by AIB. “Our aim was to plant 1,500 new native trees as well as put down a woodland forest path” said a spokesperson for the group. “Since announcing this event in the school it has created a great buzz and has pulled all the parents of the school together. [...]
Just Forests in association with Dublin Zoo are delighted to inform you that the Wood of Life – a hands-on, travelling exhibition on the importance of forests and wood – will be on display in the beautiful Tropical Bird House which is located in the Robert’s House just off the main lawn at Dublin Zoo for the month of April 2010. “Dublin Zoo is a fitting venue for this exhibition considering the Zoo’s own mission [...]
Ireland’s current forestry policy is based on a discredited 1996 plan requiring ‘critical mass’ by planting 20,000 hectares a year of fast growing conifers, environmentalists have claimed. Over recent years planting has fallen to 6,000 hectares a year. ‘The Department of Agriculture has done nothing to provide a new plan except hire consultants to tell them the policy has failed’, said a spokesman for Friends of the Irish Environment. ‘The poor quality timber coming out [...]
The Environment Directorate-General of the European Commission has launched its campaign to raise awareness of biodiverity in 2010. The campaign website Biodiversity: We are all in this together is viewable at: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/biodiversity. The campaign aims to eductate the public on the importance of biodivesity and highlight the work the EU is doing to protect it. The campaign links to the UN organised Convention on Biological Diversity 2010 International Year of Biodiversity campaign which many IEN [...]
Are you looking for some fun activities for your children during the Easter holidays? The Bog of Allen Nature Centre will be holding a half day Easter Froggy Fun Camp for students aged 7-13 years on the 1st April between 10am and 1pm. Activities on the day will include pond dipping, froggy crafts and frog search. All activities will be fully supervised by experienced instructors. The cost of the camp is 15 Euro and booking is essential, [...]
Fine Gael should reconsider their plans to scrap the Air Travel Tax an alliance of environmental groups said in advance of the proposed Dáil motion. Friends of the Earth, An Taisce, CELT, the Centre for Environmental Living and Training, and Forest Friends called for Fine Gael to “think again”. They claim that the issues facing Irish tourism will not be addressed by the removal of the tax, levied at €2 for destinations less than 300km [...]
Ireland and the United Kingdom’s have received a ‘final warning’ before daily fines are sought because of its failure to provide its citizen with access to justice that is not ‘prohibitively expensive’. Other warnings to Ireland included three cases where it has failed to comply with European Court of Justice rulings concerning illegal development and developments that may harm the countryside as well as the protection of marine mammals. Two long-standing cases on drinking water [...]
Green is definitely the colour of the day as President Obama meets leader of Irish environmental organisation ECO-UNESCO at White House St. Patricks Day reception. Innovation was the common theme uniting the diverse representatives of Irish society invited to the St. Patricks Day reception at the White House this year. This is the hallmark of ECO-UNESCO, whose innovative programmes range from the Young Environmentalist Awards to drugs prevention using environmental and outdoor education. The invitation [...]
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A number of IEN members are working together on Biodiversity issues.