International Biodiversity Summer School joining people in song, history, science and practical fieldwork to bat for Nature tomorrow.

Aims:

  1. Raise awareness for our shared European biodiversity in a way which grabs people’s attention, engages emotionally, informs and can be disseminated easily via the media.
  2. Create a core of musicians, scientists and journalists committed to make a difference for biodiversity, with

shared vision and appetite for a healthy natural environment and a means to empower others to protect and restore biodiversity.

  1. Make it politically possible for politicians, planners and law enforcers to provide better for biodiversity as informed public opinion is on their side.

Objectives

  1. Work closely with embassies, media, NGOs and EC to bring musicians/singers, scientists working on biodiversity and interested journalists together in Ireland for a 4 day summer school.
  2. Design and run the school to raise awareness for Nature as valuable shared heritage which we are losing and enable action by first hand experience and activities which are reported upon, applied and built on at home.
  3. 3. Inform about IUCN and EU biodiversity policy and law. 

Timeline: June 4th – 7th or 5 – 8th

Coastwatch Ireland

Coastwatch Ireland

Irish Wildlife Trust

Irish Wildlife Trust

Contact Details

Name: Karin Dubsky and Joanne Pender
Tel: 086 8111 684
Email: kdub...@coastwatch.org &  joan...@yahoo.co.uk

Biodiversity Focus: In principle all European biodiversity.

Songs are in three categories land, fresh water and marine. Where possible, songs will focus on species representing the country in the Malahide castle Biodiversity Monument. (erected during the Irish EU presidency and ‘Malahide Message’. – see appendix 2)

Field work will center around the songs and habitats and conditions needed by the species to be in favorable conservation status.

As bats and cave beetles aren’t popular in folk songs, but vital elements of our Nature, the host country can chose another species of that ‘type’ for their song – or perform a new song.

Geographic area: Participants from across Europe (open to all 27 EU member states, setting goal of at least 20.

Events in Dublin area, including Phoenix Park for ‘land’ where it will link in with the ‘Park in Bloom’ festival  ( IWT day)

Marine rural area provisionally Lough Swilly Co Donegal.

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