March 1st, 2019 Hundreds of activists are expected to mark World Wildlife Day this weekend with a mock memorial service …
Upland burning in March not permitted, Minister confirms
March 1st, 2019 The Minister for Heritage has announced that she will not make regulations to extend the season for …
Protecting Ireland’s biodiversity needs funding, not ‘lip service’
February 21st, 2019 The Green Party has called on the government to stop paying lip service to biodiversity protection and …
Sustainable model key to save our fragile eco-system
February 21st, 2019 The Government must follow the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and ensure environmental laws are enforced to save …
Results-based farm funding to protect biodiversity is key
February 21st, 2019 Our outdated prescriptive and rule-based one size fits all agri-environmental payment system needs to be replaced by …
If we get biodiversity right, ‘everything else will follow’
February 21st, 2019 If we get biodiversity protection right, we will also address issues in food production, healthcare, the economy …
President Higgins: Timeframe to halt extinction crisis ‘perilously short’
February 21st, 2019 The voices of conservationists, environmental NGOs and biodiversity specialists must be prioritised in the face of the …
Greater steps required to green Irish agriculture, EU expert says
February 20th, 2019 Steps taken to green Irish agriculture are not currently being implemented to a sufficient enough level to …
Significant gap in biodiversity funding in Ireland
February 20th, 2019 There is a significant funding gap in Ireland for tackling biodiversity decline despite the growing extinction crisis …
Tackling biodiversity loss too urgent to be left to future generations
February 20th, 2019 Biodiversity decline is too pressing an issue to be left to future generations to halt as habitats …