Rural Life
Potential for introduction of legislation that will ban imported bees
It’s important that the 12-month research contract that the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) entered into with...
Rural Life
It’s important that the 12-month research contract that the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) entered into with...
Environment
The National Biodiversity Data Centre has launched a free online training course focused on “pollinator-friendly farming’. The course, funded by...
Rural Life
‘The Murmur of Bees’, an exhibition exploring the influence of bees on our culture and environment, will open at the...
Environment
The University of Galway bee research team has been ‘buzzing’ after receiving a swarm of support from Nottingham University. The...
Environment
The new National Apiculture Programme supporting beekeepers in Ireland has been launched by the Minister of State at the Department...
Environment
The ‘Bee Better’ campaign has been launched ahead of World Bee Day on Saturday (May 20), to raise awareness about...
Environment
More than 10,000 Irish people have signed a petition calling on the European Union to introduce laws to phase out...
Environment
Farmers are being encouraged to grow more native hedgerows, trees and shrubs on their land in a bid to boost...
Environment
Rutgers University in the US, has conducted the first study showing how bee diversity is needed to maintain crop yields...
biodiversity
A public consultation has been launched relating to a risk assessment of plant-protection products and their impact on bees. The...
biodiversity
Two scientists from the UK and the US have been jointly awarded £640,000 (approximately €767,981) to build tiny robots that...
Agri-Business
Researchers from University College Dublin (UCD) and Royal Holloway, University of London are calling for urgent research to be carried...
Environment
A Laois farmer who is currently working on a five year project on sustainability and biodiversity said he has had...
biodiversity
Teagasc has appointed Dr. Stephanie Maher as permanent biodiversity researcher, based in the Teagasc Environment Research Centre, Johnstown Castle, Co....
Environment
A one-hour documentary titled ‘Plean Bee’ is set to be aired by TG4 next week on World Bee Day, May...
Environment
The withdrawal of the UK from the EU has caused untold difficulties, but Fianna Fáil Senator Eugene Murphy raised an...
Tillage
Farmers in this country are already doing great work to promote pollinators on their farms according to a leading professor,...
Tillage
SuperValu has stated that it is “on a mission” to help reduce the threat that pollinators are currently under. It...