Environment
The Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) will hold a special event titled 'Rewilding for People and Nature'...
The Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) has called for greater law enforcement after new data revealed that...
The Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) has welcomed the report from the Joint Committee on Environment and...
Rural Life
The Irish Wildlife Trust said it has received information showing that "throughout 2020, only two permits were issued by the National Parks and Wildlife Service [NPWS] for ‘controlled’ burning in Ireland".
Minister Darragh O'Brien has confirmed today (Saturday, October 24) that a dedicated Wildlife Crime Unit will be established next year.
The Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) has said that although the cutting of hedges is now permitted, "it is really best not to" do it.
The IWT held four protests on Saturday as they believe there is "a lack of action in the face of planetary ecological collapse".
Calls have been made for farmers to receive payments under the CAP for not farming by the Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT).
Beef
Badgers have been unfairly blamed for bovine tuberculosis (TB); a problem that was not their making, according to the Irish Wildlife Trust.
The IWT is urging local authorities and members of the public to avoid the use of harmful herbicides on Irish roadsides this summer.
The Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) says that the first dry spell of spring has seen a surge of wild fires across rural Ireland.
A cattle farmer in Co. Meath has been fined a total of €3,500 for the destruction of hedgerows during the bird nesting season in 2015.
A total of 27 wild fires were recorded by the Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) during the bird nesting season in 2016.
The proposed legislation under the bill is to allow for hedgecutting during August and burning at certain times of the year.
