Environment
€55m investment for NPWS renewal under Strategic Action Plan
A new Strategic Action Plan for the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has been published today (Wednesday, May 4)...
Environment
A new Strategic Action Plan for the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has been published today (Wednesday, May 4)...
Rural Life
Heritage minister, Malcolm Noonan has visited the site of an illegal 300ha fire in Wicklow Mountains National Park and announced...
biodiversity
A grant scheme providing up to €5,000 to support Ireland’s biodiversity and nature recording community has opened for applications. The...
Rural Life
A period of public consultation by the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) on an annual derogation for wild bird...
Environment
Farmers, landowners and members of the public are being reminded that the annual ban on hedge cutting comes into force...
CAP / Schemes
Funding under the Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS) for some farmers on Natura 2000 designated land is being held up...
Rural Life
A farmer has told Caslebar District Court in Co. Mayo that he is facing a €1,000 deduction from his Basic...
Rural Life
The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has confirmed another sighting of an Egyptian vulture, which it said does not...
Agri Politics
Social Democrats climate spokesperson, Jennifer Whitmore, has said the government must publish a “scathing” report showing underinvestment in the National...
Environment
Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Malcolm Noonan, has announced that the Local Biodiversity...
biodiversity
There are currently 190 National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) farm plan schemes in operation all around the country. But...
Rural Life
A Co. Mayo farmer has been fined €4,000 and received a 20% penalty to his farm payments for the destruction...
Environment
Killarney National Park, “world-renowned and internationally significant for the number of bryophytes that occur there”, is still capable of revealing...
Environment
A Laois man has been convicted and fined €6,000 for the destruction of hedgerow vegetation and trees containing birds’ nests,...
Rural Life
A farmer from Offaly was convicted and fined for destroying a hedgerow during the bird nesting season over the summer...
Rural Life
As the open season for bird hunting begins today (Wednesday, September 1), the Minister of State with responsibility for heritage...
Rural Life
Illegal hunting is suspected by rural communities to often be a “front” for people to check rural properties for security...
Rural Life
The official investigation into the Killarney National Park fires is near completion. Over the course of three days in late...