Rural Life
IWT calls for sheep to be taken off hills to 'allow restoration of peatlands'
The Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) is calling for sheep to be taken off hills to “allow restoration of upland and...
Rural Life
The Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) is calling for sheep to be taken off hills to “allow restoration of upland and...
Rural Life
The Irish Peatland Conservation Council (IPCC) is examining the quality of over 1,000 peatlands of conservation importance in Ireland. According...
Environment
Bord na Móna’s plan for suspending peat harvesting and beginning its Enhanced Peatland Rehabilitation Scheme (EPRS) “ensures that there will...
Environment
An Irish raised bog restoration project has been nominated for one of Europe’s top environmental awards. The Living Bog project,...
Environment
If we go back to the United Nations (UN) framework convention on climate change 1992 – the issues are all...
Environment
The Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan, has today, Wednesday, April 24, announced the opening of applications...
Rural Life
Independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice has criticised “drastic proposals” from the Oireachtas’ climate committee, saying that the main parties “appear fully...
Environment
The state is being urged to “rewet” 270,000ha of the country’s peatlands over the next two decades in a bid...