Rural Life
Report highlights return of EU wildlife over past 50 years
European wildlife will return if there is enough space for recovery and if measures provide for a harmonious life alongside...
Rural Life
European wildlife will return if there is enough space for recovery and if measures provide for a harmonious life alongside...
Agri-Business
There is no evidence to show that mass badger culling in the UK prevents bovine tuberculosis (TB) in cattle, according...
Dairy Technical
The Bovine Tuberculosis (TB) eradiation scheme has been in place for 67 years in Ireland, with the scheme costing €97.3...
Agri-Business
Twenty three white-tailed eagles (chicks) arrived in Kerry Airport today as part of a long-term wildlife reintroduction project that is...
Environment
Wildlife crime needs to be “tackled head on” following a number of “devastating” incidents in recent years, including the “shooting...
Dairy
At the recent dairy tech event held by The Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF), Sarah Tomlinson a vet...
Environment
Farmers and agricultural contractors can once again break out the tractors and hedge-cutters as the hedge-cutting season opens today (Tuesday,...
Rural Life
The Partnership for Action Against Wildlife Crime in Ireland, (PAW Ireland) was recently launched, with plans already in place to...
Environment
The Government has been urged by the Social Democrats to properly resource the National Parks and Wildlife Service and to...
Rural Life
In Ireland, almost 80% of total expenditure – €1.1 billion – on biodiversity between 2010 and 2015 came from the...
Environment
The Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) has called on the Government to make Ireland’s “worsening extinction crisis” a policy priority. Ahead...
Rural Life
An Garda Siochana, in association with the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), hosted the inaugural Joint Training Seminar on...
N.Ireland
A wildlife campaign is urging farmers to think of their prickly friends, as a new report shows hedgehog levels have plummeted...
N.Ireland
Northern Ireland’s first badger report shows just over 40 potential badger crimes were reported in 2015. The report was published...
Rural Life
Co. Down man Philip Bell has been selected as Northern Ireland’s most wildlife friendly farmer at the Farming Life and...
Environment
Ireland has one of the world’s lowest effort levels for wildlife conservation despite the potential economic and ecological gains, according...
Environment
The debate over the prohibited period for hedgecutting is now being framed as a direct conflict between road safety and wildlife...
Environment
There has been an increase in the amount of badger baiting in the midlands, according to Noel Bugler, Conservation Ranger...