Excited to announce registration is now open for the next Green Drinks-please join us if you can (and share with anyone who might be interested)! Also please note our new location, Screene's on the Square. Registration: bit.ly/4seelK2
Big thanks to our own Rhodo Ranger @scottbastow.bsky.social for speaking at last night's Green Drinks! He shared his knowledge of bats and ways we can help protect them from the many threats they face.
We have a new location for this month's Green Drinks-upstairs at Screene's on the Square. Join us to learn all about bats from @scottbastow.bsky.social! Register @ bit.ly/4bcg8cw.
@david-smyth-eco.bsky.social @hetzgonnabeme.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @bkollmann.bsky.social
We're excited to share details for the March Green Drinks, and the speaker is a Rhodo Ranger, @scottbastow.bsky.social! Scott will discuss his work as an ecologist w/ a focus on bats, their role in the ecosystem, &the relationship between bats & urban development. Registration: bit.ly/468GjOe
Another Green Drinks is coming up! We sold out last month so reserve your spot today!
I have one spare ticket for the long sold-out premiere of An Irish Atlantic Rainforest at the Dublin International Film Festival next week.
Like and repost this if you'd be interested in the chance of coming along for free!
Next local and general election manifestos will be some variant of
"Vote #1 for
Bigger walls to keep sea out
More road development to make sure people can still drive
Extra sandbags
More drainage works to move water along quicker"
This is all I see happening
What looks like a dark morph Lapwing seen at #RSPBGreylake #Somerset this morning. It was very aggressive to any other Lapwing that came to close.
The government doesn't care about what is coming for you and your children.
There is no climate action or leadership.
As pointed out in the comments, you are more likely to see shitehawkery like this on weekends as nobody official out and about.
Tanks are probably full, deadline coming up for spreading - farmers are under pressure, but stuff like this is not gonna help them in long term.
Two people walk together through a covered stone arcade with arched ceilings. The walkway is paved with cobblestones, and sunlight filters in from the open side of the corridor. One person is holding a small object or specimen while the other carries a notebook. They appear to be engaged in conversation as they move through the historic, architectural setting.
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Our first Green Drinks of the year was a big hit, and our largest turnout yet! Thanks to Aoife Crowe for teaching us all about saproxylic beetles in Ireland.
New report by Bat Conservation Ireland - 'The Lesser Horseshoe Bat: Mapping Landscape Connectivity to Facilitate Species Recovery and Expansion in Ireland'.
#NatureConservation #BatConservation #LesserHorseshoeBat
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Our first Green Drinks of the Year is coming up on January 13th! Hope to see you there. Registration: eventbrite.com/e/galway-green-drinks-tickets-1978194333503
Time and time again, I see NPWS submissions and reports ignored & overlooked
Take a look at their submissions for development/forestry - there is no real desire to give NPWS the power it should have
NPWS raises concerns over dairy plant water abstraction - Agriland.ie share.google/oGMuY0uiqEYd...
Talk to anyone who hunts in Ireland and they will tell you its near limit in terms of numbers culled
And this isn't to touch the tricky tricky issue of hunting rights being sold to recreational hunters waiting for that one stag and who is selling them 👀
Finally, the FRS deer management plan is based on voluntary cooperation between very low hunter numbers and farmers who are wary of another scheme so will it work?
Only really one HCAP course ran in Midlands so not very welcoming to people in Kerry, Cork, Galway, Donegal where hotshots are.
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This article sums up everything wrong with deer management atm.
-Onus on an understaffed and underfunded NPWS to "fix" the problem.
- Soundbite from a politician who would give out if staff taken from tourist role
- Highlights one area returns when all of Kerry has high deer impact.
And..... (1/2)
Y'day was our last visit to coill Gleann dá loch for 2025 which we wrapped up nicely with a few well earned pints and meal
2025 in summary: 2.7ha of Rhodo cleared (6.67 acres) over 12 days with an average of 7 volunteers each outing. Not to mention our follow up work at two other local sites (1/2)
Tá mé an-bhródúil a bheith pairteach don ghrúpa iontach seo i nGaillimh. Dream díocasach agus daoine álainn freisin
Boreal forest stream running through the forest. Temperature logger, leaf litter collection basket, and pitfall trap in the foreground.
I'm recruiting a #PhDstudent ! Deadline Feb 10th!
Explore how forest management shapes peatlands, riparian zones, streams and the #biodiversity that depends on them. www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
The same week in which the Nitrates Derogation was pushed through.
This Government doesn't care for nature and climate, and is incapable of making things better.
The majority of public won't notice the impact, until its too late.
We need everyone angry about this now.
Another great day in beautiful Connemara 💪🏽
Thanks to everyone who braved the weather to join us tonight! We had a fantastic talk about the future of food and land use in Ireland by Dr. David Styles, Associate Professor in Agri-sustainability at the
University of Galway.
And yet I am told, trees don't belong there.
Give it a decade or two, and this and many other spots like it in the southwest will be lost to a thick tangle of invasive rhododendron, requiring unimaginable time and energy to remove.
Why is this unfolding calamity being ignored by the authorities?
As Groundwork have pointed out - if you told farmers they won't be allowed graze animals on hills in 30 years - uproar from politicians.
You tell them rhodo will stop them grazing hills in 30 years - silence from politicians.
Must point out rhodo grows in areas where grazers removed/pressure reduced - this tends to be used as an argument against natural succession and for continuous management, when its not the case.
