Celebrating World Curlew Day
An Taisce is delighted to support Breeding Waders EIP with collaborative conservation work in Mongan Bog Offaly, one of our properties held in trust
Nesting birds are at their most vulnerable now, so let's work together to respect their space & keep dogs on leads
Climate Ambassador's Dublin screening also includes a great panel discussion event with Phoebe Duvall, An Taisce Senior Planning and Environment Officer and Eileen Costello Rawat (Stop Kentstown Power Plant campaign). Empowering way to spend Earth Day.
There are now 20 times more uncommenced units compared to JR units
Galway Earth Day Movie Screening!
Join us to celebrate #EarthDay this Wednesday 22nd April with a screening of 'The Oil Machine' and why not bring a friend with our 2 for 1 ticket deal?
Grab your tickets here:
www.eventbrite.ie/e/galway-ear...
Your Rights to Clean Water: tinyurl.com/2f8srzj2
Check out our new online hub for people or community groups who want to protect their environmental rights.
It contains accessible guides to your rights around clean water, noise pollution, illegal dumping & more.
Ireland is playing a dangerous game with food security.
'The policies of successive governments have prioritised an export-led agricultural system leveraging the big beasts of beef and dairy, while ignoring the needs of our indigenous veg and fruit growers.'
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
400,000 voices and counting, and growing louder every day!
Sign the petition and help us say #HandsOffNature.
Polluters are pushing to weaken the laws that protect our air, water, and wildlife behind closed doors.
Speak up📝 Sign the petition: handsoffnature.eu
Photo: Barry Z Levine
Power of 'soundscape ecology' — what extinction sounds like, tracked in over 50 years of recordings by Bernie Krause
Listen as Lincoln Meadow California transforms from a rich soundscape in early 80s to near silence less than a decade later
Devastating
www.legrandorchestredesanimaux.com/en
“…Irreversible for hundreds to thousands of years”
“Irreversible”.
This is infinitely more consequential than Trump, oil prices, Hormuz etc. yet we continue to ignore it.
Yet another gushing story of how bogs are "prime areas for development" with plans for a "radical transformation of swathes of the midlands".
Bogs are important in their own right should be restored not converted to data centres
www.independent.ie/business/iri...
Celebrating World Heritage Day
An Taisce is a proud member of International National Trusts Organisation (INTO) & part of a wider global community of heritage organisations
INTO members look after places shaped by centuries of human care and natural wonder for now & the future
#WorldHeritageDay
A US-backed company seeking to mine gold in the Sperrin Mountains operated “in breach of planning control” for years over a “temporary” exploratory site it failed to restore, a public inquiry heard on Wednesday.
@shaunacorr.bsky.social reports
Earth Day with Climate Ambassadors:
Special Cork screening 'The Oil Machine'
Thought-provoking documentary exploring dependence on oil & gas, while examining ethical & environmental dilemmas surrounding oil industry & how it's embedded in our lives
Tickets: www.eventbrite.ie/e/cork-earth...
Earth Day with Climate Ambassadors:
Special Galway screening 'The Oil Machine'
Thought-provoking documentary exploring dependence on oil & gas, while examining ethical & environmental dilemmas surrounding oil industry & how it's embedded in our lives
Tickets: www.eventbrite.ie/e/galway-ear...
Celebrate Earth Day: 'The Oil Machine'
+ Panel discussion with An Taisce's Planning and Environment Officer Phoebe Duvall and Eileen Costello Rawat (Stop Kentstown Power Plant campaign).
2-for-1 code: EARTHDAYTNT26
enter code before selecting tickets
takeyourseats.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
Sitka Spruce is promoted in school? A problematic non-native tree grown in large plantations that have created ecological impoverishment at scale nationwide in one of the least forested countries in the EU27?
Sitka Spruce is now 44.6% of Ireland's total forest
Source assets.gov.ie/static/docum...
Irish lake
🚨Europe’s main water law is under attack from polluting lobbies including the mining industry!
📢We are calling on the Government to do their bit in protecting our water law.
🔗Click the link to see SWAN’s submission to the European Commission on this.
swanireland.ie/wp-content/u...
Our Planning and Environmental Officer, Seán O'Callaghan and Barry McMullin, Climate Committee discussing Dublin Airport Passenger Cap Bill 2026.
Counting true costs: reality check for Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) and how this transition is not panacea presented by industry
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'Environmental impact of these vast facilities remains largely secret, despite the data flowing into a publicly-funded database.
... lobbying from major data centre operators was successful in keeping specific information from individual data centres confidential and out of the public domain'
An Taisce commends local authorities on current regeneration efforts for towns & villages and recommends extending tax relief to allow reuse of privately-held heritage buildings. Principal challenge facing Ireland's architectural heritage is dereliction.
www.antaisce.org/submission-t...
#Heritage
Tactics used by protestors showed our vulnerability is the fossil fuel system itself. We're watching this system hold the country hostage & government paid the ransom
We can, and should, aim to make this our last fossil fuel crisis, but Ireland still lacks a serious plan to leave that system behind
Great piece by Conor McCabe: 'country exports around 90% of output, mainly in form of dairy & beef products. Our agricultural system is geared towards these goals, which has gone into overdrive since end of the milk quota in 2015, with herd expansion & capital-intensive investment becoming norm.'
Plight of agricultural contractors and farmers, caught between output demands of exporters, and the physical limits of the grass-fed system
... a country that imports 83% of its vegetables is not food secure, no matter how competitive its dairy exports
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
In December 2025, the @ec.europa.eu announced plans to revise the #WFD, the EU’s cornerstone law for water protection.
We urge the Commission not to reopen the Directive, as it would likely weaken it and diminish progress already achieved.
🔗 Read more: www.pan-europe.info/resources/br...
Thanks to all who contributed to this report- water security both in times of flood and drought becomes more important every year- bogs a big part of the story in Ireland
Intro to Researching at the National Library of Ireland
📅 Thursday, 23 April at 1pm:
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/intro...
Join us for this free talk in the NLI's Joly Theatre introducing the National Library as a source for research.
Renewable heating is key to cutting fossil fuel imports 🔥➡️⚡
France is acting on it: its electrification plan confirms a full ban on gas boilers in new buildings by 2027. It focuses on scaling up EVs and heat pumps. The way out isn’t subsidising fossil fuels, it’s electrification and energy savings.
🚨📸 There’s just ONE MONTH left to enter the #LoveYourCoast Photography Competition!
Enter here today: cleancoasts.org/our-initiatives/love-you... 💙 🌊
#LoveYourCoast #PhotographyCompetition #CleanCoasts
High tech protection here from Coillte, on a tributary feeding the high status River Barrow SAC.
Forestry is the 3rd greatest pressure on Irish waterbodies.
