A tiniest little Devil's Matchstick lichen surrounded and sheltered by its Matchstick family ❤️ tiny worlds within worlds... @communitywetlands.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @peatlandecr.bsky.social @claireissimo.bsky.social @scohaboybog.bsky.social

A pleasure today to welcome Rory Harrington - VESI Environmental & Dominic Berridge - Wexford Wildfowl Reserve to see first hand the successful rewetting efforts👏 @npwsireland.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @jamierohu.bsky.social @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social

Thanks to our local Nenagh Guardian for the coverage this week 👏🙂 @tocharstories.bsky.social @whittledaway.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social @jamierohu.bsky.social @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social @ucdpress.bsky.social @tipperarylive.bsky.social

Looking forward to hearing their song across the scrub and woodland edge 👏🙂

Happy St. Patrick's day !!☘️☘️☘️ a galaxy of green Sphagnum cuspidatum for ye all 💚💚💚 @scohaboybog.bsky.social @sphagnums.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @claireissimo.bsky.social

Important public advocacy work being done by @antaisce.bsky.social Elaine McGoff's team @elainemcgoff.bsky.social ; continuing to make case on consequences, public good consequences, of Irish Government's sixth Nitrates Action Programme. A judicial review is in the public interest. #spéirghorm

Thanks to funding from @npwsireland.bsky.social, we look forward to welcoming Pascal Sweeney back for some watercourse surveying at Killurane,clearfelled in ‘25👏 @einne.bsky.social @jamierohu.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social @hedgerowsireland.bsky.social

Great to see our picture from Scohaboy being used 👏👏🙂

More great surveying last night with the HSI,logging and removing invasive Alpine Newts👏 @einne.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social @tipperarylive.bsky.social @jamierohu.bsky.social @utu.fi @whittledaway.bsky.social

Spawn Protectors set up on the Kilurane cutover as part of ongoing survey works by The Herpatological Society of Ireland 👏🙂 @npwsireland.bsky.social @whittledaway.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social @jamierohu.bsky.social @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social

Sphagnum palustre and girgensohnii #moss #bryophyte

Two Great Spotted Woodpeckers ‘knockin’ about’ in the woods this morning 👏 Successfully nested last year🙂 @npwsireland.bsky.social @jamierohu.bsky.social @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social

Coming up in our other local natural heritage site👍 @jamierohu.bsky.social @tipperarylive.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @nenaghnews.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social

Such a pleasure to have hosted👏👏

A love filled Parkrun/Walk in the woods this morning 👏🙂

Passing on the knowledge👏 Wetlands Ecologist Jim Ryan (rtd NPWS) & Gurteen College’s Caroline McKeogh at Scohaboy yesterday exploring peat soil management as farming and carbon asset. @jamierohu.bsky.social @whittledaway.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @utu.fi @tipperarylive.bsky.social

Terrific rescheduled #worldwetlandsday event today, a full house in the Museum for rewetting overviews & afternoon on site guided walk with TUS/Gurteen College students 👏 @jamierohu.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social @re-peat.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social

Delighted to welcome Helen from @tocharstories.bsky.social to Scohaboy today for a looksee👏🙂 @jamierohu.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social @peatlands.bsky.social

The wet woodland is truly wet now! Magical to wade in there in the evening light @peatlandecr.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social @claireissimo.bsky.social @scohaboybog.bsky.social

The sphagnum mosses are loving all of this rain 💕 otherworldly treasures within the bog pools @sphagnums.bsky.social @scohaboybog.bsky.social @claireissimo.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social

Sphagnum subnitens, capillifolium and strictum #moss #bryophyte

Celebrating #worldwetlandsday & showcasing the many terrific community supported wetland/peatland conservation efforts across Ireland including Scohaboy 👏🙂 @jamierohu.bsky.social @whittledaway.bsky.social @utu.fi @tocharstories.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social

It's dark and moody out in the bog now with all of this rain...but there is still beauty @peatlandecr.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @claireissimo.bsky.social @scohaboybog.bsky.social

We look forward to welcoming back the Herpatological Society of Ireland back this year for extensive surveying👏🙂 @jamierohu.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @peatlands.bsky.social @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social @northtippdevco.bsky.social

Leading up to #WorldWetkandsDay, terrific wetland habitat areas are forming on the Kikurane cutover following last years forestry clear-fell👏 @npwsireland.bsky.social @jamierohu.bsky.social @utu.fi @peatlands.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social

A shout out 📣 today for the ‘King of the birds’ - An Dreoilín/Wren 👏 ‘Trickster, wise, cunning, sacred, inconspicuously living life at a pace, herald of the rising sun’ ☀️

Delighted to welcome Minister Ó Sullivan this morning to see the successful rewetting efforts,meeting landowners,community group, local councillors,NPWS&Coillte reps👏 @jamierohu.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @peatlands.bsky.social @tipperarylive.bsky.social

At the Kilurane end,rewetting continues to transform the previous commercial extraction area 👏🙂 @jamierohu.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @peatlands.bsky.social @whittledaway.bsky.social

First freeze of the winter 🥶

Snipe,duck,lapwing,woodcock (amongst others) numbers are up as a result of the rewetting programme👏 @jamierohu.bsky.social @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @tipperarylive.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social @utu.fi

Sphagnum subgenus Subsecunda on a lawn of brown mosses

Working with a landowner,topping the high grasses of the old Land Commission access rd to give the Orchids a head start next year👏 @jamierohu.bsky.social @syke.fi @tocharstories.bsky.social @peatlands.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social

Pope Leo XIV has reaffirmed the imperative to act upon climate change and environmental degradation. This firm response to climate science deniers marks the 10th anniversary of his Predecessor Pope Francis' encyclical "On Care of Our Common Home". www.bbc.com/news/article...

I'm truly honoured to have my Birch Shieldbug and Emperor moths grace the covers of the Irish Government's Climate Action Plan for 2025 @tocharstories.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social @peatlandecr.bsky.social @scohaboybog.bsky.social @claireissimo.bsky.social @janeclarke.bsky.social

Delighted to welcome Hannah, Dev Officer with @communitywetlands.bsky.social today to Scohaboy👏 @tocharstories.bsky.social @jamierohu.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social @tinaclaffey.bsky.social

Wet woodland reflections…. @npwsireland.bsky.social @jamierohu.bsky.social @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social

Positive local coverage in this weeks edition of the NG for the recent study tour visit with @syke.fi & @utu.fi with @jamierohu.bsky.social 👏👏🙂 @tocharstories.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social @tipperarylive.bsky.social @whittledaway.bsky.social

A conservation champion 👏👏👏

thebulletin.org/2025/09/tick... A must read article on what's buried us in our Irish bogs #LoveBogs @shirleynature.bsky.social @jamierohu.bsky.social @scohaboybog.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social

Lovely to see this little Common Blue butterfly on Devil's Bit Scabious at the Cranberry bog @scohaboybog.bsky.social @peatlandecr.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @claireissimo.bsky.social

Absolutely delighted with extensive and thorough review of THE LIE OF THE LAND in today’s Irish Times by Pádraic Fogarty

Congratulations to @thinkorswim.bsky.social on the launch of his critically important new book on Ireland and the climate crisis. Part murder scene part road map, it's an essential read for anyone interested in the future of our country.

From old habits to new habitats 👏 @utu.fi @jamierohu.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social @whittledaway.bsky.social @tipperarylive.bsky.social @tinaclaffey.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social

A pleasure today to welcome @utu.fi & @syke.fi from Finland with @jamierohu.bsky.social to learn more about successful community supported conservation efforts at Scohaboy as part of wider EU Just Transition initiatives👏 @tocharstories.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social @whittledaway.bsky.social

Where once cars & trailers went, Lapwing and Snipe now forage 👏 @npwsireland.bsky.social @jamierohu.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social @whittledaway.bsky.social

Before and after,ending commercial/private extraction (without conflict),followed by community supported rewetting programme👏 @jamierohu.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @whittledaway.bsky.social @tipperarylive.bsky.social

Great to welcome @npwsireland.bsky.social team for a walkover survey of recent years rewetted areas, impressive Lapwing,Duck,Snipe numbers to name a few 👏 👏@jamierohu.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @whittledaway.bsky.social @restoring.bsky.social @tipperarylive.bsky.social

Once there was this and now there is……this! 👏🙂 @jamierohu.bsky.social @whittledaway.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @unep.org @peatlands.bsky.social

The calm before the storm 😁

Terrific guided Heritage Week cycle yesterday ,learned lots, at Behamore Castle the toilet/Garderobe system used copious amounts of Sphagnum from nearby Scohaboy, the original ‘wet wipes’ 🙂 @jamierohu.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social