Had a great turnout for our first outing of the year last weekend!

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 www.batconservationireland.org/wp-content/u...

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

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

Small acorns ✅️ Mighty oaks 🔳 Massive woodlands 🔳

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)

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.

Reminder: the best Green Drinks is one week away!

The lates episode of my podcast @sustainablygeeky.bsky.social is out now!

Be sure to follow @rhodorangers.bsky.social And if you are in around Galway area and interested in joining, reach out! Also @hetzgonnabeme.bsky.social organises Green Drinks monthly in Galway City!

Another great day in beautiful Connemara 💪🏽

Great turnout for our monthly outing today, and nice to see some new faces! @hetzgonnabeme.bsky.social @timoceallaigh.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @david-smyth-eco.bsky.social

Another day Another invasive species We are literally an island - every new invasive species is a policy and political failure.

We're excited to welcome Dr. David Styles from the University of Galway as the speaker for our December Green Drinks! He'll discuss pathways to a climate neutral agriculture and land sector in Ireland. Register @ eventbrite.com/e/galway-green-drinks-tickets-1973157098999?aff=oddtdtcreator

Another successful Green Drinks tonight, with Ananda Geluk discussing Active Hope. Thanks to everyone who joined us!

Reminder that our next #greendrinks is this Tuesday, November 11! Registration 👇🏽

Don't miss out on the next Green Drinks!

We're excited to welcome Ananda Geluk as the speaker for our November Green Drinks in Galway City! Anyone working, volunteering or interested in the environment is welcome. Register @ www.eventbrite.com/e/galway-gre... #Galway #greendrinks #environment #rhodorangers

Bang! And the dirt is gone! We try to use the dig out method where possible - a few skilled swings of a mattock do wonders! Taking out main root seems to be effective for long term clearance with minimal regrowth. (We do have to use herbicide sometimes too) #RhodoBashing

Another pile of rhodo gone! Rhododendron ponticum is native to Iberia and Caucas region (its actually under pressure in Iberia and people working to save it)! Ireland is thought to have a cultivar "superponticum" introduced in last century or so which is cold resistant, perfect for Irish climate.

A lot of hard work goes into @rhodorangers.bsky.social work done by a lot of others! Licences, landowner liaison, scouting sites, best practice review, organising speakers etc Not to mention costs of travel, tools, insurance etc - all self funded atm! Please share and follow the page!

Now you see me.... Now you don't! A photo from a @rhodorangers.bsky.social day out from a while back And an opportunity to reintroduce ourselves... Please like and share! (1/6)

@rhodorangers.bsky.social bluesky account still a bit small Follow for updates on invasive plant species management in West Galway, educational outreach, knowledge sharing and just general info to raise awareness of invasive plant species and their impact in Ireland's landscape!

Cherry Laurel on the march from gardens into woodlands. Crazy that the government has not acted on the Citizen's Assembly's recommendation to ban it for sale (How many years ago was that?) The alternative of Griselinia or Portugese Laurel are not good either. Nothing wrong with Holly, Yew etc

Happy Sunday everyone! Who is out and about enjoying the countryside? What Invasive Plant Species have you seen today?

Green Drinks continues to grow! Thanks to everyone who's attending and supporting this great event 💚

Another great turnout for this months Green Drinks event, cheers to all who joined us! @david-smyth-eco.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @bkollmann.bsky.social @stevil-weevil.bsky.social

VENUE CHANGE ! We've had to change the location for tomorrow's Green Drinks to the Dew Drop Inn (upstairs).

Another fun (but exhausting) weekend in a native Irish woodland! 💪🏽

Great weekend clearing rhododendron from coill gleann dá loch again. Lots of progress made with another 1.7 acres cleared. Thanks to everyone who came out @hetzgonnabeme.bsky.social @bkollmann.bsky.social @stevil-weevil.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @rewildingire.bsky.social

Nice afternoon of botanising in Sliabh Aughty, Co. Clare. Highlights - a new site for gametophyte of Killarney fern and 2nd county record for Polystichum x bicknellii (hybrid between P. aculeatum and P. setiferum) Need to confirm ID of latter but it seem to fit the description 🤞

A reminder that our next Green Drinks is in one week! Hope to see you there.

Had fun working with the @rhodorangers.bsky.social over the weekend to tackle invasive rhodo in Connemara!

Registration is live for our next Green Drinks! 🙌🏽

The next Galway Green Drinks is Oct 14! We're excited to have Dr. Nóirín Burke & Dr. Maria Vittoria Marra from Galway Atlantaquaria speak about ocean literacy and the multiple ways they foster it through their work in the aquarium. Register: eventbrite.com/e/galway-green-drinks-tickets-1685827217589

A long weekend of slow work digging up regrowth from old stumps and seedlings while getting stung by bees and drenched in the odd downpour at our first site in Corr Uí Mhongáin..... mostly done here but some giant rhubarb will eventually need seeing to

Don't know why its so hard to recruit volunteers these days..... Snapshot Galway started again yesterday- 20 cameras for 2 months in the windswept valleys! @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social

This was such a fun event, so glad I got to represent the @rhodorangers.bsky.social !

Last night @hetzgonnabeme.bsky.social presented Galway Green Drinks at the Galway Climate Inspirations Festival's Giob Geab event. Each participant had 5 minutes to talk about their project, using 5 slides and mainly images. It was great learning about all the incredible work being done in Galway!

The health and integrity of a habitat is crucial to its resilience against invasive species such as Rhododendron as demonstrated by the lack of rhododendron present in this very wet blanket bog in Coill mór, Conamara vs old conifer plantation (which would have been drained). Pics from same spot

Well done @hetzgonnabeme.bsky.social for organising this new hit in Galway city!

Thanks to everyone who joined us at Galway Green Drinks last night! We had another great talk by Janet Laffey from LAWPRO. Join us every second Tuesday for networking and informative talks!

Join the @rhodorangers.bsky.social at our next #greendrinks event to learn about local water quality! @david-smyth-eco.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social

We're excited to announce our Sept speaker, Janet Laffey w/ the Local Authority Waters Programme (LAWPRO)! Janet will speak a/b the work they do to protect regional waterways & their citizen science initiatives. Register @ eventbrite.com/e/galway-green-drinks-tickets-1605670125569?aff=oddtdtcreator

Another great day fighting the rhodo invasion in beautiful Conamara!

The monthly visits continued yesterday with a nice breeze to keep the midges away. An-bhuíoch don slua a tháinig amach don lá @hetzgonnabeme.bsky.social @david-smyth-eco.bsky.social @dermotbreen.bsky.social @stevil-weevil.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social

Thanks to everyone who joined us Tuesday night for our monthly #greendrinks event! We're thrilled with the turnout and connections being made. A big thanks also to David Foy, who gave a great presentation about the EU Nature Restoration Law and what it means for Ireland.

Another old woodland we last worked at last year (baile na hInse) where some of our (professionally trained) volunteers treated this monster 0.5 acre thicket of rhodo. Glad to see that about 90-95% of it is without foliage. We'll be going back to this site in September to carry out follow up work

Have you registered for our next #GreenDrinks event? It's a great way to meet others doing important environmental work, and we'll have a great speaker on the night. Contact @hetzgonnabeme.bsky.social or @david-smyth-eco.bsky.social for more info and register here: eventbrite.com/e/galway-gre...