Nice work from @dlrcc.bsky.social on Dalkey Island where there is clear signage and protection of ground nesting birds. Everyone gets to enjoy this beautiful place in peace!

While we spend our time publishing reviews and setting targets plants and animals that have called Ireland home for thousands of years are going extinct www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Despite years of studies and discussions the fortunes of the hen harrier have yet to turn a corner. The NPWS told me that a "step change" will be needed in how we manage the landscape and that recovery is at least a decade off. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

"We need to move away from making plans to write plans to seeing evidence-based actions implemented on the ground. Until we do that our water bodies will continue to disimprove" - Dr Elaine McGoff Watch back Dr Elaine McGoff from SWAN member An Taisce at the Joint Oireachtas Committee yesterday.

I'm blue in the face saying this, there is no evidence that the measures being put in place are effective for addressing agricultural nitrate pollution. This fails farmers & it fails waterbodies. But the emperor's new clothes are still looking good apparently. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

I just made a submission to the draft Nature Restoration Plan. I emphasised the need for funding and ambition but also how rewilding should be central to meeting restoration targets. We can trust nature to heal itself! www.environmentalpillar.ie/have-your-sa...

It's great to see Wild Nephin National Park in Mayo join this Europe-wide initiative to introduce rewilding to their management programmes www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/new...

County councils nearly all turning a blind eye to illegal peat mining. Only one, Longford, making any attempt to apply the law despite the practice being widespread. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

The Marine #Heatwave in the #Mediterranean Sea is neck and neck with 2025 for record hot in June, having been baked by two historic heatwaves so far this season. Water temps up to 7C/ 12.6F above normal and they should continue to heat up into next week.

We need to bring people with us, off the cliff we're hurtling towards! 'It is disorienting to watch the years go by & yet feel like the same headlines about failure to reach various environmental targets reappear on what seems like a 3-to-5-year cycle.Is this what it means to bring people with us?'

So far, our transition to a ‘a climate resilient, biodiversity rich and climate neutral economy’ feels less like a journey and more like the TV series ‘Lost’. No one is really sure what’s happening or if anything is happening at all. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...

I was just on East Coast FM talking about beavers, the wonderful things they do and why we need to be talking about introducing them to Ireland 🦫

The European heatwave will move eastward in the coming days and the forecasts for the weekend are insane: close to 40 °C for the Baltic Sea coast. It's only a matter of time when the Nordic countries record their first 40 °C.

"Some 46% of those surveyed said their local marine environment is in decline while only 36% trust their government is doing enough to address it" At a global level, Europe is a laggard when it comes to ocean protection oceanographicmagazine.com/news/europes...

Man who was illegally poaching engangered salmon and who tried to flee fisheries officers - a serious wildlife crime - is effectively let off the hook if he pays the €3.5k in costs. Why is this kind of crime not seen as a crime by the courts? www.westernpeople.ie/news/courts/...

The latest update on the hen harrier Threat Response Plan unfortunately does not indicate that a comeback is underway, contrary to this misleading headline www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Please help a researcher with her degree by filling out this short anonymous survey on ocean literacy 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Commissioner @vdombrovskis.bsky.social announces yet another simplification onibus, targeting fishing controls. The sea is agonising under the hammer of unsustainable practices. Illegality is at epidemic levels. Overfishing dooms small scale fishers. Deregulation is madness.

A quarter of our cleanest rivers lost since 2010-2012 — sites supporting iconic species like Salmon & Freshwater Pearl Mussel Nutrient pollution identified as main driver of decline — 43% of our rivers have excess nitrogen, primarily due to intensive agriculture www.antaisce.org/news/no-impr...

It should come as no surprise that our waterways remain in a dreadful state, and are not improving, since no meaningful effort is being made to clean them up www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Solar ftw abcnews.com/US/solar-gen...

Two years since I was last in Glenveagh National Park and there are clear signs that a reduction in deer numbers is effective in restoring and expanding the native, fantastic to see!

"Rewilding is a deeper, more philosophical way of thinking about our future and about how we interact with nature" And it's reversing damage that's been done to nature all over the world! www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...

Extraordinary development in Denmark where commercial fishing is now within the Department for the Environment and the new minister was until recently the head of the Danish Society for Nature Conservation 👀... thefishingdaily.com/latest-news/...

It’s #WorldOceansDay We just did a full #RTECountrywide on why Marine Protected Areas are now critical. Listen: 👉 dj.rte.ie/radio/radio1... The map is a Spillhaus Projection of the globe I keep on my office wall as a reminder of why the oceans matter.

Ireland on fire: With hill fires devastating habitats in dry spells, we need tougher enforcement, restored peatlands and a new approach to managing uplands... jrnl.ie/7060104

More native forests and wetter bogs will help fire proof our country while we also need stiffer fines and more prosecutions for fire starters. The law should include an outright ban on burning the countryside. jrnl.ie/7060104

Wow! 200,000km² of ocean declared entirely off-limits to fishing in some of the most biodiverse waters on earth 🌏 That's a win 🙌 #oceanoptimism oceanographicmagazine.com/news/papua-n...

A good letter venting the frustration many of us feel at the endless talk around protecting the sea which never seems to be matched by action www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...

I feel like I've been reading the same article about the State's failures for 30 years www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

I wrote a story about ten years of the all-Ireland Pollinator Plan and what it has achieved. The next phase will be crucial if it is to help reverse continuing declines of bees and other pollinators 🐝 www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

At the @fairseas.ie conference this morning we heard from minister Timmy Dooley and the taoiseach Micheál Martin about the need for Marine Protected Areas... but very disappointing to get no clarity on timelines for the long-delayed law #worldoceanday

Interesting response to @whittledaway.bsky.social’s recent op-ed on the Kilkee water treatment plant row www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/your...

"Once you take a barrier out, the river takes over” This is a great news story! edition.cnn.com/2026/05/27/w...

Were constantly told by the forestry industry that commercial plantations are good for carbon when undisturbed native forests are so much better

There was a time, not long ago, when peaceful protestors were never sent to jail in the UK But at least 286 people have been locked up for protesting climate breakdown and genocide in recent years It's a fucking scandal

Good news from England where authorities have finally seen sense and ended the pointless culling of badgers. In Ireland on it goes, killing thousands of badgers and costing taxpayers a ball breaking €157 million thus year alone. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Recently I went to Italy to visit a landscape-scale initiative that challenges many of the myths surrounding rewilding www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...

In the face of widespread illegal peat mining Minister James Browne says he has "no objection in principle to exempting peat extraction from the planning system". What a way to solve a problem! www.offalyexpress.ie/news/ministe...

Déjà-vu outside the Dáil today as we demand action on Marine Protected Areas... 5 years after a similar rally. Will we be back in 2031? Yes if we have to! @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social @fairseas.ie 🐟

We've created a huge incubator for deadly antibiotic resistant bacteria but neither SF or DUP will vote for measures to curb it because they both want votes from farmers.

Valuable new research shows the impact of the 120 Irish fishing boats that practice bottom trawling in European waters. These boats spent 160,000 hours dragging nets along the seafloor releasing 3.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Scientists surveying the area found three times more seabed organisms and twice as many species compared to nearby unprotected waters" news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

"the instinct seems to be to negotiate the penalties rather than take the necessary action" The EU tales Ireland to court... again, for failing to comply with environmental laws www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Should a local view be more important than the poisoning of local waters with human and animal waste? I've been looking at the case of Kilkee in county Clare www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

LIFE has been responsible for some of the greatest conservation success stories across Europe, including Ireland. But now the EU want's to scrap it as a stand alone funding source in the name of 'simplification' www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

During biodiversity week next week I'll be in Trim Co Meath talking all things nature so please come along! biodiversityweek.ie/event/protec...

🚨 Landmark ruling for Europe’s oceans A Dutch court has ruled that destructive #BottomTrawling can no longer take place in the Dutch #DoggerBank #MPA without proper permits & envi assessments. This is a major breakthrough for marine protection in Europe! oceanographicmagazine.com/news/dutch-c...

Strong evidence that forestry policy continues to fail despite throwing money at the problem www.independent.ie/farming/news...

We just won a landmark case to protect one of Europe’s most important marine sanctuaries: the Dogger Bank. 💫 The court ruling sets a precedent for governments across Europe and sends a clear message: protected must mean protected.