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

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.

www.rte.ie/news/dublin/... Councillors voted 34 to 21 in 2018

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?

Don't miss @bsbibotany.bsky.social's brilliant winter webinar on clubmosses...a great time to learn about these ancient plants, as they're something you can go out and look for all year (snow permitting ❄️) @cedar-ni.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social @rewildingire.bsky.social

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

Andrew Jackson really cooked Collison here. Hilarious that Collisons think tank Progress Ireland are asking “How will you avoid getting pigeonholed as right-wing tech bros?” - a question you should never ask publicly if you dont want to be labelled a right-wing tech bro elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...

EU commission president von der Leyen said today the EU isn't fighting fossil fuels, only the *emissions* from fossil fuels total nonsense, we can't separate fossil fuels from carbon emissions even IF we could, they're a disaster for health, nature & human rights even before you burn them #COP30

This is climate change. This will keep happening closer and closer to you, until it's you moving.

You can't do anything better for the soul than give space to native flora and fauna.

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🎄 Snowflakes and Songs: Christmas Family Fun Day at Collins Barracks! 🗓️ Sun, 30 Nov | 🕒 13:30–16:00 🎨 Crafting with Róisín de Buitléar 🎶 Carols by Glória LGBT+ Choir 🍽️ Tour: History of Food & Drink ✨ ISL interpreted activities 🎁 Free & family-friendly! www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

Climate change means your seasonal wardrobe is redundant! You need to fight for your right to wear cute jumpers at certain times of the year.

Tripod. Seems to be in good condition. Answers on a postcard as to what happened. @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social

Learn about Ireland’s response to the Asian hornet Hear from @npwsireland.bsky.social , National Biodiversity Data Centre & Museum experts on sightings, nest analysis & what’s next. 📅 1st November | 🕒 11:00 am – 12:00 pm 🔗 Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d33bf9... #AsianHornet

Interesting(!) that these captive-bred ducks for sale in East Yorkshire seem to be unringed in very many cases. Baikal, Blue-winged, Green-winged Teals, plus Garganeys. Dread to think how many end up in the wild and in local bird reports... #ukbirding

Hurricane Melissa is bearing down on Jamaica, with many areas likely to see over 500 mm of rainfall. The impacts could be extremely significant. eos.org/thelandslide... Graphic from NOAA.

People are too concerned with the term "Biodiversity". This is leading to bad planning and bad programmes at the expense of nature. Ecological integrity is a better method through which to operate, but much harder to define.

Water hemmoraging from Natura2000 peatbog in Belgium's Haute fagne. Deep drainge, bad for biodiversity, floods, summer droughts. For the sake of uneconomic spruce plantations. A priority for RestoreNature

Can you imagine TDs scrambling to change the Constitution or commentators hand-wringing in the media if it was leftists who behaved the way the spoiled vote crew did, in the same (minority) numbers, after several bigoted riots. Not so much forced to pander to them as willingly taking a running leap.

This is bull. Steen has done no public service and had ample time to prepare a campaign if she was actually bothered. Sheridan wasn't bothered to have documents right for LA meetings. Who else came close to actually trying to get on the ballot? Far-right twats who wanted the free publicity?

This spoiled vote thing is a Big Flashing Danger sign in the week of racist riots in Ireland - we're stumbling towards a crisis with no leadership or will to tackle misinformation, criminality, intimidation. And we've seen it coming since the Anti-Vaxx loons started screaming in chemists.

New paper - “Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain” - Fleiss - 2025 - Ecological Solutions and Evidence - besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @forestresearchuk.bsky.social

Don’t flake on voting just because the result is in the bag! Margin matters. Remember how awful it felt seeing Peter Casey jump from 2% polls to 23% after his attacks on travellers. A low turnout/high number of spoiled votes will be seized on by the fash. Every vote for Connolly undermines them

Don't miss out on the next Green Drinks!

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

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)

One of the main issue with nature in Ireland is it is only viewed through the lens of production. "Money should be spent on agricultural habitats because we are an agricultural landscape" is repeatedly used as an excuse for bad science and poor policy.

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

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

Haven't got under the microscope yet but I suspect this is Sphagnum pulchrum I have come across in a very good bog today north of the N59 in Conamara...

Kerry fish farm licence reinstated but regulations 'shattered' says fishery watchdog m.independent.ie/regionals/ke...

Montane heath with juniper and bearberry from Binn Gleann uisce yesterday

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).

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

A cynical person might suggest that - just as with the recent huge ecocide on the river Blackwater - nobody will ever face consequences for this www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

Weak and pathetic.

Our "Guidelines for Rewilding" published with IUCN CEM are now live! portals.iucn.org/library/node...

MM refusing to do anything on climate shows that he puts disproportionate weight on the opinions of lobbyists for data centers, car manufacturers, dairy, etc cause support for government action on climate change actually unites people across the country..so who is he talking about?

Great spot for exploring yesterday in sna mám toirce. So many beautiful lichens and mosses (would be worth a trip for a lichenologist). One of the highlights was this beautiful Douinia ovata which looks to have last been recorded in Conamara (beanna beola) in 1965

Oak living on the ledge at the southern end of Conamara national park today. At 335m, anyone else see oaks at this elevation here?

Very happy to confirm this moss as Braunia imberbis growing on Gabbro in north Conamara. A new record for Galway and likely to be fairly abundant here. Thanks to Thomas Blockeel from the BBS for confirming. Speiceas nua go Conamara agus fiú Connacht