The latest copy of the brilliant @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social magazine has arrived, as usual crammed with great articles. To get active in the fight for Irish nature and forests, you couldn't do better than to join both them and the @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social. They're the real thing. 🌎 💪🏽

Another successful Green Drinks event in the books! Thanks to all who attended

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

The EU wants to roll back vital environmental protections - and they're asking for your opinion. Today is the LAST DAY to speak up before it's too late. Almost 200k of us have signed, have you? It takes only seconds to tell them to keep their Hands OFF Nature!! handsoffnature.eu/take-action/...

handsoffnature.eu/take-action/... Last day of Public Consultation Sign and Share! Have your say in protecting nature!

Sixty nine million bullets.

A small bit of Dog's bay's (or land south of) bryodiversity in Conamara this week

A magical crown fit for a noble King 💕 Devil's Bit Scabious at the Cranberry bog @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @peatlandecr.bsky.social @scohaboybog.bsky.social @rewildingire.bsky.social

Make a wish...Loosestrife is in full bloom now @peatlandecr.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @claireissimo.bsky.social @rewildingire.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.com/e/galway-gre... Galway People! Green Drinks is back again this month! Janet Laffey from LAWPRO will be talking this month! Bígí Linn!

A really exciting find for me this weekend in my parents' front garden. Say hello to the Nosy Pill Woodlouse, Armadillidium nasatum. This is the first record of it in the wild in Ireland (i.e. outside of a garden centre). Keep an eye out for strange things; you never know what you'll find.

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

Rewilding is being used to meet ambitious afforestation targets in Denmark. This approach, the only one proven to work at scale, was ruled out by the Irish government. Small surprise that our afforestation goals are nowhere near being met. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

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

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.

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

Due to unprecedented demand, we've put on a second walk in Ballinakelly Wood this Sunday, 17th August- this time starting at 2.30. Book your slot now, while you can and experience this amazing woodland which is rarely accessible to the public! www.eventbrite.ie/e/1590940729...

Fuschia spreading into an upland stream above an líonán today, a good distance from garden bushes and unlikely a place where garden waste would be thrown

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...

Update re yew seedlings (three of which found to date) - they have been given temporary protection considering the relative rareness of wild yew

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

Bhí mé ag iarraidh é seo a thriail píosa anois le haghaidh seans a thabhairt don caorthann seo (thart ar 10-15 bliaina d'aois ó mo chuimhne), capaille agus beithígh na ngarraí seo so beidh sé suimiúil feiceáil cé chomh maith is a seasfadh sé

Great article. Great to see fuschia and montbretia under the spotlight as they get an easy pass in Ireland imo. Just because its pretty, nostalgic or "x is worse than y" doesn't mean its not harmful to our native wildlife.

🧵 Here is my Europe map set of August rank maps for several climate variables. They show where August ranks compared to all other months (from 1 to 12). August rank of temperature compared to all other months. 1/9

After spending some time in East Mayo back in May, a highlight was exploring some of the woodland along the shore of Lough Cullin. It was very uplifting to wander along this wild shoreline and see Bilberry above knee height and even the most palatable tree species regenerating.

🚨New Paper!🚨 Does a wildlife-aircraft collision cause a strike event with other wildlife species? We wanted to find out! ✈️ Have a read: wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @uccresearch.bsky.social @dublinairport.bsky.social @atu-ie.bsky.social @thonoir.bsky.social

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

Melting over 80.6% of the area of the Greenland Ice Sheet. This is the highest value in our data set, which starts in 1981. @polarportal.bsky.social

This is huge news and I don't understand how it seemed to go unnoticed for a year. It would seem that fallow and sika deer are now officially alien invasive species 🦌 www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2024/si/...

The @rhodorangers.bsky.social are excited to have David Foy speak @ our next #Galway #GreenDrinks Tues Aug 12! He'll speak a/b the EU Nature Restoration Law & its implications. Reg @ eventbrite.com/e/galway-green-drinks-tickets-1486447036099 @david-smyth-eco.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social

Its a good thing Climate Change is happening everywhere except our island, isn't it? We're safe, we're secure, we're immune.

Its says that the planning application will seek the retention of groundwork on site (incl. 17.5km of roads) Surely this is the biggest impact to peatland hydrology on and needs a plan to restore based on EU findings and fines? Like there's no point only taking down windmills? This is madness

Grazing livestock and farming over the past 4000 years have rapidly accelerated the rate of soil loss in the Alps, jeopardising the ecosystem and putting the mountains at risk of further erosion

That’s how the biggest and the longest river in Poland looks like today - Vistula river. It has reached the lowest level in its history - 15cm and it practically turned into temporary river. It is not only drought due to climate change it is also lack of proper water policy and retention

Wow, impressive: beaver healing landscape wounds created by timber rafting in the Bavarian Forest at 750 m, thus holding back water and preventing floods in lower altitudes.

This is going to be chaotic

Evidence confirming complementary diet and dung fauna from combing both cattle and horses in conservation grazing

Reposting as nothing has changed.

Thinking a lot of the quote an unknown source lately "Climate change is a series of phone videos of extreme natural disasters you witness on social media, until you are the one taking the video."

I was on Newstalk earlier trying to explain why Ireland has been so hopeless in protecting our marine environment. Listen back 📻 ⤵️ www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

Bhí beagán glanadh ag teastáil uaigh na síoltóga. 400 acab fós ann. Má tá aon duine i gConamara ag iarradh slám am aicint cuir dm agam

Síoltóga darach ó coill baile na hInse ag breathnú go breá théis beagán weedáil. Ní raibh aon weedáil teastáil uaigh na glasraí ach seans go cheart dhom na fátaí a lánú go luath

After first becoming the Christmas tree species of choice, Abies nordmanniana is now appearing as a suburban garden tree. This can't end well.

Birds feasted & we followed. Wild cherry collection today at Ballinakelly Wood🌳 With help from our Carlow branch of volunteers (and birds), we gathered 300+ seeds for stratification from some very special veteran trees. Possibly the wildest in Carlow!🍒😉

A great project Solid ecological foundation, great engagement with farmers and communities Rare to see both in Ireland

This is absolutely bonkers considering where solar was 5 years ago, but great to see. And this is despite Government urgency - how many new builds being built without solar? Where are the grants to other homeowners and businesses?

Some time exploring uplands the last few days has brought some tiny tiny delights; Bistorta vivipara (Alpine bistort) known from just 4 hectads in Ireland, it enjoys an altitude of around 660m at this location. Very much the quiet and inconspicuous type- my favorite 🌿

Wow. It's almost like the climate is...changing ?

Coillte have a lot of PAWS (Plantations on Ancient Woodland Sites) PAWS are of value due to seedbank/microbiology etc and prime for restoration compared to a greenfield site They could easily start restoration of these tomorrow with minimal impact to production They won't as no political pressure.

A lot of environmental issues are rich people telling others to suck it up, and just let them make profit.