With fish stocks in decline in the Celtic Seas, the future of Ireland’s fisheries at risk and fishermen and ecologists at loggerheads, Fiona Hayes examines the role of the tiny fish so important in the diet of larger fish and what we need to do to keep our fish stocks […]
Environment
This month, Ian Wild, a member of the Save Murragh Action Group, which is committed to protecting the Bandon River Valley, discusses the responsibility of the decision makers around planning and its implications for future generations. The future is hard to predict, some might say, impossible. So planning for the […]
The communities of the Maughanaclea Hills – including the rural lands of Kealkill, Coomclogh, Cousane and the Mealagh Valley and their neighbours in Gortloughra – have come together to launch a ‘Stop the Spin’ campaign in opposition to a proposed industrial scale wind farm by wind energy giant Enerco, with […]
This month, Niamh O’Leary, part of the Save Murragh Action Group committed to protecting the Bandon River Valley, discusses the relevance of Shifting Baseline Syndrome, where people’s perception of what is ‘normal’ for the environment gradually changes over time, often due to a lack of awareness or memory of past […]
The American zoologist Roger Payne died in June this year. He was the first person to study the sounds made by humpback whales. In 1967, in Bermuda, he met an engineer working for the US navy using underwater microphones to listen for Russian submarines; sometimes other, very peculiar noises were […]