Environment - West Cork People

New rules for packaging waste

Grace O'Sullivan December, 2023

This month I was reminiscing with my friends over glass milk bottles and the little birds that would come and peck through the lid to get to the cream below. I couldn’t help but feel like, since then, we have been duped by the mass production of plastic and the […]

Penguins on thin ice

Dr Jeremy A. Dorman December, 2023

Climate change can have a devastating effect on animals that have spent thousands or millions of years adapting to a particular lifestyle. In Ireland, the weather is always changeable – an early spring might encourage birds to nest too soon, only for their chicks to be killed off by snow […]

West Cork residents call for proper legislation around noisy activities like rock-breaking

WCP Staff December, 2023

Many associate the countryside with peace and quiet, with fresh air and birdsong, with rest and relaxation: It’s what draws so many people to West Cork. But the countryside is also a working place which has its own cycle of ploughing, planting and harvesting; the sight and smell of hay […]

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Launch of biodiversity activity book as young voices heard

Mary O'Brien November, 2023

Fiach O Donoghue, (11), from Courtmacsherry, is one of a group of young people, whose call for action on biodiversity loss has been heeded by the government. One year after the inaugural Children and Young People’s Assembly on Biodiversity Loss, where a group of children and teenagers, aged between seven […]

Brent Goose – a winter visitor

WCP Staff November, 2023

This month, committee member and National Parks and Wildlife Ranger, Dave Rees writes about one of our winter visitors, the Brent Goose. One of the true sounds of the winter for me is the sound of a flock of Brent Geese quietly grazing on the edge of one of our […]

In defence of the octopus

Dr Jeremy A. Dorman November, 2023

I once received a postcard from a friend in Greece which showed a fisherman bashing an octopus against a pier wall. Jane Grigson wrote, in her excellent ‘Fish Cookery’, that fishermen in the Mediterranean insist an octopus has to be beaten 99 times before it is fit for the pot. I […]

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