Kinsale Community School in Kinsale, Co Cork has been named as the winning post-primary school in the SSE Airtricity and Microsoft Ireland Solar Schools Sustainability Competition. The school took first place with their ‘Save the Bees’ initiative, which saw students plant a biodiversity orchard and a hedgerow in their school […]
Environment
Branch Committee Member Damaris Lysaght writes about the fascinating and endangered Marsh Fritillary butterfly. For most of the year the Marsh Fritillary butterfly exists as a caterpillar. It is only on the wing from the last week or two of May until the around the end of June; a case […]
One of the first things I did when I started my journey to a more sustainable lifestyle was to look at the consumption of plastic items in my daily life. Initially invented to ‘protect the natural world from the destructive forces of human need’; the revolutionary material that we now […]
Our current 1.1 degree Celsius warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe and across the world; yet now climate scientists are predicting that we will hit 1.5 degrees Celsius, even if that high level is not sustained, by 2026. The 1.5 degree Celsius figure is the […]
Bandon Environmental Action Group (BEAG) is delighted to announce that, in conjunction with Avondhu Blackwater Partnership and with the support of LEADER funding, the development of a local Biodiversity Action Plan for Bandon has commenced. Interested individuals and community groups are invited to attend a Community Information and Discussion Day […]
Wildlife and conservation biologist Jack O’ Donovan Trá from Clonakilty has started an ambitious GoFundMe campaign with the hope of raising the €300,000 needed to purchase a traditional and biodiverse Irish farm in County Leitrim that has recently come up for sale, and which Jack wants to preserve as an Irish […]