“Sorry I am late,” said the taxi driver. “There were elephants in our compound, eating the mango trees.” That is not the sort of excuse one often hears from a taxi driver in Ireland, but in southern Africa, elephants and humans are not getting along too well. That was a […]
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 […]