Extinct in Ireland: September 2, the wolf

Extinct in Ireland continues! From Padraic Fogarty’s “Whittled Away” Wolf: Widespread and probably abundant in Ireland until a concerted extermination programme finished off the last one in the late 1700s. I…

September 1, 2018

Extinct in Ireland: September 1st, the sturgeon

I’ve been reading Pádraic Fogarty’s “Whittled Away: Ireland’s Vanishing Nature”. It’s a sobering read, puncturing the fond illusion that many Irish have that their homeland is some kind of environmental paradise,…