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Posted on September 28, 2018September 28, 2018

Clonmel top pollinator-friendly town in Ireland

Or, more specifically, Clonmel won the top pollinator prize in the TidyTowns awards.  As readers may have noticed, September has been the month of commemorating species lost in Ireland since the coming…

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Posted on May 7, 2018May 7, 2018

Scientific enquiry in the early Middle Ages: “Medieval Visions of Modern Science” in Belfast

A Queens University Belfast study on medieval knowledge of astronomy touches on a recurrent theme here: the false myth of the Dark Ages: “The idea for this study came about…

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Posted on April 29, 2018May 4, 2018

What Does it Take? – from “Dispatches from the Undergrowth” blog, on saving a species

Originally posted on dispatches from the undergrowth:
 Conservationists constantly worry about how to ‘keep things going’ – be it a bird, butterfly, or some other organism teetering on the brink.…

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Posted on February 4, 2018

Joe Kane Cross by Candlelight

I previously posted on the ceramic work of Joe and Anne Kane from their studio at Moyra Rectory near Falcarragh in Donegal. The photos illustrating that post weren’t great and…

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Posted on June 9, 2017June 9, 2017

10 things I’ve learnt about conservation optimism

I have posted before about #OceanOptimism. This post is an interesting summary (in handy listicle format) of some learnings from the movement and the wider conservation optimism philosophy. This is…

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