David Monacchi: “Fragments of Extinction”, the sounds of vanishing nature
With the prospect of mass extinction in the news, it seems a good time to reflect on the loss of soundscapes. In Ireland, the corncrake and the curlew were once…
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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…
Extinct in Ireland, September 26th, Large copper (Lycaena Dispar)
The first butterfly to feature on the melancholy month of Irish extinctions is the Large Copper Another permanent Irish extinction is the Straffan Butterfly Farm which is now permanently closed.…
Extinct in Ireland September 12th – Spiral Chalk Moss (Pterygoneurum lamellatum)
Moving from yesterday’s flower, the meadow saxifrage, to a moss species no longer found in Ireland. The demise of “mud capped stone walls”, as outlined below, is another example of…
No green to be seen: a biodiversity desert on Slievenamon
Two weeks ago I walked on Slievenamon, not all the way to the summit but simply up the path near Kilcash and then around the area just where this path…
Three a girl … – the return of magpies
I have blogged here and here about the relative lack of magpies in my garden. As is probably obvious, I have recently been in Donegal and in the last week was away again. So my focus…
Falling Back in Love With Biodiversity data submitting
I posted a while back about my reservations about submitting biodiversity data. I hoped it was clear from that this was more a personal reservation about a certain habit of…
On submitting biodiversity data
Recently – on International Day for Biological Diversity to be exact – I blogged about the various events going on and my own participation in submitting data records to the National Biodiversity Data…
Séamus Sweeney 