Extinct in Ireland, September 16th, the wild boar
This is one of those entries in this month of Irish extinctions since the coming of humanity which can provoke a double-take. For the wild boar, as I have blogged…
Tag: wildlife
A wonderful place for a family day out – WWT Castle Espie, Co. Down
Between Comber and Newtownards in County Down lies WWT (Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust) reserve Castle Espie. This is a wonderful site, and I would say the most impressive family attraction…
Irish citizen science project needs seal sightings
Via Ireland’s Wildlife: A new research project at the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) in partnership with the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is looking for public input…
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.…
All The Time In The World: Disconnecting to Reconnect
Trailer – All the Time in the World from Suzanne Crocker on Vimeo. All The Time In The World is a charming documentary which follows a Canadian family of five…
‘Storms call in question the assumption that the ‘normal’ state of a tree is upright.’ – from ‘Woodlands’, Oliver Rackham
Twenty years ago people thought hurricanes occurred in other continents and killed trees. Learned writers treated ‘storm mortality’ as subtracting old trees from wildwood. Few remembered the ‘Great Storm’ of…
Review of Wolves in Ireland by Kieran Hickey, TLS, April 2012.
Going through my writings, I realise how little deals with something of great personal importance to me; nature and the natural world. Of course, semantic quibbling teaches us that “nature”…
Séamus Sweeney 