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Posted on September 16, 2018September 11, 2018

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…

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Posted on September 9, 2018

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…

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Posted on August 15, 2018

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…

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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 September 27, 2017

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…

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Posted on May 21, 2017May 21, 2017

‘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…

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Posted on August 30, 2015August 30, 2015

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”…

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