Beautiful Biodiversity: The Power of Integrating Ponds in Farming Landscapes
Introducing Our Guest Writer Meet Féidhlim Harty, a Pond Advisor on the Farm Carbon EIP programme, as well as the director of FH Wetland Systems, ...
Read MoreMoor Returns – A Community Peatland Code for Ireland: Part 1 – The Science
Beneath the rolling green fields of Ireland, a hidden agri-environmental disaster is taking place. Over 300,000 hectares of peata grasslands [1], whic...
Read MoreHealthy Hedgerows
The Whole Hedge Hedges are more than just lines of shrubs and trees. A hedgerow is defined as a strip of woodland edge habitat made up of row of shrub...
Read MoreRewetting Peatlands – Pond Creation
Ireland is unendowed with amphibians supporting a miserly three species – the scarce Natterjack Toad (Epidalea calamita) or cnádán which is co...
Read MoreWorld Wetlands Day
World Wetlands Day is celebrated each year on February 2nd. In this blog we look at the features and benefits of Wetlands. ...
Read MoreGRI’s Farm Carbon EIP Project to feature on Eco Eye
Green Restoration Ireland's Farm Carbon EIP project to feature on RTE's Eco Eye programme. The episode looks at what sustainable farming could look li...
Read MoreDrone Training on a North Pennines Blanket Bog
Drone Training on a North Pennines Blanket Bog The Journey With the effects of climate change in evidence again, the ferry crossing was repeatedly del...
Read More50 Acres of peat bog restored in Co.Mayo
50 acres of peatbog restored in Co. Mayo in partnership with Sisk Lackaduff Rewet Project commences Bog Re-wetting at Lackaduff. Photo Chris Bellew /F...
Read More‘It ought to feel squelchy’: plan to save drying-out Welsh peat uplands
Photo: Roy Samuel, project manager for the Welsh-government funded sustainable management scheme, and Alan Kearsley-Evans of the National Trust, at wo...
Read MoreReducing carbon footprint of agriculture
Can Irish agriculture become carbon neutral i.e.net zero carbon emissions? Europe’s recent “Green Deal” aims to prevent climate change by bringi...
Read MoreThe Importance of our Natural Bog – and the Impacts of Bog Drainage
A peat bog is a particular type of wetlands which are waterlogged only by direct rainfall and are likely to have a moisture content of greater than 95...
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