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Cloughjordan community & Gurteen College agricultural college ahead of the curve encouraging conversations on farming & bog conservation at Scohaboy. Fine example of collaboration across agencies, local groups, farmers, landowners, and turf cutters. farmersjournal.ie/farm-programme…

Check out these two great biodiversity talks. On Wednesday (13th of March at 8pm) Barry O 'Donoghue will give a talk at Doonbeg Community Hall on Farming and Nature. On Sunday, 24th of March (11am), Biodiversity Officer Barry O'Loughlin will be giving a talk at Tullaher Bog

Striking landscape-scale habitat loss in mid-Co. Clare region. (Images 2017 - 2023). Hoping for improved regulation on foot of newly-launched National Biodiversity Action Plan 🤞 Time will tell..

Today we celebrated #Nationalbiodiversityweek with 4th Class Students at Parteen National School. Clare County Council Biodiversity Officer teamed up with An Taisce's Green Schools Travel Officer Sarah Hegarty, Parteen Town Team's Rosie Rutherford and 4th Class Teacher Ruth Andrews.

Great to be at Clara bog today with CWF members Clara Heritage Society, Tullamore Lions Club and National Parks and Wildlife Service staff as Minister Malcolm Noonan launched this year's Peatland Community Engagement Scheme. Great to see the new strand for Nature sites! npws.ie/peatlands-and-….

Interesting & relevant perspectives here: NPWS Nature Conservation School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin Peat Hub Ireland LIFE IP Peatlands and People LIFE IP Wild Atlantic Nature Pippa Hackett Malcolm Noonan FarmPEAT Project @Dept_ECC Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine BallydanganBog Shanakyle Bog EIP @scohaboy EPA Catchments

Ten Clare parishes are playing their part to carry out biodiversity actions on 12 church grounds across County Clare. Read more: clarecoco.ie/your-council/[…

To celebrate National Heritage Week, Clare County Council Biodiversity Officer has organised a talk by Bat Specialist Dr Tina Aughney 'The Ecology of Bats' in Inagh for Monday, 19th of August at 8:30pm. As places are limited please book your place by emailing [email protected]

We have installed new pollinator signs at several Ennis roundabouts with Ennis Tidy Towns which are managed as pollinator friendly zones which partners with the All Ireland All-Ireland Pollinator Plan . The signs are funded by Clare County Council Biodiversity Officer with support from Ennis MD

2 years since collaborating with Abbeyleix Bog Bog project in developing & implementing enhanced restoration measures on Abbeyleix Bog. Results of cutover cell bunding are already very promising and encouraging. Images below with thanks from Abbeyleix Bog

We are delighted to share our new OPEN ACCESS book: #LakesinIreland - Mirrors of Change. Download at oar.marine.ie/handle/10793/1… Thanks to our generous sponsors Marine Institute @epacatchments @npwsireland Mary Immaculate College (MIC) @afbi_Ni Loughs Agency @geolsurvie @anForamUisce LAWPRO National Federation of Group Water Schemes

Clare County Council's Biodiversity Office has organised an event to celebrate World Wetlands Day for the 4th of February 2025. The event will see the launch of the new Clare Wetland Story Map, new wetland guidelines for community groups and an update on Clare Wetland Survey 2024

With #WorldWetlandsDay being celebrated on 2nd February, there's no better time to share a few updates from the wetland surveys we undertook for Clare County Council in 2024 - just one part of the ongoing effort to protect Ireland's wetland ecosystem.

Clare County Council’s Biodiversity Office is launching the Clare Wetland Story Map tonight in the Civic Room, Buttermarket Building, Ennis (Eircode: V95RR72) at 7pm. 1/4

Earlier this week we launched 'Community Action: A Beginner's Guide to Wetlands' as part of World Wetlands Day 2025. Thanks to Clare and Monaghan Biodiversity Officers for their support and to everyone who contributed to the publication.

. Clare County Council Biodiversity Officer along with local landowner Sean Tubridy and Knocknahila Community Group have recently rewetted 27 acres of blanket bog. This is the second peatland community rewetting project to be undertaken in Clare and the first of its kind in West Clare.

Knocknahila Peatland Rewetting Project in West Clare. Great collaboration with farmer Sean Tubridy, Knocknahila Biodiversity Community Group and Clare County Council's Biodiversity Officer. This project is supported by Clare CoCo Biodiversity Office and NPWS

Check out our bog talk event on Sunday, 25th of May which will revisit the changes on the bog since it was rewetted in 2021. This promises to be a great event. Register at eventbrite.ie/e/shanakyle-bo… Community Wetlands Forum ClarePPN Clare County Council