We are saddened to hear of the passing of Bob Wilson, founder & coordinator of CELT Centre CELT. A gentleman who was quiet in manner & word but a passionate, committed & effective advocate for the environment, nature & sustainable living. Our deepest sympathies to his family & friends

Lovely day for a visit to St John's Wood in Roscommon w' Native Woodland Trust - this millennia-old forest has exceptional biodiversity, including rare native trees like Irish whitebeam

Three species severely threatened by overgrazing in the Mournes yesterday: Cowberry, Juniper, and Dwarf Willow. I have never seen any of these in fruit and all are mostly restricted to areas that sheep struggle to access.

Our latest edition of our magazine Woodland has just arrived. This edition has our newest woodland in it. To get your copy join as a member for €35 per year and receive 4 copies of our magazine. Go to nativewoodlandtrust.ie

Awesome, massive news! We are now the proud guardians of Ballinakelly Wood in Co. Carlow, an ancient native woodland, including this 600 year old yew tree!

If you are thinking of using sticky traps to deal with clothes moths (or other insects), PLEASE don't if there could be bats (eg in lofts). This little guy has had half of one ear torn off when it got stuck. Guess what he was trying to eat? That's right, the moths. Bat Conservation Trust #bats

The Ancient Woodlands Ireland research project is now underway. Visit the new project website for further info! ancientwoodlandsireland.com

Another 2ha of blanket bog 🌱restore removing self seed conifers 🌲Great job seeing the farmers doing restoration works across all SAC 🧑‍🌾💪 WaterLANDS LIFE IP Wild Atlantic Nature Sean McGovern #PeatlandRestoration

New paper out! 🚨 We show that vampire bats use amino acids from a recent blood meal to fuel RUNNING - a rare mode of locomotion in bats ideal for stalking prey. I’d worry less about your neck and more about your ankles! 🧛🏻‍♂️ The Welch Lab Royal Society Publishing royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

PhD Opportunity!! in my new lab FIWI Vienna 🦌 Movement Ecology of European Ungulates 🫎 Quantifying individual variation across populations in relation to resource dynamics and anthropogenic landscape changes. More info here 👉 vetmeduni.ac.at/fileadmin/v/z/… Deadline Nov 27

Badger season is in full swing out in south Galway! 🦡 We're utilising several methods to non-invasively collect hair samples from badgers out in the field, like this baited 🥜, sticky PVC pipe Hopefully they aren't all put off by this week's forecast! ❄️🌧️

[MFRC Seminar] This week Allan McDevitt @ShrewGod with a talk on sharks and shrews and #conservation efforts through #genetics Join us in person at Atlantic Technological University ATU Galway Campus Room 1041 on Nov. 29, at 1.10 PM Or online at: tinyurl.com/MFRCTalkbyAllan

Out today for last part of this site sampling session in the southwest Goal is to understand what microhabitats are important or used by LHS bats How it's been done; 🟢 Static Detectors 🟢 DNA Metabarcoding (using faeces) 🟢 Invertebrate Sampling #LoveIrishResearch

Are you interested in species interactions and how we model them? Then this thread is for you! Our new paper in Ecology on the role of abundance in species interactions provides new statistical tools for modelling species interactions (shorturl.at/Sqz9m).🧵(1/13)🧵

I started Ireland's most ambitious camera trap project in Wicklow as part of Snapshot Europe. Since 2021, I partnered with Lab of Wildlife Ecology & Behaviour + ReWild Wicklow deploying 150 cameras, collecting ~400,000 photos, and ~31 years worth of survey effort. 2024's highlights below! 🧵👇