Dr Úna FitzPatrick, Senior Ecologist with the National Biodiversity Data Centre, explains the appeal of finding rare plants for the Rare Plant Monitoring Scheme Some people know I really like wild bees. Here’s a secret: I like wild plants even … Continued
With Ireland becoming only the second country in the world to declare a climate and biodiversity emergency, Dr. Liam Lysaght, Centre Director shares his personal observations on what this declaration means for him. For the first time in the 30 … Continued
The Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service (IPBES) has published its global assessment on the state of the world’s biodiversity and ecosystem services. In a personal comment piece Dr. Liam Lysaght, Director of the National Biodiversity Data Centre, reflects … Continued
May day! May day! Iceberg right ahead! No need to be alarmed! Indeed, May day has come and passed, thankfully without disaster, and how welcomed it was. Summer is upon us once again and for another season we’ll get to … Continued
More than 3,000 delegates representing 196 governments & NGOs assembled in Egypt recently for the 14th meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Convention of Biological Diversity. The 196 Governments, including Ireland, agreed to scale up investment in nature … Continued
Following publication of the mid-term review of the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan 2015-2020, Dr Úna Fitzpatrick reflects on some of the achievements and challenges faced. I haven’t worked a day in my life. – If that was the case … Continued
I care about Biodiversity. I have always felt instinctively that Biodiversity has intrinsic value, that we should conserve all of the variety of life on Earth; that we have a responsibility to leave this planet and its catalogue of life … Continued
As a child, it was always my job to remove moths from my big sister’s bedroom. They were common visitors then and she was terrified of them, especially the big furry white moths which would flicker around the light … Continued
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