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Can you identify this little creature?
Eanna Ní Lamhna on field mice, voles, caterpillars, sparrowhawks and more
Have you noticed that milk bottle caps are now tethered? There is good reason for that
Far from being ‘the worst thing to happen to humanity’, this EU law is a very small step towards combating a huge problem
A jay with messy feathers, and a bumblebee dishevelled after a night out
Eye on Nature: Eanna Ní Lamhna on red leaves on oak trees and a moth that is flourishing in Dublin
Ladybirds and their lunches
Éanna Ní Lamhna on cuttlefish, New Zealand flax and the by-the-wind sailor
The businessman restoring a blanket bog in one of the most remote parts of Ireland
‘You could over-complicate it,’ Joe Devine says. ‘This is about reversing the drainage of a bog, and seeing what benefits are going to emerge’
The pine marten population is recovering and becoming widespread
Éanna Ní Lamhna on an escaped diamond dove pigeon, sea slaters and red ants
Pond party: just fill a hole with water and watch as an astonishing array of life emerges
Ella McSweeney: Digging a pond, however small, is worth it for the cascade of positive effects it brings
Native Irish oysters return to Belfast Lough after a 100-year absence
The goal is to create a situation where ‘thousands to millions of oysters are creating this really complex structure with so much biodiversity’
‘It’s like Jurassic Park isn’t it?’: The Dodder wildlife photographers and the rare images they capture
One stretch of river is popular with birders hoping to photograph the area’s ‘most exotic bird’
‘I am a hunter but I am a conservationist’: Meet the Roscommon gun-club members protecting endangered bird species
Many bird species have thrived since Ballydangan Bog was re-wetted and the drains removed
Are these not the best parents, mother carrying chick while father feeds it?
Eye on Nature: A hoverfly on Pallenis maritima, tracking of foxes with GPS radio collars, a successful takeover by wasps and a Common pipistrele bat
Capitalism is killing the planet – but curtailing it is the discussion nobody wants to have
If life on our one and only planet is to be pulled back from the brink, the time for voluntary ecological measures from businesses has surely passed
A good day for Google’s moth-spotting credentials
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a clean bill of health for a fulmar, a spider close up, and a troubling abundance of jellyfish at Kilkeel
The nature restoration law that will throw up some interesting design challenges
Game Changers: Biodversity Net Gain is now a legal in the UK stipulates any development has to result in ‘measurable’ biodiversity improvement
What is this moth and why is it red?
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the native Irish honeybee, oozing slime and a frog’s life
This insect clung to the windscreen of my car for more than a kilometre. Readers’ nature queries
Eanna Ní Lamhna on hoverflies, northern bobwhites and green shield bugs
Honey buzzards at the Strait of Messina: Migrant birds and one of Europe’s great ‘bottlenecks’
Since her teenage years in the early 1980s, Anna Giordano has heroically battled the hunting of migrating raptors in Sicily and southern Italy. The result has filled the sky with birds
Razorbills strike back after Star Wars takeover of Skellig Michael
Éanna Ní Lamhna on an irritating native moth, the click beetle and the thunderworm
I took a photo of a bird swallowing an eel head first in Dublin
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a frightening moth, baby spiders and fairweather mates
Where do we start with sowing a traditional lawn around our new-build house?
Your gardening questions answered: Creating a garden from scratch gives you a great opportunity
Just another youth making demands of its careworn parent
Éanna Ní Lamhna on song thrushes, a masked crab, and a German tourist that never went home
When it comes to nature restoration plans, EU states will look to the Burren Programme. We should do the same
Ella McSweeney: We don’t have time to fail. The Government should use our money to fund what works, then step out of the way
How farmers are embracing environment restoration: ‘I kind of live for the corncrake’
Thousands of people and several communities throughout the country are already involved in a range of EU-funded restoration programmes
What is this creature I found under a greenhouse pot? Readers’ nature queries
Eanna Ní Lamhna on woodlouse, hoopoe, mallards, spider crabs and the female crab spider
‘Our purpose is to manage the State’s forests on behalf of the people of Ireland’
Coillte chief executive Imelda Hurley juggles climate goals, planting material for sustainable homes and developing a green rural economy
What impact will the EU nature restoration law have on Ireland?
Far-reaching consequences for land use, especially farming, and also marine development. But uncertainty and rural anger remain
What are these colourful doughnuts that were found on seaweed?
Éanna Ní Lamhna on crow pellets, a chimney mystery and the true nature of cuckoo spit
Why does this hard-working bird have a handlebar moustache?
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a dulled female bullfinch, Ireland’s only red damselfly and an eternally basking shark
What is this delicate umbellifer, which was growing quite abundantly in an old disused graveyard?
Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna on ermine moths, rove beetles, pignuts and weevils
Our relationship with nature can reshape our whole world, if we allow it
Game Changers: We have been taught over generations to see the role of nature in our lives as unimportant. For us to survive and thrive, that message needs to change
What is the name of this tree with gorgeous berries on the Wicklow Way?
Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna on emperor moths, great tits and white-toothed shrews
The life of the aptly named stink bug
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a foul-smelling insect, a camouflaging caterpillar and the Irish spread of the buzzard
If you have this ivy in Ireland, try planting a seed from the berry to see if it breeds true
Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna on the comma butterfly, the eggs of a flightless moth, and an ivy recorded in Offaly for the first time
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