BirdWatch Ireland

Ireland is one of the worst EU member states for overfishing in the Atlantic, and is undermining international efforts to restore fish stocks to susta(...)

Quicken your tune, O improvise, before The combine and the digger come, Little bridegroom. – Richard Murphy I was reading one of the many online(...)

Very few people are entirely indifferent to birds, and most of us find them an occasional source of some brief wonder and delight. Even the most comm(...)

The survival of the Kittiwake, a small cliff-nesting species of gull which breeds in colonies around the Irish coast, is globally threatened, accordin(...)

Help! We’ve planted our brand-new garden with lots of long-lived trees, shrubs and perennials that we’ve been assured will look lovely once they grow (...)

Humans and wildlife species face a future of rapid decline — including the heightened possibility of mass extinction — if measures are not taken withi(...)

A dump, even a decommissioned one, does not seem like an auspicious place to meet an artist to talk about an artwork celebrating nature. But as Garret(...)

The role of the Seanad is a recurring theme of political debate but the Upper House has been living up to its responsibilities in recent months with t(...)

“It is essential to live in harmony with nature and mother earth as a fundamental condition for the well-being of all life, which depends on the conse(...)

A public hospital got into a flap and called a pest-control company when it spotted a dead bird on its roof – but it turned out to be a plastic hawk,(...)