Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland

Training for Youth Practitioners
📆6 March 2026
🕰️10am - 3pm
📍Destined Cafe, 1 Foyle Rd, Derry
Come and join our youth workers and some of the young people we work with, to learn about how campaigning for environmental justice can be a core element of youth work practice.
✍️book now: bit.ly/YWTMarch

In solidarity with communities fighting a destructive chicken mega-complex in Croatia On February 21st, in Zagreb, Croatia, over 120 civil society organisations and civic initiatives will take to the streets. Why? To defend citizens' rights against the development of a mega-complex of ...

This Saturday, communities in Croatia are rising up against plans for a massive chicken mega-complex 🐔

One that would process 103 million chickens a year & flood the region with pollution.

✊ Solidarity with +120 groups that will take to the streets to demand clean air, water, a healthy life.

This isn't just about one place.

Across Europe, people are connecting to fight back. To challenge this destructive model of animal factories. To build local alternatives rooted in community and care.

From Spain to Denmark, France to Poland, we're saying loud & clear: #StopFactoryFarming

Friends of the Earth NI had a great meeting this morning in Dublin with @ejni.bsky.social @pilsni.bsky.social as they met with Astrid Puentes Riaño, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to a health environment. Thank you @astridpuentes.bsky.social for your time today.

🎉Another victory for #AsConchas!

Spain's Supreme Court upheld that failing to protect residents from industrial animal production pollution violates their fundamental rights: life, health, water, adequate housing.

Get inspired by their fight and others across Europe ✊ stopfactoryfarming.eu

Another [wasted] year over... as the DUP continues to block efforts to give NI folks a clean and healthy environment Still, happy Christmas from #TheEarthsCorr and here's to a joyful 2026

Still, happy Christmas from #TheEarthsCorr and here's to a joyful 2026
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The deregulator wants to poison us

EU decisionmakers intent to scrap safety reviews for chemicals that are used for our food & drink

Chemicals that could cause cancer...🫥 So #BigBizz can market them more easily 🤯

Write to @ec.europa.eu! Stop the #FoodOmnibus

friendsoftheearth.eu/news/raise-y...

#stopfactoryfarming week of action across Europe.

On the bridge over the Clady River with @saveloughneagh.com

These waters have been impacted by agricultural pollution and we demand it must stop.

#stopfactoryfarming
stopfactoryfarming.eu

A quote from our statement in response to the
Office for Environmental Protection investigation into sewage discharges into Belfast Lough... read more: bit.ly/belfastlough...

✊🐷 It's the first ever European week of action against animal factories!

Communities from 7 European countries are joining forces to defend local, small-scale farming respectful of animals, nature & our wellbeing

More about #StopFactoryFarmingEurope on our brand new website 👉 stopfactoryfarming.eu

Help Us Defend Our A5 Road High Court Case We are a community facing the devastating impacts of a brand new dual carriageway which will demolish our homes, ravage our land and destroy generations of guardianship.

Please support the fundraising efforts of the Alternative A5 Alliance, as they return to court in the near future.
Thank you
www.crowdjustice.com/case/help-us...

💪 Communities across Europe are taking back power to defend local, small-scale farming that is respectful of animals, nature & our wellbeing.

They say no to animal factories. Want to join them? Take action during the week against animal factories, 24-30 Nov 👉 friendsoftheearth.eu/news/stop-fa...

Free Lough Neagh Towards a Just Settlement for Lough Neagh

EVENT: Free Lough Neagh
📅12 December 2025
⌚1-5pm
📍The MAC, Belfast
Towards a Just Settlement for Lough Neagh
We have some big questions to ask - will you join us for that conversation?
Booking is essential
bit.ly/freeloughneagh

Free Lough Neagh Towards a Just Settlement for Lough Neagh

EVENT: Free Lough Neagh
📅12 December 2025
⌚1-5pm
📍The MAC, Belfast
Towards a Just Settlement for Lough Neagh
We have some big questions to ask - will you join us for that conversation?
Booking is essential
bit.ly/freeloughneagh

Senior professionals have sounded the alarm.

Food industry commercial plans are in direct conflict with environmental, health & welfare goals.

Read the Insiders’ Guide to Meat & Dairy here: www.insidetrack.org.uk/meat-and-dairy

#MeatAndDairy

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Have your say about the Mobuoy Road dump in Derry, one of the largest dump sites in Europe.

Join the Community Inquiry.

@pilsni.bsky.social
@ejni.bsky.social
The Environmental Gathering
Committee on the Administration of Justice

This week Friends of the Earth NI declared Stormont a crime scene. Decisions made by the Executive have caused the death of Lough Neagh and we’ve had enough.
#ecocide #ProtectOurWaters #water #loughneagh

Today Friends of the Earth NI declared Stormont a crime scene. Decisions made by the Executive have caused the death of Lough Neagh and we’ve had enough. Give us an Environmental Protection Agency now!
#ecocide #ProtectOurWaters

Public Talk: Indigenousness and Place, 16 Oct 2025 in Belfast
Join us with: SaveOurSperrins @trocaire.bsky.social @antaisce.bsky.social and Love Our Lough
Talks from: The Xinka Parliament group, The Council of the Mayan People movement and SaveOurSperrins
Book now: bit.ly/indigenousne...

🗣️Raise your voice for safe food & nature free from toxics!

The EU Commission wants to roll back vital food safety protections. We've 14 days to speak up.

Tell them the protection of our food, soil & water from toxics is a necessity. Tell them: #ProtectMyPlate 👉 friendsoftheearth.eu/news/raise-y...

🕒 Heads up! Deadline extended!

Help design a fair and inclusive Citizens’ Assembly for Lough Neagh.
Nominate yourself/others for the co-design group by Monday 6 October 2025 at 10am.

🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Event: Know Your Rights to Protest guide launch
Date: 23 Sept at 17.30 at the @museumfreederry.bsky.social
A timely event given the increasing restrictions on those protesting.
Hosted with @a4cderry.bsky.social @bloodysundaytrust.bsky.social & Phoenix Law.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/know-your-...

UK farmland being contaminated by ‘forever chemicals’ linked to cancers, report finds Levels of PFAS chemicals found in sludge destined for British land would not be considered safe for allotments

Vast swathes of UK farm fields are spread with sewage sludge - a mix of human & industrial waste. We tested some, & found levels of PFAS & fire retardants that wouldn't be considered safe for use on allotments. Our article in the Guardian:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Government told to conserve sites or species to retain nitrates derogation Martin Heydon, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, on the governments response on the European Commission directive on the nitrates derogation. Francie Gorman, President of the Irish Farmer...

The ability to freely pollute rivers, lakes, estuaries and the air is fundamental to business model of the dairy industry. The panic you hear in this interview with the minister and the IFA is because they're losing that ability.

www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

YouTube video by Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland Greg Sachno Nature's Keeper

Nature's Keeper Greg creates habitats.

'..we need to create these habitats and they have to be part of the narrative when it comes to a just transition...'

watch this short film to find out more

#natureskeeper #JustTransition #habitats #orchards

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cmi...

The request is clear, Stop Whitehead Terminal now!
With 85.5 million tonnes of carbon emissions its not in line with #ClimateAct #CarbonBudgets
there is no strategic need.. let’s protect our marine life and our environment.
You can add your objection by going to stopwhiteheadoilterminal.org

bit.ly/A5Statement

Love our Sea Walk Join us for this gentle nature walk from Whitehead to Blackhead Lighthouse to raise awareness of the Stop Whitehead Oil Terminal.

Join us this Sunday in Whitehead for a nature walk and an opportunity learn more about the proposed oil terminal at Cloghan Point - sign up now so we know you're coming.

bit.ly/swotwalk