Fintan Kelly

Ban toxic pesticides now Tell the EU you want better protection against pesticides With this tool you can tell the EU Commission that you want better protection of health and environment. Their plan is to please the chemical ...

🚨🚜 Only one week left to raise our voice against the weakening of food safety rules 🐝🌿
Tell the @ec.europa.eu that you want better protection of health and biodiversity. This tool makes it easy to react to the EU consultation: www.pan-europe.info/ban-toxic-pe...

Socialists cave to center-right demands to slash EU green rules The Socialists and liberals folded after the center-right EPP threatened to ditch them and work with the far right instead.

"The Socialists and liberals folded after the center-right EPP threatened to ditch them and work with the far right instead."
EPP have already been working with the far-right for the duration of this parliament!
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⚠️𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆.⚠️

Once again, this assault on environmental safeguards is being sold as “simplification.” It’s not simplification, it’s dismantling. And it’s a betrayal of both nature and farmers.

Take action: Stop the climate-wrecking EU-Mercosur Trade Deal - The Environmental Pillar The EU-Mercosur trade agreement will benefit a handful of big corporations while driving deforestation, the climate crisis and exposing small-scale farmers to unfair competition. Join our call and say...

The EU-Mercosur trade agreement will benefit a handful of big corporations while driving deforestation, the climate crisis and exposing small-scale farmers to unfair competition.

Take action now and say no to this toxic trade deal.

www.environmentalpillar.ie/stopeumercos...

The EU-Mercosur deal brings little economic benefit but huge social & climate damage. We need fair & green trade—not continuing climate-wrecking business as usual. #StopEUMercosur Join our call & say no to this toxic trade deal. Email your ministers & MEPs: www.environmentalpillar.ie/stopeumercos...

There’s nothing inevitable about extinction. It’s possible to reverse our way out Success stories including the leaf-toed gecko in the Galápagos, the wood white butterfuly in Wales and the corncrake in Ireland give hope

"It's possible to reverse our way out of loss and extinction; there’s nothing inevitable about it. To stay silent in the face of it is, in the end, an active choice. Hope feels like an indulgence we can no longer afford; what’s needed is people coming together to act"
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Climate Changemakers: The trust preserving the Burren’s unique landscape and species ‘The Burren is often portrayed as a wild, ecologically rich place – which, in many ways, it is,” says Áine Bird, CEO of the Burrenbeo Trust. The Burrenbeo Trust is a charity founded in 2008 that advoc...

Nowhere illustrates better than the Burren how farmers can be stewards of nature, and how protecting nature can, in turn, help preserve communities in marginal areas.

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Yes it would be good to at least preserve some of the old machinery. They would be great features to break up the monotany of the straight railway lines.

Its a new era now and its important everyone makes sure that the bogs are used in a way that benefits communities and nature.

Roscommon to get €1.5 million greenway after county council grants approval A greenway through former Bord na Móna lands in east Roscommon has received formal planning permission from Roscommon County Council.

The network of railway lines through Bord Na Mona bogs makes them well suited for the development of recreation & ecotourism. The approval of new greenways on Rocsommon Bogs is positive but now we need to see commitment to ambitious nature restoration. share.google/mYHgmkLppU9u...

You can't ask for more compelling evidence than that of the impact your work.

"A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." – Howard Zahniser, US Wilderness Act 1964.

Hey, @ec.europa.eu, @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, you dropped your "simplification" mask!

"Wolves and their prey all significantly feared humans."

Wolves fear us more than we fear them and with good reason

The Commission can't standover what they are doing to environmental protection under the trojan horse of simplification. Decades of progress is being undone.

Budget '26 Must Deliver for Farmers - Irish Farmers' Association IFA Farm Business Chair Bill O’Keeffe has called on the Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe and the Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers to ensure that Ireland’s most important indigenous se...

Its positive to see the IFA calling for dedicated funding for farmers for Nature Restoration.
Farmers are willing to play their part. FFG made promises and now its time to deliver.
www.ifa.ie/farm-sectors...

Catherine Conlon: We are choosing business over nature every single time Fish kills, polluted drinking water, declining wildlife populations, and increased emissions are a direct result of politicians’ policy decisions

"Fish kills, polluted drinking water, declining wildlife populations, and increased emissions are a direct result of politicians’ policy decisions".
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Great to be at the handover of #HandsOffNature signatures to European Commissioner for the Environment Jessika Roswall. Nearly 200,000 EU citizens sent their messages urging the Commission not to touch the laws that protect our water, air, biodiversity, and much more

Brussels quote of the day:

"A certain Member State. A southern one. I’m not going to say. Looks like a boot.”

🚌 Ready to roll!

Our own OmniBus is hitting the streets today

Citizens are speaking up against the deregulation of environmental laws, and we’re bringing their message

@ec.europa.eu: don’t throw nature under the bus!
#HandsOffNature

Hill farmers frustrated with State’s land buys for rewilding as NPWS expands footprint The Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association (INHFA) accused the Government of prioritising land purchases for rewilding ahead of supporting farmers, as the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS)...

Ireland needs more land for nature restoration. Acquiring key habitats will help meet our legal obligations which will ultimately help farmers, but this must complement — not replace — supports for sustainable farming
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Out with the summer salads and in with winter greens. In a world of Monsantos there is something very wholesome about Irish Seed Savers hand packaging heritage, open-pollinated vegetable varieties 🌱

Environmental damage is putting European way of life at risk, says report EU officials warn climate breakdown and wildlife loss ‘are ruining ecosystems that underpin the economy’

EU officials warn climate breakdown and wildlife loss ‘are ruining ecosystems that underpin the economy’ - and all the Commission seem interested in doing is throwing more fuel on the fire.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ireland’s natural environment in ‘very poor’ condition, EU analysis finds European Environment Report - news (analysis piece to follow) Embargoed to Sunday night 11pm

Ireland’s natural environment in ‘very poor’ condition, EU analysis finds - water quality, habitats and species all suffering www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

The life-changing power of awe Your brain isn’t built for endless stress. This overlooked emotion can hit the reset button.

The life-changing power of awe - Time in Nature improves our mental health, with an almost immediate reduction in stress. Nature restoration would make us healthier & happier share.google/LIDQ8xJBjgDv...

Spain has become Europe’s standout economy But it must combine immigration-led growth with productivity improvements

Spain has become Europe’s standout economy - and that growth has been in no small part fuelled by renewable energy investment & immigration from South America.
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So that's it then. The biggest fish kill in the history of the State, and we're just going to move on, with no idea who or what caused it?

It would be better to label it a river kill.

Some major polluter is today breathing a sign of relief, while the river Blackwater remains half dead.

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Irish research finds larger areas of habitat are needed to increase pollinator populations & to achieve the same species numbers in smaller areas, “marked increases in quality are required”.
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How to restore river health The report on the River Blackwater fish kill published this week was inconclusive, with no enough evidence to say what was to blame for the largest fish kill in Irish history. We discuss the impact of...

Nobody can be blamed for the largest fish kill in Irish history Everyone along the Blackwater River was complying with the rules.
Might the rules no longer be fit for purpose?
#Climate #Biodiversity #Rivers

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I'm clearly going to the wrong Nature Restoration meetings 😅