A-Z of Bogs: D is for... Drainage
It's all but impossible to exploit a bog for its peat without taking away the water that defines its ecology. Without putting too fine a point on it, draining a bog is like cutting the habitat's throat - water is its lifeblood. When drained, the peatland dies 🧵
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Heading up the Dublin hills today? Remember to drop into The Country Store & Cafe @timbertrove and pick up our 2025 @SavetheHellfire calendar along with some very tasty treats. Now only €5.00! 🎉 www.savethehellfire.com/how-you-can-...
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We have your 2025 calendar sorted! Please pick it up in-store (€10.00) at The Country Store & Cafe, Rathfarnham Bookshop, Rathfarnham Golf Club, GET FRESH Ballyroan and at the Grange Star Shop or online savethehellfire.com/how-you-can-... #SupportLocal #NewYear
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A bit disconcerting when one of the world's largest moth species is attracted to your headlamp! Found this beautiful Hercules Moth in far north Queensland.
#wildoz #wildlife #nature #biodiversity #insects
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Writer, Irish Times columnist, New York Review of Books contributor, We Don't Know Ourselves author.
Rewilding all the way, Ireland
A nonprofit trust, saving the last of Ireland's ancient woodlands and planting scarce native trees and new forests nationwide.
Registered Charity RCN20045265
Campaigning journalist & author. THE LIE OF THE LAND is published on 4th of September 2025 by @penguinbooksireland
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#ClimateEmergency. ThinkOrSwim.ie.
Professor in Sustainable Energy, UCC 🇮🇪
I write a monthly column for the Irish Times: https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/hannah-daly/
Born 351ppm, daughters born 408 & 410, now >420ppm 🚨 ‼️
Former @IEA and @UCL
Nature, land, food
On windy Achill island 🏝️
Irish member of the world's largest federation of environmental groups, campaigning for environmental justice & sustainability.
Registered Charity No: 20205807
https://www.friendsoftheearth.ie/
20 ~ autistic ~ award winning author of ‘Diary of a Young Naturalist’ and the ‘Wild Child’ series ~ Nature Nerd and biology student ~ University of Cambridge. He/him
📍Co Down / Cambridge
https://daramcanulty.com/
Lover of nature; fungi,native wildflower meadows, native woodlands, and all that depends on them.
Irish environmentalist with a day job in make believe, fantasy fiction and speculative stories. Lesbian on main talking ecology, mental health, queer politics, audiobooks, ttrpgs and Gaeilge
sí/iad she/they
orlanidhuill.com
A voice for nature 🌍 working on IE/EU Environmental Policy/Advocacy. All opinions my own. Roscommon 🐏 Connacht 🦅 Ireland ☘️
Ecologist, nature enthusiast, broadcaster, create #NatureFile @RTElyricfm, make radio docs, weekly column in The Examiner.
Author of Wild Embrace
A podcast about human-wildlife interactions and our relationship with nature. We talk about biodiversity, conservation, hunting and fishing, rewilding and more.
🎧 listen.tommysoutdoors.com
PhD. Head of Advocacy for An Taisce. Water floats my boat. 🚲 powered. Views are my own.
Protecting the Irish environment and, as a direct result, the people of Ireland.
Public policy advisor, analyst, advocate, commentator. Interim coordination for the Stop Climate Chaos coalition. Former ceo of @foeireland.bsky.social. Politics junkie. #LFC #AndACyclist.
Research: climate change science & policy.
Blog: https://climate-change-and-ireland.ghost.io/
–Adjunct prof. Dublin City University
ORCID: 0000-0002-7995-6712;
–eNGO research & An Taisce member;
MSc. Sus Dev & BSc(Hon) Geology
30 yrs pro carpentry.
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Artist | Author of THE LANGUAGE OF TREES | Rights of Nature 🌿Climate Justice | Long COVID 😷 Dysautonomia 🫠 | Tree Alphabet | Irish | Born @331ppm | RESIST
Bio: https://www.katieholten.com/about
Language of Trees: https://bit.ly/LanguageTrees
Irish ornithologist & wildlife sound recordist.
http://www.irishwildlifesounds.com/
Using bird sound as a tool to spread love for Irish nature.
Albums:
-Wild Silence
-Hope
Book: Nature Boy (Irish biography of the year 2024)
Doc: Birdsong
