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Rural Life
Peatlands: €500,000 community project scheme opens
Applications are now being accepted for community projects on bogs and peatlands under the Peatlands Community Engagement Scheme for 2022....
Rural Life
Applications are now being accepted for community projects on bogs and peatlands under the Peatlands Community Engagement Scheme for 2022....
Environment
A new report published by the EU Carbon-Connects and the EU Care-Peat project found that the restoration of peatland can...
Rural Life
Sinn Féin MEP Chris MacManus has welcomed the proposed development of Umeras Bog into a Peatlands Park, and has described...
Environment
Protecting and restoring peatlands can reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 800 million tonnes per year – equivalent to...
Environment
Environment Minister Edwin Poots has visited the Peatland Pavilion at COP26 in Glasgow to see the “global significance” of peatlands...
Rural Life
‘Connecting communities with peatlands’, led by Irish Rural Link andthe Community Wetlands Form, will launch on Monday, October 18, at...
Environment
The peatlands community of Ireland and further afield is coming together for Peatlands Gathering 2021 later this week (Thursday, October...
N.Ireland
Future land management schemes could pay landowners to maintain peatland through low-impact farming methods. The Northern Ireland Peatland Strategy 2021-2040...
N.Ireland
Northern Ireland Environment Minister, Edwin Poots, has launched a public consultation on a new 20-year plan to restore the region’s...
Environment
Almost 70% of peat bogs were in the western counties of Donegal, Kerry, Galway and Mayo in 2018, according to...
Agri Politics
Government must push for a European Council of Ministers proposal on management of peat soils to be withdrawn, according to...
Agri Politics
Bord na Móna has been called on to provide a “written agreement” to farmers who have land adjacent to or...
Environment
Farm organisations are being urged to “come together” and reach a written agreement with Bord na Móna (BNM) to resolve...
Environment
Views and opinions from farmers on Bord na Móna’s bog rewetting programme are being sought for an online farmer meeting...
Environment
€2.2 million funding for two peatland projects has been announced by the Minister of State for land use and biodiversity...
Environment
Fianna Fáil TD Joe Flaherty has urged Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan, to consider Lanesboro and Corlea Trackway Visitor...
Environment
On World Wetlands Day today (Tuesday, February 2), Green Party Ministers Malcolm Noonan and Pippa Hackett have welcomed the announcement...
Rural Life
The closing date of the open call for a new locally-led scheme for rewetting farmed peatlands is Friday (November 6)....