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Green Flag Pollinator Award Winners 2025

14th November 2025

The 2025 Green Flag Awards were announced this week by An Taisce – The National Trust for Ireland, after a record-breaking year. The 2025 Green Flag Awards celebrate the recognition of Ireland’s best parks and green spaces. The international Green … Continued

Pesticide-free towns

3rd November 2025

Pesticides are potent chemical cocktails that can kill, harm and disorientate pollinators. The All-Ireland Pollinator Plan encourages everyone to eliminate pesticides for the benefit of pollinators and biodiversity. Plants that are considered ‘weeds’, such as Dandelions, are often hugely valuable … Continued

Tidy Towns Pollinator Award Winners 2025

24th October 2025

The winners of the 2025 Tidy Towns Local Authority Pollinator Award have been announced. The Pollinator Award has run since 2016 as a Special Award in the annual Supervalu Tidy Towns awards. It is administrated by the local authority Heritage … Continued

Making Meadows at St. Joseph’s Secondary School

17th September 2025

In this guest blog, St Joseph’s Secondary School tells us how they have created new wildflower meadows in the school grounds. St Joseph’s Secondary School is an all girls school located in Castlebar in the West of Ireland. We … Continued

Make hay while the sun shines

18th August 2025

To celebrate Heritage Week 2025, and this year’s theme ‘Exploring Our Foundations’, we thought it would be nice to look back at the tradition of haymaking on farms, which has taken place in Ireland for several centuries and forms part … Continued

Seed mixes – be careful of unintended consequences

29th July 2025

As an ecologist, my heart sinks when I see brown areas that have been sprayed with herbicide in advance of putting down a wildflower seed mix. I know that in most cases, it is done with the intention of wanting … Continued

Wild Bee Festival 2025

1st July 2025

On Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd June, the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan visited Abbyleix, Co. Laois, for the 2025 Wild Bee Festival. Organised by the National Biodiversity Data Centre in collaboration with Abbeyleix Tidy Towns and Laois County Council, the annual … Continued

Pitches for Pollinators: How schools can help bees over the summer

3rd June 2025

Over the summer holidays, schools are invited to help save the bees by taking part in ‘Pitches for Pollinators’. This campaign aims to help Ireland’s pollinators like wild bees by leaving school pitches unmown over the summer, allowing wildflowers … Continued

The Grasslands Trail – Showcasing some Great Irish Grasslands

21st May 2025

In collaboration with the National Parks and Wildlife Service, the National Biodiversity Data Centre is delighted to launch an updated version of the Grasslands Trail booklet. The ‘Grasslands Trail’ is a network of public and private grasslands spread across the island. All of these sites … Continued

New ‘Farmland Pollinator-friendly Hedgerows’ online training course

21st May 2025

New ‘Farmland Pollinator-friendly Hedgerows’ online training course The National Biodiversity Data Centre is delighted to launch a new online training course on ‘Farmland Pollinator-friendly Hedgerows’, developed by the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan. With Ireland believed to be the most … Continued

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