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New guidelines published to help Sports Clubs become more Biodiversity Friendly

15th January 2021

With approximately 15,000 clubs across the island, sports clubs can play a vital role in the conservation of our biodiversity. The newest publication from the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan, ‘Pollinator-friendly management of Sports Clubs’ offers 10 actions to help pollinators, ranging … Continued

Job opportunity: Farmland Pollinator Officer

4th January 2021

Thanks to funding from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the National Biodiversity Data Centre is looking to appoint a Project Officer to support the delivery of farmland actions in the new All-Ireland Pollinator Plan. This is a … Continued

Some recent case studies on helping pollinators from Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council

4th December 2020

Since the publication of the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan in 2015, local authorities across the island have offered support and adopted pollinator-friendly policies. In addition to training parks staff on actions, reducing mowing, and switching to pollinator-friendly planting, staff in many … Continued

2020 Green Flag Pollinator Awards for Parks announced

17th September 2020

The Green Flag for Parks Awards 2020 have been announced. The Green Flag for Parks Pollinator Award is jointly run with An Taisce Environmental Education to support the All Ireland Pollinator Plan, and is kindly sponsored by Young’s Nurseries. There … Continued

Creating ecological corridors in Bruff

15th July 2020

The community of Bruff, Co. Limerick, are planning to create ecological corridors through the town to join up green spaces using pollinator-friendly planting. This whole-landscape network approach is hugely valuable to biodiversity and could be considered by all community groups.

Practical advice on managing wildflower meadows

30th June 2020

Anne Sundermann, Ricky Whelan and Brian Gaynor explain how natural meadows are flourishing under management practices of the Irish Wildlife Trust Laois/Offaly branch New meadow in a housing estate in Portlaoise One of the best and most successful ways for … Continued

Monaghan’s ‘Dispersed Urban Orchard’ for Pollinators

28th June 2020

We’re going to tell you the story of how this project came about, grew and became the most important pollinator project in Co. Monaghan and possibly well beyond. We were delighted when the All-Pollinator Plan was published in 2015. We … Continued

Communities helping our endangered pollinators

28th June 2020

Since the publication of the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan in 2015, we have been blown away by how local communities have embraced actions and have led the way in the fight for our biodiversity. It has been truly inspirational to witness … Continued

The secret life of solitary bees

27th June 2020

Grey Mining Bee (Andrena cineraria) © Lill Dunne Dr Úna FitzPatrick, Senior Ecologist at the National Biodiversity Data Centre and co-founder of the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan, introduces the amazing, little-known world of our solitary bees. Have you ever heard … Continued

55% of Councils have become partners with the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan

26th June 2020

Ireland’s pollinating insects are under threat, with one-third of our 98 wild bee species at risk of extinction. The All-Ireland Pollinator Plan aims to reverse these declines and has identified 42 specific evidence-based actions to make public land, farmland, and … Continued

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The Buzz

Job opportunity: Farmland Pollinator Officer

This is a really exciting opportunity to help drive the implementation of more pollinator-friendly management on Irish farmland. Details

RTE Nationwide coverage of the AIPP is now available to view from our website

How are councils, community groups and farmers supporting pollinators? Sincere thanks to RTÉ and HiLite Productions for allowing us to share this programme as an educational tool. Details

NEW: Free online interactive course:

Learn to identify our 6 most common bumblebees. There are activities and quizzes to test your progress and get feedback on answers. Details

Pollinator Plan December Newsletter

Plan updates as well as what to spot and what action to take this month! Details

New short animation: What's the buzz about bees?

Learn about Ireland's 99 bee species Details

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AllIrelandPollinatorPlan @PollinatorPlan·

14 Jan

Delighted that Danone in Macroom has just become a business supporter of the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan and agree to take actions to help. Fantastic to see so many companies willing to help in a biodiversity crisis

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14 Jan

Great to chat to Sustainable Skerries last night about their excellent plans to protect the declining Large Carder Bee within their community. Small actions taken together can make a huge difference!

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13 Jan

Delighted that Vyra has just become a business supporter of the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan and agree to take actions to help. Thanks to the growing network of companies who have committed to helping pollinators!

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Biodiversity Ireland @BioDataCentre·

12 Jan

It's once again getting to that time of year for the #SpringFlowersProject - this project is really easy to take part in, there's now 20 species to record, most of which are very distinctive.

Check out our 2020 Newsletter and plans for 2021 here: https://www.biodiversityireland.ie/spring_flowers/

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Woodrow Sustainable @WoodrowSustain·

11 Jan

Lovely piece on this evening's Nationwide about the great work of TidyTowns groups helping with All Ireland Pollinator Plan. @TidyTownsIre @PollinatorPlan

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RTÉ Nationwide @RTENationwide·

11 Jan

Tidy towns groups keeping the show on the road throughout these challenging times, we visit groups in Bray & Shankill & we talk to sustainable horticulturist Aoife Munn about her new project on #RTENationwide Monday 11th Jan @RTEOne 7pm & RTE+1 8pm @rte @TidyTownsIre @plantmad RT

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