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Job Announcement Protecting Farmland Pollinators: EIP Project Manager   Background The National Biodiversity Data Centre is a national centre that collates, manages, analyses and disseminates data on Ireland’s biodiversity. It manages a large work programme of biodiversity data management and associated thematic … Continued

The AIPP annual review for 2018 has been published. Huge thanks to all of our partners for providing their annual updates. Thankfully, it has been another very positive year! Of the 81 actions in the Plan, 92% are now either completed … Continued

One third of our 98 wild bee species are threatened with extinction from the island of Ireland. The All-Ireland Pollinator Plan was published in September 2015 to address this problem. It is supported by 90 governmental and non-governmental organisations and … Continued

The National Biodiversity Data Centre is delighted that its project application for Protecting Farmland Pollinators under the Department of Agriculture’s EIP Programme was successful. €1.26 million has been made available to test the delivery and evidence base for actions to … Continued

Anne Murray, Biodiversity Officer, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council; Tom Sullivan and Peggy McLeod, Massachusetts Pollinator Network; Una FitzPatrick and Gemma Hughes, All-Ireland Pollinator Plan.   On October 15th, Peggy McLeod and Tom Sullivan from the Western Massachusetts Pollinator Network … Continued

  Clonmel has won the top Pollinator Award at the TidyTowns awards on Monday September 24th, at the Helix in Dublin, recognising all that has been done by the town to help pollinating insects. One third of our 99 bee species are … Continued

On September 3rd, Market Research Agency iReach Insights published results of their survey on Irish attitudes to bees. Their research included a nationally representative survey on 1,000 adults in Ireland to discover how they feel about bees and measures that … Continued

Calling all Faith Communities to help save our Bees!           Date: 16/08/2018 Faith Communities across the island are being called on to take actions to help save our bees. Faith Communities often own large areas of land … Continued

Thanks to An Post for helping drive awareness of the decline in our native bee species! Four new €1 stamps designed by Dublin’s Design HQ, based on illustrations by botanical artist Shevaun Doherty, pay tribute to the hardest working insects … Continued