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Bee Art/Photography Twitter Competition for kids

23rd March 2020

WINNERS ANNOUNCED! Congratulations to the six winners of our competition, and thank you so much to everyone for all your fabulous entries! About the Competition: The All-Ireland Pollinator Plan is running a kids’ art/photography competition for … Continued

Let It Bee – Wildflower Meadows for Limerick City

10th March 2020

Limerick City and County Council is to develop its programme of wild flower meadows around the city as part of our commitment to climate action and to celebrate Limerick’s year as a European Green Leaf City. Grass and wild flowers will … Continued

Is your action making a difference? You can help by tracking changes

5th March 2020

Dr Úna FitzPatrick explains how you can help to monitor our bee populations and test the impact of your actions for pollinators. One third of Ireland’s 98 wild bees are threatened with extinction and our common bumblebees continue to show … Continued

Sneem – counting their  bumblebees and their awards

4th March 2020

Sharon Evans explains what their 2019 award means to Sneem Tidy Towns Juanita Browne, All-Ireland Pollinator Plan; Sharon Evans and Jane O’Sullivan, Sneem Tidy Towns, winners of the South and Mid-west regional Pollinator Award 2019, and Dr Una FitzPatrick, National … Continued

Kilkenny – a bee-friendly city

4th March 2020

The ‘Bee motorway’ at Kilkenny Castle Park Peter Bluett, Chair of Keep Kilkenny Beautiful, explains how they have made Kilkenny a pollinator-friendly city Keep Kilkenny Beautiful (KKB), Kilkenny City’s Tidy Towns group, were really honoured to receive the All-Ireland … Continued

Belmullet  & the Great Yellow Bumblebee

4th March 2020

Margaret Tallott, Baile Slachtmhar Bhéal an Mhuirthead, Regional winners, North-west and West, 2019, explains how Belmullet are helping to protect Ireland’s most endangered bee Bhéal an Mhuirthead (Belmullet) is situated on an isthmus between Blacksod and Broadhaven … Continued

Ennis proves you can feed the bees and still win the Tidiest Town award!

4th March 2020

Ennis: South/MidWest Large Town Local Authority Pollinator Award winner 2019 & Tidiest Large Urban Town Winner Cormac McCarthy explains how Ennis was transformed into a bee-friendly town Well to everyone’s delight and excitement in Ennis Tidy Towns we managed to retain our … Continued

Geashill – still winning in the fight for pollinators

3rd March 2020

Having won the national Pollinator Award in 2017, and a regional award in 2018, Geashill continues to excel in the Local Authority Pollinator Awards and this year proudly took home the top prize for most pollinator-friendly small town in Ireland. … Continued

Tullahought – a village for pollinators

3rd March 2020

Richard Walsh, secretary of Tullahought Tidy Towns, on the journey to their 2019 Pollinator Award for the South East. The Tullahought Tidy Towns committee and the residents of the village were delighted to win the South East … Continued

Buncrana Tidy Towns still buzzing for Bees

3rd March 2020

Sinéad Ní Bhroin, Chairperson of Buncrana Tidy Towns, discusses their 2019 national Local Authority Pollinator Award win 2019 was Buncrana Tidy Towns’ best year yet, and hopefully our local bees and bugs feel the same way, too! Winning the … 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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