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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

Congratulations to Castletown Demesne – the overall Pollinator Award winner for 2018! On the 19th July An Taisce Environment Education revealed the parks and green spaces that have been awarded a prestigious Green Flag for Parks Award for 2018.Only awarded … Continued

The All-Ireland Pollinator Plan was at Bloom in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, over the June bank holiday weekend and the reception we received from visitors was overwhelmingly positive. We were inundated with interest from gardeners, teachers, Tidy Towns representatives, and … Continued

On May 29th, new guidelines were launched in Tipperary for the National Federation of Group Water Schemes. These guidelines offer instructions to help transform pump house sites and other similar small sites into pollinator-friendly zones.  Download ‘Pollinator-friendly management of Pump … Continued

Congratulations to the ‘Bee A Hero’ project team, a group of eight enthusiastic Transition Year students from St. Anne’s Secondary School in Tipperary, who won the ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalists Awards Final in the Mansion House, in Dublin, in May. The team won … Continued

Pollinators – such as honey bees, our familiar bumblebees and hoverflies – have suffered significant declines in recent years. But they are vital to the survival of many flowering food crops and our native plants. DAERA Permanent Secretary Denis McMahon … Continued

The All-Ireland Bumblebee Monitoring Scheme, coordinated by Dr Tomás Murray, Senior Ecologist at the National Biodiversity Data Centre, has revealed marked losses in our native bumblebee species. The bumblebee populations recorded in 2017 were the lowest they’ve been since monitoring … Continued

We are delighted to share our new three-minute animation which helps explain what the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan is all about. This new awareness tool was developed through the Creative Ireland programme with Kildare County Council and Wicklow County Council. We … Continued