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New How-to-guide: Protecting nocturnal pollinators

6th September 2023

The All-Ireland Pollinator Plan is delighted to release a new free resource on protecting nocturnal pollinators. We produced this new guide in collaboration with Georgia MacMillan of the Mayo Dark Sky Park and Rachel McKenna & Michael O’Donnell of MothsIreland. … Continued

Lessons from the 2023 Wild Bee Festival

1st September 2023

By Kate Chandler, Communities and Engagement Pollinator Officer for the National Biodiversity Data Centre. On the 12th and 13th of August, Tralee hosted the second ever Wild Bee Festival on … Continued

Managing Urban Parks for Pollinators and People

25th August 2023

By Roisin Gowen This research was conducted as part of an undergraduate project by Roisin Gowen at Trinity College Dublin, who assessed different park management strategies and how they impacted plant and pollinator diversity, and urban park users’ relationships with … Continued

Blarney Street Pollinator Path

23rd August 2023

Molly Garvey, of the Blarney Street Pollinator Path group, tells us about how a neighbourhood came together to help pollinators in Cork City It started with a rotten fence. In the second week of the first pandemic lockdown in … Continued

NEW resource: Agri-processors’ supply chains

23rd August 2023

Origin Green in conjunction with the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan (AIPP) is delighted to launch the newest flyer which focuses on Processors’ supply chains. The flyer accompanies a series of webinars entitled ‘Pathways to Pollinator-biodiversity‘ and provides simple steps, underpinned by … Continued

Missed the webinar? Catch up on ‘Pathways to pollinator-biodiversity’ for food companies

18th August 2023

Review at your leisure Origin Green’s ‘Pathways to Pollinator-biodiversity’ webinar series. These webinars provide food processors and agri-business and other stakeholders with guidance on taking evidence-based actions on their business sites and also helping farm suppliers/growers to support pollinators and … Continued

Wild Bee Festival

30th July 2023

The Wild Bee Festival is an annual event coordinated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre, aiming to raise awareness of Ireland’s pollinators and how to help them in local communities. Wild Bee Festival 2024 The Wild Bee Festival 2024 will … Continued

Rare pollinators using the long-flowering meadows in Tramore

3rd July 2023

The dunes at Tramore in County Waterford are home to the rare Large Carder Bee (Bombus muscorum). This bumblebee is listed as vulnerable in the European Bee Red List. When we established the All-Ireland Bumblebee Monitoring Scheme in 2012, I … Continued

New guideline: Pollinator-friendly management of Solar Farms

3rd July 2023

Solar energy expansion is important for climate mitigation, but it can have consequences for biodiversity. Solar farms require huge areas of land which, during development, can undergo significant habitat destruction, degradation, fragmentation, and biodiversity loss. Studies suggest that if solar … Continued

Orchid delight at Trinity College

30th June 2023

By Prof. Jane Stout, Trinity College Dublin The All-Ireland Pollinator Plan has been supporting and advocating #NoMowMay, an initiative to reduce the mowing regime in private and public lawns, and allow wildflowers to bloom, for several years, with some incredible … Continued

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