Nature and Biodiversity

Treasuring Ireland: Fashion and Plastics

3rd July 2020

Microplastics have also been discovered Irish well water samples and in mains water.

Treasuring Ireland: Ireland’s Food Future

13th May 2020

The response for Ireland’s food future must be diversification to growing a range of nutrient crops on a soil, area and scale-appropriate basis. To meet the nutrition sources set out in the EAT Lancet reference diet, reduce imports, and sustain Irish farming and rural economies, there must be an immediate turnaround.

An Taisce Submission to the Consultation on Agri-Food 2030 Strategy

11th November 2019

The current model of agriculture in Ireland is broken. Anything other than a radical shift in focus in the next agri-food strategy to domestic food security within a system of enforced limits on absolute annual and cumulative pollution will be environmentally unjustifiable.

The Wonder of Peatlands

As part of the Nature's Way series, this booklet is composed of slightly more abstract illustrations which nonetheless give a clear and engaging message to the reader. The following topic are covered:

What are bogs? The origins and history of peat bogs. The plants, animals and birds found in boglands. Peat extraction and threats. Climate Change Protecting our bogs And what the public can do to help protect them.

Community Development Delivers Environmental Awareness

3rd July 2020

Notes on An Taisce support for community groups through boom and bust

By Robert Moss; Green Flag Award for Parks Manager (Republic of Ireland).

Disbelief as Green ministers hand nature protection to Housing Department

1st July 2020

An Taisce, BirdWatch Ireland, Irish Wildlife Trust, Friends of the Earth, SWAN and the Environmental Pillar make joint call to #BringNatureHome

Holding new Government to account on climate commitments is top priority for An Taisce

28th June 2020

Achieving the climate commitments in the Programme for Government will require wide-ranging changes across all aspects of Irish society and our economy, as well as shifts in mindset in how we define what are our core values and true priorities. An Taisce’s Climate Committee will keep the pressure on in the months and years ahead to ensure that the ambitious targets and objectives on climate action are met in full and on time.

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