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wildlife

Deer

Motorists urged to take extra care in wooded areas as deer rutting season peaks

4 Oct 2024

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Biodiversity

Ciaran Brennan: The plan to save the Hen Harrier should be the blueprint for wider restoration

Ciaran Brennan

8 Aug 2024

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Biodiversity

Breeding woodpeckers spotted in Killarney National Park for first time in centuries

4 Jun 2024

17.1k

Irish Birds

'The sound of extinction': One man's mission to record Ireland's precious birdsongs

26 May 2024

18.0k

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Quiz: How well do you know Irish gulls?

5 May 2024

32.9k

Injured Birds

Birds coated in oil found on east coast as Coast Guard tried to locate spill offshore

2 May 2024

10.3k

Endangered Species

Opinion: The Hen Harrier is the canary in the coal mine for upland biodiversity in Ireland

Ciaran Brennan

Updated 19 Feb 2024

9.7k

Endangered

Human destruction of nature threatens migratory mammals, fish and birds, report declares

12 Feb 2024

3.5k

Conservation

National Centre for Species Survival opens in Dublin Zoo with goal of conserving native animals

7 Nov 2023

6.4k

The Morning Lead

Transparency concerns as no hearings held at nature sites Appeals Board in almost two years

2 Jul 2023

16.5k

Special Areas of Conservation

EU court says Ireland broke nature laws by failing to protect hundreds of sites

29 Jun 2023

17.8k

Guess who's back

150 years after they became extinct in Ireland, ospreys to be reintroduced this summer

23 May 2023

16.1k

frogs

Quiz: How much do you know about frogs?

29 Apr 2023

29.2k

Drop the shears

Public reminded not to cut hedges from today to protect nesting birds

1 Mar 2023

17.8k

crikey

'Toadzilla': Record-breaking cane toad found in Australia believed to be largest of its kind

20 Jan 2023

26.5k

Wicklow

Wicklow landowners fined €1,000 each for setting gorse on fire out of season

5 Oct 2022

20.3k

Watch Out

Drivers urged to be cautious around deer breeding season

4 Oct 2022

9.4k

wildlife

Elderly Australian man killed by kangaroo he may have kept as a pet

13 Sep 2022

21.0k

oh deer

Feeding wildlife like Phoenix Park deer 'could lead to them being more aggressive to get food'

5 Aug 2022

9.8k

wild

People caring for injured wild animals reminded they must have a suitable licence

20 Jul 2022

27.1k

buzzard

Farmer fined €500 for poisoning protected bird species in Co Wicklow

13 Jul 2022

21.2k

Wildlife Act

'Butchered and mutilated': How the government was alerted to out-of-season hedge-cutting last year

23 Mar 2022

49.0k

wildlife

Monkey, gecko and succulent bamboo among 224 new species found in Greater Mekong

26 Jan 2022

17.9k

wildlife

23 white-tailed eagles arrive in Kerry Airport as part of wildlife reintroduction project

25 Jun 2021

17.1k

buzz

Single Asian hornet found 'alive but dying' in north Dublin home

7 May 2021

97.8k

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Quiz: How much do you know about swallows?

1 May 2021

50.6k

NET LOSS

Endangered fish thrown away and dead whales on our shores: Fishing's ocean impact

6 Apr 2021

47.1k

wildlife

Opinion: Close encounters of the dolphin kind - swimming with Dingle's beloved Fungie

Brian Holmes & Sheila Stokes

20 Mar 2021

32.4k

wildlife

Reminder issued about hedge-cutting ban to protect birds during nesting season

1 Mar 2021

66.3k

Shear Force

'Whole ditches disappearing overnight': hedgerows falling foul to larger farms

22 Feb 2021

77.0k

wildlife

Men charged for possession of 345 white-clawed crayfish, a protected species

17 Dec 2020

28.7k

wildlife

Extract: Moving to the country helped me discover the secrets of the natural world

Richard Nairns

24 Oct 2020

22.9k

Nature

Human activity sends wildlife into ‘freefall’ with 66% drop in global populations since 1970

10 Sep 2020

13.5k

Good eyes

Spiders, sharks and science: The best pictures from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards

1 Sep 2020

22.1k

RHD2

Presence of deadly rabbit and hare disease confirmed in six counties across Ireland

24 Sep 2019

95.1k

irish wildlife

Quiz: Native Irish bird species are in decline - test your knowledge on them before they disappear

7 Jul 2019

28.6k

Laois

Two men convicted after destroying nests of four bird species during out-of-season hedge cutting

13 May 2019

109k

wildlife

These stunning images from Netflix's Our Planet took four years to capture

7 Apr 2019

35.6k

wildlife

Lion kills young worker in US conservation park

31 Dec 2018

24.2k

Circle of Life

200 elephants to be moved to Mozambique as part of effort to prevent falling numbers

24 Jul 2018

8.6k

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