Tomás Murray of the National Biodiversity Data Centre will introduce the biology and the species of Irish bumblebees and butterflies, and provide training on how to monitor both groups of pollinators according to international standards. You’ll also get to spend a few hours in the field honing your identification skills for both groups and practice the necessary skills to become a recorder for the National Biodiversity Data Centre’s butterfly and bumblebee monitoring schemes.
A celebration of our nocturnal urban biodiversity. Join the Irish Wildlife Trust for a guided walk in St Anne’s Park at nightfall to explore the urban biodiversity of our city.
BATLAS 2020 is an all-Ireland bat distribution survey of Ireland’s four common bat species. Between 2016-2018, BCIreland hope to map every 10km square across the island in relation to the present/absence of common pipistrelle, soprano pipistrelle, Leisler’s bat and Daubenton’s bat. Volunteers are being sought to help us with this endeavour.
Celebrate National Biodiversity Week with An Taisce Dun Laoghaire Association. Join us on Wednesday May 26th at 2pm for afternoon talks and workshops on ” The Urban Beekeeper” at Mount Merrion Community Centre, (beside St. Therese’s Church) Stillorgan, Co. Dublin.
Discover the world of otters in Galway City Centre at this outdoor talk and otter survey demonstration!
Become a Citizen Scientist with this butterfly identification & monitoring workshop on Lullymore West Bog nature reserve!
Monitoring bumblebee populations is an important means of measuring change in the environment as well as the state of habitats for biodiversity. It is also a useful way that both professional ecologists and volunteers can contribute to the conservation of insects, the majority of Irish biodiversity!
This is a workshop on the subject of Shannon flood defences and will involve a demonstration on soft flood protection. We aim to initiate a community-led project planting trees and shrubs on the Shannon embankment. This event is organised by the KULYANA project of Clare Association of An Taisce. It will take place in the Spruce Room of the Oakwood Hotel, …
Join Friends of Merlin Woods, Galway, for a WHOLE WEEK of free events to celebrate Biodiversity Week! Bird Song Workshops, Dawn Choruses, Bat Walks, Nature Walks and a whole Forest Field Day for all the family. Click ‘read more’ to see details of individual events.
Building Biodiversity in a Barren Landscape – at the Arts and Business Campus, 40 Lr. Drumcondra Rd.