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21 Dec 2024
This page had a good run
Will be moving to SpéirGorm with same name and same musings 🟦☁️
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Rewilding Ireland retweeted
19 Dec 2024
I started Ireland's most ambitious camera trap project in Wicklow as part of Snapshot Europe.
Since 2021, I partnered with @UCD_Wildlife @ReWildWicklow deploying 150 cameras, collecting ~400,000 photos, and ~31 years worth of survey effort.
2024's highlights below! 🧵👇
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14 Dec 2024
A wintery morning today in SW part of Białowieża Forest. -10°C throughout the night froze all the waterbodies including rivers, yet still Pygmy Owls & Hazel Grouses were vocally active in the sunshine.
Still the most interesting was two Red Deer stags rutting! Exceptionally late!
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8 Dec 2024
Clean the drains
Drain the land
Cut the trees
Clear the mess
8 Dec 2024
Couple of my Hereford charts found their way onto Facebook, bringing out the dredging and gully brigade.
How anyone can look at images like these and believe they’re the result of not clearing ditches or dredging some silt out of the bottom of rivers evades me.
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Rewilding Ireland retweeted
5 Dec 2024
Nativeness as Gradient?
Beyond the Native/Alien Binary...
Towards a More Complete Value Assessment of Species in a Rapidly Changing World 🌎🌍🌏
doi.org/10.1007/s10806-024-0…
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4 Dec 2024
"Worrying development"
Buddy, what do you think happens naturally?
4 Dec 2024
We will be discussing the worrying development of leaving culled wild deer to rot in our national parks on @highlandradio this morning. This practice creates bio security hazards and waste sustainable venison and is detested by those who manage our deer @Glenveagh_NP @NPWSIreland
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4 Dec 2024
Stuff like this feeds the narrative that hunters only care about hunting and not nature.
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4 Dec 2024
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There's serious ecological discussions to be had by adults about deer management, it would be great if all stakeholders were mature enough to be at the table.
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27 Nov 2024
This account will be posting more on BlueSky, and less here - this place is being overrun by losers and fools.
Don't forget to vote Friday, vote left, transfer left.
Catch you on the flipside.
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24 Nov 2024
RT @extremetemps: EXTRAORDINARY
One of the most extreme events in 3 centuries of European climatic history.
Hundreds of stations with Tmins…
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23 Nov 2024
22 Nov 2024
Independent Ireland pledges a Luas for every county and subsidised rent for front-line workers
jrnl.ie/6550052t
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Rewilding Ireland retweeted
23 Nov 2024
15°C in southern England tomorrow—just 4 weeks before Christmas. Most of England will be ~8°C above the seasonal norm. 🌍 The wild climate swings we’re seeing will only intensify as the planet continues to warm.
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23 Nov 2024
Like rivers overhead, the branches of this tree bring life where they wander.
Growing for centuries in our Ancient Wood reserve in Ballinakelly, the entire area was probably named after this wood. In the Irish language Ballinakelly is "Baile na coille", the townland of the woods
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10 Nov 2024
This site is dying a quick death and not posting much anymore but imploring Irish followers to critically assess politicians during the election and not vote for charlatans & loons
FG have been in power since 2011, they did a budget a few weeks ago - 11% is a dangling 🥕
Fine Gael has said it will permanently reduce the VAT rate for the food-based hospitality, entertainment and hairdressing sectors to 11%, if returned to government
rte.ie/news/politics/2024/11…
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10 Nov 2024
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Don't vote for the candidates that want your vote but laugh at you, your struggles and the boatload of young people leaving for Canada and Oz
10 Nov 2024
Last night Fine Gael minister Peter Burke had Michael O’Leary (yes that one) launch his election campaign in Mullingar.
The sheer hypocrisy to have him on stage whinging about government wasting money at a government TD’s event. 😂😂😂
Fine Gael don’t care about the working class. That’s evident. And Mr. O’Leary (who’s worth about a billion euro, fair play to him) certainly doesn’t either.
Insults to teachers, left-wing parties, you name it he said it.
And then to top it all off, he made it abundantly clear that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are two cheeks of the same arse by telling people to transfer between FG and FF.
This is who Fine Gael are.
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10 Nov 2024
And to distract you from their mockery and disdain of you, they make headlines by punching down and making you think its another group's fault, not the government's fault things are bad for you.
Critical assess these vile tactics.
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Fine Gael leader Simon Harris said he believes International Protection Applicants who earn money should have to pay towards the costs of services and that the government should be able to use chartered planes to facilitate deportations | rte.ie/b/1480094 #GE24 #Election24
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10 Nov 2024
I am extremely happy to share my first paper (‼️), a joint effort between my PhD project at @MfrcATU and mesopelagic research at the @MarineInst
If you want to know more about how #eDNA 🧬 can help us study mesopelagic fish 🐟, give it a read! doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsae…
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Why are these scenarios so commonplace here in Ireland? When will these people realise that all of this ends badly? Why is it allowed? Nature in Ireland is under constant attack in the name of ‘progress’. We need to protect it. Restore it. Cherish it.
9 Nov 2024
Local large wet field covered in reeds and rushes being completely cleared by bulldozers and excavators. Had often seen Little Egret and Grey Heron foraging there when passing by. Likely full of frogs, mammals and invertebrates too. Depressing.
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