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John Keyes retweeted
26 Oct 2022
The @opwireland is currently dredging the River Nanny in Tuam, Co Galway, during the statutory salmonid close season. Silt pollution was observed yesterday - and the source was investigated. This is a spawning tributary of the Lough Corrib SAC (thanks to 'Tuam in Picture').
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John Keyes retweeted
21 Oct 2022
There's a designated roadside viewing point on the Co. Waterford side of the Vee to pull in and 'admire' the view.
All you can see for miles around are monocultures of sitka, rhododendron, molinia grass.
This is the sort of banal sterility offered in so much of Ireland.
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John Keyes retweeted
30 Sep 2022
The Skibbereen Flood Scheme earlier this week; brutally channelized river and concrete flood walls - but a nice sign about bees. This sums up Ireland's approach to the biodiversity crisis. Parts of the town also flooded after this hard engineering scheme.
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John Keyes retweeted
20 Sep 2022
destruction and degradation:
refuges continue to be destroyed or degraded by agricultural intensification, commercial forestry (including restocking on ancient woodlands and bogs), year-round sheep grazing, high deer impacts, peat mining, quarrying, and other development
ALT an ancient flower-rich grassland being destroyed by quarry expansion. specialist wildflowers including orchids and meadow thistle are visible in the foreground, while a digger is scraping away the surface in the background
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John Keyes retweeted
20 Sep 2022
drivers II:
you can verify this by looking at aerial images of Ireland. most green areas are fields resown in agricultural grasses, dark green areas commercial plantations of North American conifers, and brown areas cutover bogs or sheep-grazed mountain.
little else is left
ALT an aerial view from the midlands, showing green intensively managed fields, dark green plantations of North American conifers, and brown cutover bogs. there is little or no high-quality wildlife habitat left here
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John Keyes retweeted
20 Sep 2022
drivers I:
the main drivers of ecosystem collapse have been agricultural intensification in the lowlands, year-round heavy grazing by sheep or deer in the uplands, commercial forestry, and large scale peat mining
ALT resown intensively managed agricultural grassland in Co. Antrim. the landscape is green and looks superficially pleasant, but wildlife has been pushed into tiny refuges here
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John Keyes retweeted
5 Sep 2022
Warning: Don't drive around west cork if you are inclined to succumb to eco-anxiety. #CAP Basic farm payments drive habitat destruction. I'm starting to document this to counteract the otherwise feeling of helplessness! #biodiversitycrisisireland
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John Keyes retweeted
5 Sep 2022
They do it because they always get away with it.
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John Keyes retweeted
5 Sep 2022
Simple and practical thing to do for nature and water quality.
Permanent exclusion area by stream, plus a few metres of a buffer strip, unfertlised and cut once late in the year.
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John Keyes retweeted
2 Sep 2022
One lap to go …see it to believe it 🔥@ciaramageean race video!!!
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John Keyes retweeted
31 Aug 2022
Without an online portal, our #VisionZero could well turn in to #ZeroVision
@GardaTraffic in dire need of modernisation
31 Aug 2022
If you've witnessed dangerous or careless driving on the roads in Wales and would like to report it, you can do so by sending your photos or footage to us via gosafe.org #OpSNAP
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John Keyes retweeted
14 Aug 2022
Celebrating their Gold and Bronze medal wins at the Para-Cycling Road World Championships 😍😍
🥇 @KatieGDunlevy and @evemccrystal
🥈 Josephine Healion and Linda Kelly
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John Keyes retweeted
12 Aug 2022
Hi everyone, today I'll be talking about something very close to my own heart, as revealed in my twitter handle: @IrishRainforest.
It's something many - or most - people are still totally unaware of: that the natural ecosystem of much of Ireland is actually rainforest.
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John Keyes retweeted
1 Aug 2022
Seattle just recorded 6 straight days of 90°F for the first time ever.
Portland just recorded 7 straight days of 95°F for the first time ever.
One of the hottest weeks in recorded history for the Pacific Northwest.
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John Keyes retweeted
31 Jul 2022
The oldest trees in Newry are about to be felled to make way for flood defence works. Trees will be sacrificed for the cheapest option. As an engineer I know that there are alternatives but the oldest oak trees in the area are seen as disposable and of no value.
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23 Jul 2022
Already seeing people bitching about the weather. I unlocked the 360° eye roll
John Keyes retweeted
17 Jul 2022
People keep telling me that because the UK had a heatwave in 1976, climate change is overhyped.
So here’s the global heat anomaly maps from June 1976 and June 2022. data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/m…
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3 Jul 2022
RT @mickkellygrows: Cycling and walking really do give two fingers to the man 🕺🏼 x.com/wallstreetsilv/status/…
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