Wildlife Crime Ireland website offers:
    Basic information on wildlife crime
    Links to further information
    Advice on Recognising & Recording a crime
    Contact details for Reporting a wildlife crime

If you’re lucky enough to have a garden, then you’re probably finding that you are spending more time there than usual – and with spring having well and truly sprung you may be looking for ways to get the most out of it.

A fantastic new booklet written by Juanita Browne and beautifully illustrated by Barry Reynolds is full of great information on how to attract more wildlife to your garden, from encouraging the growth of wildflowers and planting trees to creating a welcoming environment for birds and other animals.

Gardening for Biodiversity is available as a free ebook and if you live in Dublin you get a copy in the post by emailing heritage@dublincity.ie

 
Juanita has also produced a lovely free ‘Badger Diary’ children's book available to download at www.naturenerd.ie all about badgers going about their interesting lives and looking for food, having families and making their homes. Beautiful illustrations by Ger O'Brien

 

They're back! Swifts are with us for just 3-4 months each Summer bringing spectacular action and excitement to our skies.

Swifts come to Ireland to breed. They arrive in late April and leave in late August. They are faithful to their nest sites and once they've found a place to nest, they return every year for the rest of their lives.      
The swift is of conservation concern in Ireland because its population has declined by over 40% in the last 15 years so we wanted to let you know of various online resources providing advice and information about rehabilitation & conservation for Swifts across Ireland and Internationally.

 

There are swift rehabilitators on our Irish Wildlife Matters website and Swift Conservation Ireland.

BirdWatch Ireland Swift Conservation Project has an Online Survey for sighting submissions and an interesting swift blog.
In the UK there is Swift Conservation and in Spain - Falciot Vencejo Swift Rehabilitation

The pine marten population in Ireland has recovered from the brink of extinction in the 1970s. Despite being one of Ireland’s few positive wildlife conservation stories, its return has been marred by misinformation and unsubstantiated claims about the animal’s behaviour. In response to the need for reliable material on the species, the Vincent Wildlife Trust developed a website www.pinemarten.ie in partnership with the NPWS.

The website provides factual information targeted at four groups: Journalists; Householders; Gun Clubs and Poultry Keepers; and Foresters and Farmers. Journalists can use the website to access evidence-based data and licenced photographs for articles. Individuals from the other three groups often have direct contact with the species, so the website contains instructions for reducing potential conflict during these encounters. Information is provided on the marten’s place in Irish history and folklore, as well as the potential for ecotourism and habitat improvement, and visitors can submit sightings and queries. We hope this resource will encourage people to view the pine marten’s return as a conservation success story in an age of biodiversity crises.

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