Having delayed action to protect peat soils by two years 🇮🇪 now wants to do nothing at all. The worse #ClimateBreakdown gets the less leadership we see from some quarters.
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Farmers need to get a fair price for their produce. Below cost selling must be banned as a start.

Catastrophic decline of wild Irish salmon is another of the slow scandals of Irish life-Fintan O'Toole

'no. of wild salmon returning to 🇮🇪 to spawn in 1975 was 1.7m. In '22 it was just over 170,000'

Much of ⬇️ 'caused by the pollution of rivers with nitrates'
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Live democracy. Never take freedom for granted #UseYourVote #EUelections2024

The social contract between farmers & the public is critical to all our future. Ó Foghlú writes without a new approach to engaging the public, farming will become dangerously isolated.
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Barriers in rivers act like blocked and clogged arteries in humans; they slowly kill.

When they are taken away, life returns in droves and water quality improves.

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European ecologists and scientists call for approval of Nature Restoration Law not only to fight biodiversity loss and climate change but also to save agricultural productivity buff.ly/3U8NnDK .

'If conservation generally works but biodiversity is still declining, then simply put: we need to do more of it. Much more. While at the same time reducing the pressures we put on nature.' #RestoreNature
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Not only is nature conservation successful, but scaling up conservation interventions would be transformational for halting & reversing biodiversity loss, thats according to an meta-analysis of conservation research over the last century #RestoreNature
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With new scientific research and updated mapping imagery, the EPA had updated calculations for emissions from smaller-scale domestic peat harvesting.

The new data puts emissions on a par with aviation.

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If elected Niall Boylan will save Clontarf from spiders. I would have thought people in Clontarf are more worried about rising sea levels than spiders?

Years of work invested into developing & implementing CAP all thrown out the window in weeks so that Centre-Right politicians can court Right-Wing votes. A shocking failure of leadership. Lets hope Member States have more sense than the European Parliament.

EU green deal at ‘very high’ risk of being killed off, says Greens co-leader

We must not surrender to apathy. EU citizens want & need the Green Deal #RestoreNature theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

We can only deliver ambitious Nature Restoration by working in good faith with communities & farmers. There is frustration out there because the State needs to do much better both within & outside protected sites. Minister Noonan has always acknowledged that.

‘Insane’ and ‘dangerous’ to give up on the EU Nature Restoration Law, says Belgian minister #RestoreNature
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It's the #EarthDay !
Europe needs a strong Nature Restoration Law to #revive #ecosystems degraded by human activities!
EU Council, please help to #RestoreNature !
#rivers #restoration #damremoval #fishmigration

Nature inspires & unites people like few other things in life 👏

The potential to #RestoreNature in Ireland is vast & the benefits are endless. This #EarthDay lets commit to making it happen.

The UN's Global Biodiversity Framework is now in peril due to the EU’s failure to pass the #RestoreNature Law.

The law was heavily debated and a final text was agreed upon by the 3 EU institutions

We had an agreement, EU Council. Respect it. Seal the deal

#EarthDay

EU Council this #EarthDay deliver on your promise to #RestoreNature 🌍

Because every child should know the feeling of the summer sun on their face and the sound of the Cuckoo & Grasshoppers reverberating in their ears