Fintan Kelly
@Biggyfin
A voice for nature 🌍 working on 🇮🇪🇪🇺Environmental Policy/Advocacy. All opinions my own. Roscommon 🐏 Connacht 🦅 Ireland ☘️
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17-04-2010 23:09:12
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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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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'
irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…
'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
theconversation.com/nature-conserv…
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
phys.org/news/2024-04-k…
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…
‘Insane’ and ‘dangerous’ to give up on the EU Nature Restoration Law, says Belgian minister #RestoreNature
politico.eu/article/insane…
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
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