What a beautiful evening with Solstice Arts Centre for their second #takemetotheriver event. Just fantastic contributions from Eimear ClowryDelaney and TP Cassidy also. Two great people I knew anyway. Lovely night taking in all senses. Sights, smells, sounds and feel of the Boyne to us! 🏞🌊🐦‍⬛🪳🐟

LAWPRO staff members attended a two day programme in Mulranny last week where the opportunity to discuss the many programmes and initiatives underway was availed of. Here is a group of some of the staff pictured at Achill where they participated in water sports and trail walks.

Any GIS mates out there!? Here's a role that's got a few layers to it!
You might have to shape it as you go or find the right Programme for you. But I'm confident you'll map your way through it! Seriously, past my silliness, a great opportunity to work in GIS and data analysis.

Lovely wildlife walk with National Parks and Wildlife Service ranger Triona Finnan and #Westmeath biodiversity officer Christina Sweeney to conclude #biodiversityweek last Sunday in Coolure Demense. Located within the important Lough Derravaragh area for action with Local Authority Waters Programme. 🦋🦟🌿🌳🌊

Delighted to work with Ricky at #Tullamore wetlands event with one of our brilliant local Catchment scientists Kate Tynan with Local Authority Waters Programme. Looks like I'm Revving to go there. A fantastic week to celebrate #nature and #biodiversity in #Offaly 😊🦇🐦🌳🌊🪳🐟🌱💚💛

Nice day in bettystown here discussing international fish migration day Saturday.

How many river barriers do you think there are to fish migration in Ireland?? (Make a guess below!) 🐟🐠🎣🚧🚧🚧🏞

#fishmigrationday #biodiversityweek2024

Biodiversity Week was celebrated by LAWPRO's Community Water Officers in the Border region with a variety of walks, talks and education events taking place along local watercourses. See photos from Leitrim, Sligo and Donegal during what was a great week.
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Lovely Saturday morning out with #BettystownTT to celebrate #biodiversityweek looking at the life in their local stream with an awesome tidy towns clean up. Great discussion on water quality, citizen science and river barriers for international fish migration day too! 🏞🌊🪳🐟🚧

A wonderful day in Cabra celebrating the Eco Festival, which is the culmination of a 7 month long Connecting Cabra project, 6 local schools learned about different actions they can take to benefit the environment and shared their experiencewith each other👏👏👏
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Great to see people taking some time out from their morning walk to scan the QR codes on our Blue dot signs to learn all about our best rivers Blue Dot Catchments Programme Local Authority Waters Programme Cathal Flood #camcor

Special mention to #eskerarts centre in #offaly . Saw the absolutely beautiful Wim Wenders film Wings of Desire after work other night. What a brilliant venue and creative hub right in centre of Tullamore and great to see a good attendance. Excellent stuff guys Offaly Arts 👏👏

This national biodiversity week, I am enthused by the community groups and organisations across Ireland striving to make change happen. I salute them and feel privileged to work with some. Their amazing Ethos is key to meeting our climate, biodiversity, and water goals! 💚🌱🏞🇮🇪

Ministers Charlie McConalogue, Malcolm Noonan T.D., and Pippa Hackett have launched a new landmark €25m project for Ireland’s most vulnerable group of birds, breeding waders, at Shannon Harbour. National Parks and Wildlife Service Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage

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Nice event for #biodiversityweek2024 on Saturday meeting in the village square with #BettystownTT

Along with their awesome weekly clean-up, we will be looking at some bugs where the stream meets the sea.

I'll be explaining the citizen science within Local Authority Waters Programme 🌊🏖️💚💛👨‍👩‍👦‍👦

Glad to support Ricky and Offaly County Council at #wetlands #Tullamore with Kate. An area with real biodiversity value bringing people back to living waters! 87% of our wetlands globally have diminished globally in the last 300 years. Their vital for carbon sequestration too. 🌊🏝️💚💛🪲

Habitat restoration in the Boyne Catchment!

Huge thanks to Maureen Byrne and Robert Bergin of Inland Fisheries Ireland for joining up with me today to facilitate a water themed #BiodiversityWeek event in Dalgan Park. Was great to get into the Skane and chat #WaterQuality too!💦

I'll be joining Ricky Whelan tomorrow to collect some of the pond life to display and talk briefly about why wetlands are important. Looking forward to supporting my colleagues in biodiversity and climate with Local Authority Waters Programme 🌞🌄🏞🪳🐟🌳

We love an outdoor workshop, set-up ready for our first event of #nationalbiodiversityweek2024 #lovewater #h2oheroes #biodiversity #nature #environmentaleducation