Always though it was a serious gap in environmental protection to not have planning permission requirements for farmers to alter the hydrology of land given its wider impacts. Regulations will ‘wreak havoc’ for farmers on marginally peaty land  https://t.co/scuj6Wi0DU #agriland

"35% of the land we farm now produces 2% of calories we consume" ..."We waste a third of the food we produce".."70% of the corn we use to fatten cattle and chickens and pigs". The honest truth about how we use land and intensive farming

Clearly something very wrong with our forestry Industry if tens of thousands of these non natives in monoculture plantations are toppling from a single storm. Would this happen with mixed native woodland? I think not.

kerry farmer found guilty of dredging 270m of a salmonid river is fined just €750. If that's not an incentive for the next farmer to come along and do the same, I don't know what's is. https://t.co/pwXpXIdKDu

So, in case anyone is under any illusion about who was pushing for the mercosur deal. It has Fine Gaels fingerprints all over it. Thank God the greens are out. Nowhere for FG to point the finger anymore... except at themselves.

Warning!! Horendosly bad article by someone who has clearly no understanding of what biodiversity is and how it works. Warning issued to anyone with magpies in their garden

The end of the dairy industry as we know it, if this was to become the norm. Teagasc confident that Bovaer is safe for use

While they may have been the whipping boy for FF/ FG, they most certainly did achieve a lot more than than your average junior party in gov. Single handedly addressed the rural public transport issue for one but please, please start address biodiversity loss with the same zeal.

A little graphic that should guide your voting decision on Friday. Note in particular the 4 at the bottom for which climate action (and for that matter biodiversity loss) is virtually a non issue. Some have no discernible detailed polices on how to address these No.1 issues.

Where did the idea of water in plastic bottles ever come from? It certainly wasn't around when i was a child. Despite the recent floods, water shortages are a serious issue, & multinationals are taking advanatage. Water abtraction has become the new oil.

Such an important message. We lay all our hopes on recycling, yet it's way down the waste hierarchy. We need to be proactive in not producing it at all. We can't recycle our way out of an ever growing mountain of plastic.

NPWS to commission habitat assessments in new national park https://t.co/vq955ywOe7 #agriland

Interesting post on the impact of humans being present. While we all need access to the outdoors and a reconnection with nature, it shouldn't come at a cost to wildlife and viable habitats being abandoned due to human disturbance.

A really great thread on water in the landscape, where it's all gone, the impacts of that and why, where and how we need to bring it back. We need water back on the surface, right where it is supposed to be.

Imagine what 22 billion would do to restore marine ecosystems, which just so happen to capture and store 93% of the world's CO². Carbon capture contraptions just would come near it!

Unlike nitates, there is no where else for farmers to point the finger towards, as ammonia emmisions are entirely from agri sources. ‘Nowhere farmers can hide’ as ammonia emissions fines pile up

While our councils have generally made great strides in allowing meadows to develop, particularly on a motorways, this is something I've not seen at all in ireland, but it is essential if we want to increase plant diversity. It the next logical step: remove the hay.

The decline of seabirds, not least gulls is so easily overlooked.Seabirds are reliant on the ocean for food, so the fact they are struggling suggests other marine species are in trouble.“It’s a quite strong signal that something is not right in the ocean” https://t.co/LP1Q9UkM5l

These are exactly the type of misconceptions that are holding back nature recovery. Resident didn't even concieve these uncut areas as 'meadow'. One wonders what they think a meadow is. The meadow mutiny: why a rewilding scheme sparked a residents’ revolt

In case anyone is still unaware of the importance of ivy. Just a small section of roadside ivy coming into flower at the moment. Likely at least a dozen fly, hoverfly, wasp, & wood wasp species. Note the absence of bees, the ones we most often think of when discussing pollinators