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June 3rd, 2011 |
Thanks for taking the time to read our newsletter. Please help strengthen the environmental community in Ireland by submitting articles or notices of events. You can send your contributions to news@ien.ie. We are aiming to publish this eNewsbulletin every Tuesday. Please send material by Monday for inclusion the following day. If you wish to unsubscribe please follow the instructions at the bottom of this email. To read the full articles just click on the links. | Dublin (June 3rd, 2011) - On June 4th, OCEAN2012 and the will host a photo exhibit at the National Sea Life Centre Bray. This event is just one of more than 40 being organised by the OCEAN2012 coalition during the second annual European Fish Week (June 4th - 12th, 2011), which will engage citizens across Europe to call for an effective reform of the EU's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). These collective actions coincide with World Oceans [...] |
Overfishing and the mislabelling of our fish foodstuffs have been big issues highlighted recently by programmes such as Channel 4's Dispatches and Hugh's Fish Fight. The Irish Wildlife Trust is a member of OCEANS2012, a coalition dedicated to ensure that the 2012 reform of the EU Common Fisheries Policy stops overfishing, ends destructive fishing practices and delivers fair and equitable use of healthy fish stocks. Irish Wildlife Trust are bringing these issues to the attention [...]
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The Irish Peatland Conservation Council are undertaking an extensive survey of the bog woodland habitat on their reserve Lodge Bog in county Kildare. "From this survey we hope to gain more knowledge of bog woodland habitats which are an EU conservation priority and a little known face of Irish bogs" says Michael Kenny, Conservation Officer with the IPCC. This survey will also assist with the management of this habitat for biodiversity conservation in the future. Bog [...]
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This year to celebrate the 2011 United Nations International Year of Forests, GAP is hosting a calendar competition and they would like you to join in! The theme is Trees and Nature. Take a photo and be in with a chance to win one of 3 digital cameras! One of top 3 winners from 2010: Our Lady of Victories Junior School - Senior Infants. To enter you must be under 21 and live in Ballymun. [...]
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On Sunday May 22nd 'World Biodiversity Day' an international group came down to North Wexford to celebrate. Thirty five visitors came by train, bus and car to N Wexford to celebrate Austrian Maypole day and World Biodiversity Day. The successful day was packed with little testers and tasters as well as music and shore nature fieldtrip. The meal started with wild garlic and wild water cress soup collected locally, the salads contributed included the first [...]
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Fr. Seán McDonagh, SSC Though it received very little media attention the failure of the 19th Session of the UN Commission On Sustainable Development (CSD) to reach an agreement on May 14th 2011, on a series of environmental and development issues is a major set-back for global diplomacy. The CSD emerged in 1992 from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), popularly known as the "Rio Earth Summit." Since 2003 the CSD cycle [...] |
Consultation calls Closing Date: September 1st and 2nd, 2011 UNEP organizes two consultations with major groups and stakeholders in Bonn, Germany On September 1 and 2, 2011, UNEP will organize two consultations: 1. UNEP Global consultation on Rio+20 on the theme "Engaging with Major Groups and Stakeholders on Rio+20: the Role of Civil Society in Shaping the Sustainable Development Agenda for the 21st century!", September 1, 2011 2. UNEP Regional Consultation for Europe (RCM) in preparation for UNEP's [...] Closing Date: 5pm Friday 5th August 2011. Possible Packaging Levy The Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government now wishes to begin a process of consultation with industry, other stakeholders and the public on a possible levy on packaging. The Programme for Government contains a commitment to drive a waste reduction programme as part of the overall policy in the area of a sustainable waste. One of the possible elements of this waste reduction strategy is a levy on packaging. The [...] Closing Date: 5pm on Friday 8 July 2011. Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan TD has invited local people and other interested parties to have their say in the preparation of a new management plan for the famous World Heritage Site at Brú na Bóinne. The first Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site Management Plan was published in December 2002. "That Plan set out the parameters for the management of the World Heritage property dealing with issues surrounding the protection, [...] Closing Date: Friday, July 8th 2011. A draft National Action Plan on Green Public Procurement (GPP) has been prepared by the Department, in close cooperation with the National Public Procurement Policy Unit of the Department of Finance and with the National Procurement Service, based in the Office of Public Works. This process has been assisted and informed by an inter-Departmental working group on GPP, and also by the feedback from an initial public consultation exercise which took place from May to [...] |
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