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The Native Woodland Trust currently has a vacancy for a Reserves & Education Officer The Native Woodland Trust is an organisation dedicated to the preservation of Ireland's Ancient Woodlands and to the creation of new native woodlands nationwide. We are concerned with raising the profile of our woodlands and trees and the many other plants and animals which depend on them. The Trust is currently growing rapidly and has three woodland reserves, with associated membership [...] Join the multi-award winning SpunOut.ie national youth organisation. The Director of SpunOut.ie, starting in Autumn 2011, will help lead a new era in our development and ensure the continuing success and sustainability of our pioneering and respected organisation. The successful candidate will report directly to the Board of Directors and be someone with the proven mix of skills, experience and passion to provide a high level of leadership and representation all levels. If you are experienced, [...] |
WWF's flagship scheme to promote sustainable timber - the Global Forest and Trade Network (GFTN) - is allowing companies to reap the benefits of association with WWF and its iconic panda brand, while they continue to destroy forests and trade in illegally sourced timber, a new briefing by Global Witness reveals. While GFTN is intended to reduce and eliminate such practices over the first 5 years of membership, systemic failures blight the scheme's ability to [...] |
Join Irish Wildlife Trust on a Wild Watch Walk in your county and discover a wilder Ireland on your doorstep. To coincide with Heritage Week between the 20th and 28th of August, the IWT is celebrating our national biodiversity with our third annual series of Wild Watch Walks. This year's events, led by a network of expert naturalists, will be held in every county to discover, explore and enjoy what the natural world has to offer in dozens of [...] | WORLD WHALE SANCTUARY......"Ask Not, for Whom the Bell Tolls? It Tolls for Thee!" The Great Natural and Human Disaster, that is Fukushima, reminds us of these immortal lines and let us first Remember and Honor the Whale hunters and many Japanese dead, who perished in this Cataclysmic event. Our Hearts are with them and their Bereaved, at the outset of this meeting. They are in our Thoughts, to influence our Future. Hurricane Katrina also gave [...] |
The Irish Wildlife Trust welcomes proposals from the Government to legislate for the protection of wetlands. Whether the legislation will be strong enough to work is another matter. Once again the protection of the environment only comes when the European Commission puts a gun to our head. This new law will not prevent the thousands of hectares of wetlands that have been lost over the decades, to the detriment of our wellbeing and natural heritage. [...] | To celebrate International Bog Day and the International Year of Forests 2011 the Bog of Allen Nature Centre, Lullymore, Rathangan, Co. Kildare will be holding a free open day from 2-5pm on Sunday 31st July. To mark these international events the Irish Peatland Conservation Councils Conservation Officer, Michael Kenny will present a talk on bog woodlands at 2.30pm and a guided walk across Lodge Bog at 3.30pm. Michael Kenny says 'Bog woodland habitats are a [...] | Two novel MSc courses starting in NUIG this September have been devised to meet the needs of people interested in environmental careers. 1. MSc in Sustainable Resource Management:Policy & Practice A full time MSc in Sustainable Resource Management:Policy and Practice is a multidiscplinary approach to environmental sustainability run by NUI Galway and University of Limerick based on the specialisms of both colleges. Students spend Semester 1 in NUIG learning about landscape and conservation management and [...] |
Consultation calls Closing Date: 30th September, 2011 With up to 49% of Europeans living in areas where EU air quality objectives are still not met, air pollution is one of the main environmental worries facing EU citizens. As part of a comprehensive review of Europe's air policies intended to set new long-term objectives beyond 2020, the European Commission is launching a public consultation on its current policy in this area. For the next twelve weeks, views are being sought on the strengths [...] Closing Date: 30th September 2011 With up to 49% of Europeans living in areas where EU air quality objectives are still not met, air pollution is one of the main environmental worries facing EU citizens. As part of a comprehensive review of Europe's air policies intended to set new long-term objectives beyond 2020, the European Commission is launching a public consultation on its current policy in this area. The public consultation invites all interested parties to share their views on [...] Closing Date: August 15th, 2011 Please find attached a copy of Draft Code of Practice for Prescribed Burning, currently being developed by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. It is intended that on completion, this code will guide landowners in the implementation of safer, more effective application of prescribed fire for land management under Irish conditions. In developing this code, the department is keen to ensure that the views of interested parties and end users are taken into [...] Closing Date: Friday 2 September 2011 Mr Phil Hogan T.D., Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, has published a discussion document to help inform public consultation on the Government's commitment to reorganise household waste collection. The Programme for Government states that the Government will introduce competitive tendering for local household waste collection services. It is envisaged that service providers will bid to provide waste collection services in a given area, for a given period of time and to a [...] Closing Date: Friday, 29th July, 2011 The Working Group for the draft Governance Code for Ireland's community and voluntary sector are continuing their work on the public consultation process on the draft Code: 1. Extension of deadline for submissions The consultation period started on May 16th and as a result of feedback from the series of information and engagement meetings held across the country, they extended the deadline by an additional 4 weeks. The new deadline is Friday, July 29th 2011. Read [...] Closing Date: 21st October 2011 Brussels, 29 June 2011 - Arranging a cross border emergency rescue, preventing major environmental damage or comparing energy consumption of buildings in different countries will soon be faster and easier thanks to improved data sharing in the EU. With INSPIRE - Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe - the European Union is creating a common standard to make environmental information quickly and easily accessible. This will translate into clear benefits for European citizens, ranging from [...] Closing Date: 31st August, 2011 The Irish Peatland Conservation Council (IPCC) is looking for your help to restore rare raised bog habitat. IPCC have opened up a public consultation on their new Management Plan for Lodge Bog in Co. Kildare. "Lodge is one of the last remnants of intact raised bog in the Bog of Allen complex and so is of particular conservation value as a refuge for wildlife" says Tadhg Ó Corcora, Conservation Officer with the IPCC. "In addition [...] Closing Date: 9th August,2011 Title Consultation on options to reduce the use of plastic carrier bags and options to improve the requirements of biodegradability in the Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste and the visibility of biodegradable packaging products to consumers Policy field(s) Environment, packaging and packaging waste Target group(s) Citizens and stakeholders with interest/competence in the management of plastic carrier bags and biodegradability of packaging products. Period of consultation From 17.05.2011 to [...] 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 [...] |
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