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This year
2024
Gardaí appeal for witnesses into potential 'badger baiting' in Limerick
24 Jan
18.7k
37
Last year
2023
More than 40 people were brought to court over alleged wildlife crimes this year
29 Dec 2023
14.8k
24 white-tailed eagle chicks released in Ireland this month
14 Aug 2023
12.3k
31
‘The future of agriculture’: 200 endangered natterjack toadlets released today in Co Kerry
8 Aug 2023
22.7k
14
Transparency concerns as no hearings held at nature sites Appeals Board in almost two years
2 Jul 2023
16.5k
11
Tracking project aims to solve mystery of where Irish cuckoos migrate to in winter months
8 Jun 2023
10.1k
10
Conservationists welcome hatching of five new white-tailed eagle chicks in Clare
5 Jun 2023
14.4k
16
Fire crews return to Co Wexford nature reserve after blaze that burned through two acres of forest
Updated 29 May 2023
19.6k
15
State to acquire almost 1,000 hectares of upland habitat close to the ‘Stairway to Heaven’
26 May 2023
26.4k
17
150 years after they became extinct in Ireland, ospreys to be reintroduced this summer
23 May 2023
16.1k
26
Osprey birds expected to be reintroduced to Irish skies this summer
30 Mar 2023
17.1k
25
Two men receive criminal convictions related to the killing of rooks
27 Mar 2023
20.9k
17
Ireland fares worst at managing protected nature sites in new EU report
2 Feb 2023
12.2k
20
All time
Over the Hill: Persistent overgrazing causing 'devastation' in vulnerable habitats
5 Jun 2022
21.4k
7
EPA to investigate complaint about State response to peat extraction on protected bogs
Updated 2 Mar 2022
14.3k
15
Wildlife service set to hire champions to aid with the conservation of curlews
25 Jan 2022
11.0k
5
Peat was cut at 280 plots in protected bogs last year without State consent
13 Jan 2022
30.5k
41
Rare hen harrier numbers plummet as plan to protect species pushed back
26 Dec 2021
25.8k
8
Crackdown sees 50 cases launched against illegal hedge cutting this year
20 Dec 2021
44.8k
18
A win for farming, a win for nature: scheming for sustainability
8 Oct 2021
16.8k
7
Commission raps Ireland for 'persistently failing' to manage protected nature sites
21 Sep 2021
26.9k
11
Funding failure: Most of Ireland's biodiversity spend goes on schemes that have little impact
28 Aug 2021
14.3k
10
Loss of Ireland's biodiversity is accelerating - and we're missing the chance to halt it
27 Aug 2021
26.7k
42
23 white-tailed eagles arrive in Kerry Airport as part of wildlife reintroduction project
25 Jun 2021
17.1k
23
State issues licences to salmon farms to cull protected seals, documents reveal
25 Jun 2021
44.1k
53
Hunt continues in mountainous area of Kerry for missing wild boar
17 Jun 2021
36.4k
54
Parks service to rewet Wicklow Mountain bogs to increase Dublin water supply levels
20 May 2021
22.3k
15
3,000 kilometres cut in three years: Ireland's hedgerow heritage at risk
22 Feb 2021
47.6k
59
Appeal for information after buzzard found shot dead on roadside in Co Laois
9 Dec 2020
40.8k
41
Wildlife service investigates reports of 'beheaded' seals on Kerry beach
24 Nov 2020
37.4k
30
Ten white-tailed eagles flown in from Norway to help bolster Irish population
26 Jun 2020
31.7k
59
Drones to be deployed to assist firefighters tackling forest fires over coming months
12 May 2020
14.2k
22
The Lambay black rat is now the only 'threatened' terrestrial mammal species in Ireland
12 Dec 2019
23.2k
33
Suspension of hare coursing licences lifted in areas not affected by deadly virus
16 Oct 2019
15.6k
76
Five people fined for illegally hunting a hare in Co Mayo
3 Oct 2019
28.0k
Minister suspends hare coursing licences after deadly rabbit disease discovered in the wild
9 Aug 2019
40.8k
138
Two men convicted of illegally hunting hares in case brought by National Parks and Wildlife Service
19 Jul 2019
25.3k
27
Man convicted and fined for chopping down hedges during bird nesting season
19 Jun 2019
93.7k
62
Warning issued over 'severe and increasing' threat to native crayfish species
20 May 2019
15.5k
17
Investigation into deaths of two protected falcons found in Wexford quarry
12 Apr 2019
27.3k
42
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