As a key event in National Biodiversity Week, Dublin City Council is launching the Draft Dublin City Biodiversity Action Plan (2021-2025) for public consultation.
Have you got more moss than grass in your lawn?
Lynn O’Keeffe Lascar, DSc Horticulture, Craft gardener with the OPW tackles common gardening conundrums in her new gardening column
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19 May 2021
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Why is your lawn mossy? Basically, all things being equal, grass would outgrow moss any day. You don’t have a problem with moss in your lawn, you have unhappy grass. You can go out and spray herbicide on the moss, but the same problem will just come back next year, and you’ll just have to buy that product again.
Moss is a slow-growing plant quickly smothered by grass. So, if the moss is winning in your lawn what’s going on? There’s a few basic things grass needs to grow well.
Minister Malcolm Noonan announces â¬1.35 million for Local Authority biodiversity projects on World Wildlife Day
Malcolm Noonan T.D., Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform, has today, World Wildlife Day (March 3rd 2021), announced that over â¬1.35 million will be made available to local authorities in the Local Authority Biodiversity Grant Scheme for projects which tackle Invasive Alien Species (IAS) and to carry out actions in the National Biodiversity Action Plan 2017-2021 (NBAP).
First launched in 2018, funding for the grant scheme has been increased from â¬700,000 in 2020. The scheme comprises two streams: a â¬500,000 fund for projects tackling Invasive Alien Species (IAS), including species which are included on the EU IAS list of Union concern, and â¬850,000 for other maintenance, restoration and awareness-raising projects under actions in the National Biodiversity Action Plan.
February 21, 2021 12:46 pm
A “far from controversial” idea, the reintroduction of the Corn Bunting to Ireland is being “gently” spoken about in conservation circles. But, why?
According to BirdWatch Ireland, the Corn Bunting was once a “widespread resident in lowland agricultural areas” – that is, before it became extinct in the 1990s.
Cork tillage farmer Paul Moore is co-ordinating a report on tillage farmland and biodiversity, with part of that looking at what research has been done internationally on reintroductions of the bird.
Fat Bird Of The Barley
Moore, a member of BirdWatch Ireland for the last 40 years, tells
AgriLand that the “small, Sparrow-size bird, as the name suggests, is very much a bird of cereal-growing areas”.