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Anja Murray: Do more for pollinators by doing less in the garden

I constantly encounter well-meaning community or business initiatives in which people decide that setting up a few honey bee hives is a good idea to tackle the biodiversity crisis. This is like being worried about the decline of wild birds and deciding to get a few hens as a response

Utdoors , Nja-murray , Pollinators , Bees , Environment , Biodiversity , Climate-change , Climate-crisis , Bumblebees , Honey-bees , All-ireland-pollinator-plan

Anja Murray: Marine Protected Areas Bill has been bogged down — but is due any day now

At present, marine and coastal nature protected areas (in the form of Special Areas of Conservation and Special Protection Areas) encompass a mere 9% of Irish waters — expanding the MPA network is a biodiversity action that will also contribute to climate change adaptation

Ireland , Irish , Climate-change-hub , Irish-examiner , Utdoors , Nja-murray , Mpas , Marine-protected-areas , Biodiversity , Sustainability , Climate-crisis

Anja Murray: Furry, cute, whiskery... bird-killing predators

As long as cats roam free, wildlife fatalities will continue — is it time to put restrictions on these opportunistic hunters?

Ireland , Irish-society , Utdoors , Nja-murray , Cats , Wildlife , Environment , Biodiversity ,

Anja Murray: It's officially spring and with it come eggs from almost every animal kingdom

The Nordic lunar goddess ‘Eostre’ had the head of a hare, and according to legend it was she who laid the egg of new spring life each year. Over time, this story has become the exceedingly strange notion of a bunny bringing us chocolate easter eggs to eat

Utdoors , Nja-murray , Vernal-equinox , Spring , Environment ,

Anja Murray: Mad about March hares - and the case against coursing

Considerable opposition exists to hare coursing today — the idea of catching a wild animal and pitting it against a much larger, specially-bred pursuer, for human entertainment, is repulsive to many

Ireland , United-kingdom , Scotland , Irish , Utdoors , Nja-murray , Coursing , Hares , Hare-coursing , Irish-hare , Conservation

Vital invasive mink control for wildlife conservation

Because they are native to north America, mink have no natural predators here and can wreak havoc on ground-nesting birds

Utdoors , Nja-murray , Mink , American-mink , Birds , Wildlife , Conservation , Invasive-species , Wading-birds , Place-wexford-wildfowl-reserve , Place-hebrides

Protecting nesting birds from flails and fires

About two-thirds of Ireland's farmland birds nest in hedges, which act as a kind of surrogate habitat for the woodlands that have been cleared from the Irish landscape

Hedgerows , Hedge-cutting , Outdoors , Nja-murray , Wildlife-act , Biodiversity , Conservation , Wild-birds , Organisation-national-parks-and-wildlife-service ,

Anja Murray: Hen harriers will be extinct here in the next 25 years if we don't change things now

The hen harrier is no longer a common sight here and is one of Ireland’s rarest and most vulnerable birds of prey

Ireland , Utdoors , Nja-murray , Hen-harrier , Birds-of-prey , Conservation , Biodiversity , Special-protection-areas , Birds-directive , Hen-harrier-threat-response-plan , Organisation-an-taisce

Anja Murray: Dozens of whales spotted along the Waterford coast this year

Whales play a key role in sustaining healthy oceans — to allow them to recover from the near-complete annihilation they suffered at the hands of historic whaling, and now with naval and other sound pollution in the sea, enormous conservation efforts are still very much needed

Blacksod , Mayo , Ireland , Hook-head , Wexford , Blacksod-whaling-company , Arranmore-whaling-company , Helvick-head , Dunmore-east , Utdoors , Fin-whale

Listen out for the 'sonic chain' of calls as brent geese fly overhead

Right now these gorgeous birds are trying to eat enough to sustain themselves for a trip back to the Arctic soon — so it's vital to make sure people or dogs don't disturb them

Utdoors , Nja-murray , Brent-geese , Irish-light-bellied-brent-goose , Ornithology , Wading-birds , Barnacle-geese , Place-arctic-canada ,