Oonagh Duggan
@naturenymph.bsky.social
Head of Advocacy at BirdWatch Ireland. (pic : Hen Harrier by Dick Coombes)
DPER officials sought to scrap climate clause. Incomprehensible. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Irish officials proposed scrapping ‘linchpin’ of climate legislation
Move would have ‘scuppered any notion that this Government takes climate action seriously’, environmentalists say
irishtimes.com
Commitments made in the 2023, 2024 and 2025 climate action plans are delayed (and at least one from the 2019 climate action plan). This year, the climate action plan itself is delayed. It's August and we still don't have a 2026 plan www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Backlog revealed of more than 60 delayed climate-action initiatives
‘Legacy’ measures in latest Government progress report damaging in several ways
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Job opportunity: Irish Bird Atlas Project Manager BirdWatch Ireland is seeking an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual to lead organisation of the upcoming Bird Atlas 2027-31 across the Republic of Ireland. Closing date 11th Sept. Find out more: birdwatchireland.ie/get-involved...
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www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-84-... For the moment, we are not even trying to stop making things worse. Let alone trying to fix the problems.
Analysis: 84% of nations miss deadline to identify ‘nature-harming’ subsidies by 2025 - Carbon Brief
Most countries failed to meet a 2025 target to identify all of their subsidies that could be “harmful” to biodiversity, according to Carbon Brief analysis.
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The current political concensus is that "nature conservation has gone too far". Sadly, the reality is the very opposite. Predicted decline in common bird and butterfly species even under conservation policy scenarios in Europe | Nature Ecology & Evolution share.google/KnsJvVsTNy6E...
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The European Central Bank warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’. When will we see Micheál Martin stand at the podium in front of Dáil Éireann & outline the urgent action needed to cut greenhouse gas emissions and restore nature? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’
Exclusive: As wildfires rage across Europe, Frank Elderson tells the Guardian nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy
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Worrying times for oil giant Shell as it racks up record multibillion dollar revenues profiteering off the deliberate, intentional but highly lucrative destruction of our one and only biosphere.
"Starting July 19, 2026, the European Union officially banned large fashion companies from destroying unsold clothes, shoes, and accessories. Instead of sending perfectly good products to landfills or burning them, companies must now donate, recycle, or repurpose them." via No one Cares
“Many of our Irish politicians remain convinced that the #climate crisis is not coming for us. I beg to disagree” Another clip from @tonightvmtv.bsky.social a short time ago.
Five-star Castlemartyr Resort convicted of polluting river and killing more than 100 fish and fined a paltry 5k. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
Five-star Castlemartyr Resort convicted of polluting river and killing more than 100 fish
Hotel fined €10,000 in connection with discharge from a pump house handling sewage into river on its estate
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Undermining of democracy in our own country www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Judicial reviews are a fundamental part of democracy — not a dig at the Government by greedy lawyers
A judicial review is any case taken against any public body that may have broken the law — it's the separation of powers working as intended, writes Cathal Malone
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Birds on the € notes!? You can make it happen! 🐦✨ Vote now for your favourite design! www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknot... The European Central Bank is redesigning the euro banknotes and is asking the public for feedback. And one of the themes is birds and rivers...😈
Do not adjust your screens: Daily Telegraph, purveyor of hard-core #climate denial, has temporarily noticed reality. Don’t panic: normal service on behalf of its energy industry sponsors will be resumed shortly.
Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s #pesticides law - High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife By @zdboren.bsky.social @grilledmedia.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law
Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife
theguardian.com
Seems 🐦⬛🐦🦉 watchers were much more successful than recreational anglers🎣in advocating for design of future 💶 banknotes. Your work @arielbrunner.bsky.social? No 🐟🦈🦀, but U might want to support biodiv motives 👉 lnkd.in/eF4SrCmT @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @nabu.de @kostyabiodiv.bsky.social
Portlaoise estate agent wilfully destroyed 57 House Martin nests with eggs and chicks by power washing to sell a house. Given probation act and a fine of 10k. Horrific destruction. www.leinsterexpress.ie/news/crime-c...
Man and woman in court after 57 nests ‘blasted’ off Laois house
The woman who works for an estate agent directed the man to clean the house
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'57 data centres use a total of 4.78 million litres of water a day on average.' 'average' figures can mask all manner of ills. Some of these will only take water when the temp is over 25 degrees. What volume of water are they taking currently? In the drought? www.independent.ie/weather/data...
Data centres now using almost five million litres of public water per day
There are around 100 operational data centres in Ireland, but not all use water from the Uisce Éireann network
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Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
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Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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The timing of this the day our former national airline announces reducing routes while in the middle of one of the worst heatwaves Europe has experienced (but not for long!) is chef's kiss #speirgorm
The Journal@thejournal.ie · 3w agoA bill to lift a the Dublin Airport passenger cap has been signed into law. The legislation, which was backed by business groups and opposed by environmental campaigners, will allow the airport to legally surpass 32 million passengers a year. www.thejournal.ie/dublin-airpo...
🚨 A new investigation by the Guardian reveals how COPA-COGECA, one of Europe’s most influential farming lobby groups, used its political weight behind the scenes to undermine EU efforts to reduce pesticide use. Read the full article: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... #HandsOffNature
Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law
Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife
theguardian.com
Projections for farming productivity by 2100 under mid to upper level #climate emissions scenarios expressed in terms of numbers of people fed. Detail available down to 10km² cadi.econai.org/ssp370_relat...
One of the great tragedies of our time: hoe the von der Leyen-led European Commission caved into the farm lobby and gutted its own ambitious European Green Deal. New report details how the farm lobby so successfully achieved its ambition to gut the EGD. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law
Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife
theguardian.com
"EU prosecutors find “no grounds” for complaint on NGO funding". The scandal that never was. Pretty terrible slandering of EU NGOs has occurred in the last year and the witch hunt continues in more subtle ways. @lise-witteman.bsky.social @ftm.eu www.ftm.eu/newsletters/...
Where’s the urgent world summit on the climate disaster? How many people will have to die because of climate events?
Dr. Jeff Masters@drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 3w agoA dangerous and potentially historic wildfire smoke event is headed toward the Great Lakes and Northeast. Yesterday, record 100° heat, very dry fuels, and strong winds worsened wildfires near the Minnesota/Ontario border. Their smoke will affect MN, WI, MI, OH, NY, NJ, and PA on Wed-Thu. (1/8)
Reminder: world’s oceans absorb 90% of global warming; this massive heat buffer is now almost completely saturated. 🚨 “Nearly 40% of oceans worldwide undergoing marine heatwaves, with intense hot patches in Mediterranean Sea & Pacific Ocean >10F hotter than usual”. grist.org/climate/heat...
The oceans are full of heat, and it's coming ashore
The oceans have absorbed 90 percent of the excess heat from global warming. It doesn't all stay there.
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The Italian government is trying to take hunting legislation back to the 1980's. In brutal violation of EU law. Against all scientific advice. Threat is to birds from the Arctic to Southern Africa. We need support. Here is our Italian Partner's petition: share.google/g92NXJnrh4pC...
@GIORGIA MELONI FERMA CACCIA SELVAGGIA!
Un disegno di legge prevede la liberalizzazione dell'attività venatoria, con un impatto distruttivo sugli uccelli migratori e la natura. Aiutaci a convincere la Presidente del Consiglio Giorgia Meloni...
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Great to see our partners at @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social meeting Commission President Von der Leyen and other top EU officials to influence direction of nature protection and restoration and climate.
Ariel Brunner@arielbrunner.bsky.social · 4w agoThank you President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu for a very constructive meeting with ENGOs today. We need the EU to drive a just transition away from fossil fuels, invest in restoring our ecosystem, and enforce, rather than deregulate its good laws that defend the health of both citizens and nature.
The CSO has released data on metered electricity consumption for 2025. The extraordinary headline figures: - Electricity consumption from data centres grew by nearly 10% last year, and now accounts for 23% of Ireland's electricity demand.
