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Peatlands: Northern Ireland’s climate heroes
Peatlands are by far Northern Ireland’s largest natural carbon sink and have a crucial role to play in achieving net zero – but 80% of our peatlands are currently degraded and emitting carbon.…
Putting Nature into Recovery in Northern Ireland
With the COP26 global climate change conference now over and the COP15 Biodiversity Conference just around the corner, our Nature Recovery Networks Project Coordinator Nina Schönberg explains why…
Celebrating a biodiversity boom for Bangor on World Oyster Day
It has been just over a year since we launched the first native oyster nursery on the island of Ireland at Bangor Marina. This World Oyster Day (5 August) we're celebrating a win for wildlife…
Irish Hedgehog Survey 2021 launched today across island of Ireland
Volunteers invited to take part and help survey Northern Ireland’s hedgehogs
Respond now to Northern Ireland’s draft Environment Strategy!
Take the opportunity now to tell the Department for Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Affairs (DAERA) that you want to see meaningful action to tackle the twin nature and climate crises by…
25 Year Plan now needed for Northern Ireland’s environment
As the UK Government today published its long-awaited 25 Year Plan for the Environment, a coalition of environmental NGOs, including Ulster Wildlife, is calling for a similar long-term strategy to…
NIE Networks soaring high in the protection of Northern Ireland's wildlife
NIE Networks has announced that it is playing a vital role in the protection of Northern Ireland’s wildlife and surrounding environment through a three-year partnership with Ulster Wildlife,…
The Marine Hub Project Northern Ireland
The global nature summit COP15: what this means for Northern Ireland
Once-in-a-decade plans to save the natural world and reverse global biodiversity loss by 2030 will be decided by world leaders this week at COP15, in Canada. What happens here will directly affect…
First ‘super-sized’ nature reserve created in Belfast Hills to boost biodiversity
A new super-sized nature reserve – equivalent to about 480 football fields – is being created in the Belfast Hills to help boost biodiversity and reverse nature's decline.
New peatland map for Northern Ireland underway
This summer, Ulster Wildlife is leading a project to create a new map of Northern Ireland’s peatlands, working in partnership with the James Hutton Institute (JHI) in Scotland - with support from…