Jessica's Bog Meadows Trainee Diary - Summer 2024
Find out what Jessica, our Trainee Nature Reserves Assistant at Bog Meadows Nature Reserve, has been up to this summer. From exciting efforts to connect people with nature in West Belfast to the…
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Dip beneath the waves - a day in the life of a graduate marine conservation assistant
Jessica Mather joined us almost three months ago as a Graduate Marine Conservation Assistant - a new role kindly funded by Wilson Resources. Hear more from Jessica about a typical day working on…
Jessica's Bog Meadows Trainee Diary - Spring 2024
Find out more about Jessica, our Bog Meadows Trainee Nature Reserves Assistant, and what exciting work she’s been getting up to so far to help bring people closer to nature, as well as some of the…
Native Oyster Nursery Update
It's been a busy summer at our native oyster nurseries at Glenarm and Bangor Marinas. We're discovering more and more marine species living on the oyster cages since the nurseries were…
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…
Birds and Bluebells at the Copeland Islands
Beth Finnegan, aged 15, organised a day trip to the Copeland Islands, off Donaghadee, for all our Youth Forum members in April. Beth tells us about their fantastic day out and the wonderful…
My year as Trainee Nature Reserves Assistant at Bog Meadows
Twenty-five-year-old Aaron Kelly has spent the last year as a trainee nature reserves assistant at Bog Meadows Nature Reserve. The traineeship enabled Aaron to work alongside our team and develop…
The new UN Global Ocean Treaty: what is it and why is it important?
Late on Saturday (4 March 2023), in New York, history was made. A Global Ocean Treaty was agreed via the UN Intergovernmental Conference on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction, after many…
Positive additions to the NI Priority Species List
The revised Northern Ireland Priority Species List released today (30 January 2023) by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, and effective from 27 February 2023, revealed a…
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…