Website on Irish mammals

A NEW website dealing with Irish wildlife is always welcome and mammals-in-ireland has just come online.

It’s run by the Vincent Wildlife Trust, which is a British-based NGO concerned with the conservation of wild mammals in Britain and Ireland. It has a permanent presence in this country in the person of Dr Kate McAney, who is one of our foremost experts on bats.

The Trust has been operating in this country for over 20 years and has done much good work. Before the website opened this work concentrated on two areas — research into the ecology and distribution of mammal species in Ireland and practical conservation work, including the establishment and management of reserves.