Wetlands rules won’t hurt farming
He said “wet glades” are not included in the wetlands where thresholds are being lowered for agricultural activities requiring environmental impact assessment or planning permission.
Based on the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, it has been agreed by the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food that saturated soils include the following Irish habitats — lakes, reservoirs and ponds, turloughs, rivers and canals, swamps and marshes, flood plains that are permanently or periodically inundated with water, including callows, peatlands, wet woodlands, caves, cliffs, salt marshes, dune slacks, transitional waters such as estuaries and lagoons, and intertidal habitats to 6m below the lowest spring tide level.
