Ireland's coast celebrated in new series examining research, history, and future
Jane Garczynski, marine and wildlife biologist, in Ireland's Coast, a three-part series starting Sunday, September 15 at 6.30pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player
What use are they? Are they any good for anything? Often typical questions asked when a ‘less glamorous’ species or a creature with a ‘bad rap sheet’ is mentioned.
Jellyfish and their much smaller cousins, zooplankton and phytoplankton, are regular victims of this attitude.
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![<p> The International Union for the Conservation of Nature says that “an ecosystem is collapsed when it is virtually certain that its defining biotic [living] or abiotic [non-living] features are lost from all occurrences, and the characteristic native biota are no longer sustained”.</p>](/cms_media/module_img/9930/4965053_12_augmentedSearch_iStock-1405109268.jpg "<p> The International Union for the Conservation of Nature says that “an ecosystem is collapsed when it is virtually certain that its defining biotic [living] or abiotic [non-living] features are lost from all occurrences, and the characteristic native biota are no longer sustained”.</p>")
