Anja Murray: Now is your chance to visit great grassland sites across the island of Ireland
Goatsbeard flourishing at Tymon Park Trail site. Picture: Rosaleen Dwyer/South Dublin County Council
One of the most glorious places to me in midsummer is a flower-filled meadow:
![<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> <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)