The Campaign for the Abolition of Cruel Sports (CACS) is alarmed at the news that hares are now extinct on Dublin Bay’s North Bull Island, one of Ireland’s most important nature reserves and coincidentally one that for generations had been almost synonymous with the Irish hare.

ANYONE visiting our off-shore islands, such as the Skelligs or the Blaskets, will surely be enthralled by not only what’s happening on the water, but above their heads.

The State is to spend over €130,000 this year to halt and reverse the decline of breeding wader birds in the Shannon Callows.

A PROPOSAL to make Castlemaine Harbour in Co Kerry a Special Protection Area (SPA) in order to protect birds and other wildlife is set to arouse strong opposition from land owners.

THERE’S enough room for everyone, humans and animals, in this country.