I’VE JUST finished reading rather a good book which would make an excellent Christmas present for someone with an interest in wildlife and the environment. It’s called Saving Planet Earth by Tony Juniper and it’s published by Collins with the permission of the BBC.

COILLTE refutes the allegations made by Dr Roderick O’Sullivan (The Irish Examiner Letters, March 5).

Greenpeace activists this morning occupied a new EU building in Brussels in protest at the use of rainforest timber in the construction work.