IRELAND’S Environment — An Assessment 2016 has been published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 

A book just published calls for an all-out war on free-ranging cats, writes Richard Collins

Wind and solar energy firm Mainstream Renewable Power remains committed to building a £2bn (€2.39bn) wind farm off the Scottish coast despite losing a critical legal battle.

USA: A 59-year-old man was killed when the motorcycle he was driving at night collided with a black cow on a blacktopped road.

Europe has an estimated 421m fewer birds today than it did 30 years ago, a study has found.

Supermarket chain Tesco has been forced to rethink a plan to hire a sniper to shoot a protected bird which has been flying around one of its stores.

Time will come to a standstill today to mark 100 years since the death of the last passenger pigeon and the extinction of what was once the world’s most abundant bird.

IN May, this column celebrated the extraordinary lifestyle of the red-necked phalarope. After years of research, ornithologists thought they knew almost everything about the strange ways of this little wader but they were wrong. A phalarope from Shetland has confounded everybody by travelling 16,000km on migration. It’s not just the distance covered which is astonishing but the bird’s destination.

Still smoking, 460,000 cigarettes later

Scientists have captured footage of what it is like to fly with a large seabird.

Fracking close to an important wildlife site could disturb birds, conservationists warned as they lodged an objection to the planned scheme.

A peregrine falcon was fatally injured by a shotgun blast in the latest in a series of attacks on birds of prey in the North, it emerged today.

FARMLAND bird numbers in England fell 5% last year to new record lows.

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

DORLING Kindersley has re-launched its series of pocket nature guides in association with the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds). There are six volumes in the series covering butterflies and moths, fungi, insects and spiders, trees, wild animals and wild flowers.

Protesters in pinstripes rallied on the beach today, urging the world’s leading finance ministers not to “bury their heads in the sand”.

THE hunt is on for 47 “long-lost” species of bird in an attempt to discover if they have managed to escape extinction.

THE sight and sound of swifts in the sky, scything through the air and screaming, is an icon of summer.

A penguin species made famous by Hollywood is heading towards extinction, scientists warned today.

ALARMING declines in the number of bird populations across the island of Ireland have been identified in a new report.

Damien Enright hears alarm bells ringing for fish stocks.

Scottish farmers are blaming sea eagles for the deaths of hundreds of lambs, it was reported today.

Plans to streamline Europe’s agriculture policy and encourage “greener” farming were criticised today for not going far enough to protect the environment.

Damien Enright says the world of nature has been knocked out of kilter.

Environmental campaigners today demanded major changes to European farming to benefit wildlife and rural communities.

The farming industry was dealt another blow tonight as a new case of bird flu was discovered in turkeys.

The North is edging closer to having its own environmental protection agency, it was claimed today.

A French spider-eating wasp has been found for the first time in Britain, wildlife experts announced today.

The swan that died of bird flu in Scotland has tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus, the RSPB said today.

A blanket ban on the import of live birds into the European Union is expected to be agreed today as more cases of the most deadly strain of avian flu are confirmed.

The British government faced new demands today to protect areas of wildlife in Northern Ireland amid claims that the conservation of dozens of rare species was threatened.

A MAN responsible for one of Britain’s worst wildlife crimes yesterday escaped a jail term.

HUNDREDS of bird lovers are flocking to Rathlin island off Co Antrim for the annual puffin show.

A MUSICIAN who murdered a British teacher to fulfil a “bizarre and macabre” sexual fantasy was yesterday jailed for life.

Farm pesticides and weedkillers have had a devastating effect on Europe's bird populations, according to a new study.

The partner of murdered schoolteacher Jane Longhurst today told how he was “devastated” at the discovery of her burning body in woodland.

A rare bird of prey has been found dead after ingesting a fatal dose ofpoison, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said today.

The British Government should authorise voluntary, targeted vaccination in the effort to combat foot-and-mouth, a coalition of groups has urged.