Intensive land use 'a bigger driver of biodiversity loss than climate change'

Taoiseach Micheál Martin addresses the National Biodiversity Conference 2022 at Dublin Castle yesterday. Picture: Maxwells

Intensive use of land is actually a bigger driver of biodiversity loss than the effects of climate change, with dramatic increases in the past 60 years.

The second of the two-day National Biodiversity Conference on the future of nature in Ireland heard from a range of scientists and environmental professionals throughout the day, with land management and the use of natural resources just one of a plethora of topics explored.