Nature is taking a battering

PEOPLE out walking by the sea during the Christmas and New Year period, especially those who hadn’t done so for some time, may have noticed fresh erosion in areas.

Nature is taking a battering

Rossbeigh Beach, on the Ring of Kerry, is a personal favourite and this place has taken an unmerciful buffeting from wind and wave since the sea breached the dunes a few years ago. An island has been formed at the top of the Rossbeigh Spit and the gap with the remainder of the dunes is widening all the time, as we witnessed during Christmas.

In some coastal areas the damage is being caused by humans, cars, motorbikes, people lighting fires and, maybe, too much footfall on fragile dune systems.

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