Aid to the canon of information on Irish wildlife

Initiatives like the Irish Examiner ICMSA farming poll give hope for nature in Ireland. 

As Noel Baker reported in this paper on September 22, while the poll shows that one in three farmers do not think (mistakenly, in my view) that farming impacts negatively on climate change, 61%, especially younger farmers, have taken measures to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.

A new edition of Irish Wild Mammals: a guide to the literature compiled by Pat Smiddy and Paddy Sleeman, senior researchers in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at University College Cork also gives hope.