Donal Hickey: No better time to be outdoors

It’s National Biodiversity Week and there’s hardly a better time for enjoying the outdoors. The Irish Environmental Network has helped organise over 50 free events across the country over nine days, May 19-27. All about encouraging people to connect with nature and celebrate the wildlife, plants and habitats on our doorsteps.

Also timely is the launch of a manual by the EPA helping identify Irish wetlands, which include bogs, marshes, flood plains, wet woodlands and springs and other important areas in which nature can thrive. The curlew is among birds whose survival is threatened due to loss of wetland habitat.