Celebrate Biodiversity Week with the Community Wetlands Forum
Biodiversity week kicks off on 19th May and runs for over a week until Sunday 28th. There are lots of free events happening across the country to celebrate Ireland’s wonderful nature. With the biodiversity crisis, it has never been more important for us to...
Special Needs Families Enjoy Kilteevan Peatlands
Shamrock Squad Adventures is a community of Special Needs Families on the mission to make outdoors accessible for all needs. Their most recent event was a 5km walk on the Cloonlarge Loop, Kilteevan, Co. Roscommon. Partnering with Kilteevan Tidy Towns families explored...
Conserving Peatland Heritages
This month’s blog post is by Kate Flood. Kate is a PhD candidate at NUI Galway. Her work explores the relationship between people and peatlands. She is involved with Girley Bog in Co. Meath and runs the website abogslife.com. Kate is also a member of the...
Cloonshanville Bog, Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon
This month’s blog post comes from David j Pierce.On a visit to Minneapolis, USA David received an inspirational lesson from Brian Pobuda looking through the book ‘Photography as a Fine Art’, which showed the full scope of the photographic image. Returning...
Lemanaghan Bog: the road is rising to meet us
The Slí Mór, Pilgrim Path, Lemanaghan Bog; ©KevinO’Dwyer Photography Introducing Aoife Phelan, the author of this blog post. Aoife is a secondary school teacher of Computer Science and a native of Lemanaghan, Co. Offaly. She is also a member of the Lemanaghan Heritage...
Celebrating our Bog Women on International Women’s Day 2022
Our first blog post for ‘Bogs in Transition’ blog post highlights the women who are members of the Community Wetlands Forum who live in the Midlands of Ireland where our Just Transition funded project, Connecting Communities with Peatlands, is focused....Join The Community Forum
