@darrenreidy
Curator of the National Seed Bank, DBN Herbarium, National Botanic Gardens of Ireland. Conservation Botany 🌱 Wetlands 💧 Invasive Sp 🌿 Sustainable Communities🏡 Global citizen 🌍 Kerryman 🇮🇪🌈 Labhair Gaeilge liom ☘️
Bee bombs are a marketing sham anyway and don't really do anything useful for biodiversity.
No-mow-May on your lawn would have a much greater impact.
This has been my Ted Talk 💁
This little fellow just brings me so much joy!
Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara) in Co. Kerry - one of my favourite signs of spring.
@bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbiireland.bsky.social
That you Spring?
"Sure you wouldn't know yourself with the new road" - said the Kerry man to the Cork Man.
The next time you hear some politician blaming pearl mussels or the Habitats Directive for flooding disasters, might be a good time to point this out to to them.
Telling councillors they must not try to put housing on flood plains is a "frequent theme" in communications from the planning regulator
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
A few years back I had the privilege of working with a wonderful team to enhance education for sustainable development at UCC through integration of the SDGs into curricula.
Our piece "Integrating Sustainability Across University Curricula" is finally published.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Me n Charlie D are cut from the same cloth 💁
Maybe, one day, if I become a landlord, I will be wealthy enough to live in my home county.
We Didn’t Start the Fire (But it’s all the ways the EU has ruined environmental protection in the last three years) with @greenpeace.eu #ad
The EU is pushing for significant deregulation, under the guise of "simplification". They are planning to chip away at one vital environmental law at a time. Once lost, these protections rarely return.
Take Action: iwt.ie/what-we-do/hands-off-nature/
More info: handsoffnature.eu/
Gardaí & Luas inspectors walking around with their faces covered by pulled up neckwarmers is unnecessary, intimidatory & reminiscent of things we don't want to be as a nation.
It's not that cold lads - Who/where do you think you are?
#SpéirGorm #Ireland
⚖️ DEADLINE TOMORROW ⚖️
Submissions on this are due tomorrow. Please do take a few minutes to make a submission, it sounds like a dry topic, but the negative consequences for the Irish environment could be profound.
We need as many people as possible to push back on this.
Exercise your right to public participation in environmental decision making by submitting a response to the public consultation on your right to access to justice in environmental matters
Nice to see the latest issue of the @injournal.bsky.social hitting the papers this week!
Cotterite is an exceedingly rare form of quartz known from one Irish locality in Co. Cork. I was privileged to be present when Ben (7) brought it into the museum @nmireland.bsky.social Full story just published in Irish Naturalists’ Journal @injournal.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Excited that the 3rd edition of our “Identification Guide to Ireland’s Regulated Invasive Alien Plant Species”, published by the National Biodiversity Data Centre, is now available for free online and hard copies will be available to purchase in the online in Feb.
invasives.ie/guide-to-ire...
These are our collective, environmental democratic rights which are being eroded here. If you're not worried about this, then you're clearly not paying enough attention.
Access to justice in environmental matters is one of the core principals of the Aarhus Convention, if you believe that this should be maintained and should not become prohibitively expensive please respond to the public consultation that is currently open.
One too many lemonades last night so a slow start to the #NewYearPlantHunt today. We clocked a surprising 24 species in flower on a local laneway in Inch, Co. Kerry.
Highlights = Hedge Mustard (1st record for the hectad), Thyme Leaved Speedwell, & a single Navalwort flower. @bsbiireland.bsky.social
Seamus' death is a massive loss to Irish horticulture, botany and garden heritage. He was a welcoming, charismatic and immensely knowledgeable colleague. His love for his craft was palpable and his mark will will be etched into our gardened landscapes & national plant collections -
RIP Seamus.
Last week I had the opportunity to sit down with a journalist to discuss the challenges facing plant biodiversity. Seed banking is one tool that we need to prevent extinction, but must be part of wider conservation and restoration action.
www.thejournal.ie/the-man-in-c...
Last week I had the opportunity to sit down with a journalist to discuss the challenges facing plant biodiversity. Seed banking is one tool that we need to prevent extinction, but must be part of wider conservation and restoration action.
www.thejournal.ie/the-man-in-c...
Always the cowgirl, never the cow 💃💅
#CMAT was stunning tonight in Dublin
It's good to see Bishop Lucey Park open again and there are some nice elements but overall it's rather charmless, cluttered and over-engineered. Strap yourself in for a rollercoaster ride of a thread (1/n)🧵 #Cork
There is a confounding of cause and affect here - the inverse can also be true, there is also evidence that suggests that urban greening in socioeconomically deprived neighbourhoods leads to gentrification as he neighbourhoods become more desirable, forcing lower income families out once again.
I have never been wetter on a hike! Nor have I ever had to queue for the summit before!
Grand soft day on #Snowdon, celebrating 20yrs of friendship with my bestie.
My workplace is so ugly this time of year. All those sad dying trees. 😉
I just love the moody landscapes of Autumn...
