Events

Dec
5
Tue
2017
Dublin Bay – Nature and History @ JW Sweetmans - Basement Blue Room
Dec 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

IWT Dublin eventThe December talk of the Dublin Branch of Green Drinks will be about the new book by well known ecologist Richard Nairn on the nature and history of Dublin. The talk will highlight the interdependence of people and nature in Dublin Bay, illustrated by the historical ecology of this rich coastal ecosystem. It will also look to the future with the threats of climate change and the challenges for the recently established Dublin Bay Biosphere.”

Richard Nairn is an ecologist and writer who grew up on the shores of the bay and still sails regularly there. He was previously a nature reserve warden and the first Director of IWC BirdWatch Ireland. “Dublin Bay: Nature and History” is his fifth book.

**NOTE: Event venue is Basement Blue Room, not top floor.

Dublin Bay – Nature and History @ JW Sweetmans - Basement Blue Room
Dec 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

IWT Dublin eventThe December talk of the Dublin Branch of Green Drinks will be about the new book by well known ecologist Richard Nairn on the nature and history of Dublin. The talk will highlight the interdependence of people and nature in Dublin Bay, illustrated by the historical ecology of this rich coastal ecosystem. It will also look to the future with the threats of climate change and the challenges for the recently established Dublin Bay Biosphere.”

Richard Nairn is an ecologist and writer who grew up on the shores of the bay and still sails regularly there. He was previously a nature reserve warden and the first Director of IWC BirdWatch Ireland. “Dublin Bay: Nature and History” is his fifth book.

**NOTE: Event venue is Basement Blue Room, not top floor.

Dec
7
Thu
2017
Botswana to the Bog – Illustrated Talk by Tina Claffey @ Mueller & O' Connell Bakery
Dec 7 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm

IWT Laois Offaly eventJoin photographer and Birr native Tina Claffey on a photographic journey. Tina will describe her photographic adventures in Botswana through to her more recent work capturing iconic images of Irish bogs. Much of Tinas work featured in her newly released photobook Tapestry Of Light is taken at Abbeyleix Bog a local nature hot-spot. Tina’s new book will be available to purchase on the evening.

Jan
7
Sun
2018
Birdwatching @ Bull Island - Causeway
Jan 7 @ 12:00 pm

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IWT Dublin Branch’s January outing occurs on Sunday January 7th. We are most fortunate to have a birdwatch outing led by John Fox. Those of you who bought the book on Dublin Bay by, among others, Richard Nairn, who gave our December talk will know that John is the main photographer of that volume, so the outing should be spectacular. We meet on the causeway at 12 noon. Remember – dress warmly.

Jan
9
Tue
2018
Wildlife Photography @ JW Sweetmans - Top floor
Jan 9 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Wildlife photography talkMaria McGrail will give a presentation on wildlife photography. “Green Drinks”, hosted by IWT Dublin branch, occurs the first Tuesday of each month at JW Sweetman’s pub on Burgh Quay right beside O’Connell Bridge. Top floor. See IWT Dublin Branch Facebook page or their Meetup page for further details closer to the date.

Feb
8
Thu
2018
Whittled Away – Talk by Padraig Fogarty @ Banagher Library
Feb 8 @ 6:30 pm

Author and IWT Campaigns Officer Pádraic Fogarty will be talking about his book – Whittled Away – and Ireland’s vanishing nature at Banagher Library.

Feb
11
Sun
2018
Dungarvan Walk @ The Cunnigar, Dungarvan
Feb 11 @ 1:30 pm

Join leader Denis Cullen for a wildlife walk. Meet in Waterford at 1230 pm for car-pooling, car park between Shandon Roundabout and Waterford Council Offices at 1.30 from where we proceed to the car-park leading to the Cunnigar.

 

 

 

Feb
24
Sat
2018
BOOKING REQUIRED: Wildlife Photography Workshop @ 'The Hive' Herbert Park, Dublin 4
Feb 24 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

Wildlife photography talk

Free Wildlife Photography workshop with Maria McGrail. The workshop is limited to 10 participants who should bring whatever camera they have and a tripod if they have one. Tea and coffee are available so participants will just have to bring their lunch. Booking necessary at dublinbranch@iwt.ie Places are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.

Apr
15
Sun
2018
Awesome Amphibians at Abbeyleix @ Heritage House, Abbeyleix
Apr 15 @ 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm

 

On Sunday 15th April, the Laois/Offaly branch of the IWT is inviting the public to meet Zoologist and Amphibian Expert Collie Ennis at 12 noon in Abbeyleix Heritage House before heading to Abbeyleix Bog in search of frogs and newts. This event is suitable for young & old alike and is family friendly. Its a free event but donations to the branches conservation work always welcome.

Contact the Laois/Offaly Branch for any further information.

Nov
6
Tue
2018
Dublin: Close to Nature Forest Management – the ProSilva approach
Nov 6 @ 7:00 pm
Dublin: Close to Nature Forest Management - the ProSilva approach

Close to Nature Forest Management – the ProSilva approach

7pm, 6th November, J.W. Sweetman’s Pub, Burgh Quay Dublin 2

 

This talk will be given by Faith Wilson who is a practising ecologist and a committee member of ProSilva Ireland.  ProSilva Ireland is an All Ireland organisation, which aims to develop and promote the ProSilva Principles in Irish forestry which, through a diversification of age and species structures allow for the full development of the forests ecological role and the simultaneous economic production of high quality forest products.    ProSilva Ireland promotes knowledge and practical examples of continuous cover forestry management in woodlands across Ireland through field days and study trips to the continent.   Continuous cover forestry management is a forest management system where forest managers and owners work hand in hand with the natural processes and dynamics that occur in forests to the benefit of the forest owner, the environment and society in general. ProSilva members believe that forests provide four categories of benefit to society. These are:
  1. production of timber and other products
  2. protection of soil and climate
  3. maintenance of ecosystems
  4. recreation, amenity, and cultural aspects
Over the last century, Ireland has developed a forest industry based principally around plantation forests. These forests have been grown as agricultural crops on a rotation system (typically forty years followed by clearfell and replanting). The ProSilva approach is to find ways of transforming these plantation forests to permanent forests of mixed species and age classes.