Press Release: Irish Wildlife Trust welcomes moves to better protect the marine environment 14th December 2022 The Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) warmly welcomes the announcement yesterday (December 13th) from Minister of State Malcolm Noonan that there will be new designations of Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) in the waters off Ireland as well as the […]
PRESS RELEASE: Irish Wildlife Trust calls for all trawling to be prohibited within the coastal zone The Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) has made a submission to the public consultation on Minister Michael Creed’s (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine) review of trawling activity inside the 6 nautical mile zone. In our submission we […]
New report from Irish Wildlife Trust highlights government failure in protecting our seas The Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) is urging the government to get on with the task of establishing a network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) – something which it is required to deliver by 2020 but where little progress has been made to […]
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is looking for your views on trawling within the 6 nautical mile coastal zone. The IWT would like to see all trawling banned in this area and is encouraging everybody who cares for our seas to make their views known. We have prepared a sample template and […]
Press Release: IWT calls for better legal protection for marine life 05 February 2018 The Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) is calling for full legal protection for selected marine fish and invertebrates in a newly released report, entitled ‘Protecting Our Ocean’s Wealth – a proposal for legal protection of threatened marine species’. The protection of wildlife […]
Radical action needed to save our seas Published on: 9 December 2017 This week sees the annual carve up of commercial fish populations by the countries of the European Union. Ireland will be represented by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed. A report by the New Economics Foundation found that last year Minister […]
