The European Atlas of the Seas is a tool developed to provide information about Europe’s marine environment, covering topics such as nature, tourism, security, energy, passenger transport, sea bottom, sea level rise, fish consumption, and much more. Users can benefit…
The decline of marine biological diversity worldwide, including in Ireland, due to human induced pressures, has led to calls for more legally protected areas. Under international and European law, Ireland had previously committed to protecting 10% of its waters by…
RTE’s former marine correspondent Tom MacSweeney is launching a new look 30-minute monthly marine podcast for 2023. The audio will be available from this Friday and also air on 17 community radio stations around Ireland, from Cork to Clare, Galway,…
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The 2022 IOLN members meeting was held online on the 6th of December. As explained by the Secretariat in the opening of the meeting, 2022 has been a year of ‘behind the scenes’ work: in fact, IOLN is involved in…
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Save the date World Ocean Day – 8th June 2023. Fair Seas will host its inaugural conference in Cork next June on World Ocean Day. It will be an opportunity to bring ocean advocates, government, industry and key stakeholders together…
The hybrid high-level conference ‘Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030”: an Atlantic-Arctic lighthouse’ and its side event ‘Community Action for the Mission: Building the lighthouse from the bottom up’ organised by the European Commission took place on the…
The 2022 Coastwatch Citizen Scientist Autumn Shore Survey for the island of Ireland ran from Sept 15th to Oct 15th and its first results will be presented on Monday the 5th December at a public event open to those interested in…
Galway City Council are looking to continue the growth of sand dunes on Grattan Beach in Salthill, and to protect the existing sand dunes and beach from erosion. To help achieve this they have planned a series of workshops in…
The Secretariat of the Irish Ocean Literacy Network at Galway Atlantaquaria are delighted to announce that the next IOLN Members meeting online will be held on the 6th of December between 1-2pm. The theme of this event is ‘Working Together – Ocean Literacy With…
PREP4BLUE, a new Horizon Europe project which started in June 2022, has the ambitious aim to restore the health of our ocean, seas and waters by protecting and restoring marine and freshwater ecosystems and biodiversity, preventing and eliminating pollution, and…
