Coastal Clean Up Day is here and while activities may be different this year with social distancing and new regulations in place, you can still get involved and play your part. As National Coordinators for Ocean Conservancy in Northern Ireland,…
Read More The International Coastal Clean Up, how you can get involved
Marine anthropogenic litter and microplastic pollution has long been recognised as a global environmental threat with ubiquitous distribution. When we think of plastic and microplastic pollution, we immediately think of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch close to away, an accumulation area for these…
Read More Invitation to Webinar on Micro-plastics in Galway Bay
On 24 – 25 September 2020, the first EU4Ocean workshop– Designing Ocean Literacy action in Europe will be organised by the EU4Ocean Coalition – a new initiative on ocean literacy of the European Commission. Registration is now open HERE. Following the official announcement by the Commissioner…
Ireland has 3,171 km of coastline and yet we have relatively few records of intertidal and coastal marine species. Explore Your Shore is a Citizen Science project funded by the Environmental Protection Agency focused on increasing our knowledge of the…
Do you have 5 minutes to spare? Have you tried out any of the free EU-ATLAS outreach resources? The @eu_atlas team have put together a short survey regarding the public engagement and ocean literacy efforts in the ATLAS Project, and would really…
Read More Feedback needed on the EU-ATLAS outreach resources
Virtual Island Summit – Ireland’s Virtual Hub Event How can we innovate and connect to help make our island economies more sustainable in a post-Covid World? That was the key question asked at this free Irish webinar held on Wednesday…
Read More Sustainable Island Economies: Connecting Locally and Globally.
Carlingford Lough is a multiple-designation marine protected area (MPA). Through its designated status as both a Special Area of Conservation (EU Habitats Directive) and a Special Protection Area (EU Birds Directive), it is part of the Natura 2000 network of…
Storytelling is alive and well in all parts of Ireland, as evident from number of entries to a national story writing competition called Stories from the Waterside, which ran in April and May during the COVID-19 lockdown. It focused on…
Read More ‘STORIES FROM THE WATERSIDE’ PUBLISHED FOR NATIONAL HERITAGE WEEK
Love This Place, Leave No Trace — Government of Ireland in partnership with Leave No Trace Ireland call for the public to care for our countryside, follow the Leave No Trace principles and protect and preserve our land Pic: Cliodhna Ni…
Over the past 10 weeks, the Marine Institute and partners have been celebrating our seas through our Oceans of Learning series, by offering news, online activities and resources on a range of marine topics. More than 130 resources are now…
Read More Oceans of Learning celebrates our sea with success
