A leaflet explaining the importance of our buildings for bats and birds.
Léigh tuilleadhLeigh níos lúBuilding owners are the guardians of many bats and nesting birds.This publication is not intended to be exhaustive guidance if you are planning works on your building, but to deepen our understanding of how important buildings are for bats and birds.
Research Framework for the Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site.
Léigh tuilleadhLeigh níos lúResearch Framework for the Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site.
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These articles were presented as part of the package available for the 2009 Landscape Conference.
Léigh tuilleadhLeigh níos lúThis special edition of Heritage Outlook brings together all the landscape articles featured in the magazine between 2004 and 2009.
Quarterly magazine of the Heritage Council featuring news, events, opportunities and heritage features.
Léigh tuilleadhLeigh níos lúIn this issue:
CELEBRATING BIODIVERSITY WEEK 2009 Orchids, Waders and Wild Goats
CLIMATE CHANGE New research anticipates the impact on heritage and tourism
IRISH ART Adding to our collection of treasures
REUSING ABBEYLEIX MARKET HOUSE • LOOKING AFTER LANDSCAPES • HERITAGE EVENTS
What climate change will mean for Irish tourism and the heritage of our coastline and inland waterways with an aim to help plan for the likely eventualities of climate change and to provide recommendations to Government on prioritising action.
Léigh tuilleadhLeigh níos lúWhat climate change will mean for Irish tourism and the heritage of our coastline and inland waterways with an aim to help plan for the likely eventualities of climate change and to provide recommendations to Government on prioritising action.
Research in relation to the potential impacts of climate change on Ireland’s maritime and inland waterways heritage.
Léigh tuilleadhLeigh níos lúResearch in relation to the potential impacts of climate change on Ireland’s maritime and inland waterways heritage, with a particular focus on those resources upon which tourism is dependent. The focus on these two elements of heritage is because of their particular vulnerability to climate change.
Summary of the activities of the Heritage Council and financial statements for 2008.
Quarterly magazine of the Heritage Council featuring news, events, opportunities and heritage features.
Léigh tuilleadhLeigh níos lúAlso in this issue:
HISTORIC GARDENS
Discovering our rare historic growing heritage
THE RIVER SHANNON
Take a tour down Ireland’s most important river
TRADITIONAL BOATS OF IRELAND
Recording tradition before it sinks
WATERFORD BIODIVERSITY ACTION PLAN • HERITAGE EVENTS • RAHAN CONSERVATION PLAN
The Heritage Council has prepared guidance that surveyors must follow when undertaking bird surveys under the REPS 4 Traditional Farm Buildings Grant scheme. This is to ensure that the survey is undertaken in line with current best practice, and that the works are designed in such a way as not to impact upon the protected wildlife.
Léigh tuilleadhLeigh níos lúMany traditional farm buildings may be home to nesting birds. As these are protected by law, buildings in receipt of a REPS 4
Traditional Farm Buildings Grant may require a bat and/ or bird survey before any works commence.
In January 2008, the National Parks and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government announced the development of Ireland’s second National Biodiversity Plan 2008-2012. The Heritage Council was invited to prepare a submission on the new plan which is provided here.
Léigh tuilleadhLeigh níos lúIn making this submission, the Heritage Council sought to support Government in its international and national commitments concerning biodiversity and its protection, conservation and management. These include commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity, the EU target to halt biodiversity loss by 2010, as well as several EU Directives and national legislation.