The Woodcock is a threatened red-list species of highest conservation concern. Shooters are allowed to KILL woodcock during 92 days of the year (1 Nov to 31 Jan). Ministers Darragh O'Brien and Malcolm Noonan T.D. must stop the killing and give full protection to woodcock.

Gweebarra Conservation Group National Broadband Irl are erecting overhead cables on 1.5 million creosote soaked wooden poles across the road network in Ireland with no local consultation or consideration of sensitive landscapes & beauty spots. This is their Appropriate Assessment for #Donegal .

“Circular economy” is just a smokescreen for all-out extractivism.

Gweebarra Conservation Group 🤫 Shush! It's a secret! One of the most beautiful scenic coastal cycle and walking routes in Donegal from Gweebarra Bay to Dungloe via the old coast road and Crohy Head. #Donegal

Gweebarra Conservation Group The Sun is shining & the Cuckoo have arrived back from south Africa. A Cuckoo flying down River, #Donegal . #Cuculuscanorus

Not back in #Donegal at Barnesmore Gap walk way still closed now 6 years due to a #wind industrial site near the #meenbog #bogslide this walk was enjoyed by many before #coillte sold out to wind developer

Gweebarra Conservation Group This is what National Broadband Ireland has produced for Appropriate Assessment - a list of the Special Areas of Conservation. Hardly sufficient for 1.5 million creosote soaked wooden poles over 100,000km of the Irish Road network. It's a disgrace in a #BiodiversityCrisis

ACK4whales Judy NOAA Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Nantucket Current Inquirer and Mirror It's happening in Europe too...
Three whales wash up dead on UK coast and two are injured 'after becoming distressed by offshore windfarm'

The first dead whale - a calf - was spotted on a mudbank before the carcasses of two adults were found later mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/t…

Gweebarra Conservation Group Smólach Mhór - A Mistle Thrush with numerous insects in its mouth before returning to the nest, #Donegal , Ireland.
#Turdusviscivorus

Gweebarra Conservation Group Connie Duffy Thomas Pringle T.D. There are only 2 streets in #Dungloe with fibre optic Internet so why is National Broadband Ireland gung ho on erecting dozens of creosote soaked poles & overhead cables on a narrow road adjacent the #Natura2000 Gweebarra River SAC first?

Gweebarra Conservation Group The saga with National Broadband Ireland continues. These beautiful views would be destroyed by the erection of dozens of poles and overhead cables where none exist. This is obviously being pushed to degrade the views in advance of an Bord Pleanála Inspection for a wind plant.

Gweebarra Conservation Group Pocaire Gaoithe - The 'wind frolicker'. Like Icarus the raptors in #Donegal have been flying high in the recent sunshine. #Falcotinnunculus

Gweebarra Conservation Group Eamon Ryan Silver Hill Contractors preparing to erect creosote soaked poles for National Broadband Ireland adjacent the Gweebarra River SAC, #Donegal without an Appropriate Assessment. Creosote is a known carcinogenic which is banned in the EU. #BiodiversityCrisis

Gweebarra Conservation Group Clamhán - Common Buzzards were shot to extinction in Ireland by the early 20th century but since the 1930s they have recolonised Ireland without human intervention & are now widespread again. #Buteobuteo #Natura2000

Gweebarra Conservation Group Iora Rua - A Red Squirrel eating pine cone seeds. #Donegal , Ireland. Globally Red Squirrels are on the endangered species list. #SciurusVulgaris

Gweebarra Conservation Group Did the earth spin backwards in time? Police stopped Irish speakers who were supporting #Palestine from talking at a Berlin rally! Unless you have an interpretator you can only speak in German or English or occasionally Arabic in Germany. independent.ie/irish-news/ber…

'Due to the corruption of our society, authority is wielded in the interests of a group which neither identifies with the people as a whole nor is prepared to be guided by its wishes'

New article by Paul Cudenec.

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Gweebarra Conservation Group A Great Yellow Bumble Bee on a Dandelion in the #Donegal Sunshine. Priceless!
#BombusDistinguendus

Sad to see . Tributes to the LE Orla & LE Ciara and all those that served on them #Irishnavy . This & previous govts have decimated our Naval Service. 2 ships Now heading to the scrap heap. #Cobh #NavalService