News
Aquatic Plant Project 2021
This year, thanks to NPWS funding, we are once again able to offer free training sessions as part of the Aquatic Plant Project. See the Aquatic Plant Project page for full details. The next in the series is on Water-crowfoots on the 10 July which you can book for here.
Irish Spring Conference goes online!
We held the first ever online Irish Spring Conference on Saturday 27 March 2021. For more details of this very enjoyable event see Irish Conferences.
County Annual Reports for 2020
Every year we ask County Recorders to summarise the most interesting and exciting news from their counties. Here is a collation of their 2020 Annual Reports. Take a look - it is a great read! Individual County reports will also appear on county pages (see below).
Irish Grasslands Project - New Annex I Resources
As part of this year's Irish Grasslands Project we've created a series of free, downloadable resources around the four Annex I grassland habitats which occur in Ireland: Lowland Hay Meadows, Molinia Meadows, Nardus Uplands, and Semi-Natural Calcareous Grasslands. Each resource contains a description of the habitat, list of characteristic species, and descriptions and photos of 10 plant species which are good indicators for the habitat. We hope these will be useful to anyone interested in learning more about these important habitats or wanting to be able to identify them.
If you'd like the check them out, visit the Irish Grasslands Project webpage. On the page you'll also find videos and slides from the five webinars we ran this summer.
Big thanks to the authors, everyone who provided images, Maria Long for support and feedback, and NPWS and CEDaR for funding the project!
Irish Autumn Meeting and AGM
The 2020 Autumn meeting and AGM took place on Saturday, 26 September. It was held fully online for the first time but was still a great event. The meeting included a welcome from BSBI President Lynne Farrell and four talks covering Atlas 2020 and other botanical projects, followed by the formal AGM and election of new members to the Committee for Ireland.
Details about the meeting, including videos of the talks, are available on Autumn Meeting and AGM webpage.