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Climate and environment
New phase of turf cutting compensation scheme under consideration
Noel Bardon
Some 3,435 applicants had entered the Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme by the end of last year.
5 November 2024 Climate and environment
Applications open for €600k peatlands engagement scheme
The scheme was launched by Minister for Nature, Heritage and Electoral Reform, Malcolm Noonan, with up to €600,000 in funding available for community-led projects.
27 September 2024 Climate and environment
€12m wetland restoration fund opens to expressions of interest
The funding is open to wetland restoration projects in the midlands which successfully express interest.
Opinion: land use change rules must be changed to tackle biodiversity loss
In the context of a national biodiversity crisis, it’s not credible that farmers can remove habitats without oversight, writes Ray Ó Foghlú.
11 September 2024 Climate and environment
Concerns raised about SNHS advice
Applying nutrients to high nature value land could have unintended consequences, a leading ecologist has suggested.
4 September 2024 Northern Ireland
Farming for heritage in Co Longford
Restoring a natural equilibrium and balancing competing interests has yielded rich dividends for one midlands farmer, writes Brendan Dunford.
28 August 2024 Footprint Farmers
Local community projects allocated €458,000 in funding
Sixteen counties and two nationwide projects will benefit from the funding under the expanded Peatlands and Natura Community Engagement Scheme 2024.
8 August 2024 News
Nature Restoration Law written into law
The law sets out that the obligation to meet rewetting targets is on member states and voluntary for farmers.
29 July 2024 News
Clarity needed on eligibility of restored bogs for restoration targets - INHFA
The possible exclusion of the 20,000ha of rehabilitated bogs from Ireland's Nature Restoration Law inventory could pull more farmed peatland into the mix.
28 July 2024 News
Once-off items help push operating profit at Bord na Móna to record €106.7m
Semi-state body reported annual results for the year ended April 2024.
24 July 2024 News
Planning sought for 780ac of solar farms in Mayo, Carlow, Kildare and Louth
There has been no shortage of planning applications for new solar farm projects around the country, as the country strives to reach 8GW of solar by 2030.
10 July 2024 News
FarmPEAT: the farmed peat pilot scheme
A pilot project operating in the midlands gives an insight into some of the measures farmers on peat soils could deploy for carbon farming income.
26 June 2024 Climate and environment