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?The current issue of Biodiversity Ireland, the extremely attractive seasonal magazine produced the National Biodiversity Data Centre reports that butterflies are in decline.
Legislators must act urgently to stem biodiversity loss, committee told Investing in nature ‘doesn’t cost the earth, but it gives us and the Earth a chance’
Tue, May 4, 2021, 17:19
Most fields “are practically devoid of life while even the ancient system of hedgerows is vanishing due to neglect and outright destruction”.
Nearly two years since the Dáil declared a climate and a biodiversity emergency, the collapse of Irish biodiversity “is happening – and it’s countrywide”, the OireachtasClimate Committee has been told.
In a damning assessment, Pádraic Fogarty of the Irish Wildlife Trust said legislators needed to act with urgency by pursuing readily available solutions – the committee is examining how a 51 per cent cut in carbon emissions can be achieved by 2030, including the possible contribution from enhanced biodiversity.