Native Oyster Nursery Update
This summer marked another milestone in our mission to restore native oysters across Northern Ireland. At our three nursery sites - Belfast Harbour, Bangor Marina, and Glenarm Marina - we’re…
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Jessica's Bog Meadows Trainee Diary - Summer 2024
Find out what Jessica, our Trainee Nature Reserves Assistant at Bog Meadows Nature Reserve, has been up to this summer. From exciting efforts to connect people with nature in West Belfast to the…
Native Oyster Nursery Update
It's been a busy summer at our native oyster nurseries at Glenarm and Bangor Marinas. We're discovering more and more marine species living on the oyster cages since the nurseries were…
Celebrating a biodiversity boom for Bangor on World Oyster Day
It has been just over a year since we launched the first native oyster nursery on the island of Ireland at Bangor Marina. This World Oyster Day (5 August) we're celebrating a win for wildlife…
Birds and Bluebells at the Copeland Islands
Beth Finnegan, aged 15, organised a day trip to the Copeland Islands, off Donaghadee, for all our Youth Forum members in April. Beth tells us about their fantastic day out and the wonderful…
Positive additions to the NI Priority Species List
The revised Northern Ireland Priority Species List released today (30 January 2023) by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, and effective from 27 February 2023, revealed a…
The global nature summit COP15: what this means for Northern Ireland
Once-in-a-decade plans to save the natural world and reverse global biodiversity loss by 2030 will be decided by world leaders this week at COP15, in Canada. What happens here will directly affect…
Squirrel pox - the deadly disease killing our native reds
This Red Squirrel Awareness Week, we wanted to highlight the effects the deadly squirrel pox virus, carried by invasive grey squirrels, can have on our native reds and what can be done to reduce…
Respond now to Northern Ireland’s draft Environment Strategy!
Take the opportunity now to tell the Department for Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Affairs (DAERA) that you want to see meaningful action to tackle the twin nature and climate crises by…
COP26: What Ulster Wildlife is planning – and how to get involved!
Arguably the world's most important international climate summit, COP26 - or the '26th UN Framework Convention on Climate Change's 'Conference of the Parties'’ in full -…