Alex Copland

Clandestine Hippy; not a proper doctor; professional bird wrangler. Supports SRU, NUFC, Offaly hurling & wildlife. Tweets are his...

[Alex Copland @Alex_Copland]

Man convicted and fined for chopping down hedges during bird nesting season (via @thejournal_ie) https://t.co/DYHfiGmgp6

[Alex Copland @Alex_Copland]

This is #Madness #GIAF

[Alex Copland @Alex_Copland]

Our biggest fans this week: @StrazDinja. Thank you! via https://t.co/hthCDBm4NX

[Farming Independent @Farming_Indo]

The big switch to performance-based farming targets writes @xAlan_Matthews https://t.co/1CNI7QJOei

[DaríoFernándezBellon @dferbel]

Dipper feeding fledgelings.

I weighed one of the rocks the female was turning over with her bill: 250g. Adult female Irish Dippers weigh between 55 and 65g...

Filmed under licence @npwsBioData

#Cinclus #Ornithology @johbees @uccBEES @bomah @Alex_Copland @BirdWatchIE @NatureRTE

[Ariel Brunner🇺🇦 #Xdissenter @ArielBrunner]

.@SebastianLakner makes obvious point that coupled support inevitably means each sector interferes with politicians to try and get the money, making the lobby game worse and degrading governance. #FutureofCAP

[Joaquim Teodósio @qteodosio]

Lunch break preparing for a hot(!) discussion about the #FutureOfCAP . @BirdLifeEurope

[Harriet Bradley @HarrietFBradley]

.@Alex_Copland of @BirdWatchIE on reforming rural development "we will of course make mistakes, but we can't let fear of making mistakes stop us from making progress" - especially when we know most #CAP money currently being wasted on mistake of direct payments! #FutureofCAP

[Ariel Brunner🇺🇦 #Xdissenter @ArielBrunner]

Good question from @BirdWatchIE Alex Copland: why would farmers have absolute reliability for direct payments but have environmental schemes come and go, get interrupted etc? We need to build the trust of farmers in env measures.

[Ariel Brunner🇺🇦 #Xdissenter @ArielBrunner]

Nice example of why we need targeting, advisory & scientific monitoring. Ireland has paid for over 200.000 nest boxes, targeting non threatened species, most of them probably never used by any birds. #FutureofCAP

[Ariel Brunner🇺🇦 #Xdissenter @ArielBrunner]

Finally some good new on #FutureofCAP New well targeted agri-environment packages in Ireland sound like they could make a difference. Big bottle necks R lack of appropriate advice to farmers & insufficient monitoring

[Ariel Brunner🇺🇦 #Xdissenter @ArielBrunner]

Good question from @BirdWatchIE Alex Copland: CAP has not worked for nature, farmers, society. Without change we'll not only use nature, we'll also keep losing rural communities. #FutureofCAP

[Ariel Brunner🇺🇦 #Xdissenter @ArielBrunner]

Shocking testimony on #FutureofCAP from Kazakova: local Natura2000 farmers say they would prefer to get no subsidies if intensive farmers also didn't get anything. Would at least allow them to compete fairly....

[BirdsMatter_ie @BirdsMatter_ie]

Anyone interested in farmland biodiversity & the current CAP proposals should read this to understand how badly the proposals fail nature in Europe. The fight isn’t over tho. With European elections coming up citizens have an opportunity to turn the CAP ship & save our nature. https://t.co/SuyrhpbtrT

[BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @BirdLifeEurope]

For a point-by-point policy break down of today's #FutureofCAP legislative proposals - check out our preliminary environmental analysis report https://t.co/9xI1RWaKDi #NatureAlert @GOettingerEU @JunckerEU @KarmenuVella @DCallejaEC @PhilHoganEU

[Ariel Brunner🇺🇦 #Xdissenter @ArielBrunner]

OMG #FutureofCAP introduces coupled payments for #biofuels which are banned under EU state aid. #EUbioenergy gone mad. Green claims even more fake than we expected.

[Alan Matthews [email protected] @xAlan_Matthews]

Birdlife's Trees Robijns and @ArielBrunner pass judgement on Commission's CAP legislative proposals yesterday - another decade of biodiversity decline? https://t.co/tcr57qAjLb

[Alex Copland @Alex_Copland]

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[Irish Farmers Journal @farmersjournal]

A total of 164 written submissions were received by the Irish CAP consultation, 16% of which were from vegans https://t.co/uq9G6Y6DLd

[Ariel Brunner🇺🇦 #Xdissenter @ArielBrunner]

.@PhilHoganEU says excluding ANCs from 30% env ringfencing means freeing up money for real delivery. Can totally agree with this one. One of few genuine improvements proposed. #futureofCAP