Friends of Ardee Bog is a community group dedicated to protecting & preserving Ardee Bog, Irelandโs most easterly raised bog, about 10,000 years old. ๐
Hello! ๐ we're Friends of Ardee Bog, a community group dedicated to protecting & preserving Ardee Bog, Ireland's most easterly raised bog. We love sharing the beauty of our bog and learning from other bog lovers. #peatlandsmatter#rightsofnature ๐
@CitizAssembly Solutions! @IrishRainforest suggests that we need to replace the word "Loss" with "Hemorrhage". We're hemorrhaging biodiversity. Our wild natural habitats have been obliterated and we need to talk about bringing them back. #rewilding
@CitizAssembly We were trying to get our submission to you today so it could be considered tomorrow, but we're still working on it! Are we too late if we submit it now?
Busy preparing for our members of #CABioLoss tomorrow! Looking forward to a weekend of great discussions and presentations!
The #Biodiversity Assembly begins at 9am. You can watch live here: https://t.co/DzIhYqTAi8
Bogs are a rich and unique range of habitats teeming with life. We're submitting our comments to the @CitizAssembly on Biodiversity Loss. It's wonderful to see (and read!) all the other submissions already received. https://t.co/T8vC2plt6W #peatlandsmatter#rightsofnature ๐
Hello! ๐ we're Friends of Ardee Bog, a community group dedicated to protecting & preserving Ardee Bog, Ireland's most easterly raised bog. We love sharing the beauty of our bog and learning from other bog lovers. #peatlandsmatter#rightsofnature ๐
We're looking forward to advocating with @JamesAOrr of @EJNI_Online for the #RightsOfNature at the @IMMAIreland 'Earth Rising' event with the Friends of Ardee Bog: https://t.co/QtaeiZbzWF
3.30 โ 5.30pm / Location: Studio 5, IMMA Ireland, Saturday 22 October. @katieholten
"It's a magical living landscape."
A Co Offaly photographer is revealing the hidden beauty of the raised bogs of the Midlands. Tina Claffey uses a macro lens to capture bog flora and fauna in extraordinary detail, describing her work as "a tool for conservation" #ClimateHeroes
"All wildlife habitats are valuable but some are rarer than others, some are home to more life than others and some are irreplaceable." @DanesMoss
Here's a handy video by Richard Lindsay, University of East London, explaining how #RaisedBogs are formed. https://t.co/dCrVWOf6Ov
Like all raised bogs in Ireland, Ardee Bog is about 10,000 years old. As the Ice Age glaciers melted ice scratched the land creating depressions which formed lakes filled with glacial melt water. The lakes were lined with a chalk marl formed from shells. #peat
Shells helped create waterlogged, low oxygen conditions. Any plants which fell into the lake did not decompose as there were no worms, bacteria or fungi. Over a looooong time the lake fills with plant material. Trapped under water the plant material slooowly becomes #peat.