Ballybrack Climate Action

Do you stress about climate change? 🌍 ...yep, us to.
So, lets change climate change into climate action! If we all do a little we really can achieve a lot.

[Ballybrack Climate Action @Ballybrackact]

If you prefer to pick litter in your own time- no worries. We can drop a litter pack to your door any time.

[Ballybrack Climate Action @Ballybrackact]

Pollution Prevention Event this Sunday 11.30am-12.30pm. Meet up at the Obelisk, Ballybrack Village. All welcome- young and old or bring a buddy and show them that litter picking is actually fun and totally addictive!!!

[Ballybrack Climate Action @Ballybrackact]

@Gitgoesdown @PadraigMcEvoy @PollinatorPlan Thanks @Gitgoesdown
I recognise your concerns but #Ballybrack has no grazing animals and certainly none in my garden!

Plenty of honey bees chosing my ragwort
The @PollinatorPlan recognises the value of ragwort to bees, see info on great yellow bumblebee https://t.co/CVnAg50GiI

[Ballybrack Climate Action @Ballybrackact]

The Ragwort that grew when I didn't cut my lawn is full of bees today...
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@PollinatorPlan

[All-Ireland Pollinator Plan @PollinatorPlan]

If you have a wildflower area, it might start to look a bit tired at this time of year. This is a normal and important part of its cycle.
The flowers will soon drop their seeds and even more will grow next year, so hold off on the mowing.

August's seeds feed next years bees!

[All-Ireland Pollinator Plan @PollinatorPlan]

Q: The No.1 action to support pollinators on a business site?
A: Grassy pockets/verges/strips are the best/cheapest way of providing wild bee food. Why buy, when you can have beautiful native wildflowers for free? https://t.co/y9pgkiYovk @BioDataCentre PIC: O’Donnell Furniture

[Ballybrack Climate Action @Ballybrackact]

Want to find out more about #ClimateActions in Ballybrack & Loughlinstown?

Text "Ballybrack" to 51444

[Ballybrack Climate Action @Ballybrackact]

We have 3 climate action events next weekend ...
(1) Litter pick/clean up in Ballybrack
(2) Seed gathering - Yellow Rattle seed - Shanganagh Park
(3) Seed gathering- Bird's Foot Trefoil - Kilbogget Park

[Ballybrack Climate Action @Ballybrackact]

Seed Gathering/Scattering is a simple and best of all free way you can build #biodiversity in our parks, road sides and any waste land in our estates/community.

[Ballybrack Climate Action @Ballybrackact]

This "pool" shows how dry the ground was before the fire. Frogspawn here earlier in the year suggests frogs in the area. Hopefully they were able to leap to safety, but their food supply of ground insects and invertebrates will be limited in the run up to their hibernation...

[Ballybrack Climate Action @Ballybrackact]

Members of @Ballybrackact will be assessing the biodiversity loss on Mullin's Hill this morning after the fire.
At least one DLR Councillor is calling for an extension of @Fingalcoco Howth Goat 🐐 project as protection against future fires & the damage to property & biodiversity.

[Dublin Fire Brigade @DubFireBrigade]

Firefighters have extinguished a gorse wildfire on #Killiney Hill tonight, two fire engines attended the incident

Crews also remain at the separate Mullins Hill site monitoring the location

@dlrcc

[Ballybrack Climate Action @Ballybrackact]

This grasshopper was able to take refuge in the surviving ferns and grasses around the edge of the burned area.