Should wolves return to Ireland? So much debate but no science! Our new pre-print is the first time Quantitative research investigates how wolf reintroduction to Ireland might go…
@UCD_Wildlife @FZS_Frankfurt @Irishwildlife@RewildingIre@TCDZoology
https://t.co/tRAuvTtI3E
🚨 New paper out!
We used agent-based models + GPS & GIS to track how land-use change drives wildlife-farm encounters & disease risk.
✅ Dairy farms = high-risk bTB zones
✅ Badger & farm density key drivers
✅ Strong validation with real-world data
https://t.co/cPGlkVJFgC
This week we had the pleasure of having @KilsResearch visit us to discuss our exciting collaboration on modelling predator-prey dynamics in the Bavarian Forest 🐺 🦌 - of course some time out in the field was also included! 🐾 🌲
Amazing find while surveying the Phoenix park this morning.
A significant population of hand sized Poecilotheria regalis Tarantulas living happily in numerous trees and walls around the park! How they arrived and adapted to our climate is the big question... Scarfs, perhaps?
tomorrow I’m off to Derrybawn to see a lad who wants to replant a big Sitka Spruce site with native woodland
if you’ve ever looked into the lawns at Derrybawn House or walked up into National Park above …
it’s perhaps the most challenging site in Wlicklow to grow trees
@jane_faull@jane_faull's research built on previous research published in @AnimalEcology that found that feeding fallow deer in Phoenix Park was driving artificial selection of harassment behaviour.
Find out more👇
https://t.co/uH8Ag2ZpZV
Heres your foreigner to get angry with. A foreign investment fund buying Irish property to rent out for profit. This is it here. Over here. This is what’s making the country unliveable. Here’s the thing to be furious about