Rewilding Ireland

Tweets about rewilding, and what it looks like in an Irish context.
Profile picture, print by @ciaraioch.
Header, artwork by @notsadgirlhours.

[Rewilding Ireland @RewildingIre]

This page had a good run

Will be moving to SpéirGorm with same name and same musings 🟦☁️

[Adam 🇺🇦 @AdamFSmith]

I started Ireland's most ambitious camera trap project in Wicklow as part of Snapshot Europe.

Since 2021, I partnered with @UCD_Wildlife + @ReWildWicklow deploying 150 cameras, collecting ~400,000 photos, and ~31 years worth of survey effort.

2024's highlights below! 🧵👇

[Oliwier Myka @wildlifeguidePL]

A wintery morning today in SW part of Białowieża Forest. -10°C throughout the night froze all the waterbodies including rivers, yet still Pygmy Owls & Hazel Grouses were vocally active in the sunshine.
Still the most interesting was two Red Deer stags rutting! Exceptionally late!

[Rewilding Ireland @RewildingIre]

Clean the drains
Drain the land
Cut the trees
Clear the mess

[Dave Throup @DaveThroup]

Couple of my Hereford charts found their way onto Facebook, bringing out the dredging and gully brigade.

How anyone can look at images like these and believe they’re the result of not clearing ditches or dredging some silt out of the bottom of rivers evades me.

[Erle Ellis (艾尔青) @erleellis]

Nativeness as Gradient?
Beyond the Native/Alien Binary...
Towards a More Complete Value Assessment of Species in a Rapidly Changing World 🌎🌍🌏
https://t.co/k5cyzf2MqT

[Rewilding Ireland @RewildingIre]

https://t.co/rxzyQlliPY

There's serious ecological discussions to be had by adults about deer management, it would be great if all stakeholders were mature enough to be at the table.

[Rewilding Ireland @RewildingIre]

"Worrying development"

Buddy, what do you think happens naturally?

[Irish Deer Commission @DeerCommission]

We will be discussing the worrying development of leaving culled wild deer to rot in our national parks on @highlandradio this morning. This practice creates bio security hazards and waste sustainable venison and is detested by those who manage our deer @Glenveagh_NP @NPWSIreland

[Rewilding Ireland @RewildingIre]

Stuff like this feeds the narrative that hunters only care about hunting and not nature.

[Rewilding Ireland @RewildingIre]

@zanzare96 (Our voting system) is something I understand a chara.

I should have added the caveat of May be a need to vote tactically in some areas - mea cupla

Would hope people research themselves before doing before listening to an account with a wolf as a photo

[Rewilding Ireland @RewildingIre]

This account will be posting more on BlueSky, and less here - this place is being overrun by losers and fools.

Don't forget to vote Friday, vote left, transfer left.

Catch you on the flipside.

[Rewilding Ireland @RewildingIre]

@LeftLost_Pltcs @BrianCrunchie @BirdWatchIE @BirdsMatter_ie @BioDataCentre @Irishwildlife @Team_eBird @NatureRTE Not native - loved by blackcaps for some reason

[Rewilding Ireland @RewildingIre]

@LeftLost_Pltcs @BrianCrunchie @BirdWatchIE @BirdsMatter_ie @BioDataCentre @Irishwildlife @Team_eBird @NatureRTE Mahonia?

[Extreme Temperatures Around The World @extremetemps]

EXTRAORDINARY
One of the most extreme events in 3 centuries of European climatic history.
Hundreds of stations with Tmins above summer averages, up to 7/8C above JULY averages
Unbelievable MINIMUMS up to 23C in Asturias ,Northern Spain.
Max >28C France,updates later

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

15°C in southern England tomorrow—just 4 weeks before Christmas. Most of England will be ~8°C above the seasonal norm. 🌍 The wild climate swings we’re seeing will only intensify as the planet continues to warm.

[Native Woodland Trust @NativeWoodTrust]

Like rivers overhead, the branches of this tree bring life where they wander.

Growing for centuries in our Ancient Wood reserve in Ballinakelly, the entire area was probably named after this wood. In the Irish language Ballinakelly is "Baile na coille", the townland of the woods

[Rewilding Ireland @RewildingIre]

@blues155 Go suck a lemon and stay sour

[Rewilding Ireland @RewildingIre]

This site is dying a quick death and not posting much anymore but imploring Irish followers to critically assess politicians during the election and not vote for charlatans & loons

FG have been in power since 2011, they did a budget a few weeks ago - 11% is a dangling 🥕

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

Fine Gael has said it will permanently reduce the VAT rate for the food-based hospitality, entertainment and hairdressing sectors to 11%, if returned to government
https://t.co/xSyCZjIJVL

[Rewilding Ireland @RewildingIre]

@yellowlabrador I wouldn't be started to vote Ind Ire if I felt that way
If I was in that position, I would research, vote tactically, look at parties that are consistent over yrs in ecosocialist views & ultimately reflect on if I think politics/gov is only something that happens at elections

[Rewilding Ireland @RewildingIre]

@yellowlabrador You certainly voted green I am sure.

If you happy to vote for a group that will be ineffective in gov or opp, anti-vaxx, anti-climate action and anti-immigration - vote for them but just know that vote will make things that are bad now worse.

Many parties have green policy