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Whittled away : Ireland's vanishing nature /

By: Fogarty, Pádraic [author.].
Publisher: Wilton, Cork : The Collins Press, 2017Description: vii, 360 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.Content type: text | still image | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781848893108; 9781848893108:; 1848893108.Subject(s): Nature conservation -- Ireland | Environmental protection -- Ireland | Wildlife reintroduction -- Ireland | Landscape protection -- Ireland | Environmental degradation | Environmental monitoring | Environmental impact analysisDDC classification: 333.7209415 FOG
Contents:
Not as green as we'd like to think -- The quest to catch the last fish -- The whittling-away of our iconic landscapes -- Killarney National Park -- Wicklow Mountains National Park -- Connemara -- Glenveagh National Park -- The Burren -- Extinct: Ireland's lost species -- Culling : the urge to kill animals -- The battle to save the bogs -- The myth of Ireland's `green' farming -- A future for wildlife and people.
Summary: This urgent call for intervention to prevent the loss of our natural heritage is taken from a government report published in June 1969. Since then, nature in Ireland has continued to disappear at an alarming rate. Overfishing, industrial-scale farming and pollution have decimated wildlife habitats and populations. In a single lifetime, vast shoals of herring, rivers bursting with salmon, and bogs alive with flocks of curlew and geese have all become folk memories. Coastal and rural communities are struggling to survive; the foundations of our tourism and agricultural sectors are being undermined. The lack of political engagement frequently sees the state in the European Court of Justice for breaches of environmental law. Pádraic Fogarty authoritatively charts how this grim failure to manage our natural resources has impoverished our country.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 333.7209415 FOG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Lost Checked out 10/10/2023 0089605
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-349) and index.

1. Not as green as we'd like to think -- 2. The quest to catch the last fish -- 3. The whittling-away of our iconic landscapes -- Killarney National Park -- Wicklow Mountains National Park -- Connemara -- Glenveagh National Park -- The Burren -- 4. Extinct: Ireland's lost species -- 5. Culling : the urge to kill animals -- 6. The battle to save the bogs -- 7. The myth of Ireland's `green' farming -- 8. A future for wildlife and people.

This urgent call for intervention to prevent the loss of our natural heritage is taken from a government report published in June 1969. Since then, nature in Ireland has continued to disappear at an alarming rate. Overfishing, industrial-scale farming and pollution have decimated wildlife habitats and populations. In a single lifetime, vast shoals of herring, rivers bursting with salmon, and bogs alive with flocks of curlew and geese have all become folk memories. Coastal and rural communities are struggling to survive; the foundations of our tourism and agricultural sectors are being undermined. The lack of political engagement frequently sees the state in the European Court of Justice for breaches of environmental law. Pádraic Fogarty authoritatively charts how this grim failure to manage our natural resources has impoverished our country.

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