Páirc Náisiúnta na Mara, Ciarraí, or Kerry Seas National Park, was announced in April 2024 as Ireland’s seventh National Park, and the very first one that has been deemed exclusively marine. This joins the existing network of National Parks in Ireland, which already contains the Burren, Connemara, Glenveagh, Killarney, Wicklow Mountains, and Wild Nephin National […]

As the world becomes more sensitive to the impact humans have on the environment, governments across the globe are setting aside areas of habitat to allow nature to thrive unaffected by human influence. One such habitat is the ocean which has been impacted by overfishing, trawling, pollution, deep-sea mining and much more. A well-known fact […]

Born on 17th March 1785 in Ballylickey, a small village located in a sheltered bay off the west coast of Ireland near Bantry, Ellen was a force who exerted herself with zeal and enthusiasm in identifying plant specimens in the area. At the time, Bantry was isolated with little in the way of experts to […]

Seaweeds have high value both ecologically and economically. Which ones can be found in Ireland? What are Seaweeds? The word ‘seaweed’ is a collective term for macroscopic marine algae that belongs to three groups: Rhodophyta (red seaweed), Chlorophyta (green seaweed) and Phaeophyta (brown seaweed), which live on seashores and in shallow seas throughout the world.  Seaweeds have a high value both […]