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New leaflet on how to exclude pine martens from game and poultry pens
4th October 2013Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Mr Jimmy Deenihan, T.D. launched a new information leaflet on the pine marten in Ireland on Wednesday September 25th at the 2013 National Ploughing Championships. Read More
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New VWT Leaflet on the Irish stoat
25th July 2013We launched a new leaflet on the Irish Stoat in County Galway during Biodiversity Week 2013. This new publication provides information on this small mustelid and also includes a summary of the Read More
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Greater horseshoe bat arrives in Ireland
2nd May 2013The text received on my work mobile phone on Sunday 24th February was short and sweet: “Guess where I found a hibernating lesser horseshoe today??” The message was from bat consultant Paul Read More
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New VWT farms leaflet for lesser horseshoe bats launched
23rd November 2012We launched our new farms leaflet for the lesser horseshoe bat at the National Ploughing Championships in New Ross, County Wexford September 25th – 27th. Although not all of the reported 187,000 Read More
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Post-release study of two orphaned pine martens in Mayo
21st September 2012In June 2012 a litter of pine marten kits, estimated to be about just eight weeks old, was spotted on the roadside in County Mayo attempting to suckle from their dead mother. The Irish Read More
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The Vincent Wildlife Trust takes on new study of the Irish stoat
14th March 2010The project is a pilot study to test the use of hair tubes to detect the elusive Irish stoat (Mustela erminea hibernia) along the extensive hedgerow system in County Galway. The Irish Read More
