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Appointment of Projects Support Officer with the VWT in Ireland
12th January 2015Ruth Hanniffy is the newly appointed Ireland Projects Support Officer with The Vincent Wildlife Trust. Originally from Co. Galway, she grew up beside the sea, with a love of all things marine. Ruth Read More
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New blog article: pygmy shrew under threat?
26th June 2014Is the pygmy shrew under threat from the greater white-toothed shrew in Ireland? In our latest blog Allan McDevitt, molecular ecologist, and Jon Yearsley, lecturer in ecological modelling, discuss the impacts of Read More
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Pine marten symposium
9th May 2014On 1 May we turned the spotlight on the pine marten with a special one-day symposium in the Ardilaun Hotel, Galway that was attended by seventy delegates. We organised this event with Dr Colin Lawton of the School of Read More
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The Vincent Wildlife Trust becomes a member of the Irish Environmental Network
15th January 2014The VWT in Ireland is delighted to announce that we are now members of the Irish Environmental Network. The network is an association of 32 other national environmental Non-Government Organisations and was Read More
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The Lesser Horseshoe Bat in Ireland: surveys by the Vincent Wildlife Trust
16th December 2013The Lesser Horseshoe Bat in Ireland: surveys by the Vincent Wildlife Trust is a new publication by the Irish Naturalists’ Journal, which will shortly be available to subscribers to the journal and also Read More
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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 25 September 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 24 February was short and sweet: ‘Guess where I found a hibernating lesser horseshoe today’?? The message was from bat consultant Paul Scott 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 25-27 September. Although not all of the reported 187,000 people who 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
