Event Details
Biodiversity Bites Delgany
Presented by Delgany Tidy Towns, with the support of Green Foundation Ireland, Delgany Golf Club, and the Local Authority Waters and Community Office.
SUNDAY 19 MAY 2019 at 4:00pm
Venue: Delgany Golf Club, Delgany, County Wicklow.
TICKET DETAILS
While admission is FREE to this event, registration is REQUIRED.
Please secure your place by booking here.
GETTING THERE
Delgany Golf Club is situated just outside Delgany village on the edge of the Glen of the Downs Nature Reserve and provides an ideal setting to learn more about biodiversity.
It is about 40 minutes from Dublin City Centre – just take the R762 exit off the N11 (Dublin to Wexford Road).
Here is a map to help you locate it.
Event Programme
Speakers include
Matthew Jebb
Botanist, Taxonomist and Director of the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin, Dublin
Duncan Stewart
Environmentalist, Broadcaster, Presenter of Eco-Eye series on RTÉ and Chair of Green Foundation Ireland
Donna Mullen
Ecologist, Environmentalist, founder member of Bat Conversation Ireland and Director of Green Foundation Ireland
Jeremy Emmet Booth
Researcher in agricultural biodiversity
Keith Scanlon
Environmentalist and Actionist, presenting Delgany’s Biodiversity Survey
Coillte
Official launch of the Delgany Tree for a Child programme – over the next five years Delgany Tidy Towns aims to plant a tree for each child in the village
As always at our events, an important part will be the Q&A session which will allow full participation by those attending.
THEME
Nature is in more trouble now than at any other time in human history, with extinction looming over one million species of plants and animals, scientists said in the UN’s first comprehensive report on biodiversity published earlier in May 2019. National Biodiversity Week is all about connecting people with nature. It’s about communicating the importance of biodiversity and motivating people to play their part in protecting it.
It’s also about entertaining them, showing the fun and wonder that can be found in nature, and inspiring people to learn more, see more, do more. To borrow the words of David Attenborough you need to “cherish the natural world because you’re part of it and you depend on it”.
As well as the impressive line-up of speakers listed above, there will be a memorial presentation to honour Éamon de Buitléar, a Wicklow native, wildlife expert, film maker and writer. As a founder of the Irish Wildlife Trust, it is fitting that the memorial is awarded as the Trust celebrates its 40th anniversary.
This event is part of the National Biodiversity Week 2019
organised by Irish Environmental Network.