Clean Coasts Officer for Donegal, Beckey-Finn, will be attending Clean Coasts Group Costa Glan Agus Glas's beach clean of the Back Strand at Falcarragh. The group will meet at the car park Wednesday 1st February at 12 noon. Gloves and bags will be provided and everyone is welcome to join.
Clean Coasts Officer, Olivia, will be giving a talk today at the Green Schools Marine Environment Conference which will take place at the Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire.
Clean Coasts Officer for Sligo, Olivia, will be attending Sligo IT marketing Students' Upcycling workshop today giving people to opportunity to learn more about how to protect Ireland's beaches, seas and marine life as well as different upcycling techniques.
Clean Coasts Officer for Galway, Beckey-Finn, will be giving a talk to students studying Applied Freshwater and Marine Biology in GMIT a talk entitled 'Community Engagement and the Coastal Environment'. The talk will be followed later by a presentation from INFOMAR on the work they are carrying out mapping the sea floor around Ireland and is [...]
Clean Coasts Officer, Brendan O'Kane, will be attending at the Dublin Bay UNESCO Biosphere Conference: Connecting People And Nature on Wednesday 26th October at the University College Dublin, O’Brien Centre for Science (East), George Moore Lecture Theatre. The conference will feature both international and local speakers who will give us insight into UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere [...]
Loughrea Tidy Towns are teaming up with St Raphael's Secondary School's TY studetns to carry out a clean-up of the lakeshore in Loughrea on Tuesday 27th September from 11:30am to 12:30pm. Clean Coasts Officer for Galway, Beckey-Finn, will be joining the clean-up event and will give a short talk on the work of Clean Coasts beforehand. Everyone [...]
We in Clean Coasts absolutely love the #2minutebeachclean initiative from Martin Dorey and with many sources of marine litter coming from land we thought it would be a great idea to expand this into the #2minutestreetclean! An Taisce's Environmental Education Unit has adopted the initiative unit wide and you can check out all you need [...]
Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These ‘mini-brains’ are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food. – Frans de Waal World Octopus Day is actually the kick-off [...]
Mission of World Animal Day: To raise the status of animals in order to improve welfare standards around the globe. Building the celebration of World Animal Day unites the animal welfare movement, mobilising it into a global force to make the world a better place for all animals. It's celebrated in different ways in every country, [...]
Clean Coasts’ Love Your Coast Photography Awards will be held on Thursday 6th October in Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin 2. Micheal John O’Mahony, Director of the Environmental Education Unit of An Taisce, will present the prizes to the winning photographers. More information will be posted on our Love You Coast page.
