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Jungle Animals

Jungle animals include predators such as tigers, Asian wild dogs and reticulated pythons; herbivores such as forest antelopes, Sumatran rhinos and tapirs; birds such as hornbills, macaws and toucans; and aquatic animals such as piranhas, green anacondas and crocodiles.

Some of the best-known animals that live in jungles are primates. The dense forests are home to many monkey and ape species, including our closest relatives in the animal kingdom: bonobos, chimpanzees and gorillas.

On this page is a huge list of amazing jungle animals, with pictures, facts and links to further information.

If you find this page helpful, be sure to bookmark it and tell your friends on social media!
Read moreJungle Animals List With Pictures & Facts: Amazing Animals That Live In Jungles All Around The World!

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Active Wild - Wildlife & Science News, Facts & Info For Kids & Adults

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Jungle animals include predators such as tigers, Asian wild dogs and reticulated pythons; herbivores such as forest antelopes, Sumatran rhinos and tapirs; birds such as hornbills, macaws and toucans; and aquatic animals such as piranhas, green anacondas and crocodiles. Some of the best-known animals that live in jungles are primates.

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Staying hidden is a great way to see birds without frightening them © Cezary Korkosz

This article is part of our Spring Alive programme, which aims inspire and educate children across Africa and Eurasia about the wonders of nature and bird migration. The 2020 Spring Alive season is made possible with the support of HeidelbergCement.
It's that time of year again! Birds are gearing up for another magical migration season, where they will fly from their African wintering grounds to their breeding sites in Europe. As they do, children all along the way will be looking out for them. We've put together a code of practice for anyone who wants to observe birds in their natural habitat:
1. Dress for the occasion
Imagine going to school in your pyjamas, or playing tennis in a suit and tie. Pretty weird, right? Every activity has an appropriate type of clothing, and birdwatching is no exception. Try to wear dark, camouflaged colours so that birds don't see you coming. And no matter what the weather's like outside, make sure you bring clothes that will keep you warm, dry and protected from the sun - you may find yourself observing the birds in fascination for longer than you expected.

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2. Pack your birdwatching bag
No good birdwatcher leaves the house without these key items in their bag: a pair of binoculars (any brand will do), a pen and paper to record their sightings, and a bird guide. Make sure to learn the words and expressions that bird guides use: it makes identification much easier. And don't forget to bring drinks and snacks - birdwatching is thirsty work. You may also want to take a camera, but remember to turn off the flash (see the next point...)
3. Avoid disturbing birds
Imagine you're a Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus that has just migrated 8,000 kilometres from the UK to Angola. You land on a branch, desperate to find some insects to eat and get some rest. Suddenly, a loud group of humans rushes towards you. Oh no! Predators! You spread your weary wings and take to the skies once again. Dinner will have to wait...

No matter how much fun you're having when you're out birdwatching, always remember that the safety and welfare of the birds comes first. Scaring birds stresses them out and stops them from feeding, breeding and resting. Instead, walk slowly and softly, speak quietly, put your phone on silent and, above all, don't get too close - that's what your binoculars are for! All you need to do is find a good place to sit, be patient, and let the birds come to you. Birds are always a lot more fun to watch whey they're not flying away in fright...

Any parent will tell you that looking after babies is hard work. When it comes to bird breeding grounds, it's especially important to keep your distance. Disturbing a nest can cause the parents to fly away, leaving chicks hungry with nobody to feed them, or exposing the eggs or chicks to predators. If you hang around a nest for too long, the parents may become so wary that they abandon it altogether. The best thing you can do if you come across a nest is to quietly walk away.

Bird hides and observation towers are the ultimate "life hack", allowing you to get a great view of birds without making your presence known. They're also the perfect place to shelter from the sun or huddle with a flask of hot chocolate on wet and windy days. You'll be surprised at how many bird hides are out there - have a quick search online to see if there's one near you.
6. Follow the laws of the land
Whether you're going round to your friend's house for dinner or going out birdwatching, it's always important to be a good guest. Remember to be considerate to the people who own the land that you're visiting. Close all gates behind you, stick to the path and never trespass on private land - you don't want to give birdwatchers a bad reputation!

Go by the motto: "take nothing and leave nothing behind". Never drop litter or trample over vegetation - you may be damaging the homes of the birds you're trying to watch.
8. Look for birds everywhere
Think cities don't have birds? Think again! Birds are everywhere once you start looking. Think outside the box when searching for birdwatching spots: parks, churchyards, market squares, canals and even rooftops all hold surprises. If you put a bird feeder in your garden or balcony, you can even watch your feathered friends from the comfort of your own home.

Even seasoned birdwatchers have bad days. If you set out brimming with excitement, only to find that all the birds in the area have decided to spend the day somewhere else, don't get disheartened. Instead, unleash your inner detective and look out for clues that birds have left behind: footprints, feathers, even food leftovers. Where might a bird live if it has a webbed footprint? Why are broken snail shells scattered across a flat rock?

Alternatively, try listening rather than looking. Can you hear any birdsong? If so, what does it sound like - fast, slow, high, low? Can you guess which bird it belongs to? There are lots of great birdsong identification apps to help you, and soon, you'll be able to do it all by yourself.

When you're out and about with your binoculars and bird book, passers-by might be interested in what you're doing. Be a pioneer for birdwatching: take the time to explain and share with them your most interesting sightings. You might inspire them to follow your lead and become birdwatchers too! Be friendly to your fellow birdwatchers as well - they may have some interesting tips and knowledge. The more friends you make, the richer and more vibrant the birdwatching community will become, helping you to spread the love and respect for nature far and wide.
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Our top 10 tips on how to be a good birdwatcher

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You've heard how much fun birdwatching can be, and you're raring to get out there and start right away. But before you rush out of the door, wait! There are some important things you should know first. These tips will help you have a great time, stay safe, and be kind to birds.

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Butterfly Conservation is a British charity devoted to saving butterflies, moths and their habitats throughout the UK.

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Discover Wildlife/ BBC Wildlife magazine

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Discover Wildlife/ BBC Wildlife magazine

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An exciting resource with loads of ID assistance, puzzles and  easy to read information

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Discover the best wildlife photography, species identification, conservation, latest nature news and wildlife watching holidays.

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Irish Garden Bird Survey Form (2019_20)_pdf

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Biodiversity - flora on Hill Loop summer 2019

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An inspirational 16 year old naturalist from Co Antrim!

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An inspirational 16 year old naturalist from Co Antrim!

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Great article and a book worth getting!

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The first flowers of my life were sky-blue speedwell and scarlet pimpernel. They grew among the mosses of the gravelled dustbin yard behind our "dining rooms" on the road from Brighton station to the sea.

They made a fingertips offering to my mother at the bubbling chip pans in the kitchen. She was born among country flowers and made Christmas wine from dandelion blossoms. I was sent up the hill with a bucket to a churchyard where they glowed among the tombs.

When wartime moved us to the white-cliff edge of town, a passion for flowers sprang up in me. I ransacked abandoned gardens for roses, climbed a cliff for clove-scented stocks, scoured the town dump for golden Californian poppies. Later, on my bike, I rode out to the woods of the Weald for sheaves of bluebells, brought sagging over my handlebars.

I did not take flowers to school. Nor would Dara McAnulty have dared do so - he was already different enough. Now he has a school eco-group, waves banners for Extinction Rebellion and implores "everyone I meet" to leave a wild patch in their gardens for dandelions, which he loves.

Dazzling grace

Dara, who is 16 and from Northern Ireland, is the author of Diary of a Young Naturalist (Little Toller, £16), his first book and winner of the notable Wainwright Prize. Written with dazzling grace and passion, it warrants promotion as a classic, both of nature's solace to the human spirit and as a rare and moving insight into autism.

He is one of a remarkable family, who live "close as otters" near Castlewellan at the foot of the Mourne Mountains. His biologist father works in conservation. His mother, brother Lorcan and young sister Blathnaid all share in autism, mutually negotiating its tensions with the world.

Just as dandelions close when raindrops fall, Dara says, the bullying at school made him close himself off. Mockery of his joy and enthusiasm for nature meant "holding back and holding in". He was constantly anxious and self-doubting and afraid of talking too much if he began.

A little of this comes to many childhoods, but for Dara it was a day-to-day oppression. The natural world was his refuge. When his dad brought home injured bats for nursing they shared the quietness of Dara's bedroom. He found their scratching comforting and slept well - something else he didn't talk about at school.

Throughout this time, the McAnulty children and their mother (a working-class graduate, like her husband) joined in slow, late-evening walks and outings to forests and streams. They found beetles, birds and butterflies and there were feathers and shells to bring home. They were all fitted into their lives from a knowledgeable father and the picture books and field guides on the shelves.

A holiday cottage on Rathlin Island let Dara spend yet more hours watching birds. "When I'm sitting and watching, grown-ups usually ask if I'm okay. Like it's not okay just to sit and process the world, to figure things out and watch other species go about their day."

A move from Fermanagh to Antrim brought a new school, a first friend, and diary notes to celebrate whole weeks without bullying. Soft "code words" from his mother helped Dara approach and feel safe with intimidating, noisy gatherings of people.

Bold public activism

His steps from this to his bold public activism have been remarkable, urged on by a growing distress about human treatment of the natural world. It needed new resources of energy and self-command, something he felt poured into him among the "clouds and granite" on the tops of the Mournes.

Braving times when a nervous sweat "was dripping from my head into my shoes", he met MPs and government officials, bore placards in a school strike for climate and nature, spoke at teacher conferences and from campaign platforms (once in Hyde Park). He wrote articles, made radio programmes, was on TV with Chris Packham, and received awards. Among them, he became the youngest-ever recipient of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds medal for conservation.

It was outside "Dublin's Dead Zoo" at an Extinction Rebellion demo with banners and drums that Dara first felt like a rebel. A microphone launched him on "declaring out loud, my anger rising . . . It feels energised and raw".

Much of the power of his book, however, lies in its quieter pages, their month-by-month chronicle of exploration. It chimes with a current discovery of nature, as months of lockdown sent parents and children into gardens and to hedges, often with camera phones poised for Eye on Nature.

Like the McAnultys, any family that sets out to explore the lives of other creatures in the world seems bound to invite a new and inspiring togetherness.

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Another Life: The remarkable Dara McAnulty and his connection with nature

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The first flowers of my life were sky-blue speedwell and scarlet pimpernel. They grew among the mosses of the gravelled dustbin yard behind our "dining rooms" on the road from Brighton station to the sea. They made a fingertips offering to my mother at the bubbling chip pans in the kitchen.

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find out more about/get involved in the biodiversity on our shoreline

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Informed public participation in protection and management of the coastal zone

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Coastwatch's quick guide to some of the most common species on our shoreline 

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Coastwatch's quick guide to some of the most common species on our shoreline 

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National Landcover and Habitat Mapping Programme for Ireland

This report presents the findings of a use case analysis and economic value study for a national landcover and habitat mapping programme for Ireland, carried out in 2016.

Conserving Hedgegrows

Hedges are important heritage features. Varying greatly in form and species, they help to form the local and regional character of the landscape.

Heritage Maps

Find out about the online mapping discovery tool

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This report presents the findings of a use case analysis and economic value study for a national landcover and habitat mapping programme for Ireland, carried out in 2016. Hedges are important heritage features. Varying greatly in form and species, they help to form the local and regional character of the landscape.

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IPCC’s Blanket Bog Plant Photo Identification Guide

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IPCC’s Blanket Bog Plant Photo Identification Guide

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Look out for these amazing plants on your hill walk. You might have to keep a sharp eye out as some are quite small!

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One third of our bee species are threatened with extinction from Ireland. This is because we have drastically reduced the amount of food (flowers) and safe nesting sites in our landscapes. The All-Ireland Pollinator Plan is about all of us, from farmers to local authorities, to schools, gardeners and businesses, coming together to try to create an Ireland where pollinators can survive and thrive. The first Plan covers the period 2015-2020 and a new version will be developed to cover 2021-2025. To see what can be done by each sector, click on the appropriate link below.

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All-Ireland Pollinator Plan " All-Ireland Pollinator Plan

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David Attenborough has a lot to answer for. I don't even own a kitten, and yet I struggled to get through an episode of Planet Earth - which completed its second series on BBC recently - without daydreaming about jacking it all in for a life working with baby iguanas, or rescuing sea turtles in Barbados.

I suspect I'm not alone. But for a small number of Irish people, working with at-risk wildlife isn't just a Sunday night pipedream.

Four Irish conservationists describe the work that has taken them to some of the world's most remote locations, and into contact with its most endangered species - from Atlantic bottleneck dolphins to Asian moon bears, to giraffes, who were recently declared vulnerable to extinction for the first time.

Whether it is surviving plane crashes, being threatened by poachers, radio-collaring sleeping lions, or just spending weeks alone in the desert, a career in conservation is not for the faint-hearted. But this four wouldn't have it any other way.

David O'Connor
Community-based conservation ecologist, San Diego, Africa and South-East Asia

When we meet, on a dull afternoon in a pub in Co Waterford, David O'Connor shows me a photo on his phone, taken recently in Kenya. It takes me a minute to work out what I'm staring at: it looks a lot like a baby elephant strapped onto the side of a helicopter.

It turns out that is exactly what it is. The elephant had fallen into a well and had to be hoisted out, and transported to where it could be reunited with its herd. "It's not ideal, but it's Africa, and you have to work with what you've got," he says.

I haven't seen him since we left school - Newtown in Waterford - in the 1990s, but we've stayed in touch on social media, so I already know that his typical day at the office is a little different to the rest of ours. As a community-based conservation ecologist, a normal working day might see him traversing the dusty landscape of Northern Kenya in a jeep, gathering data on the dwindling giraffe population with local wildlife conservancies. Or it could see him in the markets of Laos, working with citizen scientists to survey shoppers on their appetite for bear bile. Or it might bring him to Oxford, where he lectures students on the threats facing giraffe, bears, elephant or antelope.

It's safe to say that at every school reunion we're ever likely to attend, he'll get the prize for the coolest job. It wasn't always like this. At one point, O'Connor did put on a suit every day and go to work in a Dublin accountancy firm. "I did my undergraduate degree in zoology in UCC, and then a Masters in conservation at the University of Michigan. Then I really wanted to come back to Ireland," he says.

Jobs in conservation were not easy to come by in pre-Celtic Tiger Ireland, so he took what seemed to be the sensible route, and did a postgrad in business. "I knew the moment I started at the accountancy firm that I'd made a huge mistake, but sometimes you have to try these things."

He returned to the US and a job as a conservation manager for an open space preserve in California. After a couple of years, a role came up at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, and O'Connor - who is now 41 - relocated there with his American wife, Christine. San Diego is still home to the couple, and their six -year-old-son, Bréas.

The nature of his work means that he is on the road a lot - from Northern Kenya, where his work is focused on community-based giraffe conservation projects; to South East Asia, and projects designed to combat the illegal trade in bear bile, saiga horn, tiger parts, rhino horn and pangolin scales.

He describes giraffe - whose numbers have declined by 40 per cent since the 1980s - as "the forgotten megafauna: we don't know much about them, even though they are much-loved and famous. Until September this year, we thought there was one species of giraffe. Now, based on new genetic analysis, we know there should be four species, and each as different as a polar bear is to a brown bear. And we now know that giraffe communicate infrasonically, in a way that we can't hear."

Part of his focus has been training and funding jobs for those who live in the area to work with the animals and raise awareness. Ultimately, conservation is about people, he says. "It is the people who co-exist every day with the wildlife who are the ones ultimately who are going to save it."

Is he depressed about the future for wildlife such as giraffe? "I'm actually hopeful," he says. " The biggest threat to wildlife is that they're running out of space. The approach of these community conservancies are giving me a lot of hope."

I probe him to tell me about hairy moments. I'm expecting to hear about him being charged by elephants - "yes, that has happened a few times," he laughs. But "there have been a few other scary moments. In Asia, I've been chased out of places selling wildlife parts by guys with knives."

Then he tells me a story about being in a plane crash in Kenya last August. "There were four of us in this little Cessna, and we were landing on a bush strip. We hit the ground really, really hard, and the front wheel broke off. We flipped over and skidded. Thankfully, everybody survived. I broke my back.

"Luckily it wasn't too bad, thank God," he adds, in what I suspect is a fine example of the Irish art of understatement.

You can make a donation to O'Connor's work in Kenya here: endextinction.org/giraffe

It is always a sign of a good holiday when you find yourself fantasising about pulling a Shirley Valentine: throwing the proverbial plate of egg and chips at the wall of your old life, and starting afresh somewhere new. For most of us, a few days back at home, and we've managed to talk ourselves round. Not Emma Hart.

She fell in love with Namibia during a horse safari in 2014. "It's like nowhere else on the planet. It's beautiful, wild and remote. They call it one of the last great wildernesses on earth. Your world gets bigger out there because there's such a vast landscape, but it also strips down to that single expedition because there's no outside influences. Namibia gets hold of you, and it refuses to let go," she says.

Hart, who is 29, grew up in Oysterhaven in Co Cork, where her parents run a watersports and adventure centre. She returned from that trip, and settled back into life in Edinburgh and her PhD in psychology. But she found she couldn't get the country, or its otherworldly landscape, out of her head. "To cut a long story short, I quit the PhD, and made my way back out to Namibia."

She travelled for a while, before landing a job as a guide at a horse safari lodge. Through that she met Dr Julian Fennessy, who runs the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, which operates throughout Africa. "He was looking for a PhD student to run an ongoing, longitudinal study on the giraffe in North West Namibia."

With her passion for wildlife and her background in psychology, which gave her an understanding of animal communication and social dynamics, and her comfort with the prospect of long periods of solitude, she was the perfect candidate. UCD's School of Biology and Environmental Science agreed to sponsor the PhD.

"A typical day involves waking up in a tent in the desert, starting a fire, making a pot of coffee, and then we head out into the field, where we're updating our giraffe identification databases. We're looking for things like herd composition, and evidence of whether giraffe maintain relationships," she says.

"There's very little infrastructure there - we have to bring in our own water. But it's funny how little you really need to be totally comfortable and happy. When I take people out there, they're always worried about not having phone reception. But after a day or two, they realise they have everything they need."

The highlight of her work is also the toughest part - capturing and tagging giraffes with satellite tracking collars. "Unfortunately, the effect of the immobilizing dart is to make the giraffe run at up to 60km an hour. So we take off after it in the 4x4. We have to try and get about 60 to 100 metres ahead of the giraffe, slam on the brakes and get into position with a trip wire. There's a tight margin for error," she says.

"When the giraffe falls, the capture team must jump on its neck. You're using the neck as pendulum as you administer the antidote - it's a two-ton animal, and suddenly it wakes up. There's legs flying, people flying. But there's no better feeling than getting off the giraffe and seeing it run off towards its herd, knowing that data is going to contribute towards the preservation of this beautiful species."

Hart is overseeing an adopt a giraffe program as part of her research. You can adopt one starting from $50, or get in touch with her directly to find out about taking part in a field trip to Namibia here: emma@giraffeconservation.org

Peadar Brehony
PhD Student, Cambridge University and Tanzania

Asked where he thinks of as home, Peadar Brehony has to pause and think about it. " Tanzania, probably," he answers after a moment. "But I have always had a strong sense of being Irish, too."

He was born in Ireland, but spent his early years in Tanzania with his Irish parents, who were working in development. The family moved to Uganda when he was a toddler and then, within a few years, to Sudan and Ethiopia, before returning to Tanzania when he was in his teens. He grew up fluent in English, French and Swahili, and could converse in a number of other African dialects. "Like a lot of 'third culture kids', I felt very Irish, but without a strong sense of what that really meant. My impression of Ireland was mostly what I had heard from priests and nuns in Africa, so I had quite an idealised view," he says.

His first significant experience of Ireland was as a 16-year-old, when he came "home" to do his Leaving Cert, and had an opportunity to develop "those cultural touchpoints that make you Irish".

When he finished school in 2007, Brehony - now 28 - went on to study zoology and environmental sciences in UCC. "Initially, I wanted to be an astrophysicist, before I realised that I wouldn't get to spend a lot of time outside," he says.

He was hungry to see more of the world beyond Africa, and did one year of his degree at the University of California Santa Barbara, before spending time travelling in New Zealand and Western Australia. By then, he was missing the "chaos - the noise, colour and vibrancy" - of Africa, and so in 2013 he found a job as part of a marine research team working off the coast of Gabon, in Cental West Africa. "Gabon has a lot of oil, so there are all these offshore oil platforms. On the one hand, you have illegal oil spills that we were trying to document, but on the other hand, the oil platforms acted as nursing grounds for a lot of marine life," he says.

"Our job was to do surveys of the oceans to find out where key species were, including the Atlantic humpback dolphin, which is extremely endangered and rarely seen. We spent all day every day out on the water, in the biggest humpback whale breeding ground in the world, the biggest leatherback turtle breeding ground in the world. It was an incredible experience."

The precarious journey out into the ocean every day, and the remoteness of the location, made for a tough environment, but he stayed for five months, eventually becoming the leader of his research team. By then, East Africa was calling again.

In 2014, he moved to Kenya, initially to work as a researcher on a human-lion co-existence project, and then to a job as an overall co-ordinator with the Kenya-Tanzania Borderland Conservation Initiative, a role that involved sharing research on endangered wildlife species across a number of NGOs and community landowners. He spent last year in Tanzania with the Pams Foundation, which is working to combat elephant poaching, "using small sums of money to make a big difference."

The hazards of the kind of work he does range from being on the receiving end of threats because of his work combatting poaching to "radio-collaring a lion, which can be scary - especially if they wake up"- to the always-present risk of being charged by elephants.

For now, Brehony is back in Europe, doing a PhD in Cambridge on the socio-ecological systems in the Borderlands area of Kenya and Tanzania. "Irish people have had a huge impact all over the globe in development. Now I think there is an incredible opportunity for us to become a global leader in conservation too. We don't have any colonial baggage, and we tend to be good with people. In the end, conservation is all about people," he says.

You can donate to the Pams Foundation via its website: pamsfoundation.org

Brian Crudge
Research program manager, Free The Bears, Cambodia

Brian Crudge's passion for wildlife developed during summers he spent working in Fota Island in Cork. "I didn't immediately consider it as a career path: I actually studied chemistry first. But then I took a year out and went travelling in South East Asia. By then, I'd made the decision that I wanted to work in conservation."

Now 32 and from Cobh in Co Cork, Crudge returned to Ireland to study freshwater and marine ecology at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology. When he had finished his course, a friend put him in touch with a project in Cambodia that was looking for volunteers to work with bears. He jumped at the chance to go back to Asia, and a role with Free the Bears in Northern Laos. "My job was to walk a rescued bear every day. Following a bear around the forest, and watching him figure out how to forage, is a great way to learn about them."

Currently based in Phnom Penh, where he is a research program manager, Crudge says there are two main threats bears face: habitat loss, as forests are converted to palm oil plantations; and the illegal wildlife trade. Bears in the region are vulnerable to poaching for their bile, which is prized in Chinese medicine.

"There are thousands of bears being held in captivity - maybe 10,000 in China and 4,000 in Vietnam. They're held in tiny cages of 1.5 metres by 1.5 metres, and as a result they suffer from psychological stress. By the time we see them, they are pacing; they might shuffle from one foot to the other; they might swing their head from side to side."

Free the Bears provides sanctuary to rescued bears, and carries out research that can help bears in the wild. Its work also involves education and community outreach: he is partnering with O'Connor on projects to survey the attitudes of the local population to bears.

"We have 140 bears in the rescue centre here in Cambodia. We provide lifelong primary care for them, and we learn from them. We still have much to learn about sun, moon and sloth bears if we are to protect them in the wild - and these bears can help us answer many of the questions that we have."

Visit the FreeTheBears website to donate or learn more about ongoing volunteering opportunities: freethebears.org

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Meet the 'Irish Attenboroughs' who answer call of the wild

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David Attenborough has a lot to answer for. I don't even own a kitten, and yet I struggled to get through an episode of Planet Earth - which completed its second series on BBC recently - without daydreaming about jacking it all in for a life working with baby iguanas, or rescuing sea turtles in Barbados.

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ISABELLA TREE writer and conservationist

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The go-to woman for wildflowers in Ireland

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The go-to woman for wildflowers in Ireland

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Her Field Guide is a really useful wee book no matter what your level of knowledge

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Plants In Flower Now

Welcome to Wildflowers of Ireland

Fáilte and Welcome to a personal record of the wildflowers of Ireland. This is a website containing my own photographs of the Irish wildflowers which over the years I have come across and recorded. I have arranged them in a few different ways, by name - English, Latin or Irish - and if you're not sure of the Irish wildflower's name, try searching for it by colour.

As time goes on, I hope to add more photographs of Irish wildflowers. Initially I am only putting on photographs of Irish wildflowers which I think I can identify correctly, however, I won't mind having any mistakes pointed out.

I hope to add a new dimension to a country walk by drawing your attention to the amazing but often overlooked beauty of what is growing along the way. Even in the earliest parts of the year, there are wildflowers to be found, and when you get into the habit of looking at every hedgerow, wayside and ditch, you'll be well rewarded. I am also including folklore with regard to many of these wildflowers and any other relevant herbal information, historical or literary allusions. I hope you get some enjoyment from this website - I already have.

Zoë Devlin

A selection of publications by Zoe.

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The National Biodiversity Data Centre is an Initiative of the Heritage Council and is operated under a service level agreement by Compass Informatics. The data centre is funded by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, and the Heritage Council.

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Welcome to BirdWatch Ireland, the largest independent conservation organisation in Ireland. Established in 1968, we currently have over 15,000 members and supporters and a local network of over 30 branches nationwide.

The health and well-being of our staff, our customers and the communities in which we live are of the utmost importance to us. In light of announcement by the Irish Government on 27 th March 2020 of new restrictions that have been introduced to combat the spread of COVID-19, we wish to inform all of our valued members, supporters and customers that the BirdWatch Ireland online shop is now closed for business until further notice.

Regrettably, this means that we are unable to process any new orders for the time being. All orders that are currently pending will be fulfilled once governmental regulations permit us to do so. If you would prefer to cancel your order, we will be pleased to issue a refund to you.

Please note that our physical shop in Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow is also closed at the moment, as are our offices around the country, and that all BirdWatch Ireland branch events are cancelled until further notice. If you wish to contact us while our offices our closed, please email info@birdwatchireland.ie and we will do our very best to respond as soon as possible.

Many thanks for your support and your understanding.

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Welcome to BirdWatch Ireland, the largest independent conservation organisation in Ireland. Established in 1968, we currently have over 15,000 members and supporters and a local network of over 30 branches nationwide. The health and well-being of our staff, our customers and the communities in which we live are of the utmost importance to us.

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Nature is facing a number of serious challenges. Throughout our landscape, we need to conserve, protect and reinvigorate biodiversity. Wild Work is an initiative to help you, help nature, help you. By working together to sustain nature and biodiversity, we are creating something special to benefit our people, our communities and the places in which we work and live.

All around us, there are numerous natural places that are not being used to their full potential; with Wild Work this potential can be realised - creating beautiful connections - not just ecologically - but between business and community to bring wildness back into people's lives.

Hear what people are saying about Wild Work on our Podcast

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Wild Work - A SECAD initiative - Helping people help nature help people

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Nature is facing a number of serious challenges. Throughout our landscape, we need to conserve, protect and reinvigorate biodiversity. Wild Work is an initiative to help you, help nature, help you. By working together to sustain nature and biodiversity, we are creating something special to benefit our people, our communities and the places in which we work and live.

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spotted here in 2009

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spotted here in 2001

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Birds in Baltimore; list compiled by Mike Mitchell

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Birds in Baltimore; list compiled by Mike Mitchell

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Mike is Baltimore's own bird expert

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Survey by John Akeroyd, written up in the Sherkin Comment

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THE WILD PLANTS OF BALTIMORE by John Akeroyd Sherkin Comment 2015

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Final Report Roaring Water Bay, Teun, Daan, Jacob