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FEATURE Pollination Plan
Pollinator Plan Gains
Strong Support -
Major Challenges Remain
With over 90 organisations now backing the All-Ireland pollinator plan, local authorities have been reminded to reinforce the message to their communities that simple cost- effective measures can be used to help address the problem.
“We can all play a role,"
says Dr Úna Fitzpatrick, who also works as Senior
problem. Speaking about the impact of the plan earlier this year, Dr Fitzpatrick said that there has been "overwhelming support" for it.
councils, local authorities, people in the garden, schools and so on... just identify really simple things they can do to help."
Ecologist at the National Biodiversity Data Centre. "The plan was a call to action".
The plan has identified 81 different steps and is currently being supported by over 90 different organisations.
However, Dr Fitzpatrick said that there is room for improvement to combat the problem which has escalated in recent times.
In 2015, the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan was launched in an effort to address the reduction in the country’s pollinator population.
We can play a role.”
World Bee Day, in May of this year, came in the wake of a landmark United Nations report which gave a stark warning of the existing threat to the natural world due to human activity.
The five-year plan is a blueprint for different sectors in society to take action in order to help address the
"The way we have run it, we have tried for each sector whether it’s farming, local communities, county
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